Luke 11:24
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The Return of the Unclean Spirit
24 “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it wanders through waterless regions looking for a resting place, but not finding any it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’
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1 Peter 5:8
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8 Discipline yourselves; keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour.(A)
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Matthew 12:43-45
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The Return of the Unclean Spirit
43 “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it wanders through waterless regions looking for a resting place, but it finds none. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ When it returns, it finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and live there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So will it be also with this evil generation.”(A)
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Psalm 63:1
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Psalm 63
Comfort and Assurance in God’s Presence
A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah.
1 O God, you are my God; I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.(A)
Job 2:2
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2 The Lord said to the accuser,[a] “Where have you come from?” The accuser[b] answered the Lord, “From going to and fro on the earth and from walking up and down on it.”(A)
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Job 1:7
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7 The Lord said to the accuser,[a] “Where have you come from?” The accuser[b] answered the Lord, “From going to and fro on the earth and from walking up and down on it.”(A)
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Mark 9:25
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25 When Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You spirit that keeps this boy from speaking and hearing, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!”
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Mark 5:10
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10 He begged him earnestly not to send them out of the region.
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Isaiah 48:22
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22 “There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”(A)
Ephesians 2:2
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2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world,[a] following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient.[b](A)
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Isaiah 44:3
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3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land
and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour my spirit upon your descendants
and my blessing on your offspring.(A)
Isaiah 57:20-21
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20 But the wicked are like the tossing sea
that cannot keep still;
its waters toss up mire and mud.(A)
21 There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.(B)
Isaiah 41:17-19
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17 When the poor and needy seek water,
and there is none,
and their tongue is parched with thirst,
I the Lord will answer them,
I the God of Israel will not forsake them.(A)
18 I will open rivers on the bare heights
and fountains in the midst of the valleys;
I will make the wilderness a pool of water
and the dry land springs of water.(B)
19 I will put in the wilderness the cedar,
the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive;
I will set in the desert the cypress,
the plane and the pine together,
Isaiah 35:7
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7 the burning sand shall become a pool
and the thirsty ground springs of water;
the haunt of jackals shall become a swamp;[a]
the grass shall become reeds and rushes.(A)
Footnotes
- 35.7 Cn: Heb in the haunt of jackals is her resting place
Isaiah 35:1-2
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The Return of the Redeemed to Zion
35 The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;
the desert shall rejoice and blossom;
like the crocus(A) 2 it shall blossom abundantly
and rejoice with joy and shouting.
The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it,
the majesty of Carmel and Sharon.
They shall see the glory of the Lord,
the majesty of our God.]][a](B)
Footnotes
- 34.17–35.2 Q ms lacks 34.17–35.2
Ezekiel 47:8-11
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8 He said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, and when it enters the sea, the sea of stagnant waters, the water will become fresh.(A) 9 Wherever the river goes,[a] every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish once these waters reach there. It will become fresh, and everything will live where the river goes. 10 People will stand fishing beside the sea[b] from En-gedi to En-eglaim; it will be a place for the spreading of nets; its fish will be of a great many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.(B) 11 But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.
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Proverbs 4:16
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16 For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.(A)
Judges 6:37-40
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37 I am going to lay a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will deliver Israel by my hand, as you have said.”(A) 38 And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water. 39 Then Gideon said to God, “Do not let your anger burn against me, but let me speak one more time; let me, please, make trial with the fleece just once more; let it be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.”(B) 40 And God did so that night. It was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.
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