(A)Measure by measure,[a] by exile you contended with them;
    (B)he removed them with his fierce breath[b] in the day of the east wind.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 27:8 Or By driving her away; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  2. Isaiah 27:8 Or wind

12 But the vine was plucked up in fury,
    cast down to the ground;
(A)the east wind dried up its fruit;
    they were stripped off and withered.
As for its strong stem,
    fire consumed it.

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24 (A)Correct me, O Lord, but in justice;
    not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

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11 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from (A)the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,

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In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by (A)various trials,

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15 Though (A)he may flourish among his brothers,
    (B)the east wind, the wind of the Lord, shall come,
    rising from the wilderness,
(C)and his fountain shall dry up;
    his spring shall be parched;
it shall strip (D)his treasury
    of every precious thing.

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Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

“Come, let us (A)return to the Lord;
    for (B)he has torn us, that he may heal us;
    he has struck us down, and (C)he will bind us up.
After two days (D)he will revive us;
    on the third day he will raise us up,
    that we may live before him.

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The Lord Accuses Israel

(A)Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,
    for (B)the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.
There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,
    and (C)no knowledge of God in the land;

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28 (A)Fear not, O Jacob my servant,
declares the Lord,
    for I am with you.
I will make a full end of all the nations
    to which I have driven you,
    but of you I will not make a full end.
(B)I will discipline you in just measure,
    and I will by no means leave you unpunished.”

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11 (A)For I am with you to save you,
declares the Lord;
(B)I will make a full end of all the nations
    among whom I scattered you,
    but of you I will not make a full end.
(C)I will (D)discipline you in just measure,
    and I will by no means leave you unpunished.

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27 For thus says the Lord, “The whole land shall be a desolation; (A)yet I will not make a full end.

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17 (A)Have you not brought this upon yourself
    by forsaking the Lord your God,
    when (B)he led you in the way?
18 (C)And now what do you gain by going to Egypt
    to drink the waters of (D)the Nile?
(E)Or what do you gain by going to Assyria
    to drink the waters of (F)the Euphrates?[a]
19 (G)Your evil will chastise you,
    and (H)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and (I)bitter
    for (J)you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.

20 “For long ago I (K)broke your yoke
    and burst your bonds;
    but you said, (L)‘I will not serve.’
Yes, (M)on every high hill
    and under every green tree
    you bowed down (N)like a whore.
21 (O)Yet I planted you a choice vine,
    wholly of pure seed.
(P)How then have you turned degenerate
    and become a wild vine?
22 Though you wash yourself with lye
    and use much soap,
    (Q)the stain of your guilt is still before me,
declares the Lord God.
23 (R)How can you say, ‘I am not unclean,
    I have not gone after the Baals’?
Look at your way (S)in the valley;
    know what you have done—
a restless young camel running here and there,
24     (T)a wild donkey used to the wilderness,
in her heat sniffing the wind!
    Who can restrain her lust?
None who seek her need weary themselves;
    in her month they will find her.
25 Keep (U)your feet from going unshod
    and (V)your throat from thirst.
But you said, ‘It is hopeless,
    (W)for I have loved foreigners,
    and after them I will go.’

26 “As a thief is shamed when caught,
    so the house of Israel shall be shamed:
(X)they, their kings, their officials,
    their priests, and their prophets,
27 who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
    and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their back to me,
    and not their face.
But (Y)in the time of their trouble they say,
    ‘Arise and save us!’
28 But (Z)where are your gods
    that you made for yourself?
Let them arise, (AA)if they can save you,
    in your time of trouble;
for (AB)as many as your cities
    are your gods, O Judah.

29 “Why do you contend with me?
    You have all transgressed against me,
declares the Lord.
30 In vain have I (AC)struck your children;
    they took no correction;
(AD)your own sword devoured your prophets
    like a ravening lion.
31 And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
    or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘We are free,
    we will come no more to you’?
32 (AE)Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
    or a bride her attire?
Yet (AF)my people have forgotten me
    days without number.

33 “How well you direct your course
    to seek love!
So that even to wicked women
    you have taught your ways.
34 Also on your skirts is found
    (AG)the lifeblood of the guiltless poor;
you did not find them (AH)breaking in.
    Yet in spite of all these things
35 you say, ‘I am innocent;
    surely his anger has turned from me.’
(AI)Behold, I will bring you to judgment
    for (AJ)saying, ‘I have not sinned.’
36 (AK)How much you go about,
    changing your way!
You shall be (AL)put to shame by Egypt
    as you were put to shame by Assyria.
37 From it too you will come away
    with (AM)your hands on your head,
for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust,
    and you will not prosper by them.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:18 Hebrew the River

13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. (A)God is faithful, and (B)he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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(A)Hear, you mountains, (B)the indictment of the Lord,
    and you enduring foundations of the earth,
for the Lord has an indictment against his people,
    and he will contend with Israel.

“O my people, (C)what have I done to you?
    (D)How have I wearied you? Answer me!
For (E)I brought you up from the land of Egypt
    and (F)redeemed you from the house of slavery,
and I sent before you Moses,
    Aaron, and (G)Miriam.
O my people, remember (H)what Balak king of Moab devised,
    and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him,
and what happened from (I)Shittim to Gilgal,
    that you may know (J)the righteous acts of the Lord.”

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My people are bent (A)on turning away from me,
    and though (B)they call out to the Most High,
    he shall not raise them up at all.

How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
    How can I hand you over, O Israel?
(C)How can I make you (D)like Admah?
    How can I treat you (E)like Zeboiim?
(F)My heart recoils within me;
    my compassion grows warm and tender.
I will not execute my burning anger;
    I will not again destroy Ephraim;
(G)for I am God and not a man,
    (H)the Holy One in your midst,
    and I will not come in wrath.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 11:9 Or into the city

16 (A)For I will not contend forever,
    nor will I always be angry;
for the spirit would grow faint before me,
    and the breath of life that I made.

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(A)For a brief moment I deserted you,
    but with great compassion I will gather you.

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Israel's Sin and the Servant's Obedience

50 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is (A)your mother's certificate of divorce,
    with which (B)I sent her away?
Or (C)which of my creditors is it
    to whom I have sold you?
(D)Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,
    and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

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12 (A)When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, (B)he[a] will punish the speech[b] of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 10:12 Hebrew I
  2. Isaiah 10:12 Hebrew fruit

Judgment on Arrogant Assyria

Woe to Assyria, (A)the rod of my anger;
    the staff in their hands is my fury!
Against a (B)godless nation I send him,
    and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take (C)spoil and seize plunder,
    and to (D)tread them down like the mire of the streets.

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And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
    and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
(A)What more was there to do for my vineyard,
    that I have not done in it?
(B)When I looked for it to yield grapes,
    why did it yield wild grapes?

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18 “Come now, (A)let us reason[a] together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
    they shall be as (B)white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
    they shall become like wool.
19 (C)If you are willing and obedient,
    you shall eat the good of the land;
20 but if you refuse and rebel,
    you shall be eaten by the sword;
    (D)for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:18 Or dispute

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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14 For he knows our frame;[a]
    he (A)remembers that we are dust.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 103:14 Or knows how we are formed

38 Yet he, being (A)compassionate,
    (B)atoned for their iniquity
    and did not destroy them;
he restrained his anger often
    and did not stir up all his wrath.

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