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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)

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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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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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50 a grim-faced nation showing no respect to the old or favor to the young.

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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)

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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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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)

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Footnotes

  1. 16 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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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Footnotes

  1. 42.24 Gk Tg: Heb we sinned

17 who made the world like a desert
    and overthrew its cities,
    who would not let his prisoners go home?”(A)

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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)

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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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Footnotes

  1. 69.26 Gk Syr: Heb recount the pain of

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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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)

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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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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)

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28 Therefore I profaned the princes of the sanctuary;
    I delivered Jacob to utter destruction
    and Israel to reviling.(A)

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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)

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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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