Therefore by this (A)the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
    and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:[a]
(B)when he makes all the stones of the altars
    like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
    no (C)Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.

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  1. Isaiah 27:9 Septuagint and this is the blessing when I take away his sin

27 “and this will be my (A)covenant with them
    (B)when I take away their sins.”

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35 and some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, (A)purified, and (B)made white, until (C)the time of the end, (D)for it still awaits the appointed time.

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10 Behold, I have refined you, (A)but not as silver;
    (B)I have tried[a] you in the furnace of affliction.

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  1. Isaiah 48:10 Or I have chosen

(A)He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the (B)Asherim or the altars of incense.

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Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to (A)the Father of spirits (B)and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, (C)that we may share his holiness. 11 (D)For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields (E)the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

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For (A)the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
    and chastises every son whom he receives.”

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32 But when we are judged by the Lord, (A)we are disciplined[a] so that we may not be (B)condemned along with the world.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 11:32 Or when we are judged we are being disciplined by the Lord

But (A)who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For (B)he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap. He will sit (C)as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring (D)offerings in righteousness to the Lord.[a]

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  1. Malachi 3:3 Or and they will belong to the Lord, bringers of an offering in righteousness

Idolatry Cut Off

“And (A)on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, (B)I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that (C)they shall be remembered no more. And also (D)I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.

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13 and (A)I will cut off your carved images
    and (B)your pillars from among you,
(C)and you shall bow down no more
    to the work of your hands;
14 and I will root out your (D)Asherah images from among you
    (E)and destroy your cities.

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O (A)Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?
    It is I who answer and look after you.[a]
I am like an evergreen cypress;
    (B)from me comes your fruit.

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  1. Hosea 14:8 Hebrew him

11 Then set it empty upon the coals, that it may become hot, and its copper may burn, (A)that its uncleanness may be melted in it, its corrosion consumed. 12 (B)She has wearied herself with toil;[a] its abundant corrosion does not go out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion! 13 On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, (C)you shall not be cleansed anymore till (D)I have satisfied my fury upon you. 14 (E)I am the Lord. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; (F)I will not spare; (G)I will not relent; (H)according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord God.”

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  1. Ezekiel 24:12 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

38 (A)I will purge out the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against me. (B)I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, (C)but they shall not enter the land of Israel. (D)Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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18 And when they come there, (A)they will remove from it all its (B)detestable things and all its abominations.

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when (A)the Lord shall have washed away the filth of (B)the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by (C)a spirit of burning.[a]

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  1. Isaiah 4:4 Or purging

12 (A)For the Lord of hosts has a day
    against all that is proud and lofty,
    against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;
13 against all the (B)cedars of Lebanon,
    lofty and lifted up;
    and against all the (C)oaks of Bashan;
14 against all (D)the lofty mountains,
    and against all the uplifted hills;
15 against every high tower,
    and against every fortified wall;
16 against all (E)the ships of Tarshish,
    and against all the beautiful craft.
17 (F)And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled,
    and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low,
    and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
18 (G)And the idols shall utterly pass away.
19 (H)And people shall enter the caves of the rocks
    and the holes of the ground,[a]
from before the terror of the Lord,
    and from the splendor of his majesty,
    (I)when he rises to terrify the earth.

20 In that day (J)mankind will cast away
    their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
which they made for themselves to worship,
    to the moles and to the (K)bats,
21 (L)to enter the caverns of the rocks
    and the clefts of the cliffs,
from before the terror of the Lord,
    and from the splendor of his majesty,
    (M)when he rises to terrify the earth.

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  1. Isaiah 2:19 Hebrew dust

29 (A)For they[a] shall be ashamed of (B)the oaks
    that you desired;
and you shall blush for (C)the gardens
    that you have chosen.

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  1. Isaiah 1:29 Some Hebrew manuscripts you

24 Therefore the (A)Lord declares,
    the Lord of hosts,
    the (B)Mighty One of Israel:
“Ah, I will get relief from my enemies
    (C)and avenge myself on my foes.
25 (D)I will turn my hand against you
    and will smelt away your (E)dross as with lye
    and remove all your alloy.

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30 (A)Blows that wound cleanse away evil;
    strokes make clean (B)the innermost parts.

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71 It is (A)good for me that I was afflicted,
    that I might learn your statutes.

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67 (A)Before I was afflicted I went astray,
    but now I keep your word.

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Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and (A)Zerubbabel the son of (B)Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, (C)as it is written in the Law of Moses the (D)man of God. They set the altar in its place, (E)for fear was on them because of the peoples of the lands, and (F)they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, burnt offerings morning and evening.

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19 (A)And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels.

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And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the (A)incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the (B)Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and (C)scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

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