The People Plead for Mercy

19 (A)Have You utterly rejected Judah?
Has Your soul loathed Zion?
Why have You stricken us so that (B)there is no healing for us?
(C)We looked for peace, but there was no good;
And for the time of healing, and there was trouble.

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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,
And are very angry with us!

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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 (A)looked for peace, but no good came;
And for a time of health, and there was trouble!

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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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For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then (A)sudden destruction comes upon them, (B)as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.

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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 People will call them (A)rejected silver,
Because the Lord has rejected them.”

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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,
That you may be bound up;
(A)You have no healing medicines.

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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 (A)pain perpetual
And my wound incurable,
Which refuses to be healed?
Will You surely be to me (B)like an unreliable stream,
As waters that [a]fail?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 15:18 Or cannot be trusted

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 heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest;
It cries out against Me;
Therefore I have (A)hated it.

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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 this, He was furious,
And greatly abhorred Israel,

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

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26 (A)But when I looked for good, evil came to me;
And when I waited for light, then came darkness.

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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 Also (A)Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. 20 And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and (B)delivered them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them from His (C)sight.

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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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Israel’s Rejection Not Total

11 I say then, (A)has God cast away His people? (B)Certainly not! For (C)I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not cast away His people whom (D)He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, (E)Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”? But what does the divine response say to him? (F)“I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” (G)Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And (H)if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. [a]But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 11:6 NU omits the rest of v. 6.

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

I [a]dismissed the three shepherds (A)in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me. Then I said, “I will not feed you. (B)Let what is dying die, and what is perishing perish. Let those that are left eat each other’s flesh.”

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 11:8 Or destroyed, lit. cut off

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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