Why then has this people (A)turned away
    in perpetual (B)backsliding?
(C)They hold fast to deceit;
    they refuse to return.

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Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
    (A)they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.

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O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
(A)You have struck them down,
    but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
    but they refused to take correction.
(B)They have made their faces harder than rock;
    they have refused to repent.

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11 But (A)they refused to pay attention (B)and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 7:11 Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear

25 See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For (A)if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.

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The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan (A)with all power and false signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for (B)those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore (C)God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe (D)what is false, 12 in order that all may be condemned (E)who did not believe the truth but (F)had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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40 yet (A)you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

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My people are bent (A)on turning away from me,
    and though (B)they call out to the Most High,
    he shall not raise them up at all.

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27 Like a cage full of birds,
    their houses are full of deceit;
therefore they have become great and rich;

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20 (A)He feeds on (B)ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not (C)a lie in my right hand?”

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10 (A)who say to (B)the seers, “Do not see,”
    and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us (C)smooth things,
    prophesy illusions,

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25 Only hold fast (A)what you have until I come.

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16 Like a stubborn heifer,
    Israel is stubborn;
can the Lord now feed them
    like a lamb in a broad pasture?

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24 (A)But they did not obey or incline their ear, (B)but walked in their own counsels and (C)the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and (D)went backward and not forward. 25 From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, (E)I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day. 26 (F)Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, (G)but stiffened their neck. (H)They did worse than their fathers.

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11 And the Lord said to me, (A)“Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 12 Go, and proclaim these words toward (B)the north, and say,

(C)“‘Return, faithless Israel,
declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
    for (D)I am merciful,
declares the Lord;
(E)I will not be angry forever.
13 (F)Only acknowledge your guilt,
    that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under (G)every green tree,
    and that you have not obeyed my voice,
declares the Lord.
14 (H)Return, O faithless children,
declares the Lord;
    (I)for I am your master;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
    and I will bring you to Zion.

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32 (A)Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
    or a bride her attire?
Yet (B)my people have forgotten me
    days without number.

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20 but if you refuse and rebel,
    you shall be eaten by the sword;
    (A)for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

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13 (A)Keep hold of instruction; do not let go;
    guard her, for she is your (B)life.

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