22 (A)How long will you waver,
    (B)O faithless daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth:
    a woman encircles a man.”

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22 How long will you wander,(A)
    unfaithful(B) Daughter Israel?
The Lord will create a new thing(C) on earth—
    the woman will return to[a](D) the man.”

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  1. Jeremiah 31:22 Or will protect

Why do you boast of your valleys,[a]
    (A)O faithless daughter,
(B)who trusted in her treasures, saying,
    ‘Who will come against me?’

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  1. Jeremiah 49:4 Hebrew boast of your valleys, your valley flows

Why do you boast of your valleys,
    boast of your valleys so fruitful?
Unfaithful Daughter Ammon,(A)
    you trust in your riches(B) and say,
    ‘Who will attack me?’(C)

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24 (A)But they did not obey or incline their ear, (B)but walked in their own counsels and (C)the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and (D)went backward and not forward.

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24 But they did not listen(A) or pay attention;(B) instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts.(C) They went backward(D) and not forward.

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14 O Jerusalem, (A)wash your heart from evil,
    that you may be saved.
How long shall your wicked thoughts
    lodge within you?

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14 Jerusalem, wash(A) the evil from your heart and be saved.(B)
    How long(C) will you harbor wicked thoughts?

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22 (A)“Return, O faithless sons;
    (B)I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to you,
    for you are the Lord our God.

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22 “Return,(A) faithless people;
    I will cure(B) you of backsliding.”(C)

“Yes, we will come to you,
    for you are the Lord our God.

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Faithless Israel Called to Repentance

The Lord said to me in the days of (A)King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, (B)how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there (C)played the whore?

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Unfaithful Israel

During the reign of King Josiah,(A) the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless(B) Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree(C) and has committed adultery(D) there.

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36 (A)How much you go about,
    changing your way!
You shall be (B)put to shame by Egypt
    as you were put to shame by Assyria.

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36 Why do you go about so much,
    changing(A) your ways?
You will be disappointed by Egypt(B)
    as you were by Assyria.

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23 (A)How can you say, ‘I am not unclean,
    I have not gone after the Baals’?
Look at your way (B)in the valley;
    know what you have done—
a restless young camel running here and there,

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23 “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled;(A)
    I have not run after the Baals’?(B)
See how you behaved in the valley;(C)
    consider what you have done.
You are a swift she-camel
    running(D) here and there,

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18 (A)And now what do you gain by going to Egypt
    to drink the waters of (B)the Nile?
(C)Or what do you gain by going to Assyria
    to drink the waters of (D)the Euphrates?[a]

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  1. Jeremiah 2:18 Hebrew the River

18 Now why go to Egypt(A)
    to drink water from the Nile[a]?(B)
And why go to Assyria(C)
    to drink water from the Euphrates?(D)

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  1. Jeremiah 2:18 Hebrew Shihor; that is, a branch of the Nile

14 Therefore the (A)Lord himself will give you a sign. (B)Behold, the (C)virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name (D)Immanuel.[a]

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  1. Isaiah 7:14 Immanuel means God is with us

14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you[a] a sign:(A) The virgin[b](B) will conceive and give birth to a son,(C) and[c] will call him Immanuel.[d](D)

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  1. Isaiah 7:14 The Hebrew is plural.
  2. Isaiah 7:14 Or young woman
  3. Isaiah 7:14 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls son, and he or son, and they
  4. Isaiah 7:14 Immanuel means God with us.

30 But if the Lord creates something new, and (A)the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they (B)go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.”

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30 But if the Lord brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth(A) and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the realm of the dead,(B) then you will know that these men have treated the Lord with contempt.(C)

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15 I will put enmity between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring[a] and (A)her offspring;
(B)he shall bruise your head,
    and you shall bruise his heel.”

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  1. Genesis 3:15 Hebrew seed; so throughout Genesis

15 And I will put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring[a](A) and hers;(B)
he will crush[b] your head,(C)
    and you will strike his heel.”

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  1. Genesis 3:15 Or seed
  2. Genesis 3:15 Or strike

34 And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?”[a]

35 And the angel answered her, (A)“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of (B)the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born[b] will be called (C)holy—(D)the Son of God.

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  1. Luke 1:34 Greek since I do not know a man
  2. Luke 1:35 Some manuscripts add of you

34 “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you,(A) and the power of the Most High(B) will overshadow you. So the holy one(C) to be born will be called[a] the Son of God.(D)

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  1. Luke 1:35 Or So the child to be born will be called holy,