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Occurrences: 3956 times in 2694 verses

Speech: Personal / Possessive Pronoun

Parsing: Genitive Singular

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:23

Gen 2:23 - “At last!” the man exclaimed.
“This one is bone from my bone,
and flesh from my flesh!
She will be called ‘woman,'
because she was taken from ‘man.'”

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Gen 4:13 - Cain replied to the LORD, “My punishment[fn] is too great for me to bear!

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Gen 4:23 - One day Lamech said to his wives,
“Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
listen to me, you wives of Lamech.
I have killed a man who attacked me,
a young man who wounded me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:3

Gen 6:3 - Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not put up with[fn] humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years.”

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Gen 6:13 - So God said to Noah, “I have decided to destroy all living creatures, for they have filled the earth with violence. Yes, I will wipe them all out along with the earth!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:18

Gen 6:18 - But I will confirm my covenant with you. So enter the boat—you and your wife and your sons and their wives.

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Gen 7:1 - When everything was ready, the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the boat with all your family, for among all the people of the earth, I can see that you alone are righteous.

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Gen 9:9 - “I hereby confirm my covenant with you and your descendants,

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Gen 9:11 - Yes, I am confirming my covenant with you. Never again will floodwaters kill all living creatures; never again will a flood destroy the earth.”

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Gen 9:13 - I have placed my rainbow in the clouds. It is the sign of my covenant with you and with all the earth.

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Gen 9:14 - When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will appear in the clouds,

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Gen 9:15 - and I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures. Never again will the floodwaters destroy all life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:16

Gen 9:16 - When I see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:13

Gen 12:13 - So please tell them you are my sister. Then they will spare my life and treat me well because of their interest in you.”

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Gen 13:8 - Finally Abram said to Lot, “Let's not allow this conflict to come between us or our herdsmen. After all, we are close relatives!

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Gen 14:22 - Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I solemnly swear to the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,

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Gen 15:2 - But Abram replied, “O Sovereign LORD, what good are all your blessings when I don't even have a son? Since you've given me no children, Eliezer of Damascus, a servant in my household, will inherit all my wealth.

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Gen 15:3 - You have given me no descendants of my own, so one of my servants will be my heir.”

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Gen 16:2 - So Sarai said to Abram, “The LORD has prevented me from having children. Go and sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have children through her.” And Abram agreed with Sarai's proposal.

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Gen 16:5 - Then Sarai said to Abram, “This is all your fault! I put my servant into your arms, but now that she's pregnant she treats me with contempt. The LORD will show who's wrong—you or me!”

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Gen 16:8 - The angel said to her, “Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from, and where are you going?”
“I'm running away from my mistress, Sarai,” she replied.

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Gen 17:2 - I will make a covenant with you, by which I will guarantee to give you countless descendants.”

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Gen 17:4 - “This is my covenant with you: I will make you the father of a multitude of nations!

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Gen 17:7 - “I will confirm my covenant with you and your descendants[fn] after you, from generation to generation. This is the everlasting covenant: I will always be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

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Gen 17:9 - Then God said to Abraham, “Your responsibility is to obey the terms of the covenant. You and all your descendants have this continual responsibility.

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Gen 17:13 - All must be circumcised. Your bodies will bear the mark of my everlasting covenant.

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Gen 17:14 - Any male who fails to be circumcised will be cut off from the covenant family for breaking the covenant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:19

Gen 17:19 - But God replied, “No—Sarah, your wife, will give birth to a son for you. You will name him Isaac,[fn] and I will confirm my covenant with him and his descendants as an everlasting covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:21

Gen 17:21 - But my covenant will be confirmed with Isaac, who will be born to you and Sarah about this time next year.”

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Gen 18:12 - So she laughed silently to herself and said, “How could a worn-out woman like me enjoy such pleasure, especially when my master—my husband—is also so old?”

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Gen 18:17 - “Should I hide my plan from Abraham?” the LORD asked.

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Gen 19:8 - Look, I have two virgin daughters. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do with them as you wish. But please, leave these men alone, for they are my guests and are under my protection.”

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Gen 19:19 - “You have been so gracious to me and saved my life, and you have shown such great kindness. But I cannot go to the mountains. Disaster would catch up to me there, and I would soon die.

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Gen 19:20 - See, there is a small village nearby. Please let me go there instead; don't you see how small it is? Then my life will be saved.”

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Gen 19:37 - When the older daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Moab.[fn] He became the ancestor of the nation now known as the Moabites.

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Gen 19:38 - When the younger daughter gave birth to a son, she named him Ben-ammi.[fn] He became the ancestor of the nation now known as the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:9

Gen 20:9 - Then Abimelech called for Abraham. “What have you done to us?” he demanded. “What crime have I committed that deserves treatment like this, making me and my kingdom guilty of this great sin? No one should ever do what you have done!

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Gen 20:11 - Abraham replied, “I thought, ‘This is a godless place. They will want my wife and will kill me to get her.'

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Gen 20:13 - When God called me to leave my father's home and to travel from place to place, I told her, ‘Do me a favor. Wherever we go, tell the people that I am your brother.'”

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Gen 20:15 - Then Abimelech said, “Look over my land and choose any place where you would like to live.”

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Gen 21:7 - Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse a baby? Yet I have given Abraham a son in his old age!”

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Gen 21:10 - So she turned to Abraham and demanded, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son. He is not going to share the inheritance with my son, Isaac. I won't have it!”

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Gen 21:16 - Then she went and sat down by herself about a hundred yards[fn] away. “I don't want to watch the boy die,” she said, as she burst into tears.

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Gen 21:23 - “Swear to me in God's name that you will never deceive me, my children, or any of my descendants. I have been loyal to you, so now swear that you will be loyal to me and to this country where you are living as a foreigner.”

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Gen 23:4 - “Here I am, a stranger and a foreigner among you. Please sell me a piece of land so I can give my wife a proper burial.”

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Gen 23:8 - and said, “Since you are willing to help me in this way, be so kind as to ask Ephron son of Zohar

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Gen 23:11 - “No, my lord,” he said to Abraham, “please listen to me. I will give you the field and the cave. Here in the presence of my people, I give it to you. Go and bury your dead.”

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Gen 23:13 - and he replied to Ephron as everyone listened. “No, listen to me. I will buy it from you. Let me pay the full price for the field so I can bury my dead there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:2

Gen 24:2 - One day Abraham said to his oldest servant, the man in charge of his household, “Take an oath by putting your hand under my thigh.

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Gen 24:3 - Swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry one of these local Canaanite women.

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Gen 24:4 - Go instead to my homeland, to my relatives, and find a wife there for my son Isaac.”

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Gen 24:6 - “No!” Abraham responded. “Be careful never to take my son there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:7

Gen 24:7 - For the LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and my native land, solemnly promised to give this land to my descendants.[fn] He will send his angel ahead of you, and he will see to it that you find a wife there for my son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:8

Gen 24:8 - If she is unwilling to come back with you, then you are free from this oath of mine. But under no circumstances are you to take my son there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:12

Gen 24:12 - “O LORD, God of my master, Abraham,” he prayed. “Please give me success today, and show unfailing love to my master, Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:14

Gen 24:14 - This is my request. I will ask one of them, ‘Please give me a drink from your jug.' If she says, ‘Yes, have a drink, and I will water your camels, too!'—let her be the one you have selected as Isaac's wife. This is how I will know that you have shown unfailing love to my master.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:27

Gen 24:27 - “Praise the LORD, the God of my master, Abraham,” he said. “The LORD has shown unfailing love and faithfulness to my master, for he has led me straight to my master's relatives.”

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Gen 24:33 - Then food was served. But Abraham's servant said, “I don't want to eat until I have told you why I have come.”
“All right,” Laban said, “tell us.”

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Gen 24:35 - “And the LORD has greatly blessed my master; he has become a wealthy man. The LORD has given him flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, a fortune in silver and gold, and many male and female servants and camels and donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:36

Gen 24:36 - “When Sarah, my master's wife, was very old, she gave birth to my master's son, and my master has given him everything he owns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:37

Gen 24:37 - And my master made me take an oath. He said, ‘Do not allow my son to marry one of these local Canaanite women.

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Gen 24:38 - Go instead to my father's house, to my relatives, and find a wife there for my son.'

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Gen 24:39 - “But I said to my master, ‘What if I can't find a young woman who is willing to go back with me?'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:40

Gen 24:40 - He responded, ‘The LORD, in whose presence I have lived, will send his angel with you and will make your mission successful. Yes, you must find a wife for my son from among my relatives, from my father's family.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:41

Gen 24:41 - Then you will have fulfilled your obligation. But if you go to my relatives and they refuse to let her go with you, you will be free from my oath.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:42

Gen 24:42 - “So today when I came to the spring, I prayed this prayer: ‘O LORD, God of my master, Abraham, please give me success on this mission.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:44

Gen 24:44 - If she says, “Yes, have a drink, and I will draw water for your camels, too,” let her be the one you have selected to be the wife of my master's son.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:46

Gen 24:46 - She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said, ‘Yes, have a drink, and I will water your camels, too!' So I drank, and then she watered the camels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:48

Gen 24:48 - “Then I bowed low and worshiped the LORD. I praised the LORD, the God of my master, Abraham, because he had led me straight to my master's niece to be his son's wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:49

Gen 24:49 - So tell me—will you or won't you show unfailing love and faithfulness to my master? Please tell me yes or no, and then I'll know what to do next.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:54

Gen 24:54 - Then they ate their meal, and the servant and the men with him stayed there overnight.
But early the next morning, Abraham's servant said, “Send me back to my master.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:56

Gen 24:56 - But he said, “Don't delay me. The LORD has made my mission successful; now send me back so I can return to my master.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:65

Gen 24:65 - “Who is that man walking through the fields to meet us?” she asked the servant.
And he replied, “It is my master.” So Rebekah covered her face with her veil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:3

Gen 26:3 - Live here as a foreigner in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. I hereby confirm that I will give all these lands to you and your descendants,[fn] just as I solemnly promised Abraham, your father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:5

Gen 26:5 - I will do this because Abraham listened to me and obeyed all my requirements, commands, decrees, and instructions.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:10

Gen 26:10 - “How could you do this to us?” Abimelech exclaimed. “One of my people might easily have taken your wife and slept with her, and you would have made us guilty of great sin.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:1

Gen 27:1 - One day when Isaac was old and turning blind, he called for Esau, his older son, and said, “My son.”
“Yes, Father?” Esau replied.

