Bible Cross References
ye will not hear
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 30:17
But if you disobey and refuse to listen, and are led away to worship other gods,
Deuteronomy 30:18
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.
Psalm 81:11
"But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not obey me.
Psalm 81:12
So I let them go their stubborn ways and do whatever they wanted.
Isaiah 30:8-13
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God told me to write down in a book what the people are like, so that there would be a permanent record of how evil they are.
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They are always rebelling against God, always lying, always refusing to listen to the LORD's teachings.
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They tell the prophets to keep quiet. They say, "Don't talk to us about what's right. Tell us what we want to hear. Let us keep our illusions.
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Get out of our way and stop blocking our path. We don't want to hear about your holy God of Israel."
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But this is what the holy God of Israel says: "You ignore what I tell you and rely on violence and deceit.
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You are guilty. You are like a high wall with a crack running down it; suddenly you will collapse.
Jeremiah 6:16-20
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The LORD said to his people, "Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths and where the best road is. Walk in it, and you will live in peace." But they said, "No, we will not!"
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Then the LORD appointed sentries to listen for the trumpet's warning. But they said, "We will not listen."
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So the LORD said, "Listen, you nations, and learn what is going to happen to my people.
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Listen, earth! As punishment for all their schemes I am bringing ruin on these people, because they have rejected my teaching and have not obeyed my words.
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What do I care about the incense they bring me from Sheba, or the spices from a distant land? I will not accept their offerings or be pleased with their sacrifices.
Jeremiah 13:17
If you will not listen, I will cry in secret because of your pride; I will cry bitterly, and my tears will flow because the LORD's people have been taken away as captives.
Jeremiah 25:4-9
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You would not listen or pay attention, even though the LORD has continued to send you his servants the prophets.
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They told you to turn from your wicked way of life and from the evil things you are doing, so that you could go on living in the land that the LORD gave you and your ancestors as a permanent possession.
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They told you not to worship and serve other gods and not to make the LORD angry by worshiping the idols you had made. If you had obeyed the LORD, then he would not have punished you.
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But the LORD himself says that you refused to listen to him. Instead, you made him angry with your idols and have brought his punishment on yourselves.
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"So then, because you would not listen to him, the LORD Almighty says,
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'I am going to send for all the peoples from the north and for my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. I am going to bring them to fight against Judah and its inhabitants and against all the neighboring nations. I am going to destroy this nation and its neighbors and leave them in ruins forever, a terrible and shocking sight. I, the LORD, have spoken.
Jeremiah 34:17
So now, I, the LORD, say that you have disobeyed me; you have not given all Israelites their freedom. Very well, then, I will give you freedom: the freedom to die by war, disease, and starvation. I will make every nation in the world horrified at what I do to you.
Ezekiel 3:7
But none of the people of Israel will be willing to listen; they will not even listen to me. All of them are stubborn and defiant.
Zechariah 1:3-6
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but now I say to you, 'Return to me, and I will return to you.
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Do not be like your ancestors. Long ago the prophets gave them my message, telling them not to live evil, sinful lives any longer. But they would not listen to me or obey me.
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Your ancestors and those prophets are no longer alive.
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Through my servants the prophets I gave your ancestors commands and warnings, but they disregarded them and suffered the consequences. Then they repented and acknowledged that I, the LORD Almighty, had punished them as they deserved and as I had determined to do.' "
Zechariah 7:11-14
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"But my people stubbornly refused to listen. They closed their minds
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and made their hearts as hard as rock. Because they would not listen to the teaching which I sent through the prophets who lived long ago, I became very angry.
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Because they did not listen when I spoke, I did not answer when they prayed.
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Like a storm I swept them away to live in foreign countries. This good land was left a desolate place, with no one living in it."
if ye will not lay
Isaiah 42:25
So he made us feel the force of his anger and suffer the violence of war. Like fire his anger burned throughout Israel, but we never knew what was happening; we learned nothing at all from it.
