Isaiah 47:6
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6 I was angry with my people;
I profaned my heritage;
I gave them into your hand;
you showed them no mercy;
on the aged you made your yoke
exceedingly heavy.(A)
Zechariah 1:15
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15 and I am extremely angry with the nations that are at ease, for while I was only a little angry, they made the disaster worse.(A)
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2 Chronicles 28:9
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9 But a prophet of the Lord was there whose name was Oded; he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Because the Lord, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them in a rage that has reached up to heaven.(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:50
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50 a grim-faced nation showing no respect to the old or favor to the young.
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Obadiah 10
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Edom Mistreated His Brother
10 For the slaughter and violence done to your brother Jacob,
shame shall cover you,
and you shall be cut off forever.(A)
James 2:13
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13 For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.(A)
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Obadiah 16
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16 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain,
all the nations shall drink continually;
they shall drink and gulp down[a]
and shall be as though they had never been.(A)
Footnotes
- 16 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Isaiah 42:24-25
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24 Who gave up Jacob to the spoiler
and Israel to the robbers?
Was it not the Lord, against whom they sinned,[a]
in whose ways they would not walk,
and whose law they would not obey?(A)
25 So he poured upon him the heat of his anger
and the fury of war;
it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand;
it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.(B)
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- 42.24 Gk Tg: Heb we sinned
Isaiah 14:17
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17 who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
who would not let his prisoners go home?”(A)
Isaiah 10:6
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6 Against a godless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take spoil and seize plunder,
and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.(A)
Psalm 69:26
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26 For they persecute those whom you have struck down,
and those whom you have wounded they attack still more.[a](A)
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- 69.26 Gk Syr: Heb recount the pain of
Matthew 7:2
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2 For the judgment you give will be the judgment you get, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.
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Ezekiel 28:16
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16 In the abundance of your trade
you were filled with violence, and you sinned,
so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God,
and I drove you out, O guardian cherub,
from among the stones of fire.(A)
Ezekiel 24:21
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21 Say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and your heart’s desire, and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.(A)
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Lamentations 2:2
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2 The Lord has destroyed without mercy
all the dwellings of Jacob;
in his wrath he has broken down
the strongholds of daughter Judah;
he has brought down to the ground in dishonor
the kingdom and its rulers.(A)
Isaiah 43:28
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28 Therefore I profaned the princes of the sanctuary;
I delivered Jacob to utter destruction
and Israel to reviling.(A)
Isaiah 13:16
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16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces
before their eyes;
their houses will be plundered
and their wives raped.(A)
2 Samuel 24:14
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14 Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress; let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is great, but let me not fall into human hands.”(A)
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