18 Your ways and your deeds
    have brought this upon you.
This is your doom, and (A)it is bitter;
    it has reached your very heart.”

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18 “Your own conduct and actions(A)
    have brought this on you.(B)
This is your punishment.
    How bitter(C) it is!
    How it pierces to the heart!”

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19 (A)Your evil will chastise you,
    and (B)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and (C)bitter
    for (D)you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.

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19 Your wickedness will punish you;
    your backsliding(A) will rebuke(B) you.
Consider then and realize
    how evil and bitter(C) it is for you
when you forsake(D) the Lord your God
    and have no awe(E) of me,”
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

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17 Some were (A)fools through their sinful ways,
    and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;

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17 Some became fools(A) through their rebellious ways(B)
    and suffered affliction(C) because of their iniquities.

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17 (A)Have you not brought this upon yourself
    by forsaking the Lord your God,
    when (B)he led you in the way?

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17 Have you not brought this on yourselves(A)
    by forsaking(B) the Lord your God
    when he led you in the way?

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Israel's Sin and the Servant's Obedience

50 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is (A)your mother's certificate of divorce,
    with which (B)I sent her away?
Or (C)which of my creditors is it
    to whom I have sold you?
(D)Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,
    and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

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Israel’s Sin and the Servant’s Obedience

50 This is what the Lord says:

“Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce(A)
    with which I sent her away?
Or to which of my creditors
    did I sell(B) you?
Because of your sins(C) you were sold;(D)
    because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.

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31 therefore they shall eat (A)the fruit of their way,
    and have (B)their fill of their own devices.

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31 they will eat the fruit of their ways
    and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.(A)

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19 Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing disaster upon this people,
    (A)the fruit of their devices,
because they have not paid attention to my words;
    and as for my law, they have rejected it.

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19 Hear, you earth:(A)
    I am bringing disaster(B) on this people,
    the fruit of their schemes,(C)
because they have not listened to my words(D)
    and have rejected my law.(E)

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19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? (A)Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, (B)and did not the Lord relent of the disaster that he had pronounced against them? (C)But we are about to bring great disaster upon ourselves.”

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19 “Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did not Hezekiah(A) fear the Lord and seek(B) his favor? And did not the Lord relent,(C) so that he did not bring the disaster(D) he pronounced against them? We are about to bring a terrible disaster(E) on ourselves!”

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19 And when your people say, (A)‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ you shall say to them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, (B)so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.’”

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19 And when the people ask,(A) ‘Why has the Lord our God done all this to us?’ you will tell them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods(B) in your own land, so now you will serve foreigners(C) in a land not your own.’

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22 The (A)iniquities of the wicked (B)ensnare him,
    and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.

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22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them;(A)
    the cords of their sins hold them fast.(B)

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(A)that the exulting of the wicked is short,
    and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
(B)Though his height mount up to the heavens,
    and his head reach to the clouds,
he will perish forever like his own (C)dung;
    those who have seen him will say, (D)‘Where is he?’
He will fly away like (E)a dream and not be found;
    he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
(F)The eye that saw him will see him no more,
    nor will his place any more behold him.
10 His children will seek the favor of the poor,
    and his hands will (G)give back his wealth.
11 His bones are full of his (H)youthful vigor,
    but it will lie (I)down with him in the dust.

12 “Though evil is sweet in his mouth,
    though he hides it (J)under his tongue,
13 though he is loath to let it go
    and holds it in his mouth,
14 yet his food is turned in his stomach;
    it is the venom of (K)cobras within him.
15 He swallows down riches and vomits them up again;
    God casts them out of his belly.
16 He will suck the poison of cobras;
    (L)the tongue of a viper will kill him.

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that the mirth of the wicked(A) is brief,
    the joy of the godless(B) lasts but a moment.(C)
Though the pride(D) of the godless person reaches to the heavens(E)
    and his head touches the clouds,(F)
he will perish forever,(G) like his own dung;
    those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’(H)
Like a dream(I) he flies away,(J) no more to be found,
    banished(K) like a vision of the night.(L)
The eye that saw him will not see him again;
    his place will look on him no more.(M)
10 His children(N) must make amends to the poor;
    his own hands must give back his wealth.(O)
11 The youthful vigor(P) that fills his bones(Q)
    will lie with him in the dust.(R)

12 “Though evil(S) is sweet in his mouth
    and he hides it under his tongue,(T)
13 though he cannot bear to let it go
    and lets it linger in his mouth,(U)
14 yet his food will turn sour in his stomach;(V)
    it will become the venom of serpents(W) within him.
15 He will spit out the riches(X) he swallowed;
    God will make his stomach vomit(Y) them up.
16 He will suck the poison(Z) of serpents;
    the fangs of an adder will kill him.(AA)

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