17 “I will bring such distress(A) on all people
    that they will grope about like those who are blind,(B)
    because they have sinned against the Lord.
Their blood will be poured out(C) like dust
    and their entrails like dung.(D)

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13 The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants,
    as the result of their deeds.(A)

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10 who perished at Endor(A)
    and became like dung(B) on the ground.

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17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’(A) But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.(B)

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11 But anyone who hates a brother or sister(A) is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness.(B) They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.(C)

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But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind,(A) forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.(B)

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All Israel Will Be Saved

25 I do not want you to be ignorant(A) of this mystery,(B) brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited:(C) Israel has experienced a hardening(D) in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in,(E)

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What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain.(A) The elect among them did, but the others were hardened,(B)

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40 Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”(A)

41 Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.(B)

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14 Leave them; they are blind guides.[a](A) If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:14 Some manuscripts blind guides of the blind

Hear this, you leaders of Jacob,
    you rulers of Israel,
who despise justice
    and distort all that is right;(A)
10 who build(B) Zion with bloodshed,(C)
    and Jerusalem with wickedness.(D)
11 Her leaders judge for a bribe,(E)
    her priests teach for a price,(F)
    and her prophets tell fortunes for money.(G)
Yet they look(H) for the Lord’s support and say,
    “Is not the Lord among us?
    No disaster will come upon us.”(I)
12 Therefore because of you,
    Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,(J)
    the temple(K) hill a mound overgrown with thickets.(L)

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10 “I sent plagues(A) among you
    as I did to Egypt.(B)
I killed your young men(C) with the sword,
    along with your captured horses.
I filled your nostrils with the stench(D) of your camps,
    yet you have not returned to me,”(E)
declares the Lord.(F)

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we have sinned(A) and done wrong.(B) We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away(C) from your commands and laws.(D) We have not listened(E) to your servants the prophets,(F) who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our ancestors,(G) and to all the people of the land.

“Lord, you are righteous,(H) but this day we are covered with shame(I)—the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where you have scattered(J) us because of our unfaithfulness(K) to you.(L) We and our kings, our princes and our ancestors are covered with shame, Lord, because we have sinned against you.(M) The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving,(N) even though we have rebelled against him;(O) 10 we have not obeyed the Lord our God or kept the laws he gave us through his servants the prophets.(P) 11 All Israel has transgressed(Q) your law(R) and turned away, refusing to obey you.

“Therefore the curses(S) and sworn judgments(T) written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned(U) against you. 12 You have fulfilled(V) the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing on us great disaster.(W) Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like(X) what has been done to Jerusalem.(Y) 13 Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not sought the favor of the Lord(Z) our God by turning from our sins and giving attention to your truth.(AA) 14 The Lord did not hesitate to bring the disaster(AB) on us, for the Lord our God is righteous in everything he does;(AC) yet we have not obeyed him.(AD)

15 “Now, Lord our God, who brought your people out of Egypt with a mighty hand(AE) and who made for yourself a name(AF) that endures to this day, we have sinned, we have done wrong. 16 Lord, in keeping with all your righteous acts,(AG) turn away(AH) your anger and your wrath(AI) from Jerusalem,(AJ) your city, your holy hill.(AK) Our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors have made Jerusalem and your people an object of scorn(AL) to all those around us.

17 “Now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of your servant. For your sake, Lord, look with favor(AM) on your desolate sanctuary. 18 Give ear,(AN) our God, and hear;(AO) open your eyes and see(AP) the desolation of the city that bears your Name.(AQ) We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy.(AR) 19 Lord, listen! Lord, forgive!(AS) Lord, hear and act! For your sake,(AT) my God, do not delay, because your city and your people bear your Name.”

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25 There is a conspiracy(A) of her princes[a] within her like a roaring lion(B) tearing its prey; they devour people,(C) take treasures and precious things and make many widows(D) within her. 26 Her priests do violence to my law(E) and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common;(F) they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean;(G) and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned(H) among them.(I) 27 Her officials(J) within her are like wolves(K) tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people(L) to make unjust gain.(M) 28 Her prophets whitewash(N) these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations.(O) They say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says’—when the Lord has not spoken.(P) 29 The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery;(Q) they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner,(R) denying them justice.(S)

30 “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall(T) and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.(U) 31 So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger,(V) bringing down(W) on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.(X)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 22:25 Septuagint; Hebrew prophets

16 The crown(A) has fallen from our head.(B)
    Woe to us, for we have sinned!(C)
17 Because of this our hearts(D) are faint,(E)
    because of these things our eyes(F) grow dim(G)

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13 But it happened because of the sins of her prophets
    and the iniquities of her priests,(A)
who shed within her
    the blood(B) of the righteous.

14 Now they grope through the streets
    as if they were blind.(C)
They are so defiled with blood(D)
    that no one dares to touch their garments.

15 “Go away! You are unclean!” people cry to them.
    “Away! Away! Don’t touch us!”
When they flee and wander(E) about,
    people among the nations say,
    “They can stay here no longer.”(F)

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21 “Young and old lie together
    in the dust of the streets;
my young men and young women
    have fallen by the sword.(A)
You have slain them in the day of your anger;
    you have slaughtered them without pity.(B)

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18 “The Lord is righteous,(A)
    yet I rebelled(B) against his command.
Listen, all you peoples;
    look on my suffering.(C)
My young men and young women
    have gone into exile.(D)

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14 “My sins have been bound into a yoke[a];(A)
    by his hands they were woven together.
They have been hung on my neck,
    and the Lord has sapped my strength.
He has given me into the hands(B)
    of those I cannot withstand.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:14 Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint He kept watch over my sins

Jerusalem has sinned(A) greatly
    and so has become unclean.(B)
All who honored her despise her,
    for they have all seen her naked;(C)
she herself groans(D)
    and turns away.

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21 So give their children over to famine;(A)
    hand them over to the power of the sword.(B)
Let their wives be made childless and widows;(C)
    let their men be put to death,
    their young men(D) slain by the sword in battle.

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“They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried(A) but will be like dung lying on the ground.(B) They will perish by sword and famine,(C) and their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.”(D)

For this is what the Lord says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal; do not go to mourn or show sympathy, because I have withdrawn my blessing, my love and my pity(E) from this people,” declares the Lord. “Both high and low will die in this land.(F) They will not be buried or mourned,(G) and no one will cut(H) themselves or shave(I) their head for the dead.

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“I will send four kinds of destroyers(A) against them,” declares the Lord, “the sword(B) to kill and the dogs(C) to drag away and the birds(D) and the wild animals to devour and destroy.(E)

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18 For this is what the Lord says:
    “At this time I will hurl(A) out
    those who live in this land;
I will bring distress(B) on them
    so that they may be captured.”

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21 Death has climbed in through our windows(A)
    and has entered our fortresses;
it has removed the children from the streets
    and the young men(B) from the public squares.

22 Say, “This is what the Lord declares:

“‘Dead bodies will lie
    like dung(C) on the open field,
like cut grain behind the reaper,
    with no one to gather them.’”

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