19 Have you rejected Judah completely?(A)
    Do you despise Zion?
Why have you afflicted us
    so that we cannot be healed?(B)
We hoped for peace
    but no good has come,
for a time of healing
    but there is only terror.(C)

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22 unless you have utterly rejected us(A)
    and are angry with us beyond measure.(B)

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15 We hoped for peace(A)
    but no good has come,
for a time of healing
    but there is only terror.(B)

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While people are saying, “Peace and safety,”(A) destruction will come on them suddenly,(B) as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.(C)

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30 They are called rejected silver,(A)
    because the Lord has rejected them.”(B)

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13 There is no one to plead your cause,(A)
    no remedy for your sore,
    no healing(B) for you.

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18 Why is my pain unending
    and my wound grievous and incurable?(A)
You are to me like a deceptive brook,
    like a spring that fails.(B)

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My inheritance has become to me
    like a lion(A) in the forest.
She roars at me;
    therefore I hate her.(B)

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59 When God heard(A) them, he was furious;(B)
    he rejected Israel(C) completely.

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26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
    when I looked for light, then came darkness.(A)

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19 and even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced.(A) 20 Therefore the Lord rejected all the people of Israel; he afflicted them and gave them into the hands of plunderers,(B) until he thrust them from his presence.(C)

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The Remnant of Israel

11 I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means!(A) I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham,(B) from the tribe of Benjamin.(C) God did not reject his people,(D) whom he foreknew.(E) Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel: “Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me”[a]?(F) And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”[b](G) So too, at the present time there is a remnant(H) chosen by grace.(I) And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works;(J) if it were, grace would no longer be grace.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 11:3 1 Kings 19:10,14
  2. Romans 11:4 1 Kings 19:18

In one month I got rid of the three shepherds.

The flock detested(A) me, and I grew weary of them and said, “I will not be your shepherd. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish.(B) Let those who are left eat(C) one another’s flesh.”

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17 Moreover, our eyes failed,
    looking in vain(A) for help;(B)
from our towers we watched
    for a nation(C) that could not save us.

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13 What can I say for you?(A)
    With what can I compare you,
    Daughter(B) Jerusalem?
To what can I liken you,
    that I may comfort you,
    Virgin Daughter Zion?(C)
Your wound is as deep as the sea.(D)
    Who can heal you?

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15 Then the Lord said to me: “Even if Moses(A) and Samuel(B) were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people.(C) Send them away from my presence!(D) Let them go!

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22 Is there no balm in Gilead?(A)
    Is there no physician(B) there?
Why then is there no healing(C)
    for the wound of my people?

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29 “‘Cut off(A) your hair and throw it away; take up a lament(B) on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned(C) this generation that is under his wrath.

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38 But you have rejected,(A) you have spurned,
    you have been very angry with your anointed one.

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12 Why have you broken down its walls(A)
    so that all who pass by pick its grapes?
13 Boars from the forest ravage(B) it,
    and insects from the fields feed on it.

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16 But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed(A) at his prophets until the wrath(B) of the Lord was aroused against his people and there was no remedy.(C)

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