Israel Forsakes the Lord
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Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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"Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says the LORD:
"I remember you,
The kindness of your a youth,
The love of your betrothal,
b When you went after Me in the wilderness,
In a land not sown.
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c Israel was holiness to the LORD,
d The firstfruits of His increase.
e All that devour him will offend;
Disaster will f come upon them," says the LORD.' "
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Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel.
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Thus says the LORD:
g "What injustice have your fathers found in Me,
That they have gone far from Me,
h Have followed idols,
And have become idolaters?
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Neither did they say, 'Where is the LORD,
Who i brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
Who led us through j the wilderness,
Through a land of deserts and pits,
Through a land of drought and the shadow of death,
Through a land that no one crossed
And where no one dwelt?'
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I brought you into k a bountiful country,
To eat its fruit and its goodness.
But when you entered, you l defiled My land
And made My heritage an abomination.
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The priests did not say, 'Where is the LORD?'
And those who handle the m law did not know Me;
The rulers also transgressed against Me;
n The prophets prophesied by Baal,
And walked after things that do not profit.
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"Therefore o I will yet bring charges against you," says the LORD,
"And against your children's children I will bring charges.
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For pass beyond the coasts of Cyprus and see,
Send to Kedar and consider diligently,
And see if there has been such a p thing.
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q Has a nation changed its gods,
Which are r not gods?
s But My people have changed their Glory
For what does not profit.
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Be astonished, O heavens, at this,
And be horribly afraid;
Be very desolate," says the LORD.
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"For My people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me, the t fountain of living waters,
And hewn themselves cisterns - broken cisterns that can hold no water.
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" Is Israel u a servant?
Is he a homeborn slave?
Why is he plundered?
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v The young lions roared at him, and growled;
They made his land waste;
His cities are burned, without inhabitant.
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Also the people of Noph and w Tahpanhes
Have broken the crown of your head.
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x Have you not brought this on yourself,
In that you have forsaken the LORD your God
When y He led you in the way?
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And now why take z the road to Egypt,
To drink the waters of a Sihor?
Or why take the road to b Assyria,
To drink the waters of the River?
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Your own wickedness will c correct you,
And your backslidings will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing
That you have forsaken the LORD your God,
And the fear of Me is not in you,"
Says the Lord GOD of hosts.
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"For of old I have d broken your yoke and burst your bonds;
And e you said, 'I will not transgress,'
When f on every high hill and under every green tree
You lay down, g playing the harlot.
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Yet I had h planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality.
How then have you turned before Me
Into i the degenerate plant of an alien vine?
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For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap,
Yet your iniquity is j marked before Me," says the Lord GOD.
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"How k can you say, 'I am not polluted,
I have not gone after the Baals'?
See your way in the valley;
Know what you have done:
You are a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways,
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A wild donkey used to the wilderness,
That sniffs at the wind in her desire;
In her time of mating, who can turn her away?
All those who seek her will not weary themselves;
In her month they will find her.
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Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst.
But you said, l 'There is no hope.
No! For I have loved m aliens, and after them I will go.'
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"As the thief is ashamed when he is found out,
So is the house of Israel ashamed;
They and their kings and their princes, and their priests and their n prophets,
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Saying to a tree, 'You are my father,'
And to a o stone, 'You gave birth to me.'
For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face.
But in the time of their p trouble
They will say, 'Arise and save us.'
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But q where are your gods that you have made for yourselves?
Let them arise,
If they r can save you in the time of your trouble;
For s according to the number of your cities
Are your gods, O Judah.
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"Why will you plead with Me?
You all have transgressed against Me," says the LORD.
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"In vain I have t chastened your children;
They u received no correction.
Your sword has v devoured your prophets
Like a destroying lion.
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"O generation, see the word of the LORD!
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
Or a land of darkness?
Why do My people say, 'We are lords;
w We will come no more to You'?
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Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
Or a bride her attire?
Yet My people x have forgotten Me days without number.
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"Why do you beautify your way to seek love?
Therefore you have also taught
The wicked women your ways.
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Also on your skirts is found
y The blood of the lives of the poor innocents.
I have not found it by secret search,
But plainly on all these things.
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z Yet you say, 'Because I am innocent,
Surely His anger shall turn from me.'
Behold, a I will plead My case against you,
b Because you say, 'I have not sinned.'
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c Why do you gad about so much to change your way?
Also d you shall be ashamed of Egypt e as you were ashamed of Assyria.
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Indeed you will go forth from him
With your hands on f your head;
For the LORD has rejected your trusted allies,
And you will g not prosper by them.
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"They say, 'If a man divorces his wife,
And she goes from him
And becomes another man's,
a May he return to her again?'
Would not that b land be greatly polluted?
But you have c played the harlot with many lovers;
d Yet return to Me," says the LORD.
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"Lift up your eyes to e the desolate heights and see:
Where have you not lain with men?
f By the road you have sat for them
Like an Arabian in the wilderness;
g And you have polluted the land
With your harlotries and your wickedness.
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Therefore the h showers have been withheld,
And there has been no latter rain.
You have had a i harlot's forehead;
You refuse to be ashamed.
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Will you not from this time cry to Me,
'My Father, You are j the guide of k my youth?
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l Will He remain angry forever?
Will He keep it to the end?'
Behold, you have spoken and done evil things,
As you were able."
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Ezekiel 16:8
When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine," says the Lord GOD.
Hosea 2:15
I will give her her vineyards from there, And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing there, As in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.
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Deuteronomy 2:7
"For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing."'
Jeremiah 2:6
Neither did they say, 'Where is the LORD, Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and pits, Through a land of drought and the shadow of death, Through a land that no one crossed And where no one dwelt?
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Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.
Exodus 19:6
'And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."
Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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James 1:18
Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
Revelation 14:4
These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.
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Jeremiah 12:14
Thus says the LORD: "Against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit - behold, I will pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
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Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Isaiah 41:11
Behold, all those who were incensed against you Shall be ashamed and disgraced; They shall be as nothing, And those who strive with you shall perish.
Jeremiah 30:15
Why do you cry about your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable. Because of the multitude of your iniquities, Because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.
Jeremiah 30:16
Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; And all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; Those who plunder you shall become plunder, And all who prey upon you I will make a prey.
Jeremiah 50:7
All who found them have devoured them; And their adversaries said, 'We have not offended, Because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, The LORD, the hope of their fathers.
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Isaiah 5:4
What more could have been done to My vineyard That I have not done in it? Why then, when I expected it to bring forth good grapes, Did it bring forth wild grapes?
Micah 6:3
O My people, what have I done to you? And how have I wearied you? Testify against Me.
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2 Kings 17:15
And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed idols, became idolaters, and went after the nations who were all around them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them that they should not do like them.
Jeremiah 8:19
Listen! The voice, The cry of the daughter of my people From a far country: " Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her?" "Why have they provoked Me to anger With their carved images - With foreign idols?
Jonah 2:8
Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their own Mercy.
Romans 1:21
Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
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Exodus 20:2
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Isaiah 63:11
Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying: "Where is He who brought them up out of the sea With the shepherd of His flock? Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within them.
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Deuteronomy 8:15
Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock.
Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.
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Numbers 13:27
Then they told him, and said: "We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
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Numbers 35:33
So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.
Isaiah 24:5
The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed the laws, Changed the ordinance, Broken the everlasting covenant.
Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land will mourn; And everyone who dwells there will waste away With the beasts of the field And the birds of the air; Even the fish of the sea will be taken away.
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Romans 2:20
An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and truth in the law.
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Jeremiah 23:13
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: They prophesied by Baal And caused My people Israel to err.
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Jeremiah 2:35
Yet you say, 'Because I am innocent, Surely His anger shall turn from me.' Behold, I will plead My case against you, Because you say, 'I have not sinned.
Ezekiel 20:35
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to face.
Ezekiel 20:36
Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you," says the Lord GOD.
