Lamentations 1:5
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5 Her adversaries (A)have become [a]the master,
Her enemies prosper;
For the Lord has afflicted her
(B)Because of the multitude of her transgressions.
Her (C)children have gone into captivity before the enemy.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 1:5 Lit. her head
Ezekiel 9:9
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9 Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and (A)the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity; for they say, (B)‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and (C)the Lord does not see!’
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Ezekiel 8:17-18
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17 And He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial thing to the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have (A)filled the land with violence; then they have returned to provoke Me to anger. Indeed they put the branch to their nose. 18 (B)Therefore I also will act in fury. My (C)eye will not spare nor will I have pity; and though they (D)cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”
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Jeremiah 39:9
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9 (A)Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive to Babylon the remnant of the people who remained in the city and those who (B)defected to him, with the rest of 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 do not seek you;
For I have wounded you with the wound (B)of an enemy,
With the chastisement (C)of a cruel one,
For the multitude of your iniquities,
(D)Because your sins have increased.
15 Why (E)do you cry about your affliction?
Your sorrow is incurable.
Because of the multitude of your iniquities,
Because your sins have increased,
I have done these things to you.
Psalm 90:7-8
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7 For we have been consumed by Your anger,
And by Your wrath we are terrified.
8 (A)You have set our iniquities before You,
Our (B)secret sins in the light of Your countenance.
Deuteronomy 32:15-27
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15 “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked;
(A)You grew fat, you grew thick,
You are obese!
Then he (B)forsook God who (C)made him,
And scornfully esteemed the (D)Rock of his salvation.
16 (E)They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods;
With [a]abominations they provoked Him to anger.
17 (F)They sacrificed to demons, not to God,
To gods they did not know,
To new gods, new arrivals
That your fathers did not fear.
18 (G)Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful,
And have (H)forgotten the God who fathered you.
19 “And(I) when the Lord saw it, He spurned them,
Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
20 And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them,
I will see what their end will be,
For they are a perverse generation,
(J)Children in whom is no faith.
21 (K)They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God;
They have moved Me to anger (L)by their [b]foolish idols.
But (M)I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation;
I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.
22 For (N)a fire is kindled in My anger,
And shall burn to the [c]lowest [d]hell;
It shall consume the earth with her increase,
And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 ‘I will (O)heap disasters on them;
(P)I will spend My arrows on them.
24 They shall be wasted with hunger,
Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction;
I will also send against them the (Q)teeth of beasts,
With the poison of serpents of the dust.
25 The sword shall destroy outside;
There shall be terror within
For the young man and virgin,
The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
26 (R)I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces,
I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”
27 Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy,
Lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
Lest they should say, (S)“Our hand is high;
And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:16 detestable acts
- Deuteronomy 32:21 foolishness, lit. vanities
- Deuteronomy 32:22 lowest part of
- Deuteronomy 32:22 Or Sheol
Zephaniah 3:1-8
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The Wickedness of Jerusalem
3 Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted,
To the oppressing city!
2 She has not obeyed His voice,
She has not received correction;
She has not trusted in the Lord,
She has not drawn near to her God.
3 (A)Her princes in her midst are roaring lions;
Her judges are (B)evening wolves
That leave not a bone till morning.
4 Her (C)prophets are insolent, treacherous people;
Her priests have [a]polluted the sanctuary,
They have done (D)violence to the law.
5 The Lord is righteous in her midst,
He will do no unrighteousness.
[b]Every morning He brings His justice to light;
He never fails,
But (E)the unjust knows no shame.
6 “I have cut off nations,
Their fortresses are devastated;
I have made their streets desolate,
With none passing by.
Their cities are destroyed;
There is no one, no inhabitant.
7 (F)I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me,
You will receive instruction’—
So that her dwelling would not be cut off,
Despite everything for which I punished her.
But [c]they rose early and (G)corrupted all their deeds.
A Faithful Remnant(H)
8 “Therefore (I)wait for Me,” says the Lord,
“Until the day I rise up [d]for plunder;
My determination is to (J)gather the nations
To My assembly of kingdoms,
To pour on them My indignation,
All My fierce anger;
All the earth (K)shall be devoured
With the fire of My jealousy.
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 3:4 Or profaned
- Zephaniah 3:5 Lit. Morning by morning
- Zephaniah 3:7 They were eager
- Zephaniah 3:8 LXX, Syr. for witness; Tg. for the day of My revelation for judgment; Vg. for the day of My resurrection that is to come
Micah 7:8-10
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Israel’s Confession and Comfort
8 (A)Do not rejoice over me, my enemy;
(B)When I fall, I will arise;
When I sit in darkness,
The Lord will be a light to me.
9 (C)I will bear the indignation of the Lord,
Because I have sinned against Him,
Until He pleads my (D)case
And executes justice for me.
He will bring me forth to the light;
I will see His righteousness.
10 Then she who is my enemy will see,
And (E)shame will cover her who said to me,
(F)“Where is the Lord your God?”
My eyes will see her;
Now she will be trampled down
Like mud in the streets.
