Why will you still be (A)struck down?
    Why will you (B)continue to rebel?
The whole head is sick,
    and the whole heart faint.

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The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people (A)with fire. They were scorched by the fierce heat, and (B)they cursed[a] the name of God who had power over these plagues. (C)They did not repent (D)and give him glory.

10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on (E)the throne of the beast, and (F)its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish 11 and cursed (G)the God of heaven for their pain and (H)sores. (I)They did not repent of their deeds.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 16:9 Greek blasphemed; also verses 11, 21

To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because (A)we have sinned against you. (B)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him 10 (C)and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by (D)his servants the prophets. 11 (E)All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, (F)refusing to obey your voice. (G)And the curse and oath (H)that are written in the Law of (I)Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because (J)we have sinned against him.

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13 On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, (A)you shall not be cleansed anymore till (B)I have satisfied my fury upon you.

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O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
(A)You have struck them down,
    but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
    but they refused to take correction.
(B)They have made their faces harder than rock;
    they have refused to repent.

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(A)Turn to him from whom people[a] have (B)deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 31:6 Hebrew they

31 (A)the prophets prophesy falsely,
    and the priests rule at their direction;
(B)my people love to have it so,
    but what will you do when the end comes?

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Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations

Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,
    (A)the oppressing city!
She listens to no voice;
    (B)she accepts no correction.
(C)She does not trust in the Lord;
    she does not draw near to her God.

(D)Her officials within her
    are roaring lions;
her judges are (E)evening wolves
    that leave nothing till the morning.
(F)Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men;
(G)her priests (H)profane what is holy;
    they do violence to the law.

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(A)They bend their tongue like a bow;
    falsehood and not truth has grown strong[a] in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
    (B)and they do not know me, declares the Lord.

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  1. Jeremiah 9:3 Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong

28 (A)They are all stubbornly rebellious,
    (B)going about with slanders;
they are (C)bronze and iron;
    all of them act corruptly.
29 The (D)bellows blow fiercely;
    the lead is consumed by the fire;
(E)in vain the refining goes on,
    for the wicked are not removed.
30 (F)Rejected silver they are called,
    for the Lord has rejected them.”

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30 In vain have I (A)struck your children;
    they took no correction;
(B)your own sword devoured your prophets
    like a ravening lion.

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34 Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them.

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And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?

(A)“My son, (B)do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
    nor be weary when reproved by him.
For (C)the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
    and chastises every son whom he receives.”

It is for discipline that you have to endure. (D)God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, (E)in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

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I will go to the great
    and will speak to them,
for they know the way of the Lord,
    the justice of their God.”
(A)But they all alike had broken the yoke;
    they had burst the bonds.

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24 And no inhabitant will say, (A)“I am sick”;
    (B)the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.

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21 Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh;
    together they are (A)against Judah.
(B)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

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13 The people (A)did not turn to him who struck them,
    nor inquire of the Lord of hosts.

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23 Your princes are rebels
    and companions of thieves.
Everyone (A)loves a bribe
    and runs after gifts.
(B)They do not bring justice to the fatherless,
    and the widow's cause does not come to them.

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Ahaz's Idolatry

22 In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the Lord—this same King Ahaz.

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