Israel Forsakes the Lord
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The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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"Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord,
"I remember the devotion of k your youth,
your love l as a bride,
m how you followed me in the wilderness,
n in a land not sown.
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o Israel was holy to the Lord,
p the firstfruits of his harvest.
q All who ate of it incurred guilt;
disaster came upon them,
declares the Lord."
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Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the clans of the house of Israel.
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Thus says the Lord:
r "What wrong did your fathers find in me
that they went far from me,
s and went after t worthlessness, and became worthless?
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They did not say, u 'Where is the Lord
who brought us up from the land of Egypt,
who led us v in the wilderness,
in a land of deserts and pits,
in a land of drought and deep darkness,
in a land that none passes through,
where no man dwells?'
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w And I brought you into a plentiful land
to enjoy its fruits and its good things.
But when you came in, x you defiled my land
and made my heritage an abomination.
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The priests did not say, 'Where is the Lord?'
y Those who handle the law did not know me;
z the shepherds transgressed against me;
a the prophets prophesied by Baal
and went after b things that do not profit.
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"Therefore c I still contend with you,
declares the Lord,
and d with your children's children I will contend.
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For cross to the coasts of e Cyprus and see,
or send to f Kedar and examine with care;
see if there has been such a thing.
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g Has a nation changed its gods,
h even though they are no gods?
But my people i have changed their glory
for b that which does not profit.
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Be appalled, j O heavens, at this;
be shocked, be utterly desolate,
declares the Lord,
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for my people have committed two evils:
k they have forsaken l me,
the fountain of m living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
broken cisterns that can hold no water.
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n "Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant?
Why then has he become a prey?
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o The lions have roared against him;
they have roared loudly.
They have made his land a waste;
his cities are in ruins, p without inhabitant.
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Moreover, the men of q Memphis and r Tahpanhes
s have shaved the crown of your head.
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t Have you not brought this upon yourself
by forsaking the Lord your God,
when u he led you in the way?
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v And now what do you gain by going to Egypt
to drink the waters of w the Nile?
x Or what do you gain by going to Assyria
to drink the waters of y the Euphrates?
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z Your evil will chastise you,
and a your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and b bitter
for c you to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.
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"For long ago I d broke your yoke
and burst your bonds;
but you said, e 'I will not serve.'
Yes, f on every high hill
and under every green tree
you bowed down g like a whore.
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h Yet I planted you a choice vine,
wholly of pure seed.
i How then have you turned degenerate
and become a wild vine?
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Though you wash yourself with lye
and use much soap,
j the stain of your guilt is still before me,
declares the Lord God.
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k How can you say, 'I am not unclean,
I have not gone after the Baals'?
Look at your way l in the valley;
know what you have done -
a restless young camel running here and there,
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m a wild donkey used to the wilderness,
in her heat sniffing the wind!
Who can restrain her lust?
None who seek her need weary themselves;
in her month they will find her.
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Keep n your feet from going unshod
and o your throat from thirst.
But you said, 'It is hopeless,
p for I have loved foreigners,
and after them I will go.'
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"As a thief is shamed when caught,
so the house of Israel shall be shamed:
q they, their kings, their officials,
their priests, and their prophets,
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who say to a tree, 'You are my father,'
and to a stone, 'You gave me birth.'
For they have turned their back to me,
and not their face.
But r in the time of their trouble they say,
'Arise and save us!'
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But s where are your gods
that you made for yourself?
Let them arise, t if they can save you,
in your time of trouble;
for u as many as your cities
are your gods, O Judah.
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"Why do you contend with me?
You have all transgressed against me,
declares the Lord.
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In vain have I v struck your children;
they took no correction;
w your own sword devoured your prophets
like a ravening lion.
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And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, 'We are free,
we will come no more to you'?
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x Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
or a bride her attire?
Yet y my people have forgotten me
days without number.
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"How well you direct your course
to seek love!
So that even to wicked women
you have taught your ways.
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Also on your skirts is found
z the lifeblood of the guiltless poor;
you did not find them a breaking in.
Yet in spite of all these things
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you say, 'I am innocent;
surely his anger has turned from me.'
b Behold, I will bring you to judgment
for c saying, 'I have not sinned.'
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d How much you go about,
changing your way!
You shall be e put to shame by Egypt
as you were put to shame by Assyria.
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From it too you will come away
with f your hands on your head,
for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust,
and you will not prosper by them.
