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Malachi 3:14
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Malachi 3:14
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14 You have said, (A)‘It is vain to serve God. (B)What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?
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Malachi 3:14
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Malachi 3:14
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14 “You have said, ‘It is futile(A) to serve(B) God. What do we gain by carrying out his requirements(C) and going about like mourners(D) before the Lord Almighty?
Isaiah 58:3
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Isaiah 58:3
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3 (A)‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not?
Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure,[a]
(B)and oppress all your workers.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 58:3 Or pursue your own business
Isaiah 58:3
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Isaiah 58:3
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3 ‘Why have we fasted,’(A) they say,
‘and you have not seen it?
Why have we humbled(B) ourselves,
and you have not noticed?’(C)
“Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please(D)
and exploit all your workers.
Psalm 73:8-13
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Psalm 73:8-13
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8 They scoff and (A)speak with malice;
loftily they threaten oppression.
9 They set their mouths against the heavens,
and their tongue struts through the earth.
10 Therefore his people turn back to them,
and find (B)no fault in them.[a]
11 And they say, (C)“How can God know?
Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
12 Behold, these are the wicked;
always at ease, they (D)increase in riches.
13 All in vain have I (E)kept my heart clean
and (F)washed my hands in innocence.
Footnotes
- Psalm 73:10 Probable reading; Hebrew the waters of a full cup are drained by them
Psalm 73:8-13
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Psalm 73:8-13
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8 They scoff, and speak with malice;(A)
with arrogance(B) they threaten oppression.(C)
9 Their mouths lay claim to heaven,
and their tongues take possession of the earth.
10 Therefore their people turn to them
and drink up waters in abundance.[a]
11 They say, “How would God know?
Does the Most High know anything?”
Footnotes
- Psalm 73:10 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.
Job 35:3
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Job 35:3
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3 that you ask, (A)‘What advantage have I?
How am I better off than if I had sinned?’
Job 35:3
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Job 35:3
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- Job 35:3 Or you
Zechariah 7:3-6
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Zechariah 7:3-6
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3 (A)saying to the priests of the house of the Lord of hosts and (B)the prophets, “Should I weep and (C)abstain in (D)the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”
4 Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me: 5 “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in (E)the fifth month and in (F)the seventh, for these (G)seventy years, (H)was it (I)for me that you fasted? 6 (J)And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?
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Zechariah 7:3-6
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Zechariah 7:3-6
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3 by asking the priests of the house of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I mourn(A) and fast in the fifth(B) month, as I have done for so many years?”
4 Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me: 5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted(C) and mourned in the fifth and seventh(D) months for the past seventy years,(E) was it really for me that you fasted? 6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves?(F)
Zephaniah 1:12
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Zephaniah 1:12
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12 At that time (A)I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
and I will punish the men
(B)who are complacent,[a]
(C)those who say in their hearts,
‘The Lord will not do good,
nor will he do ill.’
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 1:12 Hebrew are thickening on the dregs [of their wine]
Zephaniah 1:12
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Zephaniah 1:12
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Joel 2:12
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Joel 2:12
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Return to the Lord
12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
(A)“return to me with all your heart,
(B)with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
Joel 2:12
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Joel 2:12
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Rend Your Heart
Job 34:9
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Job 34:9
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9 For (A)he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
that he should take delight in God.’
Job 34:9
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Job 34:9
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9 For he says, ‘There is no profit
in trying to please God.’(A)
James 4:9
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James 4:9
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9 (A)Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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James 4:9
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James 4:9
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9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.(A)
Job 22:17
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Job 22:17
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- Job 22:17 Hebrew them
Job 22:17
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Job 22:17
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17 They said to God, ‘Leave us alone!
What can the Almighty do to us?’(A)
Job 21:14-15
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Job 21:14-15
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14 They say to God, (A)‘Depart from us!
We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
15 (B)What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
And what (C)profit do we get if we pray to him?’
Job 21:14-15
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Job 21:14-15
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