Jeremiah 2:31
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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’?
2 Samuel 12:7-9
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7 Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, (A)‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul. 8 And I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more. 9 (B)Why have you despised the word of the Lord, (C)to do what is evil in his sight? (D)You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and (E)have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
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Revelation 3:15-17
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15 “‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. (A)Would that you were either cold or hot! 16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. 17 (B)For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, (C)blind, and naked.
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1 Corinthians 4:8
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8 Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!
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Malachi 3:9-11
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9 (A)You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 10 (B)Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby (C)put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open (D)the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. 11 I will rebuke (E)the devourer[a] for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts.
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- Malachi 3:11 Probably a name for some crop-destroying pest or pests
Micah 6:9
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Destruction of the Wicked
9 The voice of the Lord cries to the city—
and it is sound wisdom to fear (A)your name:
“Hear of (B)the rod and of him who appointed it![a]
Footnotes
- Micah 6:9 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Hosea 13:6
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6 (A)but when they had grazed,[a] they became full,
(B)they were filled, and their heart was lifted up;
(C)therefore they forgot me.
Footnotes
- Hosea 13:6 Hebrew according to their pasture
Hosea 2:7-8
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7 She shall pursue her lovers
but not overtake them,
and she shall seek them
but shall not find them.
(A)Then she shall say,
‘I will go and return to (B)my first husband,
(C)for it was better for me then than now.’
8 And (D)she did not know
that it was (E)I who gave her
(F)the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and who lavished on (G)her silver and gold,
(H)which they used for Baal.
Jeremiah 2:5-6
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5 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“What wrong did your fathers find in me
that they went far from me,
(B)and went after (C)worthlessness, and became worthless?
6 They did not say, (D)‘Where is the Lord
who brought us up from the land of Egypt,
who led us (E)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?’
Isaiah 45:19
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19 (A)I did not speak in secret,
in a land of darkness;
I did not say to the offspring of Jacob,
(B)‘Seek me in vain.’[a]
I the Lord speak (C)the truth;
I declare what is right.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:19 Hebrew in emptiness
Proverbs 30:9
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9 lest I be (A)full and (B)deny you
and say, (C)“Who is the Lord?”
or lest I be poor and steal
(D)and profane the name of my God.
Psalm 12:4
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4 those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,
our lips are with us; who is master over us?”
Psalm 10:4
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4 In the pride of his face[a] the wicked does not (A)seek him;[b]
all his thoughts are, (B)“There is no God.”
Footnotes
- Psalm 10:4 Or of his anger
- Psalm 10:4 Or the wicked says, “He will not call to account”
Nehemiah 9:21-25
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21 (A)Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
22 “And you gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner. (B)So they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon (C)and the land of Og king of Bashan. 23 You multiplied their children (D)as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess. 24 (E)So the descendants went in and possessed the land, (F)and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would. 25 And they captured (G)fortified cities and (H)a rich land, and took possession of (I)houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled (J)and became fat and delighted themselves in (K)your great goodness.
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2 Chronicles 31:10
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10 Azariah the chief priest, who was (A)of the house of Zadok, answered him, “Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the Lord, we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left, (B)for the Lord has blessed his people, so that we have this large amount left.”
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Deuteronomy 31:20
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Deuteronomy 8:12-14
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12 (A)lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, 13 and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, 14 (B)then your heart be lifted up, and you (C)forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,
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