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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22 Unless You have utterly rejected us,
And are very angry with us!

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

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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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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

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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59 When God heard this, He was furious,
And greatly abhorred Israel,

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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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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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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.

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

17 Still (A)our eyes failed us,
Watching vainly for our help;
In our watching we watched
For a nation that could not save us.

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13 How shall I (A)console[a] you?
To what shall I liken you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare with you, that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
For your ruin is spread wide as the sea;
Who can heal you?

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  1. Lamentations 2:13 Or bear witness to

The Lord Will Not Relent

15 Then the Lord said to me, (A)Even if (B)Moses and (C)Samuel stood before Me, My [a]mind would not be favorable toward this people. Cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 15:1 Lit. soul was not toward

22 Is there no (A)balm in Gilead,
Is there no physician there?
Why then is there no recovery
For the health of the daughter of my people?

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29 (A)Cut off your hair and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the desolate heights; for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

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38 But You have (A)cast off and (B)abhorred,[a]
You have been furious with Your [b]anointed.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 89:38 rejected
  2. Psalm 89:38 Commissioned one, Heb. messiah

12 Why have You (A)broken down her [a]hedges,
So that all who pass by the way pluck her fruit?
13 The boar out of the woods uproots it,
And the wild beast of the field devours it.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 80:12 walls or fences

16 But (A)they mocked the messengers of God, (B)despised His words, and (C)scoffed at His prophets, until the (D)wrath of the Lord arose against His people, till there was no remedy.

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