Leviticus 26:39
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39 And those of you who survive shall languish in the land of your enemies because of their iniquities; they shall also languish because of the iniquities of their ancestors.(A)
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Ezekiel 4:17
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17 Lacking bread and water, they will look at one another in dismay and waste away under their punishment.(A)
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Ezekiel 33:10
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God’s Justice and Mercy
10 Now you, mortal, say to the house of Israel: Thus you have said: “Our transgressions and our sins weigh upon us, and we waste away because of them; how then can we live?”(A)
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Ezekiel 24:23
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23 Your turbans shall be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall pine away in your iniquities and groan to one another.(A)
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Ezekiel 6:9
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9 Your survivors shall remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I was crushed by their wanton heart that turned away from me and their wanton eyes that turned after their idols. Then they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:65
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65 Among those nations you shall find no ease, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a languishing spirit.(A)
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Romans 11:8-10
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8 as it is written,
“God gave them a sluggish spirit,
eyes that would not see
and ears that would not hear,
down to this very day.”(A)
9 And David says,
“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution for them;(B)
10 let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
and keep their backs forever bent.”
Matthew 23:35-36
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35 so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 Truly I tell you, all this will come upon this generation.
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Zechariah 10:9
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9 Though I scattered them among the nations,
yet in far countries they shall remember me,
and they shall rear their children and return.(A)
Hosea 5:15
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15 I will return again to my place
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face.
In their distress they will beg my favor:(A)
Ezekiel 36:31
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31 Then you shall remember your evil ways and your dealings that were not good, and you shall loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominable deeds.(A)
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Ezekiel 20:43
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43 There you shall remember your ways and all the deeds by which you have polluted yourselves, and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.(A)
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Ezekiel 18:19
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19 Yet you say, “Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?” When the son has done what is lawful and right and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.(A)
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Ezekiel 18:2-3
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2 What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, “The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge”?(A) 3 As I live, says the Lord God, this proverb shall no more be used by you in Israel.
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Lamentations 4:9
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9 Happier were those pierced by the sword
than those pierced by hunger,
whose life drains away, deprived
of the produce of the field.(A)
Jeremiah 31:29
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29 In those days they shall no longer say:
“The parents have eaten sour grapes,
and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”(A)
Jeremiah 29:12
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12 Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you.(A)
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Jeremiah 3:25
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25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us, for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our ancestors, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”(A)
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Psalm 32:3-4
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3 While I kept silent, my body wasted away
through my groaning all day long.(A)
4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up[a] as by the heat of summer. Selah(B)
Footnotes
- 32.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Nehemiah 1:9
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9 but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are under the farthest skies, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place where I have chosen to establish my name.’(A)
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Deuteronomy 30:1
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God’s Fidelity Assured
30 “When all these things have happened to you, the blessings and the curses that I have set before you, if you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you(A)
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Deuteronomy 5:9
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9 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me(A)
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Numbers 14:18
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18 ‘The Lord is slow to anger
and abounding in steadfast love,
forgiving iniquity and transgression,
but by no means clearing the guilty,
visiting the iniquity of the parents
upon the children
to the third and the fourth generation.’(A)
Exodus 34:7
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7 keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation,[a]
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,
yet by no means clearing the guilty,
but visiting the iniquity of the parents
upon the children
and the children’s children
to the third and the fourth generation.”(A)
Footnotes
- 34.7 Or for thousands
Exodus 20:5
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5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me(A)
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