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Gen 27:2 - “I am an old man now,” Isaac said, “and I don't know when I may die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:4

Gen 27:4 - Prepare my favorite dish, and bring it here for me to eat. Then I will pronounce the blessing that belongs to you, my firstborn son, before I die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:8

Gen 27:8 - Now, my son, listen to me. Do exactly as I tell you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:11

Gen 27:11 - “But look,” Jacob replied to Rebekah, “my brother, Esau, is a hairy man, and my skin is smooth.

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Gen 27:12 - What if my father touches me? He'll see that I'm trying to trick him, and then he'll curse me instead of blessing me.”

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Gen 27:13 - But his mother replied, “Then let the curse fall on me, my son! Just do what I tell you. Go out and get the goats for me!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:19

Gen 27:19 - Jacob replied, “It's Esau, your firstborn son. I've done as you told me. Here is the wild game. Now sit up and eat it so you can give me your blessing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:20

Gen 27:20 - Isaac asked, “How did you find it so quickly, my son?”
“The LORD your God put it in my path!” Jacob replied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:21

Gen 27:21 - Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come closer so I can touch you and make sure that you really are Esau.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:24

Gen 27:24 - “But are you really my son Esau?” he asked.
“Yes, I am,” Jacob replied.

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Gen 27:25 - Then Isaac said, “Now, my son, bring me the wild game. Let me eat it, and then I will give you my blessing.” So Jacob took the food to his father, and Isaac ate it. He also drank the wine that Jacob served him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:27

Gen 27:27 - So Jacob went over and kissed him. And when Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he was finally convinced, and he blessed his son. He said, “Ah! The smell of my son is like the smell of the outdoors, which the LORD has blessed!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:31

Gen 27:31 - Esau prepared a delicious meal and brought it to his father. Then he said, “Sit up, my father, and eat my wild game so you can give me your blessing.”

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Gen 27:36 - Esau exclaimed, “No wonder his name is Jacob, for now he has cheated me twice.[fn] First he took my rights as the firstborn, and now he has stolen my blessing. Oh, haven't you saved even one blessing for me?”

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Gen 27:41 - From that time on, Esau hated Jacob because their father had given Jacob the blessing. And Esau began to scheme: “I will soon be mourning my father's death. Then I will kill my brother, Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:43

Gen 27:43 - So listen carefully, my son. Get ready and flee to my brother, Laban, in Haran.

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Gen 27:46 - Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I'm sick and tired of these local Hittite women! I would rather die than see Jacob marry one of them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:3

Gen 28:3 - May God Almighty[fn] bless you and give you many children. And may your descendants multiply and become many nations!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:4

Gen 28:4 - May God pass on to you and your descendants[fn] the blessings he promised to Abraham. May you own this land where you are now living as a foreigner, for God gave this land to Abraham.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:21

Gen 28:21 - and if I return safely to my father's home, then the LORD will certainly be my God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:14

Gen 29:14 - Laban exclaimed, “You really are my own flesh and blood!” After Jacob had stayed with Laban for about a month,

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Gen 29:15 - Laban said to him, “You shouldn't work for me without pay just because we are relatives. Tell me how much your wages should be.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:21

Gen 29:21 - Finally, the time came for him to marry her. “I have fulfilled my agreement,” Jacob said to Laban. “Now give me my wife so I can sleep with her.”

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Gen 29:32 - So Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben,[fn] for she said, “The LORD has noticed my misery, and now my husband will love me.”

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Gen 29:34 - Then she became pregnant a third time and gave birth to another son. She named him Levi,[fn] for she said, “Surely this time my husband will feel affection for me, since I have given him three sons!”

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Gen 30:3 - Then Rachel told him, “Take my maid, Bilhah, and sleep with her. She will bear children for me,[fn] and through her I can have a family, too.”

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Gen 30:6 - Rachel named him Dan,[fn] for she said, “God has vindicated me! He has heard my request and given me a son.”

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Gen 30:8 - Rachel named him Naphtali,[fn] for she said, “I have struggled hard with my sister, and I'm winning!”

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Gen 30:15 - But Leah angrily replied, “Wasn't it enough that you stole my husband? Now will you steal my son's mandrakes, too?”
Rachel answered, “I will let Jacob sleep with you tonight if you give me some of the mandrakes.”

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Gen 30:16 - So that evening, as Jacob was coming home from the fields, Leah went out to meet him. “You must come and sleep with me tonight!” she said. “I have paid for you with some mandrakes that my son found.” So that night he slept with Leah.

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Gen 30:18 - She named him Issachar,[fn] for she said, “God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband as a wife.”

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Gen 30:20 - She named him Zebulun,[fn] for she said, “God has given me a good reward. Now my husband will treat me with respect, for I have given him six sons.”

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Gen 30:23 - She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. “God has removed my disgrace,” she said.

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Gen 30:25 - Soon after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Please release me so I can go home to my own country.

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Gen 30:26 - Let me take my wives and children, for I have earned them by serving you, and let me be on my way. You certainly know how hard I have worked for you.”

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Gen 30:30 - You had little indeed before I came, but your wealth has increased enormously. The LORD has blessed you through everything I've done. But now, what about me? When can I start providing for my own family?”

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Gen 30:33 - In the future, when you check on the animals you have given me as my wages, you'll see that I have been honest. If you find in my flock any goats without speckles or spots, or any sheep that are not black, you will know that I have stolen them from you.”

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Gen 31:5 - He said to them, “I have noticed that your father's attitude toward me has changed. But the God of my father has been with me.

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Gen 31:6 - You know how hard I have worked for your father,

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Gen 31:7 - but he has cheated me, changing my wages ten times. But God has not allowed him to do me any harm.

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Gen 31:26 - “What do you mean by deceiving me like this?” Laban demanded. “How dare you drag my daughters away like prisoners of war?

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Gen 31:28 - Why didn't you let me kiss my daughters and grandchildren and tell them good-bye? You have acted very foolishly!

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Gen 31:29 - I could destroy you, but the God of your father appeared to me last night and warned me, ‘Leave Jacob alone!'

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Gen 31:30 - I can understand your feeling that you must go, and your intense longing for your father's home. But why have you stolen my gods?”

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Gen 31:36 - Then Jacob became very angry, and he challenged Laban. “What's my crime?” he demanded. “What have I done wrong to make you chase after me as though I were a criminal?

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Gen 31:37 - You have rummaged through everything I own. Now show me what you found that belongs to you! Set it out here in front of us, before our relatives, for all to see. Let them judge between us!

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Gen 31:40 - “I worked for you through the scorching heat of the day and through cold and sleepless nights.

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Gen 31:41 - Yes, for twenty years I slaved in your house! I worked for fourteen years earning your two daughters, and then six more years for your flock. And you changed my wages ten times!

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Gen 31:42 - In fact, if the God of my father had not been on my side—the God of Abraham and the fearsome God of Isaac[fn]—you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen your abuse and my hard work. That is why he appeared to you last night and rebuked you!”

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Gen 31:43 - Then Laban replied to Jacob, “These women are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, and these flocks are my flocks—in fact, everything you see is mine. But what can I do now about my daughters and their children?

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Gen 31:50 - If you mistreat my daughters or if you marry other wives, God will see it even if no one else does. He is a witness to this covenant between us.

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Gen 32:4 - He told them, “Give this message to my master Esau: ‘Humble greetings from your servant Jacob. Until now I have been living with Uncle Laban,

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Gen 32:5 - and now I own cattle, donkeys, flocks of sheep and goats, and many servants, both men and women. I have sent these messengers to inform my lord of my coming, hoping that you will be friendly to me.'”

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Gen 32:9 - Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my grandfather Abraham, and God of my father, Isaac—O LORD, you told me, ‘Return to your own land and to your relatives.' And you promised me, ‘I will treat you kindly.'

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Gen 32:10 - I am not worthy of all the unfailing love and faithfulness you have shown to me, your servant. When I left home and crossed the Jordan River, I owned nothing except a walking stick. Now my household fills two large camps!

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Gen 32:11 - O LORD, please rescue me from the hand of my brother, Esau. I am afraid that he is coming to attack me, along with my wives and children.

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Gen 32:16 - He divided these animals into herds and assigned each to different servants. Then he told his servants, “Go ahead of me with the animals, but keep some distance between the herds.”

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Gen 32:17 - He gave these instructions to the men leading the first group: “When my brother, Esau, meets you, he will ask, ‘Whose servants are you? Where are you going? Who owns these animals?'

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Gen 32:18 - You must reply, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob, but they are a gift for his master Esau. Look, he is coming right behind us.'”

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Gen 32:20 - And be sure to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.'”
Jacob thought, “I will try to appease him by sending gifts ahead of me. When I see him in person, perhaps he will be friendly to me.”

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Gen 32:29 - “Please tell me your name,” Jacob said.
“Why do you want to know my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.

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Gen 32:30 - Jacob named the place Peniel (which means “face of God”), for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared.”

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Gen 33:11 - Please take this gift I have brought you, for God has been very gracious to me. I have more than enough.” And because Jacob insisted, Esau finally accepted the gift.

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Gen 33:13 - But Jacob replied, “You can see, my lord, that some of the children are very young, and the flocks and herds have their young, too. If they are driven too hard, even for one day, all the animals could die.

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Gen 33:14 - Please, my lord, go ahead of your servant. We will follow slowly, at a pace that is comfortable for the livestock and the children. I will meet you at Seir.”

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Gen 34:8 - Hamor tried to speak with Jacob and his sons. “My son Shechem is truly in love with your daughter,” he said. “Please let him marry her.

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Gen 34:30 - Afterward Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have ruined me! You've made me stink among all the people of this land—among all the Canaanites and Perizzites. We are so few that they will join forces and crush us. I will be ruined, and my entire household will be wiped out!”

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Gen 35:18 - Rachel was about to die, but with her last breath she named the baby Ben-oni (which means “son of my sorrow”). The baby's father, however, called him Benjamin (which means “son of my right hand”).

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Gen 37:16 - “I'm looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Do you know where they are pasturing their sheep?”

