Zephaniah 1:17
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17 (A)I will bring distress on mankind,
so that they shall walk (B)like the blind,
because they have sinned against the Lord;
(C)their blood shall be poured out like dust,
and their flesh (D)like dung.
Micah 7:13
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13 But (A)the earth will be desolate
because of its inhabitants,
for the fruit of their deeds.
Psalm 83:10
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Revelation 3:17
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17 (A)For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, (B)blind, and naked.
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1 John 2:11
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11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and (A)walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
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2 Peter 1:9
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9 For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he (A)is blind, having forgotten that he was (B)cleansed from his former sins.
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Romans 11:25
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The Mystery of Israel's Salvation
25 (A)Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers:[a] (B)a partial hardening has come upon Israel, (C)until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
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- Romans 11:25 Or brothers and sisters
Romans 11:7
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7 What then? (A)Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest (B)were hardened,
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John 9:40-41
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40 Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, (A)“Are we also blind?” 41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, (B)you would have no guilt;[a] but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.
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- John 9:41 Greek you would not have sin
Matthew 15:14
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14 Let them alone; (A)they are blind guides.[a] And (B)if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
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- Matthew 15:14 Some manuscripts add of the blind
Micah 3:9-12
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9 (A)Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel,
(B)who detest justice
and make crooked all that is straight,
10 (C)who build Zion with blood
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 (D)Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
(E)its priests teach for a price;
(F)its prophets practice divination for money;
(G)yet they lean on the Lord and (H)say,
“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
(I)No disaster shall come upon us.”
12 Therefore because of you
(J)Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem (K)shall become a heap of ruins,
and (L)the mountain of the house (M)a wooded height.
Amos 4:10
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10 “I sent among you a pestilence (A)after the manner of Egypt;
I killed your young men with the sword,
and (B)carried away your horses,[a]
and (C)I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
(D)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.
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- Amos 4:10 Hebrew along with the captivity of your horses
Daniel 9:5-19
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5 (A)we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly (B)and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. 6 (C)We have not listened to (D)your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to (E)our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7 To you, (F)O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, (G)those who are near and (H)those who are far away, in (I)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of (J)the treachery that they have committed against you. 8 To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because (K)we have sinned against you. 9 (L)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him 10 (M)and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by (N)his servants the prophets. 11 (O)All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, (P)refusing to obey your voice. (Q)And the curse and oath (R)that are written in the Law of (S)Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because (T)we have sinned against him. 12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against (U)our rulers who ruled us,[a] by (V)bringing upon us a great calamity. (W)For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. 13 (X)As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, (Y)turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. 14 (Z)Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, (AA)for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and (AB)we have not obeyed his voice. 15 And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt (AC)with a mighty hand, and (AD)have made a name for yourself, as at this day, (AE)we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
16 “O Lord, (AF)according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, (AG)your holy hill, (AH)because for our sins, and for (AI)the iniquities of our fathers, (AJ)Jerusalem and your people have become (AK)a byword among all who are around us. 17 Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord,[b] (AL)make your face to shine upon (AM)your sanctuary, which is desolate. 18 (AN)O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see (AO)our desolations, and (AP)the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. 19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. (AQ)Delay not, (AR)for your own sake, O my God, because (AS)your city and (AT)your people are called by your name.”
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- Daniel 9:12 Or our judges who judged us
- Daniel 9:17 Hebrew for the Lord's sake
Ezekiel 22:25-31
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25 (A)The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is (B)like a roaring lion (C)tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 (D)Her priests (E)have done violence to my law and (F)have profaned my holy things. (G)They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and (H)they have disregarded my Sabbaths, (I)so that I am profaned among them. 27 (J)Her princes in her midst are like wolves (K)tearing the prey, (L)shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. 28 And (M)her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, (N)seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken. 29 The people of the land (O)have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and (P)have extorted from the sojourner without justice. 30 (Q)And I sought for a man among them (R)who should build up the wall (S)and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. 31 Therefore (T)I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned (U)their way upon their heads, declares the Lord God.”
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Lamentations 5:16-17
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16 (A)The crown has fallen from our head;
woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 For this (B)our heart has become sick,
for these things (C)our eyes have grown dim,
Lamentations 4:13-15
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13 This was for (A)the sins of her prophets
and (B)the iniquities of her priests,
who shed in the midst of her
the blood of the righteous.
14 (C)They wandered, blind, through the streets;
they were so defiled with blood
(D)that no one was able to touch
their garments.
15 “Away! (E)Unclean!” people cried at them.
“Away! Away! Do not touch!”
So they became fugitives and wanderers;
people said among the nations,
“They shall stay with us no longer.”
Lamentations 2:21
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21 In the dust of the streets
(A)lie the young and the old;
(B)my young women and my young men
have fallen by the sword;
(C)you have killed them in the day of your anger,
slaughtering (D)without pity.
Lamentations 1:18
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18 (A)“The Lord is in the right,
(B)for I have rebelled against his word;
but hear, all you peoples,
and see my suffering;
(C)my young women and my young men
have gone into captivity.
Lamentations 1:14
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14 “My transgressions were bound[a] into (A)a yoke;
by his hand they were fastened together;
they were set upon my neck;
he caused my strength to fail;
the Lord gave me into the hands
of those whom I cannot withstand.
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- Lamentations 1:14 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Lamentations 1:8
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8 (A)Jerusalem sinned grievously;
therefore she became filthy;
all who honored her despise her,
(B)for they have seen her nakedness;
she herself (C)groans
and turns her face away.
Jeremiah 18:21
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21 Therefore (A)deliver up their children to famine;
give them over to the power of the sword;
let their wives become childless (B)and widowed.
May their men meet death by pestilence,
their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.
Jeremiah 16:4-6
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4 (A)They shall die of deadly diseases. (B)They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. (C)They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. (D)They shall perish by the sword and by famine, (E)and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.
5 “For thus says the Lord: (F)Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament or grieve for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, my steadfast love and mercy, declares the Lord. 6 Both great and small shall die in this land. (G)They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or (H)cut himself (I)or make himself bald for them.
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Jeremiah 15:3
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3 (A)I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and (B)the birds of the air (C)and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.
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Jeremiah 10:18
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18 For thus says the Lord:
(A)“Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land
at this time,
(B)and I will bring distress on them,
that they may feel it.”
Jeremiah 9:21-22
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21 For death has come up into our windows;
it has entered our palaces,
(A)cutting off the children from the streets
and the young men from the squares.
22 Speak: “Thus declares the Lord,
(B)‘The dead bodies of men shall fall
like dung upon the open field,
(C)like sheaves after the reaper,
and none shall gather them.’”
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