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g "If a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man's wife,
will he return to her?
h Would not that land be greatly polluted?
i You have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?
declares the Lord.
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Lift up your eyes to j the bare heights, and see!
Where have you not been ravished?
k By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
like an Arab in the wilderness.
h You have polluted the land
with your vile whoredom.
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l Therefore the showers have been withheld,
and the spring rain has not come;
yet you have m the forehead of a whore;
you refuse to be ashamed.
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Have you not just now n called to me,
'My father, you are the friend of my youth -
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o will he be angry forever,
will he be indignant to the end?'
Behold, you have spoken,
but you have done all the evil that you could."
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Jeremiah 3:4
Have you not just now called to me, 'My father, you are the friend of my youth -
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Ezekiel 16:8
When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine.
Ezekiel 16:43
Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
Ezekiel 16:60
Yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.
Revelation 2:4
But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.
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Deuteronomy 2:7
For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing."
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Deuteronomy 8:2 - 3
And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
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Exodus 28:36
"You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, 'Holy to the Lord.'
Exodus 19:5 - 6
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.
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James 1:18
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Exodus 4:22
Then you shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son.
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Jeremiah 12:14
Thus says the Lord concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage that I have given my people Israel to inherit: "Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
Ezekiel 25:12 - 13
Thus says the Lord God : Because Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended in taking vengeance on them.
Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
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Jeremiah 2:31
And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, 'We are free, we will come no more to you'?
Isaiah 5:4
What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?
Micah 6:3
O my people, what have I done to you? How have I wearied you? Answer me!
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2 Kings 17:15
They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.
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Jeremiah 10:15
They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.
Jeremiah 16:19
O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
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Isaiah 63:11 - 13
Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses and his people. Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put in the midst of them his Holy Spirit.
Hosea 13:4 - 5
But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
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Deuteronomy 8:15
Who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock.
Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
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Deuteronomy 8:7 - 10
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills.
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Psalms 106:38
They poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
Leviticus 18:24 - 25
Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean.
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Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, "Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.
Malachi 2:7
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
Romans 2:20
An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth -
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Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God." But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.
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Jeremiah 23:13
In the prophets of Samaria I saw an unsavory thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?
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Habakkuk 2:18
What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!
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Jeremiah 2:35
You say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, 'I have not sinned.
Ezekiel 17:20
I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treachery he has committed against me.
Ezekiel 20:35 - 36
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
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Exodus 20:5 - 6
You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.
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Genesis 10:4
The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
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Isaiah 21:16
For thus the Lord said to me, "Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.
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Micah 4:5
For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.
Jeremiah 18:13 - 15
Therefore thus says the Lord : Ask among the nations, Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing.
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Jeremiah 16:20
Can man make for himself gods? Such are not gods!
Isaiah 37:19
And have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.
Galatians 4:8
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.
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Psalms 106:20
They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.
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Jeremiah 2:8
The priests did not say, 'Where is the Lord ?' Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.
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Isaiah 1:2
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: "Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.
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Jeremiah 17:13
O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.
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Psalms 36:9
For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light.
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John 4:10
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.
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Exodus 4:22
Then you shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son.
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Jeremiah 4:7
A lion has gone up from his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone out from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.
Isaiah 5:29
Their roaring is like a lion, like young lions they roar; they growl and seize their prey; they carry it off, and none can rescue.
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Jeremiah 9:11
I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 46:19
Prepare yourselves baggage for exile, O inhabitants of Egypt! For Memphis shall become a waste, a ruin, without inhabitant.
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Jeremiah 44:1
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Judeans who lived in the land of Egypt, at Migdol, at Tahpanhes, at Memphis, and in the land of Pathros.
Jeremiah 46:14
"Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol; proclaim in Memphis and Tahpanhes; say, 'Stand ready and be prepared, for the sword shall devour around you.'
Ezekiel 30:16
And I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium shall be in great agony; Thebes shall be breached, and Memphis shall face enemies by day.
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Jeremiah 43:7 - 9
And they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the Lord. And they arrived at Tahpanhes.
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Deuteronomy 33:20
And of Gad he said, "Blessed be he who enlarges Gad! Gad crouches like a lion; he tears off arm and scalp.
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Jeremiah 4:18
Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart.
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Jeremiah 2:6
They did not say, 'Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?
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Jeremiah 2:36
How much you go about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.
