Isaiah 65:7
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7 their[a] iniquities and their[b] ancestors’ iniquities together,
says the Lord;
because they offered incense on the mountains
and reviled me on the hills,
I will measure into their laps
full payment for their actions.(A)
Isaiah 57:7
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7 Upon a high and lofty mountain
you have set your bed,
and there you went up to offer sacrifice.(A)
Exodus 20:5
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5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me(A)
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Ezekiel 20:27-28
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27 Therefore, mortal, speak to the house of Israel and say to them: Thus says the Lord God: In this again your ancestors blasphemed me by dealing treacherously with me.(A) 28 For when I had brought them into the land that I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing odors, and there they poured out their drink offerings.(B)
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Jeremiah 13:25
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25 This is your lot,
the portion I have measured out to you, says the Lord,
because you have forgotten me
and trusted in lies.(A)
1 Thessalonians 2:16
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16 by hindering us from speaking to the gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they have constantly been filling up the measure of their sins, but wrath[a] has overtaken them at last.[b](A)
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Matthew 23:31-36
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31 Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors. 33 You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?[a] 34 For this reason I send you prophets, sages, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town, 35 so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 Truly I tell you, all this will come upon this generation.
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- 23.33 Gk Gehenna
Daniel 9:8
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8 Open shame, O Lord, falls on us, our kings, our princes, and our ancestors because we have sinned against you.
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Ezekiel 18:6
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6 if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period,(A)
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Jeremiah 7:19-20
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19 Is it I whom they provoke? says the Lord. Is it not themselves, to their own hurt?(A) 20 Therefore thus says the Lord God: My anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on humans and animals, on the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.
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Jeremiah 5:29
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29 Shall I not punish them for these things?
says the Lord,
and shall I not bring retribution
on a nation such as this?(A)
Jeremiah 5:9
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9 Shall I not punish them for these things?
says the Lord,
and shall I not bring retribution
on a nation such as this?(A)
Isaiah 65:6
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6 See, it is written before me:
I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will indeed repay into their laps(A)
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