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Gen 37:35 - His family all tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “I will go to my grave[fn] mourning for my son,” he would say, and then he would weep.

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Gen 38:11 - Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Go back to your parents' home and remain a widow until my son Shelah is old enough to marry you.” (But Judah didn't really intend to do this because he was afraid Shelah would also die, like his two brothers.) So Tamar went back to live in her father's home.

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Gen 38:26 - Judah recognized them immediately and said, “She is more righteous than I am, because I didn't arrange for her to marry my son Shelah.” And Judah never slept with Tamar again.

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Gen 39:8 - But Joseph refused. “Look,” he told her, “my master trusts me with everything in his entire household.

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Gen 39:15 - When he heard me scream, he ran outside and got away, but he left his cloak behind with me.”

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Gen 39:18 - “But when I screamed, he ran outside, leaving his cloak with me!”

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Gen 40:9 - So the chief cup-bearer told Joseph his dream first. “In my dream,” he said, “I saw a grapevine in front of me.

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Gen 40:11 - I was holding Pharaoh's wine cup in my hand, so I took a cluster of grapes and squeezed the juice into the cup. Then I placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand.”

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Gen 40:14 - And please remember me and do me a favor when things go well for you. Mention me to Pharaoh, so he might let me out of this place.

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Gen 40:16 - When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given the first dream such a positive interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I had a dream, too. In my dream there were three baskets of white pastries stacked on my head.

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Gen 40:17 - The top basket contained all kinds of pastries for Pharaoh, but the birds came and ate them from the basket on my head.”

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Gen 41:9 - Finally, the king's chief cup-bearer spoke up. “Today I have been reminded of my failure,” he told Pharaoh.

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Gen 41:13 - And everything happened just as he had predicted. I was restored to my position as cup-bearer, and the chief baker was executed and impaled on a pole.”

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Gen 41:17 - So Pharaoh told Joseph his dream. “In my dream,” he said, “I was standing on the bank of the Nile River,

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Gen 41:22 - “Then I fell asleep again, and I had another dream. This time I saw seven heads of grain, full and beautiful, growing on a single stalk.

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Gen 41:40 - You will be in charge of my court, and all my people will take orders from you. Only I, sitting on my throne, will have a rank higher than yours.”

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Gen 41:51 - Joseph named his older son Manasseh,[fn] for he said, “God has made me forget all my troubles and everyone in my father's family.”

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Gen 41:52 - Joseph named his second son Ephraim,[fn] for he said, “God has made me fruitful in this land of my grief.”

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Gen 42:22 - “Didn't I tell you not to sin against the boy?” Reuben asked. “But you wouldn't listen. And now we have to answer for his blood!”

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Gen 42:28 - “Look!” he exclaimed to his brothers. “My money has been returned; it's here in my sack!” Then their hearts sank. Trembling, they said to each other, “What has God done to us?”

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Gen 42:37 - Then Reuben said to his father, “You may kill my two sons if I don't bring Benjamin back to you. I'll be responsible for him, and I promise to bring him back.”

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Gen 42:38 - But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down with you. His brother Joseph is dead, and he is all I have left. If anything should happen to him on your journey, you would send this grieving, white-haired man to his grave.[fn]”

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Gen 43:3 - But Judah said, “The man was serious when he warned us, ‘You won't see my face again unless your brother is with you.'

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Gen 43:5 - But if you don't let Benjamin go, we won't go either. Remember, the man said, ‘You won't see my face again unless your brother is with you.'”

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Gen 43:9 - I personally guarantee his safety. You may hold me responsible if I don't bring him back to you. Then let me bear the blame forever.

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Gen 43:14 - May God Almighty[fn] give you mercy as you go before the man, so that he will release Simeon and let Benjamin return. But if I must lose my children, so be it.”

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Gen 44:2 - Then put my personal silver cup at the top of the youngest brother's sack, along with the money for his grain.” So the manager did as Joseph instructed him.

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Gen 44:5 - Why have you stolen my master's silver cup,[fn] which he uses to predict the future? What a wicked thing you have done!'”

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Gen 44:10 - “That's fair,” the man replied. “But only the one who stole the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may go free.”

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Gen 44:17 - “No,” Joseph said. “I would never do such a thing! Only the man who stole the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may go back to your father in peace.”

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Gen 44:23 - But you told us, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes with you, you will never see my face again.'

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Gen 44:29 - Now if you take his brother away from me, and any harm comes to him, you will send this grieving, white-haired man to his grave.[fn]'

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Gen 44:34 - For how can I return to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn't bear to see the anguish this would cause my father!”

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Gen 45:3 - “I am Joseph!” he said to his brothers. “Is my father still alive?” But his brothers were speechless! They were stunned to realize that Joseph was standing there in front of them.

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Gen 45:9 - “Now hurry back to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me master over all the land of Egypt. So come down to me immediately!

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Gen 45:10 - You can live in the region of Goshen, where you can be near me with all your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.

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Gen 45:12 - Then Joseph added, “Look! You can see for yourselves, and so can my brother Benjamin, that I really am Joseph!

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Gen 45:13 - Go tell my father of my honored position here in Egypt. Describe for him everything you have seen, and then bring my father here quickly.”

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Gen 45:28 - Then Jacob exclaimed, “It must be true! My son Joseph is alive! I must go and see him before I die.”

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Gen 46:31 - And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's entire family, “I will go to Pharaoh and tell him, ‘My brothers and my father's entire family have come to me from the land of Canaan.

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Gen 47:1 - Then Joseph went to see Pharaoh and told him, “My father and my brothers have arrived from the land of Canaan. They have come with all their flocks and herds and possessions, and they are now in the region of Goshen.”

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Gen 47:9 - Jacob replied, “I have traveled this earth for 130 hard years. But my life has been short compared to the lives of my ancestors.”

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Gen 47:29 - As the time of his death drew near, Jacob[fn] called for his son Joseph and said to him, “Please do me this favor. Put your hand under my thigh and swear that you will treat me with unfailing love by honoring this last request: Do not bury me in Egypt.

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Gen 47:30 - When I die, please take my body out of Egypt and bury me with my ancestors.”
So Joseph promised, “I will do as you ask.”

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Gen 48:3 - Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty[fn] appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.

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Gen 48:7 - “Long ago, as I was returning from Paddan-aram, Rachel died in the land of Canaan. We were still on the way, some distance from Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). So with great sorrow I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath.”

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Gen 48:15 - Then he blessed Joseph and said,
“May the God before whom my grandfather Abraham
and my father, Isaac, walked—
the God who has been my shepherd
all my life, to this very day,

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Gen 48:16 - the Angel who has redeemed me from all harm—
may he bless these boys.
May they preserve my name
and the names of Abraham and Isaac.
And may their descendants multiply greatly
throughout the earth.”

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Gen 48:22 - And beyond what I have given your brothers, I am giving you an extra portion of the land[fn] that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”

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Gen 49:3 - “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength,
the child of my vigorous youth.
You are first in rank and first in power.

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Gen 49:6 - May I never join in their meetings;
may I never be a party to their plans.
For in their anger they murdered men,
and they crippled oxen just for sport.

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Gen 49:9 - Judah, my son, is a young lion
that has finished eating its prey.
Like a lion he crouches and lies down;
like a lioness—who dares to rouse him?

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Gen 49:22 - “Joseph is the foal of a wild donkey,
the foal of a wild donkey at a spring—
one of the wild donkeys on the ridge.[fn]

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Gen 49:29 - Then Jacob instructed them, “Soon I will die and join my ancestors. Bury me with my father and grandfather in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.

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Gen 50:5 - Tell him that my father made me swear an oath. He said to me, ‘Listen, I am about to die. Take my body back to the land of Canaan, and bury me in the tomb I prepared for myself.' So please allow me to go and bury my father. After his burial, I will return without delay.”

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Gen 50:25 - Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, and he said, “When God comes to help you and lead you back, you must take my bones with you.”

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Exo 3:7 - Then the LORD told him, “I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers. Yes, I am aware of their suffering.

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Exo 3:10 - Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.”

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Exo 3:12 - God answered, “I will be with you. And this is your sign that I am the one who has sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God at this very mountain.”

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Exo 3:20 - So I will raise my hand and strike the Egyptians, performing all kinds of miracles among them. Then at last he will let you go.

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Exo 4:1 - But Moses protested again, “What if they won't believe me or listen to me? What if they say, ‘The LORD never appeared to you'?”

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Exo 4:15 - Talk to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with both of you as you speak, and I will instruct you both in what to do.

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Exo 4:18 - So Moses went back home to Jethro, his father-in-law. “Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt,” Moses said. “I don't even know if they are still alive.”
“Go in peace,” Jethro replied.

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Exo 4:22 - Then you will tell him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son.

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Exo 4:23 - I commanded you, “Let my son go, so he can worship me.” But since you have refused, I will now kill your firstborn son!'”

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Exo 4:25 - But Moses' wife, Zipporah, took a flint knife and circumcised her son. She touched his feet[fn] with the foreskin and said, “Now you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”

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Exo 4:26 - (When she said “a bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the circumcision.) After that, the LORD left him alone.

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Exo 5:1 - After this presentation to Israel's leaders, Moses and Aaron went and spoke to Pharaoh. They told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Let my people go so they may hold a festival in my honor in the wilderness.”

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Exo 5:4 - Pharaoh replied, “Moses and Aaron, why are you distracting the people from their tasks? Get back to work!

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Exo 6:3 - I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty'[fn]—but I did not reveal my name, Yahweh, to them.

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Exo 6:4 - And I reaffirmed my covenant with them. Under its terms, I promised to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as foreigners.

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Exo 6:8 - I will bring you into the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as your very own possession. I am the LORD!'”

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Exo 6:12 - “But LORD!” Moses objected. “My own people won't listen to me anymore. How can I expect Pharaoh to listen? I'm such a clumsy speaker![fn]”

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Exo 6:30 - But Moses argued with the LORD, saying, “I can't do it! I'm such a clumsy speaker! Why should Pharaoh listen to me?”

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Exo 7:3 - But I will make Pharaoh's heart stubborn so I can multiply my miraculous signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.

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Exo 7:4 - Even then Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you. So I will bring down my fist on Egypt. Then I will rescue my forces—my people, the Israelites—from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.