Micah 6:2
Hear, O you mountains, the LORD's complaint, And you strong foundations of the earth; For the LORD has a complaint against His people, And He will contend with Israel.
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Jeremiah 18:13
Therefore thus says the LORD: "Ask now among the Gentiles, Who has heard such things? The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
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Micah 4:5
For all people walk each in the name of his god, But we will walk in the name of the LORD our God Forever and ever.
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Psalms 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
Isaiah 37:19
And have cast their gods into the fire; for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands - wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.
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Psalms 106:20
Thus they changed their glory Into the image of an ox that eats grass.
Romans 1:23
And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man - and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.
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Psalms 36:9
For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light.
Jeremiah 17:13
O LORD, the hope of Israel, All who forsake You shall be ashamed. "Those who depart from Me Shall be written in the earth, Because they have forsaken the LORD, The fountain of living waters.
John 4:14
"but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life."
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Exodus 4:22
Then you shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD: "Israel is My son, My firstborn.
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Isaiah 1:7
Your country is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire; Strangers devour your land in your presence; And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Jeremiah 50:17
"Israel is like scattered sheep; The lions have driven him away. First the king of Assyria devoured him; Now at last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones."
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2 Kings 23:29 - 37
In his days Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went to the aid of the king of Assyria, to the River Euphrates; and King Josiah went against him. And Pharaoh Necho killed him at Megiddo when he confronted him.
Jeremiah 43:7 - 9
So they went to the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the LORD. And they went as far as Tahpanhes.
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Jeremiah 4:18
"Your ways and your doings Have procured these things for you. This is your wickedness, Because it is bitter, Because it reaches to your heart."
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Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.
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Isaiah 30:1 - 3
Woe to the rebellious children," says the LORD, "Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who devise plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may add sin to sin.
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Joshua 13:3
From Sihor, which is east of Egypt, as far as the border of Ekron northward ( which is counted as Canaanite); the five lords of the Philistines - the Gazites, the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites.
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Hosea 5:13
When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah saw his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria And sent to King Jareb; Yet he cannot cure you, Nor heal you of your wound.
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Isaiah 3:9
The look on their countenance witnesses against them, And they declare their sin as Sodom; They do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought evil upon themselves.
Jeremiah 4:18
"Your ways and your doings Have procured these things for you. This is your wickedness, Because it is bitter, Because it reaches to your heart."
Hosea 5:5
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Therefore Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; Judah also stumbles with them.
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Leviticus 26:13
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you walk upright.
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Exodus 19:8
Then all the people answered together and said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do." So Moses brought back the words of the people to the LORD.
Joshua 24:18
"And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, including the Amorites who dwelt in the land. We also will serve the LORD, for He is our God."
Judges 10:16
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD. And His soul could no longer endure the misery of Israel.
1 Samuel 12:10
"Then they cried out to the LORD, and said, 'We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD and served the Baals and Ashtoreths; but now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve You.'
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Deuteronomy 12:2
You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Isaiah 57:5
Inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys, Under the clefts of the rocks?
Isaiah 57:7
On a lofty and high mountain You have set your bed; Even there you went up To offer sacrifice.
Jeremiah 3:6
The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: "Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.
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Exodus 34:15
Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you and you eat of his sacrifice.
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Exodus 15:17
You will bring them in and plant them In the mountain of Your inheritance, In the place, O LORD, which You have made For Your own dwelling, The sanctuary, O LORD, which Your hands have established.
Psalms 44:2
You drove out the nations with Your hand, But them You planted; You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.
Psalms 80:8
You have brought a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the nations, and planted it.
Isaiah 5:2
He dug it up and cleared out its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine. He built a tower in its midst, And also made a winepress in it; So He expected it to bring forth good grapes, But it brought forth wild grapes.
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Deuteronomy 32:32
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.
Isaiah 5:4
What more could have been done to My vineyard That I have not done in it? Why then, when I expected it to bring forth good grapes, Did it bring forth wild grapes?