Isaiah 47:7
You thought you would always be a queen, and did not take these things to heart or think how it all would end.
Isaiah 57:11
The LORD says, "Who are these gods that make you afraid, so that you tell me lies and forget me completely? Have you stopped honoring me because I have kept silent for so long?
to give
Joshua 7:19
Joshua said to him, "My son, tell the truth here before the LORD, the God of Israel, and confess. Tell me now what you have done. Don't try to hide it from me."
Jeremiah 13:16
Honor the LORD, your God, before he brings darkness, and you stumble on the mountains; before he turns into deep darkness the light you hoped for.
Luke 17:18
Why is this foreigner the only one who came back to give thanks to God?"
1 Peter 4:11
Those who preach must preach God's messages; those who serve must serve with the strength that God gives them, so that in all things praise may be given to God through Jesus Christ, to whom belong glory and power forever and ever. Amen.
Revelation 14:7
He said in a loud voice, "Honor God and praise his greatness! For the time has come for him to judge all people. Worship him who made heaven, earth, sea, and the springs of water!"
Revelation 16:9
They were burned by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God, who has authority over these plagues. But they would not turn from their sins and praise his greatness.
and I
Deuteronomy 28:16-18
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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.
Deuteronomy 28:53-57
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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.
Psalm 69:22
May their banquets cause their ruin; may their sacred feasts cause their downfall.
Psalm 109:7-15
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May he be tried and found guilty; may even his prayer be considered a crime!
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May his life soon be ended; may someone else take his job!
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May his children become orphans, and his wife a widow!
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May his children be homeless beggars; may they be driven from the ruins they live in!
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May his creditors take away all his property, and may strangers get everything he worked for.
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May no one ever be kind to him or care for the orphans he leaves behind.
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May all his descendants die, and may his name be forgotten in the next generation.
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May the LORD remember the evil of his ancestors and never forgive his mother's sins.
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May the LORD always remember their sins, but may they themselves be completely forgotten!
Hosea 4:7-10
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"The more of you priests there are, the more you sin against me, and so I will turn your honor into disgrace.
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You grow rich from the sins of my people, and so you want them to sin more and more.
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You will suffer the same punishment as the people! I will punish you and make you pay for the evil you do.
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You will eat your share of the sacrifices, but still be hungry. You will worship the fertility gods, but still have no children, because you have turned away from me to follow other gods."
Hosea 9:11-14
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Israel's greatness will fly away like a bird, and there will be no more children born to them, no more women pregnant, no more children conceived.
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But even if they did bring up children, I would take them away and not leave one alive. When I abandon these people, terrible things will happen to them."
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LORD, I can see their children being hunted down and killed.
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What shall I ask you to do to these people? Make their women barren! Make them unable to nurse their babies!
Haggai 1:6
You have planted much grain, but have harvested very little. You have food to eat, but not enough to make you full. You have wine to drink, but not enough to get drunk on! You have clothing, but not enough to keep you warm. And workers cannot earn enough to live on.
Haggai 1:9
"You hoped for large harvests, but they turned out to be small. And when you brought the harvest home, I blew it away. Why did I do that? Because my Temple lies in ruins while every one of you is busy working on your own house.
Haggai 2:16
you would go to a pile of grain expecting to find twenty bushels, but there would be only ten. You would go to draw fifty gallons of wine from a vat, but find only twenty.
Haggai 2:17
I sent scorching winds and hail to ruin everything you tried to grow, but still you did not repent.
Luke 23:28-30
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Jesus turned to them and said, "Women of Jerusalem! Don't cry for me, but for yourselves and your children.
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For the days are coming when people will say, 'How lucky are the women who never had children, who never bore babies, who never nursed them!'
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That will be the time when people will say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Hide us!'
I have cursed
Malachi 3:9
A curse is on all of you because the whole nation is cheating me.