(A)For they are a rebellious people,
    lying children,
children unwilling to hear
    the instruction of the Lord;

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Do Not Go Down to Egypt

30 “Ah, (A)stubborn children,” declares the Lord,
(B)“who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make (C)an alliance,[a] but not of my Spirit,
    that they may add sin to sin;

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:1 Hebrew who weave a web

(A)But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, (B)their portion will be in (C)the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is (D)the second death.”

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If one turns away his ear from hearing the law,
    even his (A)prayer is an abomination.

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15 (A)Outside are (B)the dogs (C)and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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21 (A)you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? 22 You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you (B)rob temples? 23 You who (C)boast in the law (D)dishonor God by breaking the law.

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51 (A)“You stiff-necked people, (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. (C)As your fathers did, so do you.

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31 Thus you witness against yourselves that you are (A)sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 (B)Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You serpents, (C)you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to (D)hell?

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11 But (A)they refused to pay attention (B)and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.[a] 12 (C)They made their hearts diamond-hard (D)lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent (E)by his Spirit through (F)the former prophets. (G)Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts.

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  1. Zechariah 7:11 Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear

(A)Do not be like your fathers, (B)to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, (C)Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But (D)they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. Your fathers, where are they? And (E)the prophets, do they live forever? (F)But my words and my statutes, which I commanded (G)my servants the prophets, did they not (H)overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, (I)‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for (J)our ways and (K)deeds, so has he dealt with us.’”

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She listens to no voice;
    (A)she accepts no correction.
(B)She does not trust in the Lord;
    she does not draw near to her God.

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(A)there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;
    they break all bounds, and (B)bloodshed follows bloodshed.

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“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the disaster that I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Behold, this day (A)they are a desolation, and no one dwells in them, because of the evil that they committed, (B)provoking me to anger, (C)in that they went to make offerings (D)and serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers. (E)Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!’ (F)But they did not listen (G)or incline their ear, to turn from their evil and make no offerings to other gods. (H)Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, (I)and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day. And now thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil (J)against yourselves, to cut off from you (K)man and woman, (L)infant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant? (M)Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, (N)making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become (O)a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth? Have you forgotten the evil of your fathers, (P)the evil of the kings of Judah, (Q)the evil of their[a] wives, your own evil, (R)and the evil of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 10 They have not humbled themselves even to this day, (S)nor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers.

11 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (T)Behold, I will set my face against you for harm, to cut off all Judah. 12 I will take the remnant of Judah who have (U)set their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live, and they shall all be consumed. (V)In the land of Egypt they shall fall; by the sword and by famine (W)they shall be consumed. (X)From the least to the greatest, they shall die by the sword and by famine, (Y)and they shall become an oath, a horror, (Z)a curse, and a taunt. 13 (AA)I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, 14 (AB)so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive (AC)or return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there. For they shall not return, (AD)except some fugitives.”

15 Then all the men who knew that (AE)their wives had made offerings to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who lived in (AF)Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah: 16 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, (AG)we will not listen to you. 17 (AH)But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to (AI)the queen of heaven (AJ)and pour out drink offerings to her, (AK)as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 44:9 Hebrew his

(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

13 And now, because you have done all these things, declares the Lord, and (A)when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and (B)when I called you, you did not answer,

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For he said, “Surely they are my people,
    children who will not deal falsely.”
    And he became their Savior.

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(A)For your hands are defiled with blood
    and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
    your tongue mutters wickedness.
(B)No one enters suit justly;
    no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
    (C)they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

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15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
    and with Sheol we have an agreement,
when the (A)overwhelming whip passes through
    it will not come to us,
for we have made (B)lies our refuge,
    and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;

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10 Hear the word of the Lord,
    you rulers of (A)(B)Sodom!
Give ear to the teaching[a] of our God,
    you people of (C)Gomorrah!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:10 Or law

Ah, sinful nation,
    a people laden with iniquity,
(A)offspring of evildoers,
    children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the Lord,
    they have (B)despised (C)the Holy One of Israel,
    they are utterly (D)estranged.

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29 (A)And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet (B)they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, (C)which if a person does them, he shall live by them, (D)and they turned a stubborn shoulder (E)and stiffened their neck and would not obey. 30 Many years (F)you bore with them (G)and warned them (H)by your Spirit through your prophets. (I)Yet they would not give ear. (J)Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

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15 The Lord, the God of their fathers, (A)sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 (B)But they kept mocking the messengers of God, (C)despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, (D)until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

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Manasseh's Repentance

10 The Lord spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention.

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20 And he said, (A)‘I will hide my face from them;
    I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
    children in whom is no faithfulness.

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27 For I know how rebellious and (A)stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, (B)you have been rebellious against the Lord. How much more after my death! 28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak (C)these words in their ears and (D)call heaven and earth to witness against them. 29 For I know that after my death (E)you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And (F)in the days to come (G)evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, (H)provoking him to anger through the work of your hands.”

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