Evil in the Land
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The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
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j "Stand in the gate of the Lord's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all you men of Judah who enter these gates to worship the Lord.
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Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: k Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place.
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l Do not trust in these deceptive words: 'This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.'
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"For if you truly m amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly n execute justice one with another,
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if you n do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, m or shed innocent blood in this place, o and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm,
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p then I will let you dwell in this place, q in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.
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"Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail.
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r Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, s swear falsely, t make offerings to Baal, o and go after other gods that you have not known,
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and then come and stand before me in this house, u which is called by my name, and say, 'We are delivered!' - only to go on doing all these abominations?
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v Has this house, u which is called by my name, w become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord.
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Go now to x my place that was in Shiloh, y where I made my name dwell at first, and z see what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel.
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And now, because you have done all these things, declares the Lord, and a when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and b when I called you, you did not answer,
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therefore I will do to c the house u that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, z as I did to Shiloh.
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c And I will cast you out of my sight, d as I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of e Ephraim.
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"As for you, f do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you.
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Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
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The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, g and the women knead dough, to h make cakes for i the queen of heaven. And j they pour out drink offerings to other gods, k to provoke me to anger.
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l Is it I whom they provoke? declares the Lord. Is it not themselves, m to their own shame?
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Therefore thus says the Lord God: behold, n my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; o it will burn and not be quenched."
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Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: p "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.
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For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them q concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.
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But this command I gave them: r 'Obey my voice, and s I will be your God, and you shall be my people. t And walk in all the way that I command you, u that it may be well with you.'
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v But they did not obey or incline their ear, w but walked in their own counsels and x the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and y went backward and not forward.
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From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, z I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day.
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v Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, a but stiffened their neck. b They did worse than their fathers.
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c "So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. d You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.
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And you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, and did not accept discipline; e truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
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f "'Cut off your hair and cast it away;
raise a lamentation on g the bare heights,
for the Lord has rejected and forsaken
the generation of his wrath.'
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Jeremiah 26:2
Thus says the Lord : Stand in the court of the Lord 's house, and speak to all the cities of Judah that come to worship in the house of the Lord all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not hold back a word.
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Jeremiah 18:11
Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: 'Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.
Jeremiah 26:13
Now therefore mend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the Lord your God, and the Lord will relent of the disaster that he has pronounced against you.
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Jeremiah 7:8
Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail.
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Jeremiah 22:3
Thus says the Lord : Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
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Deuteronomy 24:14
You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns.
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Jeremiah 7:5
For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another.
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Jeremiah 7:5
For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another.
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Jeremiah 13:10
This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing.
Jeremiah 25:6
Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.
Deuteronomy 6:14
You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you -
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Deuteronomy 4:40
Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.
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Jeremiah 3:18
In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage.
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Hosea 4:1 - 2
Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land.
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Jeremiah 5:2
Though they say, "As the Lord lives," yet they swear falsely.
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Jeremiah 1:16
And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
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Jeremiah 7:6
If you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm.
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Jeremiah 32:34
They set up their abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile it.
Jeremiah 34:15
You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes by proclaiming liberty, each to his neighbor, and you made a covenant before me in the house that is called by my name.
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Isaiah 56:7
These I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
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Jeremiah 7:10
And then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, 'We are delivered!' - only to go on doing all these abominations?
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Matthew 21:13
He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you make it a den of robbers.
Mark 11:17
And he was teaching them and saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations'? But you have made it a den of robbers.
Luke 19:46
Saying to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers.
Ezekiel 7:22
I will turn my face from them, and they shall profane my treasured place. Robbers shall enter and profane it.
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Judges 18:31
So they set up Micah's carved image that he made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.
1 Samuel 1:3
Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 12:11
Then to the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the Lord.
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Jeremiah 26:6
Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'
Psalms 78:60
He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mankind.
1 Samuel 4:3 - 12
And when the troops came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has the Lord defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord here from Shiloh, that it may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies.
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Jeremiah 7:25
From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day.
2 Chronicles 36:15
The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.
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Proverbs 1:24
Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded.
Jeremiah 7:27
So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.
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 65:12
I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because, when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyes and chose what I did not delight in.
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Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go.
1 Kings 9:7
Then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
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Jeremiah 7:10
And then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, 'We are delivered!' - only to go on doing all these abominations?
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Jeremiah 7:12
Go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel.
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Jeremiah 7:14
Therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
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2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 17:23
Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.
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Psalms 78:67
He rejected the tent of Joseph; he did not choo...
Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone.
Hosea 5:3
I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from m...
Hosea 5:9
Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of...
Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall...
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east ...
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Jeremiah 11:14
Therefore do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.
Jeremiah 14:11
The Lord said to me: "Do not pray for the welfare of this people.
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.
1 John 5:16
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life - to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.
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Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
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Jeremiah 44:17
But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.
Jeremiah 44:19
And the women said, "When we made offerings to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands' approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out drink offerings to her?
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2 Kings 23:13
And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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Jeremiah 19:13
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah - all the houses on whose roofs offerings have been offered to all the host of heaven, and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods - shall be defiled like the place of Topheth.'
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Jeremiah 11:17
The Lord of hosts, who planted you, has decreed...
Deuteronomy 32:16
They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;...
Deuteronomy 32:21
They have made me jealous with what is no god; ...
1 Kings 14:9
But you have done evil above all who were befor...
1 Kings 16:2
Since I exalted you out of the dust and made yo...
2 Chronicles 34:25
Because they have forsaken me and have made off...
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Job 35:6
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
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Jeremiah 51:51
'We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach; dishonor has covered our face, for foreigners have come into the holy places of the Lord 's house.'
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Jeremiah 42:18
For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. You shall see this place no more.
Jeremiah 44:6
Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day.
2 Chronicles 34:25
Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands, therefore my wrath will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.
Lamentations 4:11
The Lord gave full vent to his wrath; he poured out his hot anger, and he kindled a fire in Zion that consumed its foundations.
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Jeremiah 17:27
But if you do not listen to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.'
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Jeremiah 6:20
What use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.
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Hosea 6:6
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
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Jeremiah 11:4
That I commanded your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you. So shall you be my people, and I will be your God.
Jeremiah 11:7
For I solemnly warned your fathers when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, warning them persistently, even to this day, saying, Obey my voice.
Exodus 15:26
Saying, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.
Deuteronomy 6:3
Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
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Leviticus 26:12
And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
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Deuteronomy 5:33
You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.
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Jeremiah 42:6
Whether it is good or bad, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God to whom we are sending you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the Lord our God.
Deuteronomy 4:40
Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.
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Psalms 81:11
But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.
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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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Jeremiah 3:17
At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.
Hosea 4:16
Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the Lord now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?
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Jeremiah 2:19
Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord God of hosts.
Jeremiah 2:27
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 in the time of their trouble they say, 'Arise and save us!
Jeremiah 8:5
Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.
Jeremiah 15:6
You have rejected me, declares the Lord ; you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you - I am weary of relenting.
Jeremiah 32:33
They have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction.
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2 Chronicles 36:15 - 16
The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.
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Jeremiah 7:24
But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.
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2 Chronicles 30:8
Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
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Jeremiah 16:12
And because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me.
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Jeremiah 1:17
But you, dress yourself for work; arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them.
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Jeremiah 7:13
And now, because you have done all these things, declares the Lord, and when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer.
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Jeremiah 9:3
They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
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Job 1:20
Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped.
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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.
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