14 (A)Who knows if He will turn and relent,
And leave (B)a blessing behind Him—
(C)A grain offering and a drink offering
For the Lord your God?

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(A)Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?

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19 (A)Is the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit. But from this day I will (B)bless you.’ ”

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Mourning for the Land

13 (A)Gird yourselves and lament, you priests;
Wail, you who minister before the altar;
Come, lie all night in sackcloth,
You who minister to my God;
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Are withheld from the house of your God.

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(A)Seek the Lord, (B)all you meek of the earth,
Who have upheld His justice.
Seek righteousness, seek humility.
(C)It may be that you will be hidden
In the day of the Lord’s anger.

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So the captain came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, (A)call on your God; (B)perhaps your God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”

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15 (A)Hate evil, love good;
Establish justice in the gate.
(B)It may be that the Lord God of hosts
Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

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(A)The grain offering and the drink offering
Have been cut off from the house of the Lord;
The priests (B)mourn, who minister to the Lord.

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(A)It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to (B)reproach the living God, and will (C)rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

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22 And he said, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept; (A)for I said, ‘Who can tell whether [a]the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:22 Heb. mss., Syr. God

30 Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses said to the people, (A)“You have committed a great sin. So now I will go up to the Lord; (B)perhaps I can (C)make atonement for your sin.”

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25 (A)in humility correcting those who are in opposition, (B)if God perhaps will grant them repentance, (C)so that they may know the truth,

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Therefore I thought it necessary to [a]exhort the brethren to go to you ahead of time, and prepare your generous gift beforehand, which you had previously promised, that it may be ready as a matter of generosity and not as a [b]grudging obligation.

The Cheerful Giver

(A)But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows [c]bountifully will also reap [d]bountifully. So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, (B)not grudgingly or of [e]necessity; for (C)God loves a cheerful giver. (D)And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. As it is written:

(E)“He has dispersed abroad,
He has given to the poor;
His righteousness endures forever.”

10 Now [f]may He who (F)supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, [g]supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your (G)righteousness, 11 while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, (H)which causes thanksgiving through us to God.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 9:5 encourage
  2. 2 Corinthians 9:5 Lit. covetousness
  3. 2 Corinthians 9:6 with blessings
  4. 2 Corinthians 9:6 with blessings
  5. 2 Corinthians 9:7 compulsion
  6. 2 Corinthians 9:10 NU omits may
  7. 2 Corinthians 9:10 NU will supply

16 Is not the food (A)cut off before our eyes,
(B)Joy and gladness from the house of our God?

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(A)Perhaps everyone will listen and turn from his evil way, that I may (B)relent concerning the calamity which I purpose to bring on them because of the evil of their doings.’

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Thus says the Lord:

“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
And one says, ‘Do not destroy it,
For (A)a blessing is in it,’
So will I do for My servants’ sake,
That I may not destroy them (B)all.

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Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your rats that (A)ravage the land, and you shall (B)give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps He will (C)lighten[a] His hand from you, from (D)your gods, and from your land.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 6:5 ease

12 Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how (A)the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. (B)It may be that the Lord will be with me, and (C)I shall be able to drive them out as the Lord said.”

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