(A)Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family (B)in all the places where I have driven them, declares the Lord of hosts.

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Wherever I banish them,(A) all the survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life,(B) declares the Lord Almighty.’

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And in those days (A)people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.

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During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.(A)

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14 I will be found by you, declares the Lord, (A)and I will restore your fortunes and (B)gather you from all the nations and all the places (C)where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

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14 I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back(A) from captivity.[a] I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 29:14 Or will restore your fortunes

but ‘As the Lord lives who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he[a] had driven them.’ Then they shall dwell in their own land.”

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  1. Jeremiah 23:8 Septuagint; Hebrew I

but they will say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who brought the descendants of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’ Then they will live in their own land.”(A)

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(A)Then I will gather the remnant of my flock (B)out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, (C)and they shall be fruitful and multiply.

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“I myself will gather the remnant(A) of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture,(B) where they will be fruitful and increase in number.

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15 so that I would choose strangling
    and death rather than my (A)bones.
16 I (B)loathe my life; I would not live forever.
    (C)Leave me alone, for my days are (D)a breath.

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15 so that I prefer strangling and death,(A)
    rather than this body of mine.(B)
16 I despise my life;(C) I would not live forever.(D)
    Let me alone;(E) my days have no meaning.(F)

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(A)If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you.

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Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens,(A) from there the Lord your God will gather(B) you and bring you back.(C)

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(A)Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, (B)for it is better for me to die than to live.”

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Now, Lord, take away my life,(A) for it is better for me to die(B) than to live.”(C)

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To you, (A)O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, (B)those who are near and (C)those who are far away, in (D)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of (E)the treachery that they have committed against you.

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“Lord, you are righteous,(A) but this day we are covered with shame(B)—the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where you have scattered(C) us because of our unfaithfulness(D) to you.(E)

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Repentance and Forgiveness

30 (A)“And (B)when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and (C)you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,

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Prosperity After Turning to the Lord

30 When all these blessings and curses(A) I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations,(B)

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16 (A)calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of (B)him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

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16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us(A) and hide us[a] from the face of him who sits on the throne(B) and from the wrath of the Lamb!

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  1. Revelation 6:16 See Hosea 10:8.

12 (A)then all the Judeans returned from all the places to which they had been driven and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they (B)gathered wine and summer fruits in great abundance.

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12 they all came back to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, from all the countries where they had been scattered.(A) And they harvested an abundance of wine and summer fruit.

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They Shall Be My People; I Will Be Their God

36 “Now therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, (A)‘It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by pestilence’: 37 (B)Behold, I will gather them from all the countries (C)to which I drove them in (D)my anger and my wrath and in great indignation. I will bring them back to this place, (E)and I will make them dwell in safety.

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36 “You are saying about this city, ‘By the sword, famine and plague(A) it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon’; but this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 37 I will surely gather(B) them from all the lands where I banish them in my furious anger(C) and great wrath; I will bring them back to this place and let them live in safety.(D)

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