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19 Hear, O earth; I am going to bring disaster on this people,
    the fruit of their schemes,
because they have not given heed to my words,
    and as for my teaching, they have rejected it.(A)

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The Wickedness of Judah

Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth,
    for the Lord has spoken:
I reared children and brought them up,
    but they have rebelled against me.(A)

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22 Repent therefore of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.

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10 I the Lord test the mind
    and search the heart,
to give to all according to their ways,
    according to the fruit of their doings.(A)

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The wise shall be put to shame;
    they shall be dismayed and taken;
since they have rejected the word of the Lord,
    what wisdom is in them?(A)

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48 The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; on the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge,(A)

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19 And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.(A) 20 For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.(B) 21 But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.21 Some interpreters hold that the quotation concludes with 3.15

Hear, you mountains, the case of the Lord,
    and you enduring foundations of the earth,
for the Lord has a case against his people,
    and he will contend with Israel.(A)

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13 You have plowed wickedness;
    you have reaped injustice;
    you have eaten the fruit of lies.
Because you have trusted in your chariots,[a]
    in the multitude of your warriors,(A)

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  1. 10.13 Gk: Heb your way

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge!
    Because you have rejected knowledge,
    I reject you from being a priest to me;
and since you have forgotten the law of your God,
    I also will forget your children.(A)

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29 O land, land, land,
    hear the word of the Lord!(A)

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10 To whom shall I speak and give warning,
    that they may hear?
See, their ears are closed;[a]
    they cannot listen.
The word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn;
    they take no pleasure in it.(A)

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  1. 6.10 Heb are uncircumcised

15 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am now bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their necks, refusing to hear my words.(A)

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18 for I know[a] their works and their thoughts.

I am[b] coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and shall see my glory,(A)

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  1. 66.18 Gk Syr: Heb lacks know
  2. 66.18 Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb it is

Their feet run to evil,
    and they rush to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
    desolation and destruction are in their highways.(A)

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When one will not listen to the law,
    even one’s prayers are an abomination.(A)

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26 Evil plans are an abomination to the Lord,
    but gracious words are pure.(A)

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24 Because I have called and you refused,
    have stretched out my hand and no one heeded,(A)
25 and because you have ignored all my counsel
    and would have none of my reproof,(B)
26 I also will laugh at your calamity;
    I will mock when panic strikes you,(C)
27 when panic strikes you like a storm
    and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
    when distress and anguish come upon you.
28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;
    they will seek me diligently but will not find me.(D)
29 Because they hated knowledge
    and did not choose the fear of the Lord,
30 would have none of my counsel
    and despised all my reproof,(E)
31 therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way
    and be sated with their own devices.(F)

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26 Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”(A)

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23 For rebellion is no less a sin than divination,
    and stubbornness is like iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
    he has also rejected you from being king.”(A)

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32 “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;
    let the earth hear the words of my mouth.(A)

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19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,(A)

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26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to occupy; you will not live long on it but will be utterly destroyed.(A)

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Circumcise yourselves to the Lord;
    remove the foreskin of your hearts,
    O people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
or else my wrath will go forth like fire
    and burn with no one to quench it,
    because of the evil of your doings.(A)

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