Jeremiah 15:10
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Jeremiah's Complaint
10 (A)Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! (B)I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.
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Luke 6:22
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22 “Blessed are you when (A)people hate you and when they (B)exclude you and revile you and (C)spurn your name as evil, (D)on account of the Son of Man!
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Exodus 22:25
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25 (A)“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.
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Acts 17:6-8
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6 And when they could not find them, (A)they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also, 7 and Jason has received them, and they are all acting against (B)the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is (C)another king, Jesus.” 8 And the people and the city authorities were disturbed when they heard these things.
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Acts 16:20-22
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20 And when they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men are Jews, and they are disturbing our city. 21 They (A)advocate customs that are not lawful for us (B)as Romans to accept or practice.” 22 The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates tore the garments off them and gave orders (C)to beat them with rods.
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Luke 2:34
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34 And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed (A)for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign (B)that is opposed
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Matthew 24:9
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9 “Then (A)they will deliver you up (B)to tribulation and (C)put you to death, and (D)you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
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Matthew 10:21-23
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21 (A)Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death, 22 (B)and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. (C)But the one who endures to the end will be saved. 23 When they (D)persecute you in one town, (E)flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel (F)before the Son of Man comes.
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Matthew 5:44
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44 But I say to you, (A)Love your enemies and (B)pray for those who persecute you,
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Ezekiel 3:7-9
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7 (A)But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel (B)have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart. 8 (C)Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. 9 Like (D)emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. (E)Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.”
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Jeremiah 20:14-18
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14 (A)Cursed be the day
on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
let it not be blessed!
15 Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father,
“A son is born to you,”
(B)making him very glad.
16 Let that man be like (C)the cities
that the Lord overthrew without pity;
(D)let him hear a cry in the morning
and an alarm at noon,
17 (E)because he did not kill me in the womb;
so my mother would have been my grave,
and her womb forever great.
18 (F)Why did I come out from the womb
(G)to see toil and sorrow,
and spend my days in shame?
Jeremiah 20:7-8
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7 O Lord, (A)you have deceived me,
and I was deceived;
(B)you are stronger than I,
and you have prevailed.
(C)I have become a laughingstock all the day;
everyone mocks me.
8 For whenever I speak, I cry out,
I shout, (D)“Violence and destruction!”
For (E)the word of the Lord has become for me
(F)a reproach and (G)derision all day long.
Jeremiah 15:20
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20 (A)And I will make you to this people
a fortified wall of bronze;
they will fight against you,
(B)but they shall not prevail over you,
(C)for I am with you
to save you and deliver you,
declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 1:18-19
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18 And I, behold, I make you this day (A)a fortified city, (B)an iron pillar, and (C)bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land. 19 (D)They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for (E)I am with you, declares the Lord, to deliver you.”
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Proverbs 26:2
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2 Like (A)a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,
(B)a curse that is causeless does not alight.
Psalm 120:5-6
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5 Woe to me, that I sojourn in (A)Meshech,
that I dwell among (B)the tents of (C)Kedar!
6 Too long have I had my dwelling
among those who hate peace.
Psalm 109:28
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28 (A)Let them curse, but you will bless!
They arise and are put to shame, but (B)your servant will be glad!
Psalm 15:5
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5 who (A)does not put out his money at interest
and (B)does not take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things shall never be (C)moved.
Job 3
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Job Laments His Birth
3 After this Job (A)opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 And Job said:
3 (B)“Let the day perish on which I was born,
and the night that said,
‘A man is conceived.’
4 Let that day be darkness!
May God above not seek it,
nor light shine upon it.
5 Let gloom and (C)deep darkness claim it.
Let clouds dwell upon it;
let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 That night—let thick darkness seize it!
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Behold, let that night be barren;
let no joyful cry enter it.
8 Let those curse it who curse the day,
who are ready to rouse up (D)Leviathan.
9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark;
let it hope for light, but have none,
nor see (E)the eyelids of the morning,
10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb,
nor hide trouble from my eyes.
11 “Why (F)did I not die at birth,
come out from the womb and expire?
12 Why did (G)the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
13 For then I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,
14 with kings and counselors of the earth
who (H)rebuilt ruins for themselves,
15 or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver.
16 Or why was I not as a hidden (I)stillborn child,
as infants who never see the light?
17 There the wicked cease from troubling,
and there the weary are at (J)rest.
18 There the prisoners are at ease together;
they hear not the voice of (K)the taskmaster.
19 The small and the great are there,
and the slave is free from his master.
20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery,
and life to (L)the bitter in soul,
21 who (M)long for death, but it comes not,
and dig for it more than for (N)hidden treasures,
22 who rejoice exceedingly
and are glad when they find the grave?
23 Why is light given to a man whose (O)way is hidden,
whom God has (P)hedged in?
24 For my sighing comes (Q)instead of[a] my bread,
and my (R)groanings are poured out like water.
25 (S)For the thing that I fear comes upon me,
and what I dread befalls me.
26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;
I have no rest, but trouble comes.”
Footnotes
- Job 3:24 Or like; Hebrew before
Nehemiah 5:1-6
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Nehemiah Stops Oppression of the Poor
5 Now there arose (A)a great outcry of the people and of their wives (B)against their Jewish brothers. 2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” 3 There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” 4 And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for (C)the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards. 5 Now (D)our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet (E)we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
6 I was very angry when I heard (F)their outcry and these words.
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1 Kings 22:8
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8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”
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1 Kings 21:20
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20 Ahab said to Elijah, (A)“Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because (B)you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.
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1 Kings 18:17-18
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17 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, (A)“Is it you, you (B)troubler of Israel?” 18 And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father's house, because you have (C)abandoned the commandments of the Lord and (D)followed the Baals.
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Deuteronomy 23:19-20
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19 (A)“You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, (B)interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. 20 (C)You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, (D)that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
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Leviticus 25:36
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36 (A)Take no interest from him or profit, but (B)fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.
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