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Exo 7:16 - Then announce to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you, “Let my people go, so they can worship me in the wilderness.” Until now, you have refused to listen to him.

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Exo 7:17 - So this is what the LORD says: “I will show you that I am the LORD.” Look! I will strike the water of the Nile with this staff in my hand, and the river will turn to blood.

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Exo 8:1 - [fn]Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go back to Pharaoh and announce to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so they can worship me.

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Exo 8:20 - Then the LORD told Moses, “Get up early in the morning and stand in Pharaoh's way as he goes down to the river. Say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so they can worship me.

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Exo 8:21 - If you refuse, then I will send swarms of flies on you, your officials, your people, and all the houses. The Egyptian homes will be filled with flies, and the ground will be covered with them.

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Exo 8:22 - But this time I will spare the region of Goshen, where my people live. No flies will be found there. Then you will know that I am the LORD and that I am present even in the heart of your land.

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Exo 9:1 - “Go back to Pharaoh,” the LORD commanded Moses. “Tell him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so they can worship me.

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Exo 9:2 - If you continue to hold them and refuse to let them go,

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Exo 9:13 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Tell him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so they can worship me.

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Exo 9:14 - If you don't, I will send more plagues on you[fn] and your officials and your people. Then you will know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

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Exo 9:16 - But I have spared you for a purpose—to show you my power[fn] and to spread my fame throughout the earth.

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Exo 9:17 - But you still lord it over my people and refuse to let them go.

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Exo 9:27 - Then Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he confessed. “The LORD is the righteous one, and my people and I are wrong.

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Exo 9:29 - “All right,” Moses replied. “As soon as I leave the city, I will lift my hands and pray to the LORD. Then the thunder and hail will stop, and you will know that the earth belongs to the LORD.

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Exo 10:2 - I've also done it so you can tell your children and grandchildren about how I made a mockery of the Egyptians and about the signs I displayed among them—and so you will know that I am the LORD.”

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Exo 10:3 - So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go, so they can worship me.

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Exo 10:4 - If you refuse, watch out! For tomorrow I will bring a swarm of locusts on your country.

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Exo 10:17 - “Forgive my sin, just this once, and plead with the LORD your God to take away this death from me.”

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Exo 10:28 - “Get out of here!” Pharaoh shouted at Moses. “I'm warning you. Never come back to see me again! The day you see my face, you will die!”

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Exo 11:9 - Now the LORD had told Moses earlier, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, but then I will do even more mighty miracles in the land of Egypt.”

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Exo 12:31 - Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron during the night. “Get out!” he ordered. “Leave my people—and take the rest of the Israelites with you! Go and worship the LORD as you have requested.

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Exo 13:15 - Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, so the LORD killed all the firstborn males throughout the land of Egypt, both people and animals. That is why I now sacrifice all the firstborn males to the LORD—except that the firstborn sons are always bought back.'

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Exo 13:19 - Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear to do this. He said, “God will certainly come to help you. When he does, you must take my bones with you from this place.”

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Exo 14:18 - When my glory is displayed through them, all Egypt will see my glory and know that I am the LORD!”

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Exo 15:2 - The LORD is my strength and my song;
he has given me victory.
This is my God, and I will praise him—
my father's God, and I will exalt him!

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Exo 15:9 - “The enemy boasted, ‘I will chase them
and catch up with them.
I will plunder them
and consume them.
I will flash my sword;
my powerful hand will destroy them.'

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Exo 16:4 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Look, I'm going to rain down food from heaven for you. Each day the people can go out and pick up as much food as they need for that day. I will test them in this to see whether or not they will follow my instructions.

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Exo 16:28 - The LORD asked Moses, “How long will these people refuse to obey my commands and instructions?

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Exo 17:6 - I will stand before you on the rock at Mount Sinai.[fn] Strike the rock, and water will come gushing out. Then the people will be able to drink.” So Moses struck the rock as he was told, and water gushed out as the elders looked on.

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Exo 17:9 - Moses commanded Joshua, “Choose some men to go out and fight the army of Amalek for us. Tomorrow, I will stand at the top of the hill, holding the staff of God in my hand.”

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Exo 17:15 - Moses built an altar there and named it Yahweh-Nissi (which means “the LORD is my banner”).

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Exo 18:4 - His second son was named Eliezer,[fn] for Moses had said, “The God of my ancestors was my helper; he rescued me from the sword of Pharaoh.”)

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Exo 18:19 - Now listen to me, and let me give you a word of advice, and may God be with you. You should continue to be the people's representative before God, bringing their disputes to him.

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Exo 19:5 - Now if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all the peoples on earth; for all the earth belongs to me.

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Exo 19:9 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will come to you in a thick cloud, Moses, so the people themselves can hear me when I speak with you. Then they will always trust you.”
Moses told the LORD what the people had said.

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Exo 20:6 - But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those[fn] who love me and obey my commands.

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Exo 20:24 - “Build for me an altar made of earth, and offer your sacrifices to me—your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats, and your cattle. Build my altar wherever I cause my name to be remembered, and I will come to you and bless you.

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Exo 20:26 - And do not approach my altar by going up steps. If you do, someone might look up under your clothing and see your nakedness.

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Exo 21:5 - But the slave may declare, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I don't want to go free.'

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Exo 21:14 - However, if someone deliberately kills another person, then the slayer must be dragged even from my altar and be put to death.

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Exo 23:15 - First, celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast, just as I commanded you. Celebrate this festival annually at the appointed time in early spring, in the month of Abib,[fn] for that is the anniversary of your departure from Egypt. No one may appear before me without an offering.

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Exo 23:18 - “You must not offer the blood of my sacrificial offerings together with any baked goods containing yeast. And do not leave the fat from the festival offerings until the next morning.

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Exo 23:20 - “See, I am sending an angel before you to protect you on your journey and lead you safely to the place I have prepared for you.

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Exo 23:22 - But if you are careful to obey him, following all my instructions, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will oppose those who oppose you.

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Exo 23:23 - For my angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, so you may live there. And I will destroy them completely.

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Exo 25:2 - “Tell the people of Israel to bring me their sacred offerings. Accept the contributions from all whose hearts are moved to offer them.

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Exo 25:30 - Place the Bread of the Presence on the table to remain before me at all times.

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Exo 29:43 - I will meet the people of Israel there, in the place made holy by my glorious presence.

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Exo 31:13 - “Tell the people of Israel: ‘Be careful to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between me and you from generation to generation. It is given so you may know that I am the LORD, who makes you holy.

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Exo 32:33 - But the LORD replied to Moses, “No, I will erase the name of everyone who has sinned against me.

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Exo 32:34 - Now go, lead the people to the place I told you about. Look! My angel will lead the way before you. And when I come to call the people to account, I will certainly hold them responsible for their sins.”

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Exo 33:2 - And I will send an angel before you to drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

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Exo 33:17 - The LORD replied to Moses, “I will indeed do what you have asked, for I look favorably on you, and I know you by name.”

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Exo 33:19 - The LORD replied, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will call out my name, Yahweh,[fn] before you. For I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose.

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Exo 33:20 - But you may not look directly at my face, for no one may see me and live.”

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Exo 33:22 - As my glorious presence passes by, I will hide you in the crevice of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.

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Exo 33:23 - Then I will remove my hand and let you see me from behind. But my face will not be seen.”

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Exo 34:9 - And he said, “O Lord, if it is true that I have found favor with you, then please travel with us. Yes, this is a stubborn and rebellious people, but please forgive our iniquity and our sins. Claim us as your own special possession.”

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Exo 34:20 - A firstborn donkey may be bought back from the LORD by presenting a lamb or young goat in its place. But if you do not buy it back, you must break its neck. However, you must buy back every firstborn son.
“No one may appear before me without an offering.

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Exo 34:25 - “You must not offer the blood of my sacrificial offerings together with any baked goods containing yeast. And none of the meat of the Passover sacrifice may be kept over until the next morning.

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Lev 14:35 - The owner of such a house must then go to the priest and say, ‘It appears that my house has some kind of mildew.'

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Lev 15:31 - “This is how you will guard the people of Israel from ceremonial uncleanness. Otherwise they would die, for their impurity would defile my Tabernacle that stands among them.

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Lev 17:10 - “And if any native Israelite or foreigner living among you eats or drinks blood in any form, I will turn against that person and cut him off from the community of your people,

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Lev 18:4 - You must obey all my regulations and be careful to obey my decrees, for I am the LORD your God.

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Lev 18:5 - If you obey my decrees and my regulations, you will find life through them. I am the LORD.

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Lev 18:26 - You must obey all my decrees and regulations. You must not commit any of these detestable sins. This applies both to native-born Israelites and to the foreigners living among you.

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Lev 18:30 - So obey my instructions, and do not defile yourselves by committing any of these detestable practices that were committed by the people who lived in the land before you. I am the LORD your God.”

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Lev 19:3 - “Each of you must show great respect for your mother and father, and you must always observe my Sabbath days of rest. I am the LORD your God.

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Lev 19:12 - “Do not bring shame on the name of your God by using it to swear falsely. I am the LORD.

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Lev 19:19 - “You must obey all my decrees.
“Do not mate two different kinds of animals. Do not plant your field with two different kinds of seed. Do not wear clothing woven from two different kinds of thread.

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Lev 19:30 - “Keep my Sabbath days of rest, and show reverence toward my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

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Lev 19:37 - “You must be careful to keep all of my decrees and regulations by putting them into practice. I am the LORD.”

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Lev 20:3 - I myself will turn against them and cut them off from the community, because they have defiled my sanctuary and brought shame on my holy name by offering their children to Molech.

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Lev 20:5 - I myself will turn against them and their families and will cut them off from the community. This will happen to all who commit spiritual prostitution by worshiping Molech.

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Lev 20:6 - “I will also turn against those who commit spiritual prostitution by putting their trust in mediums or in those who consult the spirits of the dead. I will cut them off from the community.

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Lev 20:8 - Keep all my decrees by putting them into practice, for I am the LORD who makes you holy.

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Lev 20:22 - “You must keep all my decrees and regulations by putting them into practice; otherwise the land to which I am bringing you as your new home will vomit you out.

