Psalm 106
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i Praise the Lord!
j Oh give thanks to the Lord, k for he is good,
l for his steadfast love endures forever!
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Who can utter the mighty deeds of the Lord,
or declare all his praise?
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Blessed are they who observe justice,
who m do righteousness at all times!
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n Remember me, O Lord, when you show favor to your people;
help me when you save them,
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that I may look upon the prosperity of your o chosen ones,
that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,
that I may glory with your inheritance.
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p Both we and q our fathers have sinned;
we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.
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Our fathers, when they were in Egypt,
did not consider your wondrous works;
they r did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love,
but s rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
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Yet he saved them t for his name's sake,
u that he might make known his mighty power.
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He v rebuked the Red Sea, and it w became dry,
and he x led them through the deep as through a desert.
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So he y saved them from the hand of the foe
and z redeemed them from the power of the enemy.
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And a the waters covered their adversaries;
not one of them was left.
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Then b they believed his words;
they c sang his praise.
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But they soon d forgot his works;
they did not wait for e his counsel.
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But they had f a wanton craving in the wilderness,
and g put God to the test in the desert;
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he h gave them what they asked,
but sent i a wasting disease among them.
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When men in the camp j were jealous of Moses
and Aaron, k the holy one of the Lord,
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l the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
and covered the company of Abiram.
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m Fire also broke out in their company;
the flame burned up the wicked.
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They n made a calf in Horeb
and worshiped a metal image.
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They o exchanged the glory of God
for the image of an ox that eats grass.
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They p forgot God, their Savior,
who had done great things in Egypt,
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wondrous works in q the land of Ham,
and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
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Therefore r he said he would destroy them -
had not Moses, his s chosen one,
t stood in the breach before him,
to turn away his wrath from destroying them.
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Then they u despised v the pleasant land,
having w no faith in his promise.
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They x murmured in their tents,
and did not obey the voice of the Lord.
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Therefore he y raised his hand and swore to them
that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
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and would make their offspring fall among the nations,
z scattering them among the lands.
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Then they a yoked themselves to the a Baal of Peor,
and ate sacrifices offered to b the dead;
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they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds,
and a plague broke out among them.
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Then c Phinehas stood up and intervened,
and the plague was stayed.
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And that was d counted to him as righteousness
from generation to generation forever.
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They e angered him at the waters of Meribah,
and it went ill with Moses on their account,
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for they f made his spirit bitter,
and he g spoke rashly with his lips.
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They did not h destroy the peoples,
i as the Lord commanded them,
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but they j mixed with the nations
and learned to do as they did.
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They served their idols,
which became k a snare to them.
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They l sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to m the demons;
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they poured out innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was n polluted with blood.
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Thus they o became unclean by their acts,
and p played the whore in their deeds.
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Then q the anger of the Lord was kindled against r his people,
and he abhorred his r heritage;
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he s gave them into the hand of the nations,
so that those who hated them ruled over them.
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Their enemies t oppressed them,
and they were brought into subjection under their power.
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u Many times he delivered them,
but they were rebellious in their v purposes
and were w brought low through their iniquity.
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Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress,
when he x heard their cry.
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For their sake he y remembered his covenant,
and z relented according to a the abundance of his steadfast love.
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He caused them to be b pitied
by all those who held them captive.
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c Save us, O Lord our God,
and d gather us from among the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name
and glory in your praise.
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e Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting!
e And let all the people say, "Amen!"
f Praise the Lord!
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Psalms 105:45
That they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. Praise the Lord!
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Psalms 105:1
Oh give thanks to the Lord ; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples!
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Psalms 100:5
For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
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1 Chronicles 16:34
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!
1 Chronicles 16:41
With them were Heman and Jeduthun and the rest of those chosen and expressly named to give thanks to the Lord, for his steadfast love endures forever.
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Psalms 15:2
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart.
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Psalms 119:132
Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is your way with those who love your name.
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Psalms 105:6
O offspring of Abraham, his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones!
Psalms 105:43
So he brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing.
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1 Kings 8:47
Yet if they turn their heart in the land to whi...
Ezra 9:6
Saying: "O my God, I am ashamed and blush to li...
Nehemiah 1:6 - 7
Let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, t...
Nehemiah 9:16
But they and our fathers acted presumptuously a...
Jeremiah 3:25
Let us lie down in our shame, and let our disho...
Jeremiah 14:20
We acknowledge our wickedness, O Lord, and the ...
Daniel 9:5
We have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedl...
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Psalms 79:8
Do not remember against us our former iniquities; let your compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low.
Leviticus 26:40
But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me.
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Psalms 106:13
But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.
Psalms 106:21
They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt.
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Exodus 14:11 - 12
They said to Moses, "Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt?
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Ezekiel 20:9
But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:14
But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
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Exodus 9:16
But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
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Psalms 18:15
Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
Psalms 104:7
At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.
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Exodus 14:21
Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Isaiah 50:2
Why, when I came, was there no man; why, when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a desert; their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.
Isaiah 51:10
Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
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Isaiah 63:13
Who led them through the depths? Like a horse in the desert, they did not stumble.
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Exodus 14:30
Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
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Psalms 107:2
Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble
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Exodus 14:28
The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained.
Exodus 15:5
The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.
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Exodus 14:31
Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses.
