A Rebellious People
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Now go, k write it before them on a tablet,
And note it on a scroll,
That it may be for time to come,
Forever and ever:
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That l this is a rebellious people,
Lying children,
Children who will not hear the law of the LORD;
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m Who say to the seers, "Do not see,"
And to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us right things;
n Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
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Get out of the way,
Turn aside from the path,
Cause the Holy One of Israel
To cease from before us."
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Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel:
"Because you o despise this word,
And trust in oppression and perversity,
And rely on them,
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Therefore this iniquity shall be to you
p Like a breach ready to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose breaking q comes suddenly, in an instant.
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And r He shall break it like the breaking of the potter's vessel,
Which is broken in pieces;
He shall not spare.
So there shall not be found among its fragments
A shard to take fire from the hearth,
Or to take water from the cistern."
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For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel:
s "In returning and rest you shall be saved;
In quietness and confidence shall be your strength."
t But you would not,
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And you said, "No, for we will flee on horses" -
Therefore you shall flee!
And, "We will ride on swift horses" -
Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift!
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u One thousand shall flee at the threat of one,
At the threat of five you shall flee,
Till you are left as a pole on top of a mountain
And as a banner on a hill.
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Cross References
Habakkuk 2:2
Then the LORD answered me and said: "Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:20
And He said: 'I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faith.
Isaiah 1:2
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! For the LORD has spoken: "I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against Me.
Isaiah 1:4
Alas, sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A brood of evildoers, Children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the LORD, They have provoked to anger The Holy One of Israel, They have turned away backward.
Isaiah 65:2
I have stretched out My hands all day long to a rebellious people, Who walk in a way that is not good, According to their own thoughts.
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Cross References
Isaiah 5:20
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Jeremiah 11:21
Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth who seek your life, saying, 'Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, lest you die by our hand' -
Amos 2:12
"But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, And commanded the prophets saying, 'Do not prophesy!'
Micah 2:6
Do not prattle," you say to those who prophesy. So they shall not prophesy to you; They shall not return insult for insult.
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Cross References
1 Kings 22:8
So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, " Th...
1 Kings 22:13
Then the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah...
Jeremiah 6:14
They have also healed the hurt of My people sli...
Jeremiah 23:17
They continually say to those who despise Me, '...
Jeremiah 23:26
How long will this be in the heart of the proph...
Ezekiel 13:7
"Have you not seen a futile vision, and have yo...
Micah 2:11
If a man should walk in a false spirit And spea...
Romans 16:18
For those who are such do not serve our Lord Je...
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not endur...
2 Timothy 4:4
And they will turn their ears away from the tru...
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:43
The land also shall be left empty by them, and ...
Numbers 15:31
'Because he has despised the word of the LORD, ...
Proverbs 1:30
They would have none of my counsel And despised...
Proverbs 13:13
He who despises the word will be destroyed, But...
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble, And...
Ezekiel 20:13
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in ...
Ezekiel 20:16
Because they despised My judgments and did not ...
Ezekiel 20:24
Because they had not executed My judgments, but...
Amos 2:4
Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions o...
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Cross References
1 Kings 20:30
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; then a wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the men who were left. And BenHadad fled and went into the city, into an inner chamber.
Psalms 62:3
How long will you attack a man? You shall be slain, all of you, Like a leaning wall and a tottering fence.
Psalms 62:4
They only consult to cast him down from his high position; They delight in lies; They bless with their mouth, But they curse inwardly. Selah
Isaiah 58:12
Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.
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Cross References
Isaiah 29:5
Moreover the multitude of your foes Shall be like fine dust, And the multitude of the terrible ones Like chaff that passes away; Yes, it shall be in an instant, suddenly.
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Cross References
Psalms 2:9
You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel.'
Jeremiah 19:11
And say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, which cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury them in Tophet till there is no place to bury.
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Cross References
Psalms 116:7
Return to your rest, O my soul, For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
Isaiah 7:4
And say to him: 'Take heed, and be quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah.
Isaiah 28:12
To whom He said, "This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest," And, "This is the refreshing"; Yet they would not hear.
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Cross References
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:36
And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee; they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.
Deuteronomy 28:25
The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:30
How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And the LORD had surrendered them?
Joshua 23:10
One man of you shall chase a thousand, for the LORD your God is He who fights for you, as He promised you.
Proverbs 28:1
The wicked flee when no one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a lion.
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