Bible Cross References
Behold
Jeremiah 11:8
But they did not listen or obey. Instead, everyone continued to be as stubborn and evil as ever. I had commanded them to keep the covenant, but they refused. So I brought on them all the punishments described in it."
Jeremiah 15:3
I, the LORD, have decided that four terrible things will happen to them: they will be killed in war; their bodies will be dragged off by dogs; birds will eat them, and wild animals will devour what is left over.
Jeremiah 15:4
I will make all the people of the world horrified at them because of what Hezekiah's son Manasseh did in Jerusalem when he was king of Judah."
Jeremiah 19:7-13
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In this place I will frustrate all the plans of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. I will let their enemies triumph over them and kill them in battle. I will give their corpses to the birds and the wild animals as food.
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I will bring such terrible destruction on this city that everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed.
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The enemy will surround the city and try to kill its people. The siege will be so terrible that the people inside the city will eat one another and even their own children."
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Then the LORD told me to break the jar in front of those who had gone with me
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and to tell them that the LORD Almighty had said, "I will break this people and this city, and it will be like this broken clay jar that cannot be put together again. People will bury their dead even in Topheth because there will be nowhere else to bury them.
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I promise that I will make this city and its inhabitants like Topheth.
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The houses of Jerusalem, the houses of the kings of Judah, and indeed all the houses on whose roofs incense has been burned to the stars and where wine has been poured out as an offering to other gods---they will all be as unclean as Topheth."
Jeremiah 21:4-10
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to tell Zedekiah that the LORD, the God of Israel, had said, "Zedekiah, I am going to defeat your army that is fighting against the king of Babylonia and his army. I will pile up your soldiers' weapons in the center of the city.
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I will fight against you with all my might, my anger, my wrath, and my fury.
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I will kill everyone living in this city; people and animals alike will die of a terrible disease.
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But as for you, your officials, and the people who survive the war, the famine, and the disease---I will let all of you be captured by King Nebuchadnezzar and by your enemies, who want to kill you. Nebuchadnezzar will put you to death. He will not spare any of you or show mercy or pity to any of you. I, the LORD, have spoken."
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Then the LORD told me to say to the people, "Listen! I, the LORD, am giving you a choice between the way that leads to life and the way that leads to death.
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Anyone who stays in the city will be killed in war or by starvation or disease. But those who go out and surrender to the Babylonians, who are now attacking the city, will not be killed; they will at least escape with their life.
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I have made up my mind not to spare this city, but to destroy it. It will be given over to the king of Babylonia, and he will burn it to the ground. I, the LORD, have spoken."
Genesis 6:17
I am going to send a flood on the earth to destroy every living being. Everything on the earth will die,
Leviticus 26:14-46
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The LORD said, "If you will not obey my commands, you will be punished.
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If you refuse to obey my laws and commands and break the covenant I have made with you,
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I will punish you. I will bring disaster on you---incurable diseases and fevers that will make you blind and cause your life to waste away. You will plant your crops, but it will do you no good, because your enemies will conquer you and eat what you have grown.
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I will turn against you, so that you will be defeated, and those who hate you will rule over you; you will be so terrified that you will run when no one is chasing you.
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"If even after all of this you still do not obey me, I will increase your punishment seven times.
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I will break your stubborn pride; there will be no rain, and your land will be dry and as hard as iron.
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All your hard work will do you no good, because your land will not produce crops and the trees will not bear fruit.
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"If you still continue to resist me and refuse to obey me, I will again increase your punishment seven times.
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I will send dangerous animals among you, and they will kill your children, destroy your livestock, and leave so few of you that your roads will be deserted.
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"If after all of this punishment you still do not listen to me, but continue to defy me,
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then I will turn on you and punish you seven times harder than before.
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I will bring war on you to punish you for breaking our covenant, and if you gather in your cities for safety, I will send incurable diseases among you, and you will be forced to surrender to your enemies.
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I will cut off your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake all the bread they have. They will ration it out, and when you have eaten it all, you will still be hungry.
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"If after all of this you still continue to defy me and refuse to obey me,
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then in my anger I will turn on you and again make your punishment seven times worse than before.
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Your hunger will be so great that you will eat your own children.
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I will destroy your places of worship on the hills, tear down your incense altars, and throw your dead bodies on your fallen idols. In utter disgust
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I will turn your cities into ruins, destroy your places of worship, and refuse to accept your sacrifices.
