(A)I also will choose harsh treatment for them
    and bring (B)their fears upon them,
(C)because when I called, no one answered,
    when I spoke, they did not listen;
(D)but they did what was evil in my eyes
    and chose that in which I did not delight.”

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12 I will destine you to the sword,
    and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter,
(A)because, when I called, you did not answer;
    when I spoke, you did not listen,
(B)but you did what was evil in my eyes
    and chose what I did not delight in.”

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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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24 (A)What the wicked dreads (B)will come upon him,
    but (C)the desire of the righteous will be granted.

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24 (A)Because I have called and (B)you refused to listen,
    have (C)stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,

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(A)And he burned his son as an offering[a] and (B)used fortune-telling and (C)omens and dealt (D)with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 21:6 Hebrew made his son pass through the fire

And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, (A)according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.

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31 therefore they shall eat (A)the fruit of their way,
    and have (B)their fill of their own devices.
32 For the simple are killed by (C)their turning away,
    and (D)the complacency of fools destroys them;

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12 So I (A)gave them over to their (B)stubborn hearts,
    to follow their own (C)counsels.

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10 and with all wicked deception for (A)those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore (B)God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe (C)what is false, 12 in order that all may be condemned (D)who did not believe the truth but (E)had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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24 For (A)false christs and (B)false prophets will arise and (C)perform great signs and wonders, (D)so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

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(A)“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave (B)a wedding feast for his son, and (C)sent his servants[a] to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. (D)Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my (E)dinner, (F)my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’ But (G)they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his servants, (H)treated them shamefully, and (I)killed them. The king was angry, and he sent his troops and (J)destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 22:3 Or bondservants; also verses 4, 6, 8, 10

a people who provoke me
    to my face continually,
(A)sacrificing in gardens
    and making offerings on bricks;

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(A)Why, when I came, was there no man;
    why, when I called, was there no one to answer?
(B)Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?
    Or have I no power to deliver?
(C)Behold, by my rebuke (D)I dry up the sea,
    (E)I make the rivers a desert;
(F)their fish stink for lack of water
    and die of thirst.

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19 And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: (A)I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, (B)and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left; 20 and the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another. 21 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ 22 And the Lord said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be (C)a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’ 23 Now therefore behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the Lord has declared disaster for you.”

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