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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.

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Footnotes

  1. 64:7 As in Greek, Syriac, and Aramaic versions; Hebrew reads melted us.

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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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.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:14 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads They gather together.

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.

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Burning like an oven,
    they consume their leaders.
They kill their kings one after another,
    and no one cries to me for help.

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It’s your sins that have cut you off from God.
    Because of your sins, he has turned away
    and will not listen anymore.

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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.

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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.

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    unless they turn to me for help.
Let them make peace with me;
    yes, let them make peace with me.”

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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.”

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11 Now set the empty pot on the coals.
    Heat it red hot!
    Burn away the filth and corruption.

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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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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]

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Footnotes

  1. 9:7 Hebrew with the daughter of my people? Greek version reads with the evil daughter of my people?

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