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Lev 22:2 - “Tell Aaron and his sons to be very careful with the sacred gifts that the Israelites set apart for me, so they do not bring shame on my holy name. I am the LORD.

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Lev 22:9 - “The priests must follow my instructions carefully. Otherwise they will be punished for their sin and will die for violating my instructions. I am the LORD who makes them holy.

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Lev 22:31 - “You must faithfully keep all my commands by putting them into practice, for I am the LORD.

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Lev 23:2 - “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. These are the LORD's appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as official days for holy assembly.

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Lev 25:18 - “If you want to live securely in the land, follow my decrees and obey my regulations.

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Lev 25:21 - Be assured that I will send my blessing for you in the sixth year, so the land will produce a crop large enough for three years.

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Lev 25:23 - “The land must never be sold on a permanent basis, for the land belongs to me. You are only foreigners and tenant farmers working for me.

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Lev 25:55 - For the people of Israel belong to me. They are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

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Lev 26:2 - You must keep my Sabbath days of rest and show reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

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Lev 26:3 - “If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands,

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Lev 26:9 - “I will look favorably upon you, making you fertile and multiplying your people. And I will fulfill my covenant with you.

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Lev 26:11 - I will live among you, and I will not despise you.

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Lev 26:12 - I will walk among you; I will be your God, and you will be my people.

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Lev 26:14 - “However, if you do not listen to me or obey all these commands,

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Lev 26:15 - and if you break my covenant by rejecting my decrees, treating my regulations with contempt, and refusing to obey my commands,

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Lev 26:17 - I will turn against you, and you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will run even when no one is chasing you!

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Lev 26:18 - “And if, in spite of all this, you still disobey me, I will punish you seven times over for your sins.

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Lev 26:21 - “If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey me, I will inflict disaster on you seven times over for your sins.

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Lev 26:27 - “If in spite of all this you still refuse to listen and still remain hostile toward me,

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Lev 26:30 - I will destroy your pagan shrines and knock down your places of worship. I will leave your lifeless corpses piled on top of your lifeless idols,[fn] and I will despise you.

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Lev 26:40 - “But at last my people will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors for betraying me and being hostile toward me.

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Lev 26:43 - For the land must be abandoned to enjoy its years of Sabbath rest as it lies deserted. At last the people will pay for their sins, for they have continually rejected my regulations and despised my decrees.

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Lev 26:44 - “But despite all this, I will not utterly reject or despise them while they are in exile in the land of their enemies. I will not cancel my covenant with them by wiping them out, for I am the LORD their God.

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Num 6:23 - “Tell Aaron and his sons to bless the people of Israel with this special blessing:

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Num 10:30 - But Hobab replied, “No, I will not go. I must return to my own land and family.”

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Num 11:15 - If this is how you intend to treat me, just go ahead and kill me. Do me a favor and spare me this misery!”

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Num 11:23 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Has my arm lost its power? Now you will see whether or not my word comes true!”

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Num 12:6 - And the LORD said to them, “Now listen to what I say:
“If there were prophets among you,
I, the LORD, would reveal myself in visions.
I would speak to them in dreams.

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Num 12:7 - But not with my servant Moses.
Of all my house, he is the one I trust.

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Num 12:8 - I speak to him face to face,
clearly, and not in riddles!
He sees the LORD as he is.
So why were you not afraid
to criticize my servant Moses?”

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Num 14:21 - But as surely as I live, and as surely as the earth is filled with the LORD's glory,

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Num 14:22 - not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to my voice.

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Num 14:24 - But my servant Caleb has a different attitude than the others have. He has remained loyal to me, so I will bring him into the land he explored. His descendants will possess their full share of that land.

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Num 14:28 - Now tell them this: ‘As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very things I heard you say.

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Num 14:30 - You will not enter and occupy the land I swore to give you. The only exceptions will be Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

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Num 14:34 - “‘Because your men explored the land for forty days, you must wander in the wilderness for forty years—a year for each day, suffering the consequences of your sins. Then you will discover what it is like to have me for an enemy.'

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Num 15:40 - The tassels will help you remember that you must obey all my commands and be holy to your God.

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Num 16:8 - Then Moses spoke again to Korah: “Now listen, you Levites!

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Num 20:10 - Then he and Aaron summoned the people to come and gather at the rock. “Listen, you rebels!” he shouted. “Must we bring you water from this rock?”

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Num 22:5 - sent messengers to call Balaam son of Beor, who was living in his native land of Pethor[fn] near the Euphrates River.[fn] His message said: “Look, a vast horde of people has arrived from Egypt. They cover the face of the earth and are threatening me.

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Num 22:11 - ‘Look, a vast horde of people has arrived from Egypt, and they cover the face of the earth. Come and curse these people for me. Then perhaps I will be able to stand up to them and drive them from the land.'”

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Num 22:18 - But Balaam responded to Balak's messengers, “Even if Balak were to give me his palace filled with silver and gold, I would be powerless to do anything against the will of the LORD my God.

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Num 22:29 - “You have made me look like a fool!” Balaam shouted. “If I had a sword with me, I would kill you!”

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Num 22:32 - “Why did you beat your donkey those three times?” the angel of the LORD demanded. “Look, I have come to block your way because you are stubbornly resisting me.

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Num 22:38 - Balaam replied, “Look, now I have come, but I have no power to say whatever I want. I will speak only the message that God puts in my mouth.”

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Num 23:10 - Who can count Jacob's descendants, as numerous as dust?
Who can count even a fourth of Israel's people?
Let me die like the righteous;
let my life end like theirs.”

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Num 23:11 - Then King Balak demanded of Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies. Instead, you have blessed them!”

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Num 23:12 - But Balaam replied, “I will speak only the message that the LORD puts in my mouth.”

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Num 24:10 - King Balak flew into a rage against Balaam. He angrily clapped his hands and shouted, “I called you to curse my enemies! Instead, you have blessed them three times.

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Num 24:14 - Now I am returning to my own people. But first let me tell you what the Israelites will do to your people in the future.”

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Num 25:11 - “Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest has turned my anger away from the Israelites by being as zealous among them as I was. So I stopped destroying all Israel as I had intended to do in my zealous anger.

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Num 27:14 - for you both rebelled against my instructions in the wilderness of Zin. When the people of Israel rebelled, you failed to demonstrate my holiness to them at the waters.” (These are the waters of Meribah at Kadesh[fn] in the wilderness of Zin.)

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Num 28:2 - “Give these instructions to the people of Israel: The offerings you present as special gifts are a pleasing aroma to me; they are my food. See to it that they are brought at the appointed times and offered according to my instructions.

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Num 32:11 - ‘Of all those I rescued from Egypt, no one who is twenty years old or older will ever see the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, for they have not obeyed me wholeheartedly.

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Deu 1:23 - “This seemed like a good idea to me, so I chose twelve scouts, one from each of your tribes.

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Deu 1:43 - “This is what I told you, but you would not listen. Instead, you again rebelled against the LORD's command and arrogantly went into the hill country to fight.

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Deu 3:26 - “But the LORD was angry with me because of you, and he would not listen to me. ‘That's enough!' he declared. ‘Speak of it no more.

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Deu 4:10 - Never forget the day when you stood before the LORD your God at Mount Sinai,[fn] where he told me, ‘Summon the people before me, and I will personally instruct them. Then they will learn to fear me as long as they live, and they will teach their children to fear me also.'

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Deu 5:7 - “You must not have any other god but me.

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Deu 5:10 - But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those[fn] who love me and obey my commands.

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Deu 5:29 - Oh, that they would always have hearts like this, that they might fear me and obey all my commands! If they did, they and their descendants would prosper forever.

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Deu 8:17 - He did all this so you would never say to yourself, ‘I have achieved this wealth with my own strength and energy.'

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Deu 9:4 - “After the LORD your God has done this for you, don't say in your hearts, ‘The LORD has given us this land because we are such good people!' No, it is because of the wickedness of the other nations that he is pushing them out of your way.

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Deu 9:9 - This happened when I was on the mountain receiving the tablets of stone inscribed with the words of the covenant that the LORD had made with you. I was there for forty days and forty nights, and all that time I ate no food and drank no water.

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Deu 9:15 - “So while the mountain was blazing with fire I turned and came down, holding in my hands the two stone tablets inscribed with the terms of the covenant.

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Deu 9:17 - So I took the stone tablets and threw them to the ground, smashing them before your eyes.

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Deu 10:3 - “So I made an Ark of acacia wood and cut two stone tablets like the first two. Then I went up the mountain with the tablets in my hand.

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Deu 17:14 - “You are about to enter the land the LORD your God is giving you. When you take it over and settle there, you may think, ‘We should select a king to rule over us like the other nations around us.'

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Deu 18:18 - I will raise up a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell the people everything I command him.

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Deu 18:19 - I will personally deal with anyone who will not listen to the messages the prophet proclaims on my behalf.

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Deu 18:20 - But any prophet who falsely claims to speak in my name or who speaks in the name of another god must die.'

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Deu 22:16 - Her father must say to them, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to be his wife, and now he has turned against her.

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Deu 22:17 - He has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, “I discovered that your daughter was not a virgin.” But here is the proof of my daughter's virginity.' Then they must spread her bed sheet before the elders.

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Deu 25:7 - “But if the man refuses to marry his brother's widow, she must go to the town gate and say to the elders assembled there, ‘My husband's brother refuses to preserve his brother's name in Israel—he refuses to fulfill the duties of a brother-in-law by marrying me.'

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Deu 26:3 - Go to the priest in charge at that time and say to him, ‘With this gift I acknowledge to the LORD your God that I have entered the land he swore to our ancestors he would give us.'

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Deu 26:5 - “You must then say in the presence of the LORD your God, ‘My ancestor Jacob was a wandering Aramean who went to live as a foreigner in Egypt. His family arrived few in number, but in Egypt they became a large and mighty nation.

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Deu 26:13 - Then you must declare in the presence of the LORD your God, ‘I have taken the sacred gift from my house and have given it to the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows, just as you commanded me. I have not violated or forgotten any of your commands.

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Deu 26:14 - I have not eaten any of it while in mourning; I have not handled it while I was ceremonially unclean; and I have not offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God and have done everything you commanded me.

