Psalm 119:67
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67 (A)Before I was afflicted I went astray,
but now I keep your word.
Jeremiah 31:18-19
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18 I have heard (A)Ephraim grieving,
‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,
like an untrained calf;
(B)bring me back that I may be restored,
for you are the Lord my God.
19 For after (C)I had turned away, I relented,
and after I was instructed, (D)I struck my thigh;
(E)I was ashamed, and I was confounded,
because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’
Hosea 2:6-7
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6 Therefore (A)I will hedge up her[a] way with thorns,
and (B)I will build a wall against her,
so that she cannot find her paths.
7 She shall pursue her lovers
but not overtake them,
and she shall seek them
but shall not find them.
(C)Then she shall say,
‘I will go and return to (D)my first husband,
(E)for it was better for me then than now.’
Footnotes
- Hosea 2:6 Hebrew your
Psalm 119:71
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71 It is (A)good for me that I was afflicted,
that I might learn your statutes.
Proverbs 1:32
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32 For the simple are killed by (A)their turning away,
and (B)the complacency of fools destroys them;
Psalm 119:176
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176 I have (A)gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant,
for I do not (B)forget your commandments.
Psalm 119:75
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75 I know, O Lord, that your rules are (A)righteous,
and that in (B)faithfulness you have afflicted me.
2 Chronicles 33:9-13
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9 Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.
Manasseh's Repentance
10 The Lord spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention. 11 (A)Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and (B)bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God (C)and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 He prayed to him, and (D)God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. (E)Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.
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Revelation 3:10
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10 (A)Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try (B)those who dwell on the earth.
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Hebrews 12:5-11
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5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?
(A)“My son, (B)do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
nor be weary when reproved by him.
6 For (C)the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and chastises every son whom he receives.”
7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. (D)God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are left without discipline, (E)in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to (F)the Father of spirits (G)and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, (H)that we may share his holiness. 11 (I)For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields (J)the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
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Jeremiah 22:21
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21 I spoke to you in your prosperity,
but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
(A)This has been your way from (B)your youth,
that you have not obeyed my voice.
Psalm 73:5-28
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5 They are not in trouble as others are;
they are not (A)stricken like the rest of mankind.
6 Therefore pride is (B)their necklace;
violence covers them as (C)a garment.
7 Their (D)eyes swell out through fatness;
their hearts overflow with follies.
8 They scoff and (E)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 (F)no fault in them.[a]
11 And they say, (G)“How can God know?
Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
12 Behold, these are the wicked;
always at ease, they (H)increase in riches.
13 All in vain have I (I)kept my heart clean
and (J)washed my hands in innocence.
14 For all the day long I have been (K)stricken
and (L)rebuked (M)every morning.
15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
I would have betrayed (N)the generation of your children.
16 But when I thought how to understand this,
it seemed to me (O)a wearisome task,
17 until I went into (P)the sanctuary of God;
then I discerned their (Q)end.
18 Truly you set them in (R)slippery places;
you make them fall to ruin.
19 How they are destroyed (S)in a moment,
swept away utterly by (T)terrors!
20 Like (U)a dream when one awakes,
O Lord, when (V)you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
21 When my soul was embittered,
when I was pricked in heart,
22 I was (W)brutish and ignorant;
I was like (X)a beast toward you.
23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you;
you (Y)hold my right hand.
24 You (Z)guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will (AA)receive me to glory.
25 (AB)Whom have I in heaven but you?
And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
26 (AC)My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is (AD)the strength[b] of my heart and my (AE)portion (AF)forever.
27 For behold, those who are (AG)far from you shall perish;
you put an end to everyone who is (AH)unfaithful to you.
28 But for me it is good to (AI)be near God;
I have made the Lord God my (AJ)refuge,
that I may (AK)tell of all your works.
Footnotes
- Psalm 73:10 Probable reading; Hebrew the waters of a full cup are drained by them
- Psalm 73:26 Hebrew rock
2 Samuel 11:2-27
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2 It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on (A)the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 3 And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this (B)Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of (C)Uriah the Hittite?” 4 So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. ((D)Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house. 5 And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”
6 So David sent word to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David. 7 When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing and how the people were doing and how the war was going. 8 Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and (E)wash your feet.” And Uriah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king. 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. 10 When they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?” 11 Uriah said to David, (F)“The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and (G)the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and (H)as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.” 12 Then David said to Uriah, “Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13 And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, (I)so that he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with (J)the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
14 In the morning David (K)wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, (L)that he may be struck down, and die.” 16 And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men. 17 And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite also died. 18 Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting. 19 And he instructed the messenger, “When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king, 20 then, if the king's anger rises, and if he says to you, ‘Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall? 21 (M)Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’”
22 So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell. 23 The messenger said to David, “The men gained an advantage over us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate. 24 Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall. Some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.” 25 David said to the messenger, “Thus shall you say to Joab, ‘Do not let this matter displease you, for the sword devours now one and now another. Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it.’ And encourage him.”
26 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband. 27 And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and (N)she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
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2 Samuel 10:19
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19 And when all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel (A)and became subject to them. So the Syrians were afraid to save the Ammonites anymore.
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