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Exodus 15:1 - 21
Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, "I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
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Psalms 78:11
They forgot his works and the wonders that he had shown them.
Exodus 15:24
And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?
Exodus 16:2
And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
Exodus 17:2
Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord ?
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Psalms 107:11
For they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High.
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Numbers 11:4
Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, "Oh that we had meat to eat!
1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.
Psalms 78:18
They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
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Exodus 17:2
Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord ?
1 Corinthians 10:9
We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents.
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Psalms 78:29
And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.
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Isaiah 10:16
Therefore the Lord God of hosts will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire.
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Numbers 16:1 - 3
Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men.
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Deuteronomy 33:2
He said, "The Lord came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran; he came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand.
Zechariah 14:5
And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
Jude 1:14
It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones.
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Numbers 16:31 - 32
And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart.
Deuteronomy 11:6
And what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel.
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Numbers 16:35
And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men offering the incense.
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Exodus 32:4
And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!
Deuteronomy 9:8
Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you.
Acts 7:41
And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.
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Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Romans 1:23
And exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
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Psalms 106:7
Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
Psalms 106:13
But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.
Psalms 78:11
They forgot his works and the wonders that he had shown them.
Deuteronomy 32:18
You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
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Psalms 105:23
Then Israel came to Egypt; Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
Psalms 105:27
They performed his signs among them and miracles in the land of Ham.
Psalms 78:51
He struck down every firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.
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Exodus 32:10
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you.
Deuteronomy 9:14
Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
Ezekiel 20:8
But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. None of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. "Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
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Psalms 105:6
O offspring of Abraham, his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones!
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Ezekiel 22:30
And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
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Numbers 14:31
But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.
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Zechariah 7:14
"and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."
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Deuteronomy 1:32
Yet in spite of this word you did not believe the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 9:23
And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, 'Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,' then you rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God and did not believe him or obey his voice.
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Numbers 14:2
And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
Deuteronomy 1:27
And you murmured in your tents and said, 'Because the Lord hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
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Exodus 6:8
I will bring you into the land that I swore to ...
Numbers 14:30
Not one shall come into the land where I swore ...
Deuteronomy 32:40
For I lift up my hand to heaven and swear, As I...
Ezekiel 20:6
On that day I swore to them that I would bring ...
Ezekiel 20:15
Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness tha...
Ezekiel 20:23
Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness tha...
Psalms 95:11
Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They shall not ...
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Psalms 44:11
You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations.
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Numbers 25:3
So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
Hosea 9:10
Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved.
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Numbers 25:3
So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
Hosea 9:10
Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved.
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Isaiah 8:19
And when they say to you, "Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter," should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?
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Numbers 25:7 - 8
When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand
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Genesis 15:6
And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
Numbers 25:10 - 13
And the Lord said to Moses.
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Numbers 20:2 - 13
Now there was no water for the congregation. And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.
Deuteronomy 1:37
Even with me the Lord was angry on your account and said, 'You also shall not go in there.
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Psalms 107:11
For they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High.
Psalms 78:40
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.
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Numbers 20:10
Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?
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Judges 1:21
But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
Judges 1:27 - 36
Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.
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Deuteronomy 7:2
And when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
Deuteronomy 7:16
And you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
Judges 2:2
And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?
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Judges 3:5 - 6
So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Ezra 9:2
For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.
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Exodus 23:33
They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.
Deuteronomy 7:16
And you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
Judges 2:3
So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.
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2 Kings 16:3
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
Isaiah 57:5
You who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
Ezekiel 16:20
And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter
Ezekiel 20:26
And I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it that they might know that I am the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded.
1 Corinthians 10:20
No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.
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Isaiah 24:5
The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
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Ezekiel 20:18
And I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezekiel 20:30 - 31
Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God : Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and go whoring after their detestable things?
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Psalms 73:27
For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.
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Psalms 78:59
When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
Psalms 78:62
He gave his people over to the sword and vented his wrath on his heritage.
Judges 2:14
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
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Psalms 28:9
Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
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Psalms 28:9
Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever.
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Nehemiah 9:27
Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. And in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies.
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Judges 4:3
Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.
Judges 10:12
The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
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Judges 2:16
Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
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Psalms 81:12
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
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Leviticus 26:39
And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.
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Judges 3:9
But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Judges 4:3
Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.
Judges 6:7
When the people of Israel cried out to the Lord on account of the Midianites.
Judges 10:10
And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, saying, "We have sinned against you, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals.
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Psalms 105:8
He remembers his covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations.
Leviticus 26:42
Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
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Psalms 90:13
Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants!
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Psalms 106:7
Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
Psalms 51:1
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
Psalms 69:16
Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.
Isaiah 63:7
I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord, the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has granted us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel that he has granted them according to his compassion, according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
Lamentations 3:32
But, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
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1 Kings 8:50
And forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have committed against you, and grant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
2 Chronicles 30:9
For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.
Ezra 9:9
For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection in Judea and Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 1:11
O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." Now I was cupbearer to the king.
Jeremiah 42:12
I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you and let you remain in your own land.
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Psalms 106:47 - 48
Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.
1 Chronicles 16:35 - 36
Say also: "Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name, and glory in your praise.
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Psalms 107:3
And gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.
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Psalms 41:13
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.
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Psalms 41:13
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.
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Psalms 104:35
Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more! Bless the Lord, O my soul! Praise the Lord!
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