Jeremiah 5:3
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3 O Lord, are not (A)Your eyes on the truth?
You have (B)stricken them,
But they have not grieved;
You have consumed them,
But (C)they have refused to receive correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to return.
Jeremiah 7:28
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Judgment on Obscene Religion
28 “So you shall say to them, ‘This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the Lord their God (A)nor receive correction. (B)Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.
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Jeremiah 2:30
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30 “In vain I have (A)chastened your children;
They (B)received no correction.
Your sword has (C)devoured your prophets
Like a destroying lion.
2 Chronicles 16:9
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9 (A)For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. In this (B)you have done foolishly; therefore from now on (C)you shall have wars.”
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Zephaniah 3:7
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7 (A)I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me,
You will receive instruction’—
So that her dwelling would not be cut off,
Despite everything for which I punished her.
But [a]they rose early and (B)corrupted all their deeds.
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 3:7 They were eager
Isaiah 9:13
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13 For the people do not turn to Him who strikes them,
Nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.
Zephaniah 3:1-2
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The Wickedness of Jerusalem
3 Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted,
To the oppressing city!
2 She has not obeyed His voice,
She has not received correction;
She has not trusted in the Lord,
She has not drawn near to her God.
Ezekiel 3:7-9
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7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you, (A)because they will not listen to Me; (B)for all the house of Israel are [a]impudent and hard-hearted. 8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 (C)Like adamant stone, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; (D)do not be afraid of them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”
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- Ezekiel 3:7 Lit. strong of forehead
Isaiah 42:25
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25 Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger
And the strength of battle;
(A)It has set him on fire all around,
(B)Yet he did not know;
And it burned him,
Yet he did not take it to (C)heart.
Psalm 11:4-7
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4 The Lord is in His holy temple,
The Lord’s (A)throne is in heaven;
(B)His eyes behold,
His eyelids test the sons of men.
5 The Lord (C)tests the righteous,
But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.
6 Upon the wicked He will rain coals;
Fire and brimstone and a burning wind
(D)Shall be [a]the portion of their cup.
Footnotes
- Psalm 11:6 Their allotted portion or serving
- Psalm 11:7 Or The upright beholds His countenance
Hebrews 12:9
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9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to (A)the Father of spirits and live?
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Romans 2:4-5
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4 Or do you despise (A)the riches of His goodness, (B)forbearance, and (C)longsuffering, (D)not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But in accordance with your hardness and your [a]impenitent heart (E)you are [b]treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
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- Romans 2:5 unrepentant
- Romans 2:5 storing
Romans 2:2
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2 But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.
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Zechariah 7:11-12
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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. 12 Yes, they made their (C)hearts like flint, (D)refusing to hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. (E)Thus great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.
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- Zechariah 7:11 Lit. gave a stubborn or rebellious shoulder
- Zechariah 7:11 Lit. made their ears heavy
Ezekiel 24:13
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13 In your (A)filthiness is lewdness.
Because I have cleansed you, and you were not cleansed,
You will (B)not be cleansed of your filthiness anymore,
(C)Till I have caused My fury to rest upon you.
Jeremiah 32:19
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19 You are (A)great in counsel and mighty in [a]work, for Your (B)eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, (C)to give everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.
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- Jeremiah 32:19 deed
Jeremiah 19:15
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15 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all her towns all the doom that I have pronounced against it, because (A)they have stiffened their necks that they might not hear My words.’ ”
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Jeremiah 7:26
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26 (A)Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but (B)stiffened their neck. (C)They did worse than their fathers.
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Isaiah 48:4
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4 Because I knew that you were [a]obstinate,
And (A)your neck was an iron sinew,
And your brow bronze,
Footnotes
- Isaiah 48:4 Heb. hard
Isaiah 1:5-6
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5 (A)Why should you be stricken again?
You will revolt more and more.
The whole head is sick,
And the whole heart faints.
6 From the sole of the foot even to the head,
There is no soundness in it,
But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores;
They have not been closed or bound up,
Or soothed with ointment.
Proverbs 27:22
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22 (A)Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,
Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
Proverbs 23:35
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35 “They(A) have struck me, but I was not hurt;
They have beaten me, but I did not feel it.
When shall (B)I awake, that I may seek another drink?”
Proverbs 22:12
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12 The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge,
But He overthrows the words of the faithless.
Proverbs 21:29
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29 A wicked man hardens his face,
But as for the upright, he [a]establishes his way.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 21:29 Qr., LXX understands
Psalm 51:6
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6 Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts,
And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.
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