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Job 14:16
For now You number my steps, But do not watch over my sin.
Job 14:17
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And You cover my iniquity.
Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; With the point of a diamond it is engraved On the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars.
Jeremiah 17:2
While their children remember Their altars and their wooden images By the green trees on the high hills.
Hosea 13:12
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; His sin is stored up.
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Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, Yet is not washed from its filthiness.
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Isaiah 57:10
You are wearied in the length of your way; Yet you did not say, 'There is no hope.' You have found the life of your hand; Therefore you were not grieved.
Jeremiah 18:12
And they said, "That is hopeless! So we will walk according to our own plans, and we will every one obey the dictates of his evil heart.
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Jeremiah 3:13
Only acknowledge your iniquity, That you have transgressed against the LORD your God, And have scattered your charms To alien deities under every green tree, And you have not obeyed My voice,' says the LORD.
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Isaiah 28:7
But they also have erred through wine, And through intoxicating drink are out of the way; The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink, They are swallowed up by wine, They are out of the way through intoxicating drink; They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule by their own power; And My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end?
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Jeremiah 3:9
So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
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Judges 10:10
And the children of Israel cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against You, because we have both forsaken our God and served the Baals!
Isaiah 26:16
LORD, in trouble they have visited You, They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.
Hosea 5:15
I will return again to My place Till they acknowledge their offense. Then they will seek My face; In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.
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Deuteronomy 32:37
He will say: 'Where are their gods, The rock in which they sought refuge?
Judges 10:14
"Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you in your time of distress."
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Isaiah 45:20
Assemble yourselves and come; Draw near together, You who have escaped from the nations. They have no knowledge, Who carry the wood of their carved image, And pray to a god that cannot save.
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2 Kings 17:30
The men of Babylon made Succoth Be-noth', the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima.
2 Kings 17:31
And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
Jeremiah 11:13
For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to that shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal.
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Isaiah 9:13
For the people do not turn to Him who strikes them, Nor do they seek the LORD of hosts.
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Isaiah 1:5
Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faints.
Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, But they have not grieved; You have consumed them, But they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to return.
Jeremiah 7:28
So you shall say to them, 'This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the LORD their God nor receive correction. Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.
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Nehemiah 9:26
Nevertheless they were disobedient And rebelled against You, Cast Your law behind their backs And killed Your prophets, who testified against them To turn them to Yourself; And they worked great provocations.
Jeremiah 26:20 - 24
Now there was also a man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath Jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.
Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers.
1 Thessalonians 2:15
Who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God and are contrary to all men.
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Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, You are obese! Then he forsook God who made him, And scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Jeremiah 2:20
For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds; And you said, 'I will not transgress,' When on every high hill and under every green tree You lay down, playing the harlot.
Jeremiah 2:25
Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'There is no hope. No! For I have loved aliens, and after them I will go.
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Psalms 106:21
They forgot God their Savior, Who had done great things in Egypt.
Isaiah 17:10
Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold, Therefore you will plant pleasant plants And set out foreign seedlings.
Jeremiah 3:21
A voice was heard on the desolate heights, Weeping and supplications of the children of Israel. For they have perverted their way; They have forgotten the LORD their God.
Jeremiah 13:25
This is your lot, The portion of your measures from Me," says the LORD, "Because you have forgotten Me And trusted in falsehood.
Hosea 8:14
"For Israel has forgotten his Maker, And has built temples; Judah also has multiplied fortified cities; But I will send fire upon his cities, And it shall devour his palaces."
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2 Kings 21:16
Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
2 Kings 24:4
And also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.
Psalms 106:38
And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.
Jeremiah 7:6
If you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your hurt.
Jeremiah 19:4
Because they have forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with the blood of the innocents
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Jeremiah 2:23
How can you say, 'I am not polluted, I have not gone after the Baals'? See your way in the valley; Know what you have done: You are a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways.
Jeremiah 2:29
Why will you plead with Me? You all have transgressed against Me," says the LORD.
