Jeremiah 51:5
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5 For Israel is (A)not forsaken, nor Judah,
By his God, the Lord of hosts,
Though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.”
Romans 11:1-2
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Israel’s Rejection Not Total
11 I say then, (A)has God cast away His people? (B)Certainly not! For (C)I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not cast away His people whom (D)He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,
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Zechariah 12:8
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8 In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of the Lord before them.
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Zechariah 12:6
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6 In that day I will make the governors of Judah (A)like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place—Jerusalem.
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Hosea 4:1
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God’s Charge Against Israel
4 Hear the word of the Lord,
You children of Israel,
For the Lord brings a (A)charge[a] against the inhabitants of the land:
“There is no truth or mercy
Or (B)knowledge of God in the land.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:1 A legal complaint
Zechariah 2:12
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12 And the Lord will (A)take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem.
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Zephaniah 3:1-4
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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.
3 (A)Her princes in her midst are roaring lions;
Her judges are (B)evening wolves
That leave not a bone till morning.
4 Her (C)prophets are insolent, treacherous people;
Her priests have [a]polluted the sanctuary,
They have done (D)violence to the law.
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 3:4 Or profaned
Micah 7:20
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20 (A)You will give truth to Jacob
And [a]mercy to Abraham,
(B)Which You have sworn to our fathers
From days of old.
Footnotes
- Micah 7:20 Or lovingkindness
Micah 7:18
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18 (A)Who is a God like You,
(B)Pardoning iniquity
And passing over the transgression of (C)the remnant of His heritage?
Footnotes
- Micah 7:18 Or lovingkindness
Amos 9:8-9
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8 “Behold, (A)the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
And I (B)will destroy it from the face of the earth;
Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
Says the Lord.
9 “For surely I will command,
And will [a]sift the house of Israel among all nations,
As grain is sifted in a sieve;
(C)Yet not the smallest [b]grain shall fall to the ground.
Hosea 1:10
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The Restoration of Israel
10 “Yet (A)the number of the children of Israel
Shall be as the sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or numbered.
(B)And it shall come to pass
In the place where it was said to them,
‘You are [a]not My (C)people,’
There it shall be said to them,
‘You are (D)sons of the living God.’
Footnotes
- Hosea 1:10 Heb. lo-ammi, v. 9
Ezekiel 22:24-31
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24 “Son of man, say to her: ‘You are a land that is (A)not [a]cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.’ 25 (B)The conspiracy of her [b]prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they (C)have devoured [c]people; (D)they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 (E)Her priests have [d]violated My law and (F)profaned My holy things; they have not (G)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 (H)princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy [e]people, and to get dishonest gain. 28 (I)Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, (J)seeing false visions, and divining (K)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 (L)oppress the stranger. 30 (M)So I sought for a man among them who would (N)make a wall, and (O)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 (P)poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed (Q)their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 22:24 So with MT, Syr., Vg.; LXX showered upon
- 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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Ezekiel 8:17
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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.
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Jeremiah 50:20
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20 In those days and in that time,” says the Lord,
(A)“The iniquity of Israel shall be sought, but there shall be none;
And the sins of Judah, but they shall not be found;
For I will pardon those (B)whom I preserve.
Jeremiah 50:4-5
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4 “In those days and in that time,” says the Lord,
“The children of Israel shall come,
(A)They and the children of Judah together;
(B)With continual weeping they shall come,
(C)And seek the Lord their God.
5 They shall ask the way to Zion,
With their faces toward it, saying,
‘Come and let us join ourselves to the Lord
In (D)a perpetual covenant
That will not be forgotten.’
Jeremiah 46:28
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28 Do not fear, O Jacob My servant,” says the Lord,
“For I am with you;
For I will make a complete end of all the nations
To which I have driven you,
But I will not make (A)a complete end of you.
I will rightly (B)correct you,
For I will not leave you wholly unpunished.”
Jeremiah 33:24-26
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24 “Have you not considered what these people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the Lord has chosen, He has also cast them off’? Thus they have (A)despised My people, as if they should no more be a nation before them.
25 “Thus says the Lord: ‘If (B)My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not (C)appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, 26 (D)then I will (E)cast away the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will cause their captives to return, and will have mercy on them.’ ”
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Jeremiah 31:37
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37 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“If heaven above can be measured,
And the foundations of the earth searched out beneath,
I will also (B)cast off all the seed of Israel
For all that they have done, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:15
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15 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:
‘Behold, I will feed them with (A)wormwood,
And make them drink the water of gall;
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
[a]Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’ ”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 23:15 Or Pollution
Jeremiah 19:4
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4 “Because they (A)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 (B)the blood of the innocents
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Jeremiah 16:18
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18 And first I will repay (A)double for their iniquity and their sin, because (B)they have defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable idols.”
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Isaiah 62:12
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12 And they shall call them The Holy People,
The Redeemed of the Lord;
And you shall be called Sought Out,
A City Not Forsaken.
Isaiah 54:3-11
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3 For you shall expand to the right and to the left,
And your descendants will (A)inherit the nations,
And make the desolate cities inhabited.
4 “Do(B) not fear, for you will not be ashamed;
Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame;
For you will forget the shame of your youth,
And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.
5 (C)For your Maker is your husband,
The Lord of hosts is His name;
And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel;
He is called (D)the God of the whole earth.
6 For the Lord (E)has called you
Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,
Like a youthful wife when you were refused,”
Says your God.
7 “For(F) a mere moment I have forsaken you,
But with great mercies (G)I will gather you.
8 With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment;
(H)But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you,”
Says the Lord, your Redeemer.
9 “For this is like the waters of (I)Noah to Me;
For as I have sworn
That the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth,
So have I sworn
That I would not be angry with (J)you, nor rebuke you.
10 For (K)the mountains shall depart
And the hills be removed,
(L)But My kindness shall not depart from you,
Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,”
Says the Lord, who has mercy on you.
11 “O you afflicted one,
Tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
Behold, I will lay your stones with (M)colorful gems,
And lay your foundations with sapphires.
Isaiah 49:14-15
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God Will Remember Zion
14 (A)But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me,
And my Lord has forgotten me.”
15 “Can(B) a woman forget her nursing child,
[a]And not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Surely they may forget,
(C)Yet I will not forget you.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:15 Lit. From having compassion
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