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Deu 29:19 - “Those who hear the warnings of this curse should not congratulate themselves, thinking, ‘I am safe, even though I am following the desires of my own stubborn heart.' This would lead to utter ruin!

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Deu 31:16 - The LORD said to Moses, “You are about to die and join your ancestors. After you are gone, these people will begin to worship foreign gods, the gods of the land where they are going. They will abandon me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

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Deu 31:17 - Then my anger will blaze forth against them. I will abandon them, hiding my face from them, and they will be devoured. Terrible trouble will come down on them, and on that day they will say, ‘These disasters have come down on us because God is no longer among us!'

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Deu 31:18 - At that time I will hide my face from them on account of all the evil they commit by worshiping other gods.

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Deu 31:20 - For I will bring them into the land I swore to give their ancestors—a land flowing with milk and honey. There they will become prosperous, eat all the food they want, and become fat. But they will begin to worship other gods; they will despise me and break my covenant.

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Deu 31:27 - For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Even now, while I am still alive and am here with you, you have rebelled against the LORD. How much more rebellious will you be after my death!

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Deu 31:29 - I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and will turn from the way I have commanded you to follow. In the days to come, disaster will come down on you, for you will do what is evil in the LORD's sight, making him very angry with your actions.”

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Deu 32:1 - “Listen, O heavens, and I will speak!
Hear, O earth, the words that I say!

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Deu 32:2 - Let my teaching fall on you like rain;
let my speech settle like dew.
Let my words fall like rain on tender grass,
like gentle showers on young plants.

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Deu 32:20 - He said, ‘I will abandon them;
then see what becomes of them.
For they are a twisted generation,
children without integrity.

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Deu 32:22 - For my anger blazes forth like fire
and burns to the depths of the grave.[fn]
It devours the earth and all its crops
and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

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Deu 32:23 - I will heap disasters upon them
and shoot them down with my arrows.

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Deu 32:34 - “The LORD says, ‘Am I not storing up these things,
sealing them away in my treasury?

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Deu 32:39 - Look now; I myself am he!
There is no other god but me!
I am the one who kills and gives life;
I am the one who wounds and heals;
no one can be rescued from my powerful hand!

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Deu 32:40 - Now I raise my hand to heaven
and declare, “As surely as I live,

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Deu 32:41 - when I sharpen my flashing sword
and begin to carry out justice,
I will take revenge on my enemies
and repay those who reject me.

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Deu 32:42 - I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
and my sword will devour flesh—
the blood of the slaughtered and the captives,
and the heads of the enemy leaders.”'

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Deu 32:51 - For both of you betrayed me with the Israelites at the waters of Meribah at Kadesh[fn] in the wilderness of Zin. You failed to demonstrate my holiness to the people of Israel there.

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Jos 1:2 - “Moses my servant is dead. Therefore, the time has come for you to lead these people, the Israelites, across the Jordan River into the land I am giving them.

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Jos 1:7 - Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the instructions Moses gave you. Do not deviate from them, turning either to the right or to the left. Then you will be successful in everything you do.

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Jos 2:12 - “Now swear to me by the LORD that you will be kind to me and my family since I have helped you. Give me some guarantee that

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Jos 2:13 - when Jericho is conquered, you will let me live, along with my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all their families.”

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Jos 4:5 - He told them, “Go into the middle of the Jordan, in front of the Ark of the LORD your God. Each of you must pick up one stone and carry it out on your shoulder—twelve stones in all, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel.

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Jos 7:21 - Among the plunder I saw a beautiful robe from Babylon,[fn] 200 silver coins,[fn] and a bar of gold weighing more than a pound.[fn] I wanted them so much that I took them. They are hidden in the ground beneath my tent, with the silver buried deeper than the rest.”

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Jos 9:23 - May you be cursed! From now on you will always be servants who cut wood and carry water for the house of my God.”

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Jos 14:8 - but my brothers who went with me frightened the people from entering the Promised Land. For my part, I wholeheartedly followed the LORD my God.

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Jos 15:16 - Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage to the one who attacks and captures Kiriath-sepher.”

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Jos 15:18 - When Acsah married Othniel, she urged him[fn] to ask her father for a field. As she got down off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What's the matter?”

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Jos 18:4 - Select three men from each tribe, and I will send them out to explore the land and map it out. They will then return to me with a written report of their proposed divisions of their new homeland.

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Jos 22:2 - He told them, “You have done as Moses, the servant of the LORD, commanded you, and you have obeyed every order I have given you.

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Jos 24:15 - But if you refuse to serve the LORD, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD.”

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Jos 24:27 - Joshua said to all the people, “This stone has heard everything the LORD said to us. It will be a witness to testify against you if you go back on your word to God.”

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Jdg 1:3 - The men of Judah said to their relatives from the tribe of Simeon, “Join with us to fight against the Canaanites living in the territory allotted to us. Then we will help you conquer your territory.” So the men of Simeon went with Judah.

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Jdg 1:7 - Adoni-bezek said, “I once had seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off, eating scraps from under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.” They took him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

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Jdg 1:12 - Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage to the one who attacks and captures Kiriath-sepher.”

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Jdg 2:1 - The angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said to the Israelites, “I brought you out of Egypt into this land that I swore to give your ancestors, and I said I would never break my covenant with you.

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Jdg 2:2 - For your part, you were not to make any covenants with the people living in this land; instead, you were to destroy their altars. But you disobeyed my command. Why did you do this?

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Jdg 2:20 - So the LORD burned with anger against Israel. He said, “Because these people have violated my covenant, which I made with their ancestors, and have ignored my commands,

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Jdg 3:28 - “Follow me,” he said, “for the LORD has given you victory over Moab your enemy.” So they followed him. And the Israelites took control of the shallow crossings of the Jordan River across from Moab, preventing anyone from crossing.

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Jdg 4:18 - Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Come into my tent, sir. Come in. Don't be afraid.” So he went into her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.

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Jdg 5:9 - My heart is with the commanders of Israel,
with those who volunteered for war.
Praise the LORD!

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Jdg 5:13 - “Down from Tabor marched the few against the nobles.
The people of the LORD marched down against mighty warriors.

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Jdg 5:21 - The Kishon River swept them away—
that ancient torrent, the Kishon.
March on with courage, my soul!

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Jdg 6:10 - I told you, ‘I am the LORD your God. You must not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you now live.' But you have not listened to me.”

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Jdg 6:15 - “But Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I rescue Israel? My clan is the weakest in the whole tribe of Manasseh, and I am the least in my entire family!”

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Jdg 6:18 - Don't go away until I come back and bring my offering to you.”
He answered, “I will stay here until you return.”

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Jdg 6:36 - Then Gideon said to God, “If you are truly going to use me to rescue Israel as you promised,

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Jdg 6:37 - prove it to me in this way. I will put a wool fleece on the threshing floor tonight. If the fleece is wet with dew in the morning but the ground is dry, then I will know that you are going to help me rescue Israel as you promised.”

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Jdg 7:2 - The LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many warriors with you. If I let all of you fight the Midianites, the Israelites will boast to me that they saved themselves by their own strength.

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Jdg 8:7 - So Gideon said, “After the LORD gives me victory over Zebah and Zalmunna, I will return and tear your flesh with the thorns and briers from the wilderness.”

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Jdg 8:19 - “They were my brothers, the sons of my own mother!” Gideon exclaimed. “As surely as the LORD lives, I wouldn't kill you if you hadn't killed them.”

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Jdg 8:23 - But Gideon replied, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son. The LORD will rule over you!

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Jdg 9:7 - When Jotham heard about this, he climbed to the top of Mount Gerizim and shouted,
“Listen to me, citizens of Shechem!
Listen to me if you want God to listen to you!

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Jdg 9:9 - But the olive tree refused, saying,
‘Should I quit producing the olive oil
that blesses both God and people,
just to wave back and forth over the trees?'

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Jdg 9:11 - But the fig tree also refused, saying,
‘Should I quit producing my sweet fruit
just to wave back and forth over the trees?'

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Jdg 9:13 - But the grapevine also refused, saying,
‘Should I quit producing the wine
that cheers both God and people,
just to wave back and forth over the trees?'

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Jdg 9:15 - And the thornbush replied to the trees,
‘If you truly want to make me your king,
come and take shelter in my shade.
If not, let fire come out from me
and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'”

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Jdg 9:17 - For he fought for you and risked his life when he rescued you from the Midianites.

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Jdg 9:18 - But today you have revolted against my father and his descendants, killing his seventy sons on one stone. And you have chosen his slave woman's son, Abimelech, to be your king just because he is your relative.

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Jdg 9:29 - If I were in charge here, I would get rid of Abimelech. I would say[fn] to him, ‘Get some soldiers, and come out and fight!'”

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Jdg 11:7 - But Jephthah said to them, “Aren't you the ones who hated me and drove me from my father's house? Why do you come to me now when you're in trouble?”

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Jdg 11:12 - Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of Ammon, asking, “Why have you come out to fight against my land?”

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Jdg 11:13 - The king of Ammon answered Jephthah's messengers, “When the Israelites came out of Egypt, they stole my land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River and all the way to the Jordan. Now then, give back the land peaceably.”

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Jdg 11:19 - “Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled from Heshbon, asking for permission to cross through his land to get to their destination.

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Jdg 11:30 - And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD. He said, “If you give me victory over the Ammonites,

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Jdg 11:31 - I will give to the LORD whatever comes out of my house to meet me when I return in triumph. I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.”

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Jdg 11:35 - When he saw her, he tore his clothes in anguish. “Oh, my daughter!” he cried out. “You have completely destroyed me! You've brought disaster on me! For I have made a vow to the LORD, and I cannot take it back.”

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Jdg 11:36 - And she said, “Father, if you have made a vow to the LORD, you must do to me what you have vowed, for the LORD has given you a great victory over your enemies, the Ammonites.

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Jdg 11:37 - But first let me do this one thing: Let me go up and roam in the hills and weep with my friends for two months, because I will die a virgin.”

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Jdg 12:2 - Jephthah replied, “I summoned you at the beginning of the dispute, but you refused to come! You failed to help us in our struggle against Ammon.

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Jdg 12:3 - So when I realized you weren't coming, I risked my life and went to battle without you, and the LORD gave me victory over the Ammonites. So why have you now come to fight me?”

