30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight (A)from their youth. The children of Israel have done nothing but (B)provoke me to anger (C)by the work of their hands, declares the Lord.

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22 For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them (A)concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23 But this command I gave them: (B)‘Obey my voice, and (C)I will be your God, and you shall be my people. (D)And walk in all the way that I command you, (E)that it may be well with you.’ 24 (F)But they did not obey or incline their ear, (G)but walked in their own counsels and (H)the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and (I)went backward and not forward. 25 From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, (J)I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day. 26 (K)Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, (L)but stiffened their neck. (M)They did worse than their fathers.

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(A)Yet you have not listened to me, declares the Lord, (B)that you might provoke me to anger (C)with the work of your hands to your own harm.

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21 I spoke to you in your prosperity,
    but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
(A)This has been your way from (B)your youth,
    that you have not obeyed my voice.

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25 (A)Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For (B)we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

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(A)And I brought you into a plentiful land
    to enjoy its fruits and its good things.
But when you came in, (B)you defiled my land
    and made my heritage an abomination.

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10 (A)But they rebelled
    (B)and grieved his Holy Spirit;
therefore he turned to be their enemy,
    and himself fought against them.

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Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. (A)From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord. Even (B)at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you. (C)When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord made with you, I remained on the mountain (D)forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water. 10 And (E)the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the Lord had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire (F)on the day of the assembly. 11 And at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. 12 Then the Lord said to me, (G)‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have (H)turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.’

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21 And when the Lord smelled (A)the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again (B)curse[a] the ground because of man, for (C)the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. (D)Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.

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  1. Genesis 8:21 Or dishonor

51 (A)“You stiff-necked people, (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. (C)As your fathers did, so do you. 52 (D)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of (E)the Righteous One, (F)whom you have now betrayed and murdered, 53 you who received the law (G)as delivered by angels and (H)did not keep it.”

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43 “Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!’[a] 44 For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, lewd women!

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  1. Ezekiel 23:43 The meaning of the Hebrew verse is uncertain

(A)They played the whore in Egypt; (B)they played the whore (C)in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms[a] handled.

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  1. Ezekiel 23:3 Hebrew nipples; also verses 8, 21

28 For when I had brought them into the land that (A)I swore to give them, then wherever they saw (B)any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented (C)the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.

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(A)But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. (B)None of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt.

“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them (C)and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

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15 (A)“But you trusted in your beauty (B)and played the whore[a] because of your renown (C)and lavished your whorings[b] on any passerby; your beauty[c] became his. 16 You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.[d] 17 You also took (D)your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and (E)made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. 18 And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, (F)and set my oil and my incense before them. 19 (G)Also my bread that I gave you—(H)I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for (I)a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God. 20 (J)And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and (K)these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter 21 that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them? 22 And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember (L)the days of your youth, (M)when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:15 Or were unfaithful; also verses 16, 17, 26, 28
  2. Ezekiel 16:15 Or unfaithfulness; also verses 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36
  3. Ezekiel 16:15 Hebrew it
  4. Ezekiel 16:16 The meaning of this Hebrew sentence is uncertain

19 Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
    from (A)the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    (B)Is her King not in her?”
(C)“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images
    and with their foreign idols?”

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(A)Both we and (B)our fathers have sinned;
    we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.
Our fathers, when they were in Egypt,
    did not consider your wondrous works;
they (C)did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love,
    but (D)rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

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16 “But they and our fathers (A)acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments. 17 They refused to obey (B)and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt.[a] But you are a God ready to forgive, (C)gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them. 18 Even (D)when they had made for themselves a golden[b] calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ (E)and had committed great blasphemies, 19 you (F)in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. (G)The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, (H)nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go. 20 (I)You gave your good Spirit to instruct them (J)and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst. 21 (K)Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

22 “And you gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner. (L)So they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon (M)and the land of Og king of Bashan. 23 You multiplied their children (N)as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess. 24 (O)So the descendants went in and possessed the land, (P)and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would. 25 And they captured (Q)fortified cities and (R)a rich land, and took possession of (S)houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled (T)and became fat and delighted themselves in (U)your great goodness.

26 (V)“Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you (W)and cast your law behind their back (X)and killed your prophets, who (Y)had warned them in order to turn them back to you, (Z)and they committed great blasphemies. 27 (AA)Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. (AB)And in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them (AC)saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies. 28 (AD)But after they had rest they did evil again before you, and you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, (AE)and many times you delivered them according to your mercies. 29 (AF)And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet (AG)they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, (AH)which if a person does them, he shall live by them, (AI)and they turned a stubborn shoulder (AJ)and stiffened their neck and would not obey. 30 Many years (AK)you bore with them (AL)and warned them (AM)by your Spirit through your prophets. (AN)Yet they would not give ear. (AO)Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands. 31 Nevertheless, (AP)in your great mercies (AQ)you did not make an end of them or forsake them, (AR)for you are a gracious and merciful God.

32 “Now, therefore, our God, (AS)the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, (AT)since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day. 33 (AU)Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully (AV)and we have acted wickedly. 34 Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them. 35 Even in their own kingdom, (AW)and amid your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and (AX)rich land that you set before them, (AY)they did not serve you or turn from their wicked works. 36 Behold, (AZ)we are slaves this day; in the land that you gave to our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts, behold, we are slaves. 37 (BA)And its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.

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  1. Nehemiah 9:17 Some Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their slavery
  2. Nehemiah 9:18 Hebrew metal

And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, (A)from watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves (B)pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger, 12 and they served idols, (C)of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13 Yet the Lord (D)warned Israel and Judah (E)by every prophet (F)and every seer, saying, (G)“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

14 But they would not listen, (H)but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 They despised his statutes (I)and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after (J)false idols (K)and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the (L)Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them. 16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of (M)two calves; and they (N)made an Asherah and (O)worshiped all the host of heaven and served (P)Baal. 17 (Q)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings[a] and used (R)divination and (S)omens and (T)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but (U)the tribe of Judah only.

19 (V)Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced. 20 And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them (W)and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

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  1. 2 Kings 17:17 Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire

22 “At (A)Taberah also, and at (B)Massah and at (C)Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath. 23 And (D)when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God and (E)did not believe him or obey his voice. 24 (F)You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

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