Jeremiah 44:3
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3 because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke Me to anger, in that they went (A)to burn incense and to (B)serve other gods whom they did not know, they nor you nor your fathers.
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Deuteronomy 29:26
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26 for they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that He had not given to them.
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Deuteronomy 32:17
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17 (A)They sacrificed to demons, not to God,
To gods they did not know,
To new gods, new arrivals
That your fathers did not fear.
Deuteronomy 13:6
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6 (A)“If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, (B)the wife [a]of your bosom, or your friend (C)who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers,
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- Deuteronomy 13:6 Whom you cherish
Daniel 9:5
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5 (A)we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.
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Ezekiel 8:17-18
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17 And He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have (A)filled the land with violence; then they have returned to provoke Me to anger. Indeed they put the branch to their nose. 18 (B)Therefore I also will act in fury. My (C)eye will not spare nor will I have pity; and though they (D)cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”
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Jeremiah 44:8
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8 in that you (A)provoke Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have gone to dwell, that you may cut yourselves off and be (B)a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
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Jeremiah 2:17-19
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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?
18 And now why take (C)the road to Egypt,
To drink the waters of (D)Sihor?
Or why take the road to (E)Assyria,
To drink the waters of [a]the River?
19 Your own wickedness will (F)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 [b]fear of Me is not in you,”
Says the Lord God of hosts.
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- Jeremiah 2:18 The Euphrates
- Jeremiah 2:19 dread
Nehemiah 9:33
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33 However (A)You are just in all that has befallen us;
For You have dealt faithfully,
But (B)we have done wickedly.
Zechariah 7:12-13
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12 Yes, they made their (A)hearts like flint, (B)refusing to hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. (C)Thus great wrath came from the Lord of hosts. 13 Therefore it happened, that just as He proclaimed and they would not hear, so (D)they called out and I would not listen,” says the Lord of hosts.
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Ezekiel 22:25-31
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25 (A)The conspiracy of her [a]prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they (B)have devoured [b]people; (C)they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 (D)Her priests have [c]violated My law and (E)profaned My holy things; they have not (F)distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. 27 Her (G)princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy [d]people, and to get dishonest gain. 28 (H)Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, (I)seeing false visions, and divining (J)lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord had not spoken. 29 The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully (K)oppress the stranger. 30 (L)So I sought for a man among them who would (M)make a wall, and (N)stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. 31 Therefore I have (O)poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed (P)their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 22:25 So with MT, Vg.; LXX princes; Tg. scribes
- Ezekiel 22:25 Lit. souls
- Ezekiel 22:26 Lit. done violence to
- Ezekiel 22:27 Lit. souls
Ezekiel 9:9
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9 Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and (A)the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity; for they say, (B)‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and (C)the Lord does not see!’
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Lamentations 4:13
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13 (A)Because of the sins of her prophets
And the iniquities of her priests,
(B)Who shed in her midst
The blood of the just.
Lamentations 1:8
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8 (A)Jerusalem has sinned gravely,
Therefore she has become [a]vile.
All who honored her despise her
Because (B)they have seen her nakedness;
Yes, she sighs and turns away.
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- Lamentations 1:8 LXX, Vg. moved or removed
Jeremiah 22:9
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9 Then they will answer, (A)‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshiped other gods and served them.’ ”
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Jeremiah 19:3-4
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3 (A)and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will bring such a catastrophe on this place, that whoever hears of it, his ears will (B)tingle.
4 “Because they (C)have forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with (D)the blood of the innocents
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Jeremiah 16:11-12
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11 then you shall say to them, (A)‘Because your fathers have forsaken Me,’ says the Lord; ‘they have walked after other gods and have served them and worshiped them, and have forsaken Me and not kept My law. 12 And you have done (B)worse than your fathers, for behold, (C)each one [a]follows the dictates of his own evil heart, so that no one listens to Me.
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- Jeremiah 16:12 walks after the stubbornness or imagination
Jeremiah 11:17
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17 “For the Lord of hosts, (A)who planted you, has pronounced doom against you for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke Me to anger in offering incense to Baal.”
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Jeremiah 9:12-14
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12 (A)Who is the wise man who may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken, that he may declare it? Why does the land perish and burn up like a wilderness, so that no one can pass through?
13 And the Lord said, “Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have (B)not obeyed My voice, nor walked according to it, 14 but they have (C)walked according to the [a]dictates of their own hearts and after the Baals, (D)which their fathers taught them,”
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- Jeremiah 9:14 stubbornness or imagination
Jeremiah 7:19
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19 (A)Do they provoke Me to anger?” says the Lord. “Do they not provoke themselves, to the shame of their own faces?”
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Jeremiah 5:29
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29 (A)Shall I not punish them for these things?’ says the Lord.
‘Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?’
Jeremiah 5:19
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19 And it will be when you say, (A)‘Why does the Lord our God do all these things to us?’ then you shall answer them, ‘Just as you have (B)forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so (C)you shall serve aliens in a land that is not yours.’
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Jeremiah 4:17-18
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17 (A)Like keepers of a field they are against her all around,
Because she has been rebellious against Me,” says the Lord.
18 “Your(B) ways and your doings
Have procured these things for you.
This is your wickedness,
Because it is bitter,
Because it reaches to your heart.”
Ezra 9:6-11
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6 And I said: “O my God, I am too (A)ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for (B)our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has (C)grown up to the heavens. 7 Since the days of our fathers to this day (D)we have been very guilty, and for our iniquities (E)we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the (F)sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to (G)humiliation,[a] as it is this day. 8 And now for a little while grace has been shown from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may (H)enlighten our eyes and give us a measure of revival in our bondage. 9 (I)For we were slaves. (J)Yet our God did not forsake us in our bondage; but (K)He extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to repair the house of our God, to rebuild its ruins, and to give us (L)a wall in Judah and Jerusalem. 10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commandments, 11 which You commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land which you are entering to possess is an unclean land, with the (M)uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations which have filled it from one end to another with their impurity.
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- Ezra 9:7 Lit. shame of faces
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