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Jdg 13:18 - “Why do you ask my name?” the angel of the LORD replied. “It is too wonderful for you to understand.”

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Jdg 14:3 - His father and mother objected. “Isn't there even one woman in our tribe or among all the Israelites you could marry?” they asked. “Why must you go to the pagan Philistines to find a wife?”
But Samson told his father, “Get her for me! She looks good to me.”

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Jdg 14:16 - So Samson's wife came to him in tears and said, “You don't love me; you hate me! You have given my people a riddle, but you haven't told me the answer.”
“I haven't even given the answer to my father or mother,” he replied. “Why should I tell you?”

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Jdg 14:18 - So before sunset of the seventh day, the men of the town came to Samson with their answer:
“What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?” Samson replied, “If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, you wouldn't have solved my riddle!”

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Jdg 15:1 - Later on, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a present to his wife. He said, “I'm going into my wife's room to sleep with her,” but her father wouldn't let him in.

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Jdg 15:7 - “Because you did this,” Samson vowed, “I won't rest until I take my revenge on you!”

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Jdg 16:13 - Then Delilah said, “You've been making fun of me and telling me lies! Now tell me how you can be tied up securely.”
Samson replied, “If you were to weave the seven braids of my hair into the fabric on your loom and tighten it with the loom shuttle, I would become as weak as anyone else.”
So while he slept, Delilah wove the seven braids of his hair into the fabric.

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Jdg 16:17 - Finally, Samson shared his secret with her. “My hair has never been cut,” he confessed, “for I was dedicated to God as a Nazirite from birth. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as anyone else.”

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Jdg 16:28 - Then Samson prayed to the LORD, “Sovereign LORD, remember me again. O God, please strengthen me just one more time. With one blow let me pay back the Philistines for the loss of my two eyes.”

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Jdg 16:30 - he prayed, “Let me die with the Philistines.” And the temple crashed down on the Philistine rulers and all the people. So he killed more people when he died than he had during his entire lifetime.

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Jdg 17:2 - One day he said to his mother, “I heard you place a curse on the person who stole 1,100 pieces[fn] of silver from you. Well, I have the money. I was the one who took it.”
“The LORD bless you for admitting it,” his mother replied.

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Jdg 17:3 - He returned the money to her, and she said, “I now dedicate these silver coins to the LORD. In honor of my son, I will have an image carved and an idol cast.”

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Jdg 18:24 - “What do you mean, ‘What's the matter?'” Micah replied. “You've taken away all the gods I have made, and my priest, and I have nothing left!”

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Jdg 19:18 - “We have been in Bethlehem in Judah,” the man replied. “We are on our way to a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim, which is my home. I traveled to Bethlehem, and now I'm returning home.[fn] But no one has taken us in for the night,

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Jdg 19:23 - The old man stepped outside to talk to them. “No, my brothers, don't do such an evil thing. For this man is a guest in my house, and such a thing would be shameful.

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Jdg 19:24 - Here, take my virgin daughter and this man's concubine. I will bring them out to you, and you can abuse them and do whatever you like. But don't do such a shameful thing to this man.”

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Jdg 20:4 - The Levite, the husband of the woman who had been murdered, said, “My concubine and I came to spend the night in Gibeah, a town that belongs to the people of Benjamin.

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Jdg 20:5 - That night some of the leading citizens of Gibeah surrounded the house, planning to kill me, and they raped my concubine until she was dead.

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Jdg 20:6 - So I cut her body into twelve pieces and sent the pieces throughout the territory assigned to Israel, for these men have committed a terrible and shameful crime.

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Jdg 20:23 - For they had gone up to Bethel and wept in the presence of the LORD until evening. They had asked the LORD, “Should we fight against our relatives from Benjamin again?”
And the LORD had said, “Go out and fight against them.”

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Jdg 20:28 - and Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron was the priest.) The Israelites asked the LORD, “Should we fight against our relatives from Benjamin again, or should we stop?”
The LORD said, “Go! Tomorrow I will hand them over to you.”

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1Sa 1:11 - And she made this vow: “O LORD of Heaven's Armies, if you will look upon my sorrow and answer my prayer and give me a son, then I will give him back to you. He will be yours for his entire lifetime, and as a sign that he has been dedicated to the LORD, his hair will never be cut.[fn]”

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1Sa 1:15 - “Oh no, sir!” she replied. “I haven't been drinking wine or anything stronger. But I am very discouraged, and I was pouring out my heart to the LORD.

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1Sa 1:16 - Don't think I am a wicked woman! For I have been praying out of great anguish and sorrow.”

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1Sa 1:27 - I asked the LORD to give me this boy, and he has granted my request.

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1Sa 2:1 - Then Hannah prayed:
“My heart rejoices in the LORD!
The LORD has made me strong.[fn]
Now I have an answer for my enemies;
I rejoice because you rescued me.

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1Sa 2:28 - I chose your ancestor Aaron[fn] from among all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer sacrifices on my altar, to burn incense, and to wear the priestly vest[fn] as he served me. And I assigned the sacrificial offerings to you priests.

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1Sa 2:29 - So why do you scorn my sacrifices and offerings? Why do you give your sons more honor than you give me—for you and they have become fat from the best offerings of my people Israel!

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1Sa 2:30 - “Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I promised that your branch of the tribe of Levi[fn] would always be my priests. But I will honor those who honor me, and I will despise those who think lightly of me.

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1Sa 2:32 - You will watch with envy as I pour out prosperity on the people of Israel. But no members of your family will ever live out their days.

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1Sa 2:33 - Those who survive will live in sadness and grief, and their children will die a violent death.[fn]

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1Sa 2:35 - “Then I will raise up a faithful priest who will serve me and do what I desire. I will establish his family, and they will be priests to my anointed kings forever.

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1Sa 3:11 - Then the LORD said to Samuel, “I am about to do a shocking thing in Israel.

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1Sa 9:5 - Finally, they entered the region of Zuph, and Saul said to his servant, “Let's go home. By now my father will be more worried about us than about the donkeys!”

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1Sa 9:8 - “Well,” the servant said, “I have one small silver piece.[fn] We can at least offer it to the man of God and see what happens!”

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1Sa 9:16 - “About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin. Anoint him to be the leader of my people, Israel. He will rescue them from the Philistines, for I have looked down on my people in mercy and have heard their cry.”

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1Sa 9:17 - When Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said, “That's the man I told you about! He will rule my people.”

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1Sa 9:19 - “I am the seer!” Samuel replied. “Go up to the place of worship ahead of me. We will eat there together, and in the morning I'll tell you what you want to know and send you on your way.

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1Sa 10:2 - When you leave me today, you will see two men beside Rachel's tomb at Zelzah, on the border of Benjamin. They will tell you that the donkeys have been found and that your father has stopped worrying about them and is now worried about you. He is asking, ‘Have you seen my son?'

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1Sa 12:2 - Your king is now your leader. I stand here before you—an old, gray-haired man—and my sons serve you. I have served as your leader from the time I was a boy to this very day.

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1Sa 12:5 - “The LORD and his anointed one are my witnesses today,” Samuel declared, “that my hands are clean.”
“Yes, he is a witness,” they replied.

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1Sa 13:13 - “How foolish!” Samuel exclaimed. “You have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you. Had you kept it, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

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1Sa 14:12 - Then the men from the outpost shouted to Jonathan, “Come on up here, and we'll teach you a lesson!”
“Come on, climb right behind me,” Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “for the LORD will help us defeat them!”

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1Sa 14:24 - Now the men of Israel were pressed to exhaustion that day, because Saul had placed them under an oath, saying, “Let a curse fall on anyone who eats before evening—before I have full revenge on my enemies.” So no one ate anything all day,

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1Sa 14:29 - “My father has made trouble for us all!” Jonathan exclaimed. “A command like that only hurts us. See how refreshed I am now that I have eaten this little bit of honey.

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1Sa 14:39 - I vow by the name of the LORD who rescued Israel that the sinner will surely die, even if it is my own son Jonathan!” But no one would tell him what the trouble was.

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1Sa 14:40 - Then Saul said, “Jonathan and I will stand over here, and all of you stand over there.”
And the people responded to Saul, “Whatever you think is best.”

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1Sa 14:41 - Then Saul prayed, “O LORD, God of Israel, please show us who is guilty and who is innocent.[fn]” Then they cast sacred lots, and Jonathan and Saul were chosen as the guilty ones, and the people were declared innocent.

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1Sa 14:42 - Then Saul said, “Now cast lots again and choose between me and Jonathan.” And Jonathan was shown to be the guilty one.

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1Sa 14:43 - “Tell me what you have done,” Saul demanded of Jonathan.
“I tasted a little honey,” Jonathan admitted. “It was only a little bit on the end of my stick. Does that deserve death?”

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1Sa 15:11 - “I am sorry that I ever made Saul king, for he has not been loyal to me and has refused to obey my command.” Samuel was so deeply moved when he heard this that he cried out to the LORD all night.

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1Sa 15:14 - “Then what is all the bleating of sheep and goats and the lowing of cattle I hear?” Samuel demanded.

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1Sa 15:25 - But now, please forgive my sin and come back with me so that I may worship the LORD.”

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1Sa 15:30 - Then Saul pleaded again, “I know I have sinned. But please, at least honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel by coming back with me so that I may worship the LORD your God.”

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1Sa 16:22 - Then Saul sent word to Jesse asking, “Please let David remain in my service, for I am very pleased with him.”

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1Sa 17:32 - “Don't worry about this Philistine,” David told Saul. “I'll go fight him!”

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1Sa 17:46 - Today the LORD will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head. And then I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel!

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1Sa 19:3 - I'll ask my father to go out there with me, and I'll talk to him about you. Then I'll tell you everything I can find out.”

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1Sa 19:17 - “Why have you betrayed me like this and let my enemy escape?” Saul demanded of Michal.
“I had to,” Michal replied. “He threatened to kill me if I didn't help him.”

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1Sa 20:1 - David now fled from Naioth in Ramah and found Jonathan. “What have I done?” he exclaimed. “What is my crime? How have I offended your father that he is so determined to kill me?”

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1Sa 20:2 - “That's not true!” Jonathan protested. “You're not going to die. He always tells me everything he's going to do, even the little things. I know my father wouldn't hide something like this from me. It just isn't so!”

