Bible Cross References
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2 Kings 17:18-23
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The LORD was angry with the Israelites and banished them from his sight, leaving only the kingdom of Judah.
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But even the people of Judah did not obey the laws of the LORD their God; they imitated the customs adopted by the people of Israel.
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The LORD rejected all the Israelites, punishing them and handing them over to cruel enemies until at last he had banished them from his sight.
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After the LORD had separated Israel from Judah, the Israelites made Jeroboam son of Nebat their king. Jeroboam caused them to abandon the LORD and led them into terrible sins.
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They followed Jeroboam and continued to practice all the sins he had committed,
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until at last the LORD banished them from his sight, as he had warned through his servants the prophets that he would do. So the people of Israel were taken into exile to Assyria, where they still live.
Isaiah 1:4-6
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You are doomed, you sinful nation, you corrupt and evil people! Your sins drag you down! You have rejected the LORD, the holy God of Israel, and have turned your backs on him.
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Why do you keep on rebelling? Do you want to be punished even more? Israel, your head is already covered with wounds, and your heart and mind are sick.
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From head to foot there is not a healthy spot on your body. You are covered with bruises and sores and open wounds. Your wounds have not been cleaned or bandaged. No medicine has been put on them.
Jeremiah 8:5-10
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Why then, my people, do you turn away from me without ever turning back? You cling to your idols and refuse to return to me.
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I listened carefully, but you did not speak the truth. Not one of you has been sorry for your wickedness; not one of you has asked, 'What have I done wrong?' Each of you keep on going your own way, like a horse rushing into battle.
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Even storks know when it is time to return; doves, swallows, and thrushes know when it is time to migrate. But, my people, you do not know the laws by which I rule you.
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How can you say that you are wise and that you know my laws? Look, the laws have been changed by dishonest scribes.
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Your wise men are put to shame; they are confused and trapped. They have rejected my words; what wisdom do they have now?
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So I will give their fields to new owners and their wives to other men. Everyone, great and small, tries to make money dishonestly. Even prophets and priests cheat the people.
Jeremiah 9:26
Ezekiel 22:26-31
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The priests break my law and have no respect for what is holy. They make no distinction between what is holy and what is not. They do not teach the difference between clean and unclean things, and they ignore the Sabbath. As a result the people of Israel do not respect me.
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The government officials are like wolves tearing apart the animals they have killed. They commit murder in order to get rich.
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The prophets have hidden these sins like workers covering a wall with whitewash. They see false visions and make false predictions. They claim to speak the word of the Sovereign LORD, but I, the LORD, have not spoken to them.
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The wealthy cheat and rob. They mistreat the poor and take advantage of foreigners.
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I looked for someone who could build a wall, who could stand in the places where the walls have crumbled and defend the land when my anger is about to destroy it, but I could find no one.
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So I will turn my anger loose on them, and like a fire I will destroy them for what they have done." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
the curse
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 27:15-26
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" 'God's curse on anyone who makes an idol of stone, wood, or metal and secretly worships it; the LORD hates idolatry.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who dishonors his father or mother.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who moves a neighbor's property line.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who leads a blind person in the wrong direction.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who deprives foreigners, orphans, and widows of their rights.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who disgraces his father by having intercourse with any of his father's wives.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who has sexual relations with an animal.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who has intercourse with his sister or half sister.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who has intercourse with his mother-in-law.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who secretly commits murder.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who accepts money to murder an innocent person.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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" 'God's curse on anyone who does not obey all of God's laws and teachings.' "And all the people will answer, 'Amen!'
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 29:20-29
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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.'
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"There are some things that the LORD our God has kept secret; but he has revealed his Law, and we and our descendants are to obey it forever.
Deuteronomy 30:17-19
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But if you disobey and refuse to listen, and are led away to worship other gods,
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you will be destroyed---I warn you here and now. You will not live long in that land across the Jordan that you are about to occupy.
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I am now giving you the choice between life and death, between God's blessing and God's curse, and I call heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Choose life.
Deuteronomy 31:17
When that happens, I will become angry with them; I will abandon them, and they will be destroyed. Many terrible disasters will come upon them, and then they will realize that these things are happening to them because I, their God, am no longer with them.
Deuteronomy 31:18
And I will refuse to help them then, because they have done evil and worshiped other gods.
Deuteronomy 32:19-42
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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.'