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Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers
    who eat up my people as they eat bread
    and do not call upon the Lord?(A)

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Pour out your anger on the nations
    that do not know you
and on the kingdoms
    that do not call on your name.(A)

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25 Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you
    and on the peoples that do not call on your name,
for they have devoured Jacob;
    they have devoured him and consumed him
    and have laid waste his habitation.(A)

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There is no one who calls on your name
    or attempts to take hold of you,
for you have hidden your face from us
    and have delivered[a] us into the hand of our iniquity.(A)

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  1. 64.7 Gk Syr OL Tg: Heb melted

They have neither knowledge nor understanding;
    they walk around in darkness;
    all the foundations of the earth are shaken.(A)

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28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.(A)

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The Old Life and the New

17 Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer walk as the[a] gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds;(A) 18 they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.(B)

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  1. 4.17 Other ancient authorities add other

    you who hate the good and love the evil,
who tear the skin off my people[a]
    and the flesh off their bones,(A)
who eat the flesh of my people,
    flay their skin off them,
break their bones in pieces,
    and chop them up like meat[b] in a kettle,
    like flesh in a caldron.(B)

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  1. 3.2 Heb from them
  2. 3.3 Gk: Heb as

Hear this, you who trample on the needy,
    and bring to ruin the poor of the land,(A)

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When evildoers assail me
    to devour my flesh—
my adversaries and foes—
    they shall stumble and fall.(A)

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15 If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.

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And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.(A) In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing clearly the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.(B)

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All of them are hot as an oven,
    and they devour their rulers.
All their kings have fallen;
    none of them calls upon me.(A)

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Idols Cannot Save Babylon

20 Assemble yourselves and come together;
    draw near, you survivors of the nations!
They have no knowledge—
    those who carry about their wooden idols
and keep on praying to a god
    that cannot save.(A)

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19 No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. Now shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?”(A) 20 He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”(B)

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14 so I will again do
    amazing things with this people,
    shocking and amazing.
The wisdom of their wise shall perish,
    and the discernment of the discerning shall be hidden.(A)

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11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
    women come and make a fire of them.
For this is a people without understanding;
    therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
    he who formed them will show them no favor.(A)

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13 Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge;
their nobles are dying of hunger,
    and their multitude is parched with thirst.(A)

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Understand, O dullest of the people;
    fools, when will you be wise?(A)
He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see?(B)

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10 Will they take delight in the Almighty?[a]
    Will they call upon God at all times?(A)

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  1. 27.10 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

21 for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless hearts were darkened.(A) 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

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15 What is the Almighty,[a] that we should serve him?
    And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’(A)

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  1. 21.15 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai