Jeremiah 2:19
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19 (A)Your evil will chastise you,
and (B)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and (C)bitter
for (D)you to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.
Isaiah 3:9
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9 For the look on their faces bears witness against them;
they proclaim their sin (A)like Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
(B)For they have brought evil on themselves.
Jeremiah 4:18
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18 Your ways and your deeds
have brought this upon you.
This is your doom, and (A)it is bitter;
it has reached your very heart.”
Jeremiah 2:17
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17 (A)Have you not brought this upon yourself
by forsaking the Lord your God,
when (B)he led you in the way?
Psalm 36:1
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How Precious Is Your Steadfast Love
To the choirmaster. Of David, the (A)servant of the Lord.
36 Transgression speaks to the wicked
deep in his heart;[a]
(B)there is no fear of God
before his eyes.
Footnotes
- Psalm 36:1 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac, Jerome (compare Septuagint); most Hebrew manuscripts in my heart
Amos 8:10
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10 (A)I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
(B)I will bring sackcloth on every waist
(C)and baldness on every head;
(D)I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
Hosea 11:7
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7 My people are bent (A)on turning away from me,
and though (B)they call out to the Most High,
he shall not raise them up at all.
Jeremiah 5:6
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6 Therefore (A)a lion from the forest shall strike them down;
a (B)wolf from the desert shall devastate them.
(C)A leopard is watching their cities;
everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many,
their (D)apostasies are great.
Romans 3:18
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18 (A)“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Zechariah 7:11
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11 But (A)they refused to pay attention (B)and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.[a]
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- Zechariah 7:11 Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear
Hosea 14:1
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A Plea to Return to the Lord
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Jeremiah 8:5
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5 Why then has this people (A)turned away
in perpetual (B)backsliding?
(C)They hold fast to deceit;
they refuse to return.
Jeremiah 3:6-8
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Faithless Israel Called to Repentance
6 The Lord said to me in the days of (A)King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, (B)how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there (C)played the whore? 7 And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous (D)sister Judah saw it. 8 She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, (E)I had sent her away with (F)a decree of divorce. (G)Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went (H)and played the whore.
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Hosea 4:16
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16 Like a stubborn heifer,
Israel is stubborn;
can the Lord now feed them
like a lamb in a broad pasture?
Jeremiah 36:23-24
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23 As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a knife and throw them into the fire in the fire pot, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the fire pot. 24 Yet (A)neither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words was afraid, (B)nor did they tear their garments.
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Jeremiah 5:22
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22 (A)Do you not fear me? declares the Lord.
Do you not tremble before me?
I placed the sand (B)as the boundary for the sea,
a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass;
though the waves toss, they cannot prevail;
though (C)they roar, they cannot pass over it.
Jeremiah 3:22
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22 (A)“Return, O faithless sons;
(B)I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to you,
for you are the Lord our God.
Jeremiah 3:11-14
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11 And the Lord said to me, (A)“Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 12 Go, and proclaim these words toward (B)the north, and say,
(C)“‘Return, faithless Israel,
declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
for (D)I am merciful,
declares the Lord;
(E)I will not be angry forever.
13 (F)Only acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under (G)every green tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice,
declares the Lord.
14 (H)Return, O faithless children,
declares the Lord;
(I)for I am your master;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
and I will bring you to Zion.
Isaiah 50:1
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Israel's Sin and the Servant's Obedience
50 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is (A)your mother's certificate of divorce,
with which (B)I sent her away?
Or (C)which of my creditors is it
to whom I have sold you?
(D)Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,
and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
Isaiah 5:5
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5 And now I will tell you
what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove (A)its hedge,
and it shall be devoured;[a]
(B)I will break down its wall,
and it shall be trampled down.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:5 Or grazed over; compare Exodus 22:5
Proverbs 5:22
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Proverbs 1:31
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Job 20:11-16
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12 “Though evil is sweet in his mouth,
though he hides it (C)under his tongue,
13 though he is loath to let it go
and holds it in his mouth,
14 yet his food is turned in his stomach;
it is the venom of (D)cobras 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;
(E)the tongue of a viper will kill him.
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