Isaiah 64:7
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7 Yet no one calls on your name
or pleads with you for mercy.
Therefore, you have turned away from us
and turned us over[a] to our sins.
Footnotes
- 64:7 As in Greek, Syriac, and Aramaic versions; Hebrew reads melted us.
Ezekiel 22:30
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30 “I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn’t have to destroy the land, but I found no one.
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Hosea 7:14
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14 They do not cry out to me with sincere hearts.
Instead, they sit on their couches and wail.
They cut themselves,[a] begging foreign gods for grain and new wine,
and they turn away from me.
Footnotes
- 7:14 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads They gather together.
Isaiah 59:16
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16 He was amazed to see that no one intervened
to help the oppressed.
So he himself stepped in to save them with his strong arm,
and his justice sustained him.
Hosea 7:7
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7 Burning like an oven,
they consume their leaders.
They kill their kings one after another,
and no one cries to me for help.
Isaiah 59:2
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2 It’s your sins that have cut you off from God.
Because of your sins, he has turned away
and will not listen anymore.
Isaiah 54:8
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8 In a burst of anger I turned my face away for a little while.
But with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,”
says the Lord, your Redeemer.
Isaiah 50:2
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2 Why was no one there when I came?
Why didn’t anyone answer when I called?
Is it because I have no power to rescue?
No, that is not the reason!
For I can speak to the sea and make it dry up!
I can turn rivers into deserts covered with dying fish.
Isaiah 27:5
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5 unless they turn to me for help.
Let them make peace with me;
yes, let them make peace with me.”
Hosea 5:15
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15 Then I will return to my place
until they admit their guilt and turn to me.
For as soon as trouble comes,
they will earnestly search for me.”
Ezekiel 24:11
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11 Now set the empty pot on the coals.
Heat it red hot!
Burn away the filth and corruption.
Ezekiel 22:18-22
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18 “Son of man, the people of Israel are the worthless slag that remains after silver is smelted. They are the dross that is left over—a useless mixture of copper, tin, iron, and lead. 19 So tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you are all worthless slag, I will bring you to my crucible in Jerusalem. 20 Just as silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin are melted down in a furnace, I will melt you down in the heat of my fury. 21 I will gather you together and blow the fire of my anger upon you, 22 and you will melt like silver in fierce heat. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out my fury on you.’”
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Jeremiah 9:7
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7 Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says:
“See, I will melt them down in a crucible
and test them like metal.
What else can I do with my people?[a]
Footnotes
- 9:7 Hebrew with the daughter of my people? Greek version reads with the evil daughter of my people?
Isaiah 59:4
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4 No one cares about being fair and honest.
The people’s lawsuits are based on lies.
They conceive evil deeds
and then give birth to sin.
Isaiah 57:17
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17 I was angry,
so I punished these greedy people.
I withdrew from them,
but they kept going on their own stubborn way.
Isaiah 56:4
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4 For this is what the Lord says:
I will bless those eunuchs
who keep my Sabbath days holy
and who choose to do what pleases me
and commit their lives to me.
Isaiah 1:15
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15 When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will not look.
Though you offer many prayers, I will not listen,
for your hands are covered with the blood of innocent victims.
Psalm 14:4
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4 Will those who do evil never learn?
They eat up my people like bread
and wouldn’t think of praying to the Lord.
Job 8:4
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4 Your children must have sinned against him,
so their punishment was well deserved.
Deuteronomy 32:19-25
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19 “The Lord saw this and drew back,
provoked to anger by his own sons and daughters.
20 He said, ‘I will abandon them;
then see what becomes of them.
For they are a twisted generation,
children without integrity.
21 They have roused my jealousy by worshiping things that are not God;
they have provoked my anger with their useless idols.
Now I will rouse their jealousy through people who are not even a people;
I will provoke their anger through the foolish Gentiles.
22 For my anger blazes forth like fire
and burns to the depths of the grave.[a]
It devours the earth and all its crops
and ignites the foundations of the mountains.
23 I will heap disasters upon them
and shoot them down with my arrows.
24 I will weaken them with famine,
burning fever, and deadly disease.
I will send the fangs of wild beasts
and poisonous snakes that glide in the dust.
25 Outside, the sword will bring death,
and inside, terror will strike
both young men and young women,
both infants and the aged.
Footnotes
- 32:22 Hebrew of Sheol.
Deuteronomy 31:17-18
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17 Then my anger will blaze forth against them. I will abandon them, hiding my face from them, and they will be devoured. Terrible trouble will come down on them, and on that day they will say, ‘These disasters have come down on us because God is no longer among us!’ 18 At that time I will hide my face from them on account of all the evil they commit by worshiping other gods.
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