18 “Your(A) ways and your doings
Have procured these things for you.
This is your wickedness,
Because it is bitter,
Because it reaches to your 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 Your own wickedness will (A)correct you,
And your backslidings will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing
That you have forsaken the Lord your God,
And the [a]fear of Me is not in you,”
Says the Lord God of hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:19 dread

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 Fools, (A)because of their transgression,
And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

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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 on yourself,
In that you have forsaken 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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The Servant, Israel’s Hope

50 Thus says the Lord:

“Where is (A)the certificate of your mother’s divorce,
Whom I have put away?
Or which of My (B)creditors is it to whom I have sold you?
For your iniquities (C)you have sold yourselves,
And for your transgressions your mother has been put 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 (A)they shall eat the fruit of their own way,
And be filled to the full with their own fancies.

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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 (A)Hear, O earth!
Behold, I will certainly bring (B)calamity on this people—
(C)The fruit of their thoughts,
Because they have not heeded My words
Nor My law, but 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 ever put him to death? (A)Did he not fear the Lord and (B)seek the Lord’s favor? And the Lord (C)relented concerning the doom which He had pronounced against them. (D)But we are doing great evil against 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 it will be when you say, (A)‘Why does the Lord our God do all these things to us?’ then you shall answer them, ‘Just as you have (B)forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so (C)you shall serve aliens 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 (A)His own iniquities entrap the wicked man,
And he is caught 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 triumphing of the wicked is short,
And the joy of the hypocrite is but for a (B)moment?
(C)Though his haughtiness mounts up to the heavens,
And his head reaches to the clouds,
Yet he will perish forever like his own refuse;
Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
He will fly away (D)like a dream, and not be found;
Yes, he (E)will be chased away like a vision of the night.
The eye that saw him will see him no more,
Nor will his place behold him anymore.
10 His children will seek the favor of the poor,
And his hands will restore his wealth.
11 His bones are full of (F)his youthful vigor,
(G)But it will lie down with him in the dust.

12 “Though evil is sweet in his mouth,
And he hides it under his tongue,
13 Though he spares it and does not forsake it,
But still keeps it in his [a]mouth,
14 Yet his food in his stomach turns sour;
It becomes cobra venom 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;
The viper’s tongue will slay him.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 20:13 Lit. palate

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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