You therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Awake to punish all the [a]nations;
Do not be merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah

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  1. Psalm 59:5 Gentiles

13 For (A)judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown (B)no (C)mercy. (D)Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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Israel’s Rejection and God’s Purpose(A)

(B)But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For (C)they are not all Israel who are of Israel,

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28 For (A)he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; 29 but he is a Jew (B)who is one inwardly; and (C)circumcision is that of the heart, (D)in the Spirit, not in the letter; (E)whose [a]praise is not from men but from God.

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  1. Romans 2:29 A play on words—Jew is literally praise.

Are you not like the [a]people of Ethiopia to Me,
O children of Israel?” says the Lord.
“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
The (A)Philistines from (B)Caphtor,[b]
And the Syrians from (C)Kir?

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  1. Amos 9:7 Lit. sons of the Ethiopians
  2. Amos 9:7 Crete

27 Again, (A)when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness which he committed, and does what is lawful and right, he preserves himself alive. 28 Because he (B)considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

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23 Yet, Lord, You know all their counsel
Which is against me, to slay me.
(A)Provide no atonement for their iniquity,
Nor blot out their sin from Your sight;
But let them be overthrown before You.
Deal thus with them
In the time of Your (B)anger.

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11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off;
The women come and set them on fire.
For (A)it is a people of no understanding;
Therefore He who made them will (B)not have mercy on them,
And (C)He who formed them will show them no favor.

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10 Hear the word of the Lord,
You rulers (A)of Sodom;
Give ear to the law of our God,
You people of Gomorrah:

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O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
Give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah

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O Lord God of hosts,
(A)How long will You be angry
Against the prayer of Your people?

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15 Let death seize them;
Let them (A)go down alive into [a]hell,
For wickedness is in their dwellings and among them.

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  1. Psalm 55:15 Or Sheol

For strangers have risen up against me,
And oppressors have sought after my life;
They have not set God before them. Selah

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15 (A)The [a]nations have sunk down in the pit which they made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.

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  1. Psalm 9:15 Gentiles

12 If he does not turn back,
He will (A)sharpen His sword;
He bends His bow and makes it ready.
13 He also prepares for Himself instruments of death;
He makes His arrows into fiery shafts.

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(A)you shall not bow down to them nor [a]serve them. (B)For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, (C)visiting[b] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 20:5 worship
  2. Exodus 20:5 punishing

15 Moreover God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is (A)My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.’

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20 Then he erected an altar there and called it (A)El[a] Elohe Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 33:20 Lit. God, the God of Israel

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