Micah 3:9-12
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9 Now hear this,
You heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice
And [a]pervert all equity,
10 (A)Who build up Zion with (B)bloodshed
And Jerusalem with iniquity:
11 (C)Her heads judge for a bribe,
(D)Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for [b]money.
(E)Yet they lean on the Lord, and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No harm can come upon us.”
12 Therefore because of you
Zion shall be (F)plowed like a field,
(G)Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
And (H)the mountain of the [c]temple
Like the bare hills of the forest.
Footnotes
- Micah 3:9 Lit. twist
- Micah 3:11 Lit. silver
- Micah 3:12 Lit. house
Daniel 9:7-16
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7 O Lord, (A)righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.
8 “O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. 9 (B)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him. 10 We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets. 11 Yes, (C)all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the (D)Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him. 12 And He has (E)confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; (F)for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.
13 (G)“As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; (H)yet we have not made our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth. 14 Therefore the Lord has (I)kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for (J)the Lord our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice. 15 And now, O Lord our God, (K)who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself (L)a name, as it is this day—we have sinned, we have done wickedly!
16 “O Lord, (M)according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, (N)Your holy mountain; because for our sins, (O)and for the iniquities of our fathers, (P)Jerusalem and Your people (Q)are a reproach to all those around us.
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Ezekiel 22:24-31
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24 “Son of man, say to her: ‘You are a land that is (A)not [a]cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.’ 25 (B)The conspiracy of her [b]prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they (C)have devoured [c]people; (D)they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 (E)Her priests have [d]violated My law and (F)profaned My holy things; they have not (G)distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. 27 Her (H)princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy [e]people, and to get dishonest gain. 28 (I)Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, (J)seeing false visions, and divining (K)lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord had not spoken. 29 The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully (L)oppress the stranger. 30 (M)So I sought for a man among them who would (N)make a wall, and (O)stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. 31 Therefore I have (P)poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed (Q)their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 22:24 So with MT, Syr., Vg.; LXX showered upon
- Ezekiel 22:25 So with MT, Vg.; LXX princes; Tg. scribes
- Ezekiel 22:25 Lit. souls
- Ezekiel 22:26 Lit. done violence to
- Ezekiel 22:27 Lit. souls
Lamentations 3:46
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46 (A)All our enemies
Have opened their mouths against us.
Lamentations 3:39-43
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40 Let us search out and examine our ways,
And turn back to the Lord;
41 (C)Let us lift our hearts and hands
To God in heaven.
42 (D)We have transgressed and rebelled;
You have not pardoned.
43 You have covered Yourself with anger
And pursued us;
You have slain and not pitied.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 3:39 Or murmur
Lamentations 2:17
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17 The Lord has done what He (A)purposed;
He has fulfilled His word
Which He commanded in days of old.
He has thrown down and has not pitied,
And He has caused an enemy to (B)rejoice over you;
He has exalted the [a]horn of your adversaries.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:17 Strength
Lamentations 1:18
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18 “The Lord is (A)righteous,
For I (B)rebelled against His [a]commandment.
Hear now, all peoples,
And behold my sorrow;
My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 1:18 Lit. mouth
Jeremiah 52:27-30
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27 Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive from its own land.
28 (A)These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: (B)in the seventh year, (C)three thousand and twenty-three Jews; 29 (D)in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons; 30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five persons. All the persons were four thousand six hundred.
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Jeremiah 44:21-22
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21 “The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the Lord remember them, and did it not come into His mind? 22 So the Lord could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you committed. Therefore your land is a desolation, an astonishment, a curse, and without an inhabitant, (A)as it is this day.
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Jeremiah 23:14
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14 Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:
(A)They commit adultery and walk in lies;
They also (B)strengthen the hands of evildoers,
So that no one turns back from his wickedness.
All of them are like (C)Sodom to Me,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 12:7
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7 “I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage;
I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.
Jeremiah 5:29
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29 (A)Shall I not punish them for these things?’ says the Lord.
‘Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?’
Jeremiah 5:3-9
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3 O Lord, are not (A)Your eyes on the truth?
You have (B)stricken them,
But they have not grieved;
You have consumed them,
But (C)they have refused to receive correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to return.
4 Therefore I said, “Surely these are poor.
They are foolish;
For (D)they do not know the way of the Lord,
The judgment of their God.
5 I will go to the great men and speak to them,
For (E)they have known the way of the Lord,
The judgment of their God.”
But these have altogether (F)broken the yoke
And burst the bonds.
6 Therefore (G)a lion from the forest shall slay them,
(H)A wolf of the deserts shall destroy them;
(I)A leopard will watch over their cities.
Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces,
Because their transgressions are many;
Their backslidings have increased.
7 “How shall I pardon you for this?
Your children have forsaken Me
And (J)sworn by those (K)that are not gods.
(L)When I had fed them to the full,
Then they committed adultery
And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
8 (M)They were like well-fed lusty stallions;
Every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife.
9 Shall I not punish them for these things?” says the Lord.
“And shall I not (N)avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
Isaiah 63:18
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18 (A)Your holy people have possessed it but a little while;
(B)Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.
Psalm 89:42
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42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries;
You have made all his enemies rejoice.
Psalm 80:6
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6 You have made us a strife to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh among themselves.
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