18 “The Lord is righteous,(A)
    yet I rebelled(B) against his command.
Listen, all you peoples;
    look on my suffering.(C)
My young men and young women
    have gone into exile.(D)

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The Lord within her is righteous;(A)
    he does no wrong.(B)
Morning by morning(C) he dispenses his justice,
    and every new day he does not fail,(D)
    yet the unrighteous know no shame.(E)

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75 I know, Lord, that your laws are righteous,(A)
    and that in faithfulness(B) you have afflicted me.

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14 If you fear(A) the Lord and serve and obey him and do not rebel(B) against his commands, and if both you and the king who reigns over you follow the Lord your God—good! 15 But if you do not obey the Lord, and if you rebel against(C) his commands, his hand will be against you, as it was against your ancestors.

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12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?(A)
    Look around and see.
Is any suffering like my suffering(B)
    that was inflicted on me,
that the Lord brought on me
    in the day of his fierce anger?(C)

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Jeremiah’s Complaint

12 You are always righteous,(A) Lord,
    when I bring a case(B) before you.
Yet I would speak with you about your justice:(C)
    Why does the way of the wicked prosper?(D)
    Why do all the faithless live at ease?

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42 “We have sinned and rebelled(A)
    and you have not forgiven.(B)

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11 because they rebelled(A) against God’s commands
    and despised(B) the plans(C) of the Most High.

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33 In all that has happened to us, you have remained righteous;(A) you have acted faithfully, while we acted wickedly.(B)

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Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say:

“You are just in these judgments,(A) O Holy One,(B)
    you who are and who were;(C)
for they have shed the blood of your holy people and your prophets,(D)
    and you have given them blood to drink(E) as they deserve.”

And I heard the altar(F) respond:

“Yes, Lord God Almighty,(G)
    true and just are your judgments.”(H)

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and sang the song of God’s servant(A) Moses(B) and of the Lamb:(C)

“Great and marvelous are your deeds,(D)
    Lord God Almighty.(E)
Just and true are your ways,(F)
    King of the nations.[a]
Who will not fear you, Lord,(G)
    and bring glory to your name?(H)
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come
    and worship before you,(I)
for your righteous acts(J) have been revealed.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 15:3 Some manuscripts ages
  2. Revelation 15:4 Phrases in this song are drawn from Psalm 111:2,3; Deut. 32:4; Jer. 10:7; Psalms 86:9; 98:2.

19 Now we know that whatever the law says,(A) it says to those who are under the law,(B) so that every mouth may be silenced(C) and the whole world held accountable to God.(D)

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But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath(A), when his righteous judgment(B) will be revealed.

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The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving,(A) even though we have rebelled against him;(B) 10 we have not obeyed the Lord our God or kept the laws he gave us through his servants the prophets.(C) 11 All Israel has transgressed(D) your law(E) and turned away, refusing to obey you.

“Therefore the curses(F) and sworn judgments(G) written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned(H) against you. 12 You have fulfilled(I) the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing on us great disaster.(J) Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like(K) what has been done to Jerusalem.(L) 13 Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not sought the favor of the Lord(M) our God by turning from our sins and giving attention to your truth.(N) 14 The Lord did not hesitate to bring the disaster(O) on us, for the Lord our God is righteous in everything he does;(P) yet we have not obeyed him.(Q)

15 “Now, Lord our God, who brought your people out of Egypt with a mighty hand(R) and who made for yourself a name(S) that endures to this day, we have sinned, we have done wrong. 16 Lord, in keeping with all your righteous acts,(T) turn away(U) your anger and your wrath(V) from Jerusalem,(W) your city, your holy hill.(X) Our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors have made Jerusalem and your people an object of scorn(Y) to all those around us.

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“Lord, you are righteous,(A) but this day we are covered with shame(B)—the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where you have scattered(C) us because of our unfaithfulness(D) to you.(E)

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22 Yet there will be some survivors(A)—sons and daughters who will be brought out of it.(B) They will come to you, and when you see their conduct(C) and their actions, you will be consoled(D) regarding the disaster I have brought on Jerusalem—every disaster I have brought on it. 23 You will be consoled when you see their conduct and their actions, for you will know that I have done nothing in it without cause, declares the Sovereign Lord.(E)

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Her foes have become her masters;
    her enemies are at ease.
The Lord has brought her grief(A)
    because of her many sins.(B)
Her children have gone into exile,(C)
    captive before the foe.(D)

All the splendor has departed
    from Daughter Zion.(E)
Her princes are like deer
    that find no pasture;
in weakness they have fled(F)
    before the pursuer.

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12 This is what the Lord says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup(A) must drink it, why should you go unpunished?(B) You will not go unpunished, but must drink it.

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28 But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink(A), tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: You must drink it! 29 See, I am beginning to bring disaster(B) on the city that bears my Name,(C) and will you indeed go unpunished?(D) You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword(E) on all(F) who live on the earth,(G) declares the Lord Almighty.’

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“People from many nations will pass by this city and will ask one another, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this great city?’(A) And the answer will be: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God and have worshiped and served other gods.(B)’”

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17 The Lord is righteous(A) in all his ways
    and faithful in all he does.(B)

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26 “But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law.(A) They killed(B) your prophets,(C) who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.(D)

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let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear(A) the prayer(B) your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess(C) the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you. We have acted very wickedly(D) toward you. We have not obeyed the commands, decrees and laws you gave your servant Moses.

“Remember(E) the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter(F) you among the nations,

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13 “What has happened to us is a result of our evil(A) deeds and our great guilt, and yet, our God, you have punished us less than our sins deserved(B) and have given us a remnant like this.

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21 He cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You have defied(A) the word of the Lord and have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you.

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