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I will destroy your land so completely that the enemies who occupy it will be shocked at the destruction.
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I will bring war on you and scatter you in foreign lands. Your land will be deserted, and your cities left in ruins.
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Then the land will enjoy the years of complete rest that you would not give it; it will lie abandoned and get its rest while you are in exile in the land of your enemies.
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"I will make those of you who are in exile so terrified that the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will make you run. You will run as if you were being pursued in battle, and you will fall when there is no enemy near you.
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You will stumble over one another when no one is chasing you, and you will be unable to fight against any enemy.
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You will die in exile, swallowed up by the land of your enemies.
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The few of you who survive in the land of your enemies will waste away because of your own sin and the sin of your ancestors.
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"But your descendants will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors, who resisted me and rebelled against me,
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and caused me to turn against them and send them into exile in the land of their enemies. At last, when your descendants are humbled and they have paid the penalty for their sin and rebellion,
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I will remember my covenant with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will renew my promise to give my people the land.
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First, however, the land must be rid of its people, so that it can enjoy its complete rest, and they must pay the full penalty for having rejected my laws and my commands.
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But even then, when they are still in the land of their enemies, I will not completely abandon them or destroy them. That would put an end to my covenant with them, and I am the LORD their God.
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I will renew the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I showed all the nations my power by bringing my people out of Egypt, in order that I, the LORD, might be their God."
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All these are the laws and commands that the LORD gave to Moses on Mount Sinai for the people of Israel.
Deuteronomy 28:15-68
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"But if you disobey the LORD your God and do not faithfully keep all his commands and laws that I am giving you today, all these evil things will happen to you:
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"The LORD will curse your towns and your fields.
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"The LORD will curse your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.
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"The LORD will curse you by giving you only a few children, poor crops, and few cattle and sheep.
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"The LORD will curse everything you do.
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"If you do evil and reject the LORD, he will bring on you disaster, confusion, and trouble in everything you do, until you are quickly and completely destroyed.
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He will send disease after disease on you until there is not one of you left in the land that you are about to occupy.
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The LORD will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever; he will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.
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No rain will fall, and your ground will become as hard as iron.
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Instead of rain, the LORD will send down duststorms and sandstorms until you are destroyed.
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"The LORD will give your enemies victory over you. You will attack them from one direction, but you will run from them in all directions, and all the people on earth will be terrified when they see what happens to you.
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When you die, birds and wild animals will come and eat your bodies, and there will be no one to scare them off.
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The LORD will send boils on you, as he did on the Egyptians. He will make your bodies break out with sores. You will be covered with scabs, and you will itch, but there will be no cure.
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The LORD will make you lose your mind; he will strike you with blindness and confusion.
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You will grope about in broad daylight like someone blind, and you will not be able to find your way. You will not prosper in anything you do. You will be constantly oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to help you.
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"You will be engaged to a young woman---but someone else will marry her. You will build a house---but never live in it. You will plant a vineyard---but never eat its grapes.
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Your cattle will be butchered before your very eyes, but you will not eat any of the meat. Your donkeys will be dragged away while you look on, and they will not be given back to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and there will be no one to help you.
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Your sons and daughters will be given as slaves to foreigners while you look on. Every day you will strain your eyes, looking in vain for your children to return.
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A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow, while you receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.
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Your sufferings will make you lose your mind.
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The LORD will cover your legs with incurable, painful sores; boils will cover you from head to foot.
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"The LORD will take you and your king away to a foreign land, where neither you nor your ancestors ever lived before; there you will serve gods made of wood and stone.
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In the countries to which the LORD will scatter you, the people will be shocked at what has happened to you; they will make fun of you and ridicule you.
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"You will plant plenty of seed, but reap only a small harvest, because the locusts will eat your crops.
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You will plant vineyards and take care of them, but you will not gather their grapes or drink wine from them, because worms will eat the vines.
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Olive trees will grow everywhere in your land, but you will not have any olive oil, because the olives will drop off.
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You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, because they will be taken away as prisoners of war.
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All your trees and crops will be devoured by insects.
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"Foreigners who live in your land will gain more and more power, while you gradually lose yours.
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They will have money to lend you, but you will have none to lend them. In the end they will be your rulers.
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"All these disasters will come on you, and they will be with you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and keep all the laws that he gave you.
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They will be the evidence of God's judgment on you and your descendants forever.
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The LORD blessed you in every way, but you would not serve him with glad and joyful hearts.
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So then, you will serve the enemies that the LORD is going to send against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, and naked---in need of everything. The LORD will oppress you harshly until you are destroyed.
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The LORD will bring against you a nation from the ends of the earth, a nation whose language you do not know. They will swoop down on you like an eagle.
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They will be ruthless and show no mercy to anyone, young or old.
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They will eat your livestock and your crops, and you will starve to death. They will not leave you any grain, wine, olive oil, cattle, or sheep; and you will die.
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They will attack every town in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and the high, fortified walls in which you trust will fall.
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"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the LORD your God has given you.
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Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.
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Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.
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"If you do not obey faithfully all of God's teachings that are written in this book and if you do not honor the wonderful and awesome name of the LORD your God,
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he will send on you and on your descendants incurable diseases and horrible epidemics that can never be stopped.
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He will bring on you once again all the dreadful diseases you experienced in Egypt, and you will never recover.
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He will also send all kinds of diseases and epidemics that are not mentioned in this book of God's laws and teachings, and you will be destroyed.
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Although you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, only a few of you will survive, because you did not obey the LORD your God.
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Just as the LORD took delight in making you prosper and in making you increase in number, so he will take delight in destroying you and in bringing ruin on you. You will be uprooted from the land that you are about to occupy.
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"The LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.
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You will find no peace anywhere, no place to call your own; the LORD will overwhelm you with anxiety, hopelessness, and despair.
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Your life will always be in danger. Day and night you will be filled with terror, and you will live in constant fear of death.
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Your hearts will pound with fear at everything you see. Every morning you will wish for evening; every evening you will wish for morning.
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The LORD will send you back to Egypt in ships, even though he said that you would never have to go there again. There you will try to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will want to buy you."
Deuteronomy 29:19-28
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Make sure that there is no one here today who hears these solemn demands and yet convinces himself that all will be well with him, even if he stubbornly goes his own way. That would destroy all of you, good and evil alike.
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The LORD will not forgive such a man. Instead, the LORD's burning anger will flame up against him, and all the disasters written in this book will fall on him until the LORD has destroyed him completely.
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The LORD will make an example of him before all the tribes of Israel and will bring disaster on him in accordance with all the curses listed in the covenant that is written in this book of the LORD's teachings.
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"In future generations your descendants and foreigners from distant lands will see the disasters and sufferings that the LORD has brought on your land.
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The fields will be a barren waste, covered with sulfur and salt; nothing will be planted, and not even weeds will grow there. Your land will be like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed when he was furiously angry.
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Then the whole world will ask, 'Why did the LORD do this to their land? What was the reason for his fierce anger?'
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And the answer will be, 'It is because the LORD's people broke the covenant they had made with him, the God of their ancestors, when he brought them out of Egypt.
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They served other gods that they had never worshiped before, gods that the LORD had forbidden them to worship.
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And so the LORD became angry with his people and brought on their land all the disasters written in this book.
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The LORD became furiously angry, and in his great anger he uprooted them from their land and threw them into a foreign land, and there they are today.'
Deuteronomy 31:20
I will take them into this rich and fertile land, as I promised their ancestors. There they will have all the food they want, and they will live comfortably. But they will turn away and worship other gods. They will reject me and break my covenant,
Deuteronomy 31:21
and many terrible disasters will come on them. But this song will still be sung, and it will stand as evidence against them. Even now, before I take them into the land that I promised to give them, I know what they are thinking."
Deuteronomy 32:16-42
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Their idolatry made the LORD jealous; the evil they did made him angry.
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They sacrificed to gods that are not real, new gods their ancestors had never known, gods that Israel had never obeyed.
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They forgot their God, their mighty savior, the one who had given them life.
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"When the LORD saw this, he was angry and rejected his sons and daughters.
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'I will no longer help them,' he said; 'then I will see what happens to them, those stubborn, unfaithful people.
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With their idols they have made me angry, jealous with their so-called gods, gods that are really not gods. So I will use a so-called nation to make them angry; I will make them jealous with a nation of fools.
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My anger will flame up like fire and burn everything on earth. It will reach to the world below and consume the roots of the mountains.
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" 'I will bring on them endless disasters and use all my arrows against them.
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They will die from hunger and fever; they will die from terrible diseases. I will send wild animals to attack them, and poisonous snakes to bite them.
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War will bring death in the streets; terrors will strike in the homes. Young men and young women will die; neither babies nor old people will be spared.
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I would have destroyed them completely, so that no one would remember them.
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But I could not let their enemies boast that they had defeated my people, when it was I myself who had crushed them.'
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"Israel is a nation without sense; they have no wisdom at all.
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They fail to see why they were defeated; they cannot understand what happened.
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Why were a thousand defeated by one, and ten thousand by only two? The LORD, their God, had abandoned them; their mighty God had given them up.
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Their enemies know that their own gods are weak, not mighty like Israel's God.
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Their enemies, corrupt as Sodom and Gomorrah, are like vines that bear bitter and poisonous grapes,
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like wine made from the venom of snakes.
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"The LORD remembers what their enemies have done; he waits for the right time to punish them.
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The LORD will take revenge and punish them; the time will come when they will fall; the day of their doom is near.
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The LORD will rescue his people when he sees that their strength is gone. He will have mercy on those who serve him, when he sees how helpless they are.
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Then the LORD will ask his people, 'Where are those mighty gods you trusted?
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You fed them the fat of your sacrifices and offered them wine to drink. Let them come and help you now; let them run to your rescue.
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" 'I, and I alone, am God; no other god is real. I kill and I give life, I wound and I heal, and no one can oppose what I do.
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As surely as I am the living God, I raise my hand and I vow
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that I will sharpen my flashing sword and see that justice is done. I will take revenge on my enemies and punish those who hate me.
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My arrows will drip with their blood, and my sword will kill all who oppose me. I will spare no one who fights against me; even the wounded and prisoners will die.'
Joshua 23:15
But just as he kept every promise that he made to you, so he will carry out every threat.
Joshua 23:16
If you do not keep the covenant which the LORD your God commanded you to keep and if you serve and worship other gods, then in his anger he will punish you, and soon none of you will be left in this good land that he has given you."
Micah 3:12
And so, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the Temple hill will become a forest.
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Jeremiah 7:13
You have committed all these sins, and even though I spoke to you over and over again, you refused to listen. You would not answer when I called you.
Jeremiah 7:26
Yet no one listened or paid any attention. Instead, you became more stubborn and rebellious than your ancestors.
Jeremiah 7:27
"So, Jeremiah, you will speak all these words to my people, but they will not listen to you; you will call them, but they will not answer.
Jeremiah 26:5
and by paying attention to the words of my servants, the prophets, whom I have kept on sending to you. You have never obeyed what they said.
Jeremiah 32:33
They turned their backs on me; and though I kept on teaching them, they would not listen and learn.
Proverbs 1:24-31
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I have been calling you, inviting you to come, but you would not listen. You paid no attention to me.
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You have ignored all my advice and have not been willing to let me correct you.
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So when you get into trouble, I will laugh at you. I will make fun of you when terror strikes---
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when it comes on you like a storm, bringing fierce winds of trouble, and you are in pain and misery.
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Then you will call for wisdom, but I will not answer. You may look for me everywhere, but you will not find me.
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You have never had any use for knowledge and have always refused to obey the LORD.
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You have never wanted my advice or paid any attention when I corrected you.
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So then, you will get what you deserve, and your own actions will make you sick.
Proverbs 13:13
If you refuse good advice, you are asking for trouble; follow it and you are safe.
Proverbs 16:2
You may think everything you do is right, but the LORD judges your motives.
Isaiah 50:2
"Why did my people fail to respond when I went to them to save them? Why did they not answer when I called? Am I too weak to save them? I can dry up the sea with a command and turn rivers into a desert, so that the fish in them die for lack of water.
Isaiah 65:12
It will be your fate to die a violent death, because you did not answer when I called you or listen when I spoke. You chose to disobey me and do evil.
Isaiah 66:4
So I will bring disaster upon them---the very things they are afraid of---because no one answered when I called or listened when I spoke. They chose to disobey me and do evil."
Luke 13:34
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets, you stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!
Luke 13:35
And so your Temple will be abandoned. I assure you that you will not see me until the time comes when you say, 'God bless him who comes in the name of the Lord.' "
Romans 10:21
But concerning Israel he says, "All day long I held out my hands to welcome a disobedient and rebellious people."