Jeremiah 15:6
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6 (A)You have forsaken Me,” says the Lord,
“You have (B)gone backward.
Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you;
(C)I am [a]weary of relenting!
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 15:6 tired
Jeremiah 7:24
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24 (A)Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but (B)followed[a] the counsels and the [b]dictates of their evil hearts, and (C)went[c] backward and not forward.
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- Jeremiah 7:24 walked in
- Jeremiah 7:24 stubbornness or imagination
- Jeremiah 7:24 Lit. they were
Zephaniah 1:4
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4 “I will stretch out My hand against Judah,
And against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
[a]I will cut off every trace of Baal from this place,
The names of the (A)idolatrous[b] priests with the pagan priests—
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 1:4 Fulfilled in 2 Kin. 23:4, 5
- Zephaniah 1:4 Heb. chemarim
Zechariah 7:11
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11 “But they refused to heed, (A)shrugged[a] their shoulders, and (B)stopped[b] their ears so that they could not hear.
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- Zechariah 7:11 Lit. gave a stubborn or rebellious shoulder
- Zechariah 7:11 Lit. made their ears heavy
Isaiah 1:4
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4 Alas, sinful nation,
A people [a]laden with iniquity,
(A)A [b]brood of evildoers,
Children who are corrupters!
They have forsaken the Lord,
They have provoked to anger
The Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away backward.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:4 Lit. heavy, weighed down
- Isaiah 1:4 offspring, seed
Hosea 13:14
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14 “I will ransom them from the [a]power of [b]the grave;
I will redeem them from death.
(A)O Death, [c]I will be your plagues!
O [d]Grave, [e]I will be your destruction!
(B)Pity is hidden from My eyes.”
Footnotes
- Hosea 13:14 Lit. hand
- Hosea 13:14 Or Sheol
- Hosea 13:14 LXX where is your punishment?
- Hosea 13:14 Or Sheol
- Hosea 13:14 LXX where is your sting?
Hosea 11:7
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7 My people are bent on (A)backsliding from Me.
Though [a]they call [b]to the Most High,
None at all exalt Him.
Footnotes
- Hosea 11:7 The prophets
- Hosea 11:7 Or upward
Ezekiel 25:7
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7 indeed, therefore, I will (A)stretch out My hand against you, and give you as plunder to the nations; I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish from the countries; I will destroy you, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
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Jeremiah 6:11
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11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord.
(A)I am weary of holding it in.
“I will pour it out (B)on the children outside,
And on the assembly of young men together;
For even the husband shall be taken with the wife,
The aged with him who is full of days.
Amos 7:3-8
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3 So (A)the Lord relented concerning this.
“It shall not be,” said the Lord.
Vision of the Fire
4 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, the Lord God called [a]for conflict by fire, and it consumed the great deep and devoured the [b]territory. 5 Then I said:
“O Lord God, cease, I pray!
(B)Oh, that Jacob may stand,
For he is small!”
6 So the Lord relented concerning this.
“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.
Vision of the Plumb Line
7 Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand. 8 And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”
And I said, “A plumb line.”
Then the Lord said:
“Behold, (C)I am setting a plumb line
In the midst of My people Israel;
(D)I will not pass by them anymore.
Hosea 4:16
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16 “For Israel (A)is stubborn
Like a stubborn calf;
Now the Lord will let them forage
Like a lamb in [a]open country.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:16 Lit. a large place
Ezekiel 14:9
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9 “And if the prophet is induced to speak anything, I the Lord (A)have induced that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.
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Ezekiel 12:26-28
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26 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 27 (A)“Son of man, look, the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is (B)for many days from now, and he prophesies of times far off.’ 28 (C)Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “None of My words will be postponed any more, but the word which I speak (D)will be done,” says the Lord God.’ ”
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Jeremiah 20:9
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9 Then I said, “I will not make mention of Him,
Nor speak anymore in His name.”
But His word was in my heart like a (A)burning fire
Shut up in my bones;
I was weary of holding it back,
And (B)I could not.
Jeremiah 8:5
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5 Why has this people (A)slidden back,
Jerusalem, in a perpetual backsliding?
(B)They hold fast to deceit,
(C)They refuse to return.
Jeremiah 6:19
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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.
Jeremiah 2:19
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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.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:19 dread
Jeremiah 2:17
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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?
Jeremiah 2:13
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13 “For My people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me, the (A)fountain of living waters,
And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 1:16
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16 I will utter My judgments
Against them concerning all their wickedness,
Because (A)they have forsaken Me,
Burned (B)incense to other gods,
And worshiped the works of their own (C)hands.
Isaiah 28:13
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13 But the word of the Lord was to them,
“Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
Line upon line, line upon line,
Here a little, there a little,”
That they might go and fall backward, and be broken
And snared and caught.
Psalm 78:38-40
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38 (A)But He, being full of (B)compassion, forgave their iniquity,
And did not destroy them.
Yes, many a time (C)He turned His anger away,
And (D)did not stir up all His wrath;
39 For (E)He remembered (F)that they were but flesh,
(G)A breath that passes away and does not come again.
Footnotes
- Psalm 78:40 rebelled against Him
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