Isaiah 30:1 - 2
Ah, stubborn children," declares the Lord, "who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin.
Isaiah 31:1
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the Lord!
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Isaiah 23:3
And on many waters your revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; you were the merchant of the nations.
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Hosea 7:11
Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
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Genesis 31:21
He fled with all that he had and arose and crossed the Euphrates, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.
Isaiah 7:20
In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired beyond the River - with the king of Assyria - the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.
Isaiah 8:7
Therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks.
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Isaiah 3:9
For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
Hosea 5:5
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt; Judah also shall stumble with them.
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Jeremiah 3:22
Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to you, for you are the Lord our God.
Jeremiah 5:6
Therefore a lion from the forest shall strike them down; a wolf from the desert shall devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.
Jeremiah 14:7
Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name's sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
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Jeremiah 4:18
Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart.
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Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 2:17
Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the Lord your God, when he led you in the way?
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Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God." But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.
Jeremiah 30:8
And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and I will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more make a servant of him.
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Jeremiah 2:31
And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, 'We are free, we will come no more to you'?
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Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom.
Jeremiah 17:2
While their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills.
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Jeremiah 3:1
If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the Lord.
Isaiah 1:21
How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.
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Exodus 15:17
You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain, the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.
Psalms 44:2
You with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free.
Psalms 80:8
You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
Isaiah 5:2
He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
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Isaiah 5:4
What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?
Deuteronomy 32:32
For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter.
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Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars.
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Jeremiah 2:35
You say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.' Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, 'I have not sinned.
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Jeremiah 7:31 - 32
And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.
Jeremiah 19:2
And go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you.
Jeremiah 19:6
Therefore, behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
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Jeremiah 14:6
The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no vegetation.
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Deuteronomy 29:5
I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.
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Exodus 17:6
Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink." And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.
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Jeremiah 3:13
Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the Lord your God and scattered your favors among foreigners under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, declares the Lord.
Deuteronomy 32:16
They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.
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Jeremiah 13:13
Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord : Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: the kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 32:32
Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger - their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 8:1
At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs.
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Judges 10:9 - 10
And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.
Isaiah 26:16
O Lord, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them.
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Deuteronomy 32:37 - 38
Then he will say, 'Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge.
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Isaiah 45:20
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.
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Jeremiah 11:13
For your gods have become as many as your cities, O Judah, and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to shame, altars to make offerings to Baal.
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Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.
Isaiah 1:5
Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Isaiah 9:13
The people did not turn to him who struck them, nor inquire of the Lord of hosts.
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Nehemiah 9:26
Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.
1 Thessalonians 2:15
Who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind
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Isaiah 3:20
The headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets.
Isaiah 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord ; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
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Jeremiah 3:21
A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weepi...
Jeremiah 18:15
But my people have forgotten me; they make offe...
Deuteronomy 32:18
You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, a...
Psalms 106:21
They forgot God, their Savior, who had done gre...
Isaiah 17:10
For you have forgotten the God of your salvatio...
Hosea 8:14
For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built pa...
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Jeremiah 19:4
Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents.
2 Kings 21:16
Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
2 Kings 24:4
And also for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon.
Psalms 106:38
They poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
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Exodus 22:2
If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him.
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Psalms 143:2
Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
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Proverbs 28:13
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
1 John 1:8
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:10
If we say 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 waver, O faithless daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth: a woman encircles a man.
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Isaiah 30:3
Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
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2 Samuel 13:19
And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she wore. And she laid her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went.
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Deuteronomy 24:1 - 4
When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house.
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Jeremiah 3:9
Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.
Psalms 106:38
They poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
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Jeremiah 2:20
For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, 'I will not serve.' Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore.
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Jeremiah 3:21
A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons because they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the Lord their God.
Jeremiah 3:23
Truly the hills are a delusion, the orgies on the mountains. Truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
Jeremiah 4:11
At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse.
Jeremiah 7:29
"'Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'
Numbers 23:3
And Balaam said to Balak, "Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell you." And he went to a bare height.
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Ezekiel 16:25
At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
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Jeremiah 3:1
If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the Lord.
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Jeremiah 9:12
Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.
Deuteronomy 28:24
The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
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Jeremiah 6:15
Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown," says the Lord.
Ezekiel 3:7 - 8
But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.
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Luke 15:18
I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.
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Psalms 103:9
He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever.
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