Yet surely (A)My words and My statutes,
Which I commanded My servants the prophets,
Did they not overtake your fathers?

“So they returned and said:

(B)‘Just as the Lord of hosts determined to do to us,
According to our ways and according to our deeds,
So He has dealt with us.’ ” ’ ”

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17 The Lord has done what He (A)purposed;
He has fulfilled His word
Which He commanded in days of old.
He has thrown down and has not pitied,
And He has caused an enemy to (B)rejoice over you;
He has exalted the [a]horn of your adversaries.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:17 Strength

25 For I am the Lord. I speak, and (A)the word which I speak will come to pass; it will no more be postponed; for in your days, O rebellious house, I will say the word and (B)perform it,” says the Lord God.’ ”

26 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 27 (C)“Son of man, look, the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is (D)for many days from now, and he prophesies of times far off.’ 28 (E)Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “None of My words will be postponed any more, but the word which I speak (F)will be done,” says the Lord God.’ ”

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Curses on Disobedience(A)

15 “But it shall come to pass, (B)if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

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35 (A)Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

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20 The (A)anger of the Lord will not turn back
Until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart.
(B)In the latter days you will understand it perfectly.

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10 All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword,
(A)Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’

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11 Yes, (A)all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the (B)Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him. 12 And He has (C)confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; (D)for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.

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28 Yet (A)a small number who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah; and all the remnant of Judah, who have gone to the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose words will stand, Mine or theirs.

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19 “God(A) is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He (B)said, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

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(A)But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.

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18 (A)Then you shall again discern
Between the righteous and the wicked,
Between one who serves God
And one who does not serve Him.

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15 “All their wickedness is in (A)Gilgal,
For there I hated them.
Because of the evil of their deeds
I will drive them from My house;
I will love them no more.
(B)All their princes are rebellious.

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“Therefore, behold,
(A)I will hedge up your way with thorns,
And [a]wall her in,
So that she cannot find her paths.
She will [b]chase her lovers,
But not overtake them;
Yes, she will seek them, but not find them.
Then she will say,
(B)‘I will go and return to my (C)first husband,
For then it was better for me than now.’
For she did not (D)know
That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil,
And multiplied her silver and gold—
Which they prepared for Baal.

“Therefore I will return and take away
My grain in its time
And My new wine in its season,
And will take back My wool and My linen,
Given to cover her nakedness.
10 Now (E)I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
And no one shall deliver her from My hand.
11 (F)I will also cause all her mirth to cease,
Her feast days,
Her New Moons,
Her Sabbaths—
All her appointed feasts.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:6 Lit. wall up her wall
  2. Hosea 2:7 Or pursue

11 Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the (A)whole house of Israel. They indeed say, (B)‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!’

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43 And (A)there you shall remember your ways and all your doings with which you were defiled; and (B)you shall [a]loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the evils that you have committed.

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  1. Ezekiel 20:43 Or despise

11 The Lord has fulfilled His fury,
(A)He has poured out His fierce anger.
(B)He kindled a fire in Zion,
And it has devoured its foundations.

12 The kings of the earth,
And all inhabitants of the world,
Would not have believed
That the adversary and the enemy
Could (C)enter the gates of Jerusalem—

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18 “The Lord is (A)righteous,
For I (B)rebelled against His [a]commandment.
Hear now, all peoples,
And behold my sorrow;
My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:18 Lit. mouth

15 But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will surely bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.”

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(A)if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, (B)I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it. And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, 10 if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it.

11 “Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Behold, I am fashioning a disaster and devising a plan against you. (C)Return now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings (D)good.” ’ ”

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16 And it shall be, if they will learn carefully the ways of My people, (A)to swear by My name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ as they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they shall be (B)established in the midst of My people. 17 But if they do not (C)obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation,” says the Lord.

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(A)Circumcise yourselves to the Lord,
And take away the foreskins of your hearts,
You men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
Lest My fury come forth like fire,
And burn so that no one can quench it,
Because of the evil of your doings.”

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An Invitation to Abundant Life

55 “Ho! (A)Everyone who thirsts,
Come to the waters;
And you who have no money,
(B)Come, buy and eat.
Yes, come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without price.

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26 (A)Who confirms the word of His servant,
And performs the counsel of His messengers;
Who says to Jerusalem, ‘You shall be inhabited,’
To the cities of Judah, ‘You shall be built,’
And I will raise up her waste places;

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For (A)Jerusalem stumbled,
And Judah is fallen,
Because their tongue and their doings
Are against the Lord,
To provoke the eyes of His glory.
The look on their countenance witnesses against them,
And they declare their sin as (B)Sodom;
They do not hide it.
Woe to their soul!
For they have brought evil upon themselves.

10 “Say to the righteous (C)that it shall be well with them,
(D)For they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe to the wicked! (E)It shall be ill with him,
For the reward of his hands shall be [a]given him.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 3:11 done to him

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