Ezekiel 9:9
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9 Then he said to me, (A)“The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. (B)The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For (C)they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’
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Ezekiel 8:17-18
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17 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O (A)son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit (B)the abominations that they commit here, that (C)they should fill the land with violence and (D)provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their[a] nose. 18 Therefore (E)I will act in wrath. (F)My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. (G)And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”
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- Ezekiel 8:17 Or my
Jeremiah 39:9
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9 Then (A)Nebuzaradan, the (B)captain of the guard, carried into exile to Babylon the rest of the people who were left in the city, (C)those who had deserted to him, and the people who remained.
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Jeremiah 30:14-15
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14 (A)All your lovers have forgotten you;
they care nothing for you;
for I have dealt you the blow of (B)an enemy,
the punishment (C)of a merciless foe,
because your guilt is great,
(D)because your sins are flagrant.
15 (E)Why do you cry out over your hurt?
(F)Your pain is incurable.
Because your guilt is great,
(G)because your sins are flagrant,
I have done these things to you.
Psalm 90:7-8
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7 For we are brought to an end by your anger;
by your wrath we are dismayed.
8 You have (A)set our iniquities before you,
our (B)secret sins in the light of your presence.
Deuteronomy 32:15-27
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15 “But (A)Jeshurun grew fat, and (B)kicked;
(C)you grew fat, stout, and sleek;
(D)then he forsook God (E)who made him
and scoffed at (F)the Rock of his salvation.
16 (G)They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 (H)They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
to gods they had never known,
to (I)new gods that had come recently,
whom your fathers had never dreaded.
18 You were unmindful of (J)the Rock that bore[a] you,
and you (K)forgot the God who gave you birth.
19 (L)“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
because of the provocation of (M)his sons and his daughters.
20 And he said, (N)‘I will hide my face from them;
I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
21 (O)They have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger (P)with their idols.
So (Q)I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with (R)a foolish nation.
22 For (S)a fire is kindled by my anger,
and it burns to (T)the depths of Sheol,
devours the earth and its increase,
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 “‘And I will heap disasters upon them;
(U)I will spend my arrows on them;
24 they shall be wasted with hunger,
and devoured by plague
and poisonous pestilence;
I will send (V)the teeth of beasts against them,
with the venom of (W)things that crawl in the dust.
25 (X)Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
26 (Y)I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;
(Z)I will wipe them from human memory,”
27 had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, (AA)“Our hand is triumphant,
it was not the Lord who did all this.”’
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:18 Or fathered
Zephaniah 3:1-8
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Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations
3 Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,
(A)the oppressing city!
2 She listens to no voice;
(B)she accepts no correction.
(C)She does not trust in the Lord;
she does not draw near to her God.
3 (D)Her officials within her
are roaring lions;
her judges are (E)evening wolves
that leave nothing till the morning.
4 (F)Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men;
(G)her priests (H)profane what is holy;
they do violence to the law.
5 The Lord within her (I)is righteous;
he does no injustice;
every morning he shows forth his justice;
each dawn he does not fail;
but (J)the unjust knows no shame.
6 (K)“I have cut off nations;
their battlements are in ruins;
I have laid waste their streets
(L)so that no one walks in them;
their cities have been made desolate,
without a man, without an inhabitant.
7 (M)I said, ‘Surely you will fear me;
(N)you will accept correction.
Then your[a] dwelling would not be cut off
according to all that I have appointed against you.’[b]
But (O)all the more they were eager
to make all their deeds corrupt.
8 “Therefore (P)wait for me,” declares the Lord,
“for the day when I rise up to seize the prey.
For my decision is (Q)to gather nations,
to assemble kingdoms,
to pour out upon them my indignation,
all my burning anger;
for in the fire of my jealousy
(R)all the earth shall be consumed.
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 3:7 Hebrew her
- Zephaniah 3:7 Hebrew her
Micah 7:8-10
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8 (A)Rejoice not over me, O (B)my enemy;
(C)when I fall, I shall rise;
(D)when I sit in darkness,
the Lord will be a light to me.
9 (E)I will bear the indignation of the Lord
because I have sinned against him,
until (F)he pleads my cause
and executes judgment for me.
(G)He will bring me out to the light;
I shall look upon his vindication.
10 Then (H)my enemy will see,
and shame will cover her who (I)said to me,
“Where is the Lord your God?”
(J)My eyes will look upon her;
now she will be trampled down
(K)like the mire of the streets.
Micah 3:9-12
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9 (A)Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel,
(B)who detest justice
and make crooked all that is straight,
10 (C)who build Zion with blood
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 (D)Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
(E)its priests teach for a price;
(F)its prophets practice divination for money;
(G)yet they lean on the Lord and (H)say,
“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
(I)No disaster shall come upon us.”
12 Therefore because of you
(J)Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem (K)shall become a heap of ruins,
and (L)the mountain of the house (M)a wooded height.
Daniel 9:7-16
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7 To you, (A)O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, (B)those who are near and (C)those who are far away, in (D)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of (E)the treachery that they have committed against you. 8 To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because (F)we have sinned against you. 9 (G)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him 10 (H)and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by (I)his servants the prophets. 11 (J)All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, (K)refusing to obey your voice. (L)And the curse and oath (M)that are written in the Law of (N)Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because (O)we have sinned against him. 12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against (P)our rulers who ruled us,[a] by (Q)bringing upon us a great calamity. (R)For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. 13 (S)As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, (T)turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. 14 (U)Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, (V)for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and (W)we have not obeyed his voice. 15 And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt (X)with a mighty hand, and (Y)have made a name for yourself, as at this day, (Z)we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
16 “O Lord, (AA)according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, (AB)your holy hill, (AC)because for our sins, and for (AD)the iniquities of our fathers, (AE)Jerusalem and your people have become (AF)a byword among all who are around us.
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- Daniel 9:12 Or our judges who judged us
Ezekiel 22:24-31
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24 “Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is (A)not cleansed (B)or rained upon in the day of indignation. 25 (C)The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is (D)like a roaring lion (E)tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 (F)Her priests (G)have done violence to my law and (H)have profaned my holy things. (I)They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and (J)they have disregarded my Sabbaths, (K)so that I am profaned among them. 27 (L)Her princes in her midst are like wolves (M)tearing the prey, (N)shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. 28 And (O)her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, (P)seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken. 29 The people of the land (Q)have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and (R)have extorted from the sojourner without justice. 30 (S)And I sought for a man among them (T)who should build up the wall (U)and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. 31 Therefore (V)I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned (W)their way upon their heads, declares the Lord God.”
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Lamentations 3:46
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46 (A)“All our enemies
open their mouths against us;
Lamentations 3:39-43
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39 (A)Why should a living man complain,
a man, about the punishment of his sins?
40 Let us test and examine our ways,
(B)and return to the Lord!
41 (C)Let us lift up our hearts and hands
to God in heaven:
42 (D)“We have transgressed and (E)rebelled,
and you have not forgiven.
43 “You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,
(F)killing without pity;
Lamentations 1:18
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18 (A)“The Lord is in the right,
(B)for I have rebelled against his word;
but hear, all you peoples,
and see my suffering;
(C)my young women and my young men
have gone into captivity.
Jeremiah 52:27-30
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27 And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at (A)Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.
28 This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: (B)in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans; 29 (C)in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem 832 persons; 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Judeans 745 persons; all the persons were 4,600.
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Jeremiah 44:21-22
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21 (A)“As for the offerings that you offered in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your officials, and the people of the land, (B)did not the Lord remember them? Did it not come into his mind? 22 (C)The Lord could no longer bear your evil deeds and (D)the abominations that you committed. (E)Therefore your land has become (F)a desolation and a waste and a curse, (G)without inhabitant, as it is this day.
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Jeremiah 23:14
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14 But in the prophets of Jerusalem
I have seen a horrible thing:
(A)they commit adultery and walk in lies;
(B)they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so that no one turns from his evil;
(C)all of them have become like Sodom to me,
(D)and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”
Jeremiah 12:7
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7 “I have forsaken my house;
I have abandoned (A)my heritage;
I have given (B)the beloved of my soul
into the hands of her enemies.
Jeremiah 5:29
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29 (A)Shall I not punish them for these things?
declares the Lord,
and shall I not avenge myself
on a nation such as this?”
Jeremiah 5:3-9
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3 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.
4 Then I said, “These are only the poor;
they have no sense;
(C)for they do not know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.
5 I will go to the great
and will speak to them,
for they know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.”
(D)But they all alike had broken the yoke;
they had burst the bonds.
6 Therefore (E)a lion from the forest shall strike them down;
a (F)wolf from the desert shall devastate them.
(G)A leopard is watching their cities;
everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many,
their (H)apostasies are great.
7 (I)“How can I pardon you?
Your children have forsaken me
(J)and have sworn by those who are no gods.
(K)When I fed them to the full,
(L)they committed adultery
(M)and trooped to the houses of whores.
8 They were well-fed, lusty stallions,
(N)each neighing (O)for his neighbor's wife.
9 (P)Shall I not punish them for these things?
declares the Lord;
and shall I not avenge myself
on a nation such as this?
Isaiah 63:18
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18 (A)Your holy people held possession for a little while;[a]
(B)our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 63:18 Or They have dispossessed your holy people for a little while
Psalm 89:42
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42 You have exalted the right hand of his foes;
you have made all his enemies rejoice.
Psalm 80:6
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6 (A)You make us an object of contention for our (B)neighbors,
and our enemies laugh among themselves.
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