Malachi 2:17
You have wearied the LORD with your words; Yet you say, "In what way have we wearied Him? " In that you say, "Everyone who does evil Is good in the sight of the LORD, And He delights in them," Or, "Where is the God of justice?
Malachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, 'In what way have we robbed You?' In tithes and offerings.
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Jeremiah 2:9
Therefore I will yet bring charges against you," says the LORD, "And against your children's children I will bring charges.
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Proverbs 28:13
He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:10
If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
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Jeremiah 31:22
How long will you gad about, O you backsliding daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the earth - A woman shall encompass a man.
Hosea 5:13
When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah saw his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria And sent to King Jareb; Yet he cannot cure you, Nor heal you of your wound.
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feeds on the wind, And pursues the east wind; He daily increases lies and desolation. Also they make a covenant with the Assyrians, And oil is carried to Egypt.
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Isaiah 30:3
Therefore the strength of Pharaoh Shall be your shame, And trust in the shadow of Egypt Shall be your humiliation.
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2 Chronicles 28:16
At the same time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.
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2 Samuel 13:19
Then Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her robe of many colors that was on her, and laid her hand on her head and went away crying bitterly.
Jeremiah 14:3
Their nobles have sent their lads for water; They went to the cisterns and found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; They were ashamed and confounded And covered their heads.
Jeremiah 14:4
Because the ground is parched, For there was no rain in the land, The plowmen were ashamed; They covered their heads.
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Jeremiah 37:7 - 10
Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Thus you shall say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: "Behold, Pharaoh's army which has come up to help you will return to Egypt, to their own land.
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Deuteronomy 24:1 - 4
When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house.
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Jeremiah 2:7
I brought you into a bountiful country, To eat its fruit and its goodness. But when you entered, you defiled My land And made My heritage an abomination.
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Jeremiah 2:20
For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds; And you said, 'I will not transgress,' When on every high hill and under every green tree You lay down, playing the harlot.
Ezekiel 16:26
You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to provoke Me to anger.
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Jeremiah 4:1
If you will return, O Israel," says the LORD, "Return to Me; And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight, Then you shall not be moved.
Zechariah 1:3
Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Return to Me," says the LORD of hosts, "and I will return to you," says the LORD of hosts.
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Deuteronomy 12:2
You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
Jeremiah 2:20
For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds; And you said, 'I will not transgress,' When on every high hill and under every green tree You lay down, playing the harlot.
Jeremiah 3:21
A voice was heard on the desolate heights, Weeping and supplications of the children of Israel. For they have perverted their way; They have forgotten the LORD their God.
Jeremiah 7:29
'Cut off your hair and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the desolate heights; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.'
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Proverbs 23:28
She also lies in wait as for a victim, And increases the unfaithful among men.
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Jeremiah 2:7
I brought you into a bountiful country, To eat its fruit and its goodness. But when you entered, you defiled My land And made My heritage an abomination.
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Leviticus 26:19
I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
Jeremiah 14:3 - 6
Their nobles have sent their lads for water; They went to the cisterns and found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; They were ashamed and confounded And covered their heads.
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Zephaniah 3:5
The LORD is righteous in her midst, He will do no unrighteousness. Every morning He brings His justice to light; He never fails, But the unjust knows no shame.
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Psalms 71:17
O God, You have taught me from my youth; And to this day I declare Your wondrous works.
Proverbs 2:17
Who forsakes the companion of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God.
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Jeremiah 2:2
Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says the LORD: "I remember you, The kindness of your youth, The love of your betrothal, When you went after Me in the wilderness, In a land not sown.
Hosea 2:15
I will give her her vineyards from there, And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing there, As in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.
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Psalms 103:9
He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever.
Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend forever, Nor will I always be angry; For the spirit would fail before Me, And the souls which I have made.
Jeremiah 3:12
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say: 'Return, backsliding Israel,' says the LORD; 'I will not cause My anger to fall on you. For I am merciful,' says the LORD; 'I will not remain angry forever.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.