Malachi 2:2
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2 (A)If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send (B)the curse upon you and I will curse (C)your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.
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Revelation 14:7
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7 And he said with a loud voice, (A)“Fear God and (B)give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and (C)worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the (D)springs of water.”
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Malachi 3:9
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9 (A)You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.
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1 Peter 4:11
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Luke 23:28-30
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28 But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For behold, (A)the days are coming when they will say, (B)‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ 30 (C)Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’
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Luke 17:18
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18 Was no one found to return and (A)give praise to God except this (B)foreigner?”
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Psalm 69:22
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22 (A)Let their own (B)table before them become a snare;
(C)and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.[a]
Footnotes
- Psalm 69:22 Hebrew; a slight revocalization yields (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome) a snare, and retribution and a trap
Revelation 16:9
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9 They were scorched by the fierce heat, and (A)they cursed[a] the name of God who had power over these plagues. (B)They did not repent (C)and give him glory.
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- Revelation 16:9 Greek blasphemed; also verses 11, 21
Zechariah 7:11-14
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11 But (A)they refused to pay attention (B)and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.[a] 12 (C)They made their hearts diamond-hard (D)lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent (E)by his Spirit through (F)the former prophets. (G)Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts. 13 (H)“As I[b] called, and they would not hear, (I)so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts, 14 (J)“and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all (K)the nations that they had not known. (L)Thus the land they left was desolate, (M)so that no one went to and fro, (N)and the pleasant land was made desolate.”
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- Zechariah 7:11 Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear
- Zechariah 7:13 Hebrew he
Zechariah 1:3-6
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3 Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: (A)Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and (B)I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. 4 (C)Do not be like your fathers, (D)to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, (E)Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But (F)they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. 5 Your fathers, where are they? And (G)the prophets, do they live forever? 6 (H)But my words and my statutes, which I commanded (I)my servants the prophets, did they not (J)overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, (K)‘As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for (L)our ways and (M)deeds, so has he dealt with us.’”
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Haggai 2:16-17
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16 how did you fare? (A)When[a] one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty. 17 (B)I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, (C)yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord.
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- Haggai 2:16 Probable reading (compare Septuagint); Hebrew Lord, since they were. When
Haggai 1:9
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9 (A)You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, (B)I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house (C)that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.
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Haggai 1:6
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6 (A)You have sown much, and harvested little. (B)You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who (C)earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
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Hosea 9:11-14
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11 Ephraim's (A)glory shall fly away like a bird—
(B)no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
12 (C)Even if they bring up children,
I will bereave them till none is left.
(D)Woe to them
when (E)I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, (F)as I have seen, was like a young palm[a] planted in a meadow;
but (G)Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.[b]
14 Give them, O Lord—
what will you give?
Give them (H)a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
Footnotes
- Hosea 9:13 Or like Tyre
- Hosea 9:13 Hebrew to him who slaughters
Hosea 4:7-10
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7 (A)The more they increased,
the more they sinned against me;
(B)I will change their glory into shame.
8 (C)They feed on the sin[a] of my people;
they are greedy for their iniquity.
9 (D)And it shall be like people, like priest;
I will punish them for their ways
and repay them for their deeds.
10 (E)They shall eat, but not be satisfied;
they shall play the whore, but not multiply,
because they have forsaken the Lord
to cherish
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- Hosea 4:8 Or sin offering
Ezekiel 3:7
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7 (A)But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel (B)have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.
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Jeremiah 34:17
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17 “Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me (A)by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; (B)behold, I proclaim to you liberty (C)to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the Lord. (D)I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Jeremiah 25:4-9
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4 (A)You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the Lord (B)persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets, 5 saying, (C)‘Turn now, every one of you, (D)from his evil way and evil deeds, and (E)dwell upon the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever. 6 (F)Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, (G)or provoke me to anger (H)with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’ 7 (I)Yet you have not listened to me, declares the Lord, (J)that you might provoke me to anger (K)with the work of your hands to your own harm.
8 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, 9 (L)behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (M)my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, (N)and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
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Jeremiah 13:16-17
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16 (A)Give glory to the Lord your God
(B)before he brings darkness,
before your feet stumble
on the twilight mountains,
and (C)while you look for light
he turns it into gloom
and makes it (D)deep darkness.
17 But if you will not listen,
(E)my soul will weep in secret for your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears,
because the Lord's flock has been taken captive.
Jeremiah 6:16-20
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16 Thus says the Lord:
“Stand by the roads, and look,
and ask for (A)the ancient paths,
where the good way is; and walk in it,
(B)and find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
17 (C)I set watchmen over you, saying,
‘Pay attention to (D)the sound of the trumpet!’
But they said, (E)‘We will not pay attention.’
18 Therefore hear, O nations,
and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.
19 Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing disaster upon this people,
(F)the fruit of their devices,
because they have not paid attention to my words;
and as for my law, they have rejected it.
20 (G)What use to me is (H)frankincense that comes from (I)Sheba,
or sweet cane from a distant land?
(J)Your burnt offerings are not acceptable,
nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.
Isaiah 57:11
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11 (A)Whom did you dread and fear,
(B)so that you lied,
and did not remember me,
did not lay it to heart?
(C)Have I not held my peace, even for a long time,
and you do not fear me?
Isaiah 47:7
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7 You said, “I shall be (A)mistress forever,”
so that you did not lay these things to heart
or remember their end.
Isaiah 42:25
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25 So he poured on him the heat of his anger
and the might of battle;
it set him on fire all around, (A)but he did not understand;
it burned him up, (B)but he did not take it to heart.
Isaiah 30:8-13
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A Rebellious People
8 And now, go, (A)write it before them on a tablet
and inscribe it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come
as a witness forever.[a]
9 (B)For they are a rebellious people,
lying children,
children unwilling to hear
the instruction of the Lord;
10 (C)who say to (D)the seers, “Do not see,”
and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us (E)smooth things,
prophesy illusions,
11 leave the way, turn aside from the path,
let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”
12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,
“Because you despise this word
and trust in (F)oppression and perverseness
and rely on them,
13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you
(G)like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse,
whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;
Footnotes
- Isaiah 30:8 Some Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac, Targum, Vulgate, and Greek versions; Masoretic Text forever and ever
Psalm 109:7-15
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7 When he is tried, let him come forth guilty;
let his (A)prayer be counted as sin!
8 May his (B)days be few;
may (C)another take his (D)office!
9 May his (E)children be fatherless
and his wife a widow!
10 May his children (F)wander about and beg,
(G)seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
11 May (H)the creditor seize all that he has;
may (I)strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!
12 Let there be none to (J)extend kindness to him,
nor any to (K)pity his fatherless children!
13 May his (L)posterity be cut off;
may his (M)name be blotted out in the second generation!
14 May (N)the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,
and let not the sin of his mother be (O)blotted out!
15 (P)Let them be before the Lord continually,
that he may (Q)cut off the memory of them from the earth!
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