Therefore, a (A)curse devours the earth, and those who live on it suffer for their guilt. Therefore, the (B)inhabitants of the earth decrease in number, and few people are left.

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Therefore a curse(A) consumes the earth;
    its people must bear their guilt.
Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up,(B)
    and very few are left.

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Then the Lord stretched out His hand and (A)touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me,

“Behold, I have (B)put My words in your mouth.

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Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched(A) my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth.(B)

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29 “Is My word not like (A)fire?” declares the Lord, “and like a (B)hammer which shatters a rock?

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29 “Is not my word like fire,”(A) declares the Lord, “and like a hammer(B) that breaks a rock in pieces?

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Therefore I have (A)cut them in pieces by the prophets;
I have slain them by the (B)words of My mouth;
And the judgments on you are like the light that [a]shines.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 6:5 Lit proceeds

Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets,
    I killed you with the words of my mouth(A)
    then my judgments go forth like the sun.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 6:5 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.

But did My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, not [a](A)overtake your fathers? Then they repented and said, ‘(B)Just as the Lord of armies planned to do to us in accordance with our ways and our deeds, so He has dealt with us.’”’”

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 1:6 Or reach

But did not my words(A) and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your ancestors?(B)

“Then they repented and said, ‘The Lord Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve,(C) just as he determined to do.’”(D)

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