Isaiah 43:22
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Pleading with Unfaithful Israel
22 “But you have not called upon Me, O Jacob;
And you (A)have been weary of Me, O Israel.
Micah 6:3
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Malachi 3:14
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14 (A)You have said,
‘It is useless to serve God;
What profit is it that we have kept His ordinance,
And that we have walked as mourners
Before the Lord of hosts?
Malachi 1:13
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13 You also say,
‘Oh, what a (A)weariness!’
And you sneer at it,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
“And you bring the stolen, the lame, and the sick;
Thus you bring an offering!
(B)Should I accept this from your hand?”
Says the Lord.
James 4:2-3
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2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and [a]war. [b]Yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3 (A)You ask and do not receive, (B)because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
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John 6:66-69
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66 (A)From that time many of His disciples went [a]back and walked with Him no more. 67 Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?”
68 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have (B)the words of eternal life. 69 (C)Also we have come to believe and know that You are the [b]Christ, the Son of the living God.”
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Hosea 14:1-2
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Israel Restored at Last
14 O Israel, (A)return to the Lord your God,
For you have stumbled because of your iniquity;
2 Take words with you,
And return to the Lord.
Say to Him,
“Take away all iniquity;
Receive us graciously,
For we will offer the (B)sacrifices[a] of our lips.
Footnotes
- Hosea 14:2 Lit. bull calves; LXX fruit
Hosea 7:10-14
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10 And the (A)pride of Israel testifies to his face,
But (B)they do not return to the Lord their God,
Nor seek Him for all this.
Futile Reliance on the Nations
11 “Ephraim(C) also is like a silly dove, without [a]sense—
(D)They call to Egypt,
They go to (E)Assyria.
12 Wherever they go, I will (F)spread My net on them;
I will bring them down like birds of the air;
I will chastise them
(G)According to what their congregation has heard.
13 “Woe to them, for they have fled from Me!
Destruction to them,
Because they have transgressed against Me!
Though (H)I redeemed them,
Yet they have spoken lies against Me.
14 (I)They did not cry out to Me with their heart
When they wailed upon their beds.
Footnotes
- Hosea 7:11 Lit. heart
- Hosea 7:14 So with MT, Tg.; Vg. thought upon; LXX slashed themselves for (cf. 1 Kin. 18:28)
- Hosea 7:14 So with MT, Syr., Tg.; LXX omits They rebel against Me; Vg. They departed from Me
Daniel 9:13
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13 (A)“As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; (B)yet we have not made our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.
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Jeremiah 10:25
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25 (A)Pour out Your fury on the Gentiles, (B)who do not know You,
And on the families who do not call on Your name;
For they have eaten up Jacob,
(C)Devoured him and consumed him,
And made his dwelling place desolate.
Jeremiah 2:31-32
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31 “O generation, see the word of the Lord!
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
Or a land of darkness?
Why do My people say, ‘We [a]are lords;
(A)We will come no more to You’?
32 Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
Or a bride her attire?
Yet My people (B)have forgotten Me days without number.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:31 have dominion
Jeremiah 2:11-13
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11 (A)Has a nation changed its gods,
Which are (B)not gods?
(C)But My people have changed their Glory
For what does not profit.
12 Be astonished, O heavens, at this,
And be horribly afraid;
Be very desolate,” says the Lord.
13 “For My people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me, the (D)fountain of living waters,
And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 2:5
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5 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“What injustice have your fathers found in Me,
That they have gone far from Me,
(B)Have followed [a]idols,
And have become idolaters?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:5 vanities or futilities
Isaiah 64:7
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7 And there is no one who calls on Your name,
Who stirs himself up to take hold of You;
For You have hidden Your face from us,
And have [a]consumed us because of our iniquities.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 64:7 Lit. caused us to melt
Psalm 79:6
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6 (A)Pour out Your wrath on the [a]nations that (B)do not know You,
And on the kingdoms that (C)do not call on Your name.
Footnotes
- Psalm 79:6 Gentiles
Psalm 14:4
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4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And (A)do not call on the Lord?
Job 27:9-10
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9 (A)Will God hear his cry
When trouble comes upon him?
10 (B)Will he delight himself in the Almighty?
Will he always call on God?
Job 21:14-15
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14 (A)Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us,
For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.
15 (B)Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him?
And (C)what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’
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