24 “Have you not observed that these people are saying, ‘The Lord has rejected the two clans that he chose’? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.

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They say, “Come, (A)let us wipe them out as a nation;
    let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”

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13 You have made us (A)the taunt of our neighbors,
    the derision and (B)scorn of those around us.
14 You have made us (C)a byword among the nations,
    (D)a laughingstock[a] among the peoples.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 44:14 Hebrew a shaking of the head

And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of (A)Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves?[a] Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?” (B)Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—(C)if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!” (D)Hear, O our God, for we are despised. (E)Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives.

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  1. Nehemiah 4:2 Or Will they commit themselves to God?

The Remnant of Israel

11 I ask, then, (A)has God rejected his people? By no means! For (B)I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham,[a] a member of the tribe of Benjamin. (C)God has not rejected his people whom he (D)foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? (E)“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.” But what is God's reply to him? (F)“I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” So too at the present time there is (G)a remnant, chosen by grace. (H)But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

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  1. Romans 11:1 Or one of the offspring of Abraham

22 And (A)I will make them one nation in the land, on (B)the mountains of Israel. And (C)one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer (D)two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.

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Thus says the Lord God: Because (A)the enemy said of you, (B)‘Aha!’ and, ‘The ancient (C)heights have become our possession,’

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10 “Because you said, (A)‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and (B)we will take possession of them’—although the (C)Lord was there— 11 therefore, (D)as I live, declares the Lord God, I will deal with you (E)according to the anger and (F)envy that you showed because of your hatred against them. And (G)I will make myself known among them, when I judge you. 12 And you shall know that I am the Lord.

(H)“I have heard all the revilings that you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are laid desolate; (I)they are given us to devour.’ 13 And (J)you magnified yourselves against me (K)with your mouth, and multiplied your words against me; I heard it. 14 Thus says the Lord God: (L)While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. 15 As you (M)rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, (N)Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then (O)they will know that I am the Lord.

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(A)“Son of man, because (B)Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, (C)‘Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,’

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Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord God: (A)Thus says the Lord God, Because you said, (B)‘Aha!’ over my (C)sanctuary when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and over the house of Judah when they went into exile,

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15 “Away! (A)Unclean!” people cried at them.
    “Away! Away! Do not touch!”
So they became fugitives and wanderers;
    people said among the nations,
    “They shall stay with us no longer.”

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15 All who pass along the way
    clap their hands at you;
(A)they hiss and wag their heads
    at the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
    (B)the perfection of beauty,
    (C)the joy of all the earth?”

16 (D)All your enemies
    rail against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
    they cry: “We (E)have swallowed her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
    now we have it; (F)we see it!”

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21 (A)then also my covenant with David my servant may be broken, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with the Levitical priests my ministers. 22 As (B)the host of heaven cannot be numbered and (C)the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.”

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17 (A)For I will restore (B)health to you,
    and (C)your wounds I will heal,
declares the Lord,
because (D)they have called you an outcast:
    (E)‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’

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(A)Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us,
    for we have had more than enough of (B)contempt.
Our soul has had more than enough
    of (C)the scorn of (D)those who are at ease,
    of the contempt of (E)the proud.

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14 (A)For the Lord will not forsake his (B)people;
    he will not abandon his (C)heritage;

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11 and say, “God has forsaken him;
    pursue and seize him,
    for there is none to deliver him.”

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But he disdained[a] to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy[b] all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.

In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, (A)they cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is (B)the month of Adar. Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. (C)Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king's laws, so that it is not to the king's profit to tolerate them.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 3:6 Hebrew disdained in his eyes
  2. Esther 3:6 Or annihilate

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