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1Sa 20:3 - Then David took an oath before Jonathan and said, “Your father knows perfectly well about our friendship, so he has said to himself, ‘I won't tell Jonathan—why should I hurt him?' But I swear to you that I am only a step away from death! I swear it by the LORD and by your own soul!”

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1Sa 20:9 - “Never!” Jonathan exclaimed. “You know that if I had the slightest notion my father was planning to kill you, I would tell you at once.”

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1Sa 20:12 - Then Jonathan told David, “I promise by the LORD, the God of Israel, that by this time tomorrow, or the next day at the latest, I will talk to my father and let you know at once how he feels about you. If he speaks favorably about you, I will let you know.

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1Sa 20:13 - But if he is angry and wants you killed, may the LORD strike me and even kill me if I don't warn you so you can escape and live. May the LORD be with you as he used to be with my father.

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1Sa 20:14 - And may you treat me with the faithful love of the LORD as long as I live. But if I die,

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1Sa 20:15 - treat my family with this faithful love, even when the LORD destroys all your enemies from the face of the earth.”

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1Sa 20:29 - He said, ‘Please let me go, for we are having a family sacrifice. My brother demanded that I be there. So please let me get away to see my brothers.' That's why he isn't here at the king's table.”

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1Sa 20:42 - At last Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for we have sworn loyalty to each other in the LORD's name. The LORD is the witness of a bond between us and our children forever.” Then David left, and Jonathan returned to the town.[fn]

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1Sa 21:3 - Now, what is there to eat? Give me five loaves of bread or anything else you have.”

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1Sa 21:4 - “We don't have any regular bread,” the priest replied. “But there is the holy bread, which you can have if your young men have not slept with any women recently.”

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1Sa 21:5 - “Don't worry,” David replied. “I never allow my men to be with women when they are on a campaign. And since they stay clean even on ordinary trips, how much more on this one!”

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1Sa 21:8 - David asked Ahimelech, “Do you have a spear or sword? The king's business was so urgent that I didn't even have time to grab a weapon!”

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1Sa 22:3 - Later David went to Mizpeh in Moab, where he asked the king, “Please allow my father and mother to live here with you until I know what God is going to do for me.”

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1Sa 22:8 - Is that why you have conspired against me? For not one of you told me when my own son made a solemn pact with the son of Jesse. You're not even sorry for me. Think of it! My own son—encouraging him to kill me, as he is trying to do this very day!”

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1Sa 22:15 - This was certainly not the first time I had consulted God for him! May the king not accuse me and my family in this matter, for I knew nothing at all of any plot against you.”

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1Sa 22:17 - And he ordered his bodyguards, “Kill these priests of the LORD, for they are allies and conspirators with David! They knew he was running away from me, but they didn't tell me!” But Saul's men refused to kill the LORD's priests.

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1Sa 22:23 - Stay here with me, and don't be afraid. I will protect you with my own life, for the same person wants to kill us both.”

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1Sa 23:7 - Saul soon learned that David was at Keilah. “Good!” he exclaimed. “We've got him now! God has handed him over to me, for he has trapped himself in a walled town!”

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1Sa 23:17 - “Don't be afraid,” Jonathan reassured him. “My father will never find you! You are going to be the king of Israel, and I will be next to you, as my father, Saul, is well aware.”

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1Sa 24:6 - “The LORD knows I shouldn't have done that to my lord the king,” he said to his men. “The LORD forbid that I should do this to my lord the king and attack the LORD's anointed one, for the LORD himself has chosen him.”

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1Sa 24:10 - This very day you can see with your own eyes it isn't true. For the LORD placed you at my mercy back there in the cave. Some of my men told me to kill you, but I spared you. For I said, ‘I will never harm the king—he is the LORD's anointed one.'

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1Sa 24:11 - Look, my father, at what I have in my hand. It is a piece of the hem of your robe! I cut it off, but I didn't kill you. This proves that I am not trying to harm you and that I have not sinned against you, even though you have been hunting for me to kill me.

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1Sa 24:12 - “May the LORD judge between us. Perhaps the LORD will punish you for what you are trying to do to me, but I will never harm you.

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1Sa 24:13 - As that old proverb says, ‘From evil people come evil deeds.' So you can be sure I will never harm you.

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1Sa 24:15 - May the LORD therefore judge which of us is right and punish the guilty one. He is my advocate, and he will rescue me from your power!”

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1Sa 24:21 - Now swear to me by the LORD that when that happens you will not kill my family and destroy my line of descendants!”

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1Sa 25:5 - he sent ten of his young men to Carmel with this message for Nabal:

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1Sa 25:11 - Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I've slaughtered for my shearers and give it to a band of outlaws who come from who knows where?”

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1Sa 25:19 - and said to her servants, “Go on ahead. I will follow you shortly.” But she didn't tell her husband Nabal what she was doing.

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1Sa 25:24 - She fell at his feet and said, “I accept all blame in this matter, my lord. Please listen to what I have to say.

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1Sa 25:25 - I know Nabal is a wicked and ill-tempered man; please don't pay any attention to him. He is a fool, just as his name suggests.[fn] But I never even saw the young men you sent.

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1Sa 25:26 - “Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, since the LORD has kept you from murdering and taking vengeance into your own hands, let all your enemies and those who try to harm you be as cursed as Nabal is.

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1Sa 25:27 - And here is a present that I, your servant, have brought to you and your young men.

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1Sa 25:28 - Please forgive me if I have offended you in any way. The LORD will surely reward you with a lasting dynasty, for you are fighting the LORD's battles. And you have not done wrong throughout your entire life.

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1Sa 25:29 - “Even when you are chased by those who seek to kill you, your life is safe in the care of the LORD your God, secure in his treasure pouch! But the lives of your enemies will disappear like stones shot from a sling!

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1Sa 25:30 - When the LORD has done all he promised and has made you leader of Israel,

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1Sa 25:31 - don't let this be a blemish on your record. Then your conscience won't have to bear the staggering burden of needless bloodshed and vengeance. And when the LORD has done these great things for you, please remember me, your servant!”

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1Sa 25:32 - David replied to Abigail, “Praise the LORD, the God of Israel, who has sent you to meet me today!

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1Sa 25:33 - Thank God for your good sense! Bless you for keeping me from murder and from carrying out vengeance with my own hands.

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1Sa 25:39 - When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise the LORD, who has avenged the insult I received from Nabal and has kept me from doing it myself. Nabal has received the punishment for his sin.” Then David sent messengers to Abigail to ask her to become his wife.

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1Sa 26:11 - The LORD forbid that I should kill the one he has anointed! But take his spear and that jug of water beside his head, and then let's get out of here!”

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1Sa 26:18 - Why are you chasing me? What have I done? What is my crime?

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1Sa 26:19 - But now let my lord the king listen to his servant. If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then let him accept my offering. But if this is simply a human scheme, then may those involved be cursed by the LORD. For they have driven me from my home, so I can no longer live among the LORD's people, and they have said, ‘Go, worship pagan gods.'

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1Sa 26:20 - Must I die on foreign soil, far from the presence of the LORD? Why has the king of Israel come out to search for a single flea? Why does he hunt me down like a partridge on the mountains?”

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1Sa 26:21 - Then Saul confessed, “I have sinned. Come back home, my son, and I will no longer try to harm you, for you valued my life today. I have been a fool and very, very wrong.”

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1Sa 26:23 - The LORD gives his own reward for doing good and for being loyal, and I refused to kill you even when the LORD placed you in my power, for you are the LORD's anointed one.

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1Sa 26:24 - Now may the LORD value my life, even as I have valued yours today. May he rescue me from all my troubles.”

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1Sa 28:9 - “Are you trying to get me killed?” the woman demanded. “You know that Saul has outlawed all the mediums and all who consult the spirits of the dead. Why are you setting a trap for me?”

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1Sa 28:17 - The LORD has done just as he said he would. He has torn the kingdom from you and given it to your rival, David.

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1Sa 28:21 - When the woman saw how distraught he was, she said, “Sir, I obeyed your command at the risk of my life.

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1Sa 29:6 - So Achish finally summoned David and said to him, “I swear by the LORD that you have been a trustworthy ally. I think you should go with me into battle, for I've never found a single flaw in you from the day you arrived until today. But the other Philistine rulers won't hear of it.

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1Sa 29:8 - “What have I done to deserve this treatment?” David demanded. “What have you ever found in your servant, that I can't go and fight the enemies of my lord the king?”

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1Sa 29:9 - But Achish insisted, “As far as I'm concerned, you're as perfect as an angel of God. But the Philistine commanders are afraid to have you with them in the battle.

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1Sa 29:10 - Now get up early in the morning, and leave with your men as soon as it gets light.”

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1Sa 30:13 - “To whom do you belong, and where do you come from?” David asked him.
“I am an Egyptian—the slave of an Amalekite,” he replied. “My master abandoned me three days ago because I was sick.

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1Sa 30:15 - “Will you lead me to this band of raiders?” David asked.
The young man replied, “If you take an oath in God's name that you will not kill me or give me back to my master, then I will guide you to them.”

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2Sa 1:9 - “Then he begged me, ‘Come over here and put me out of my misery, for I am in terrible pain and want to die.'

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2Sa 1:10 - “So I killed him,” the Amalekite told David, “for I knew he couldn't live. Then I took his crown and his armband, and I have brought them here to you, my lord.”

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2Sa 1:26 - How I weep for you, my brother Jonathan!
Oh, how much I loved you!
And your love for me was deep,
deeper than the love of women!

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2Sa 2:22 - Again Abner shouted to him, “Get away from here! I don't want to kill you. How could I ever face your brother Joab again?”

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2Sa 3:7 - One day Ishbosheth,[fn] Saul's son, accused Abner of sleeping with one of his father's concubines, a woman named Rizpah, daughter of Aiah.

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2Sa 3:12 - Then Abner sent messengers to David, saying, “Doesn't the entire land belong to you? Make a solemn pact with me, and I will help turn over all of Israel to you.”

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2Sa 3:13 - “All right,” David replied, “but I will not negotiate with you unless you bring back my wife Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come.”

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2Sa 3:14 - David then sent this message to Ishbosheth, Saul's son: “Give me back my wife Michal, for I bought her with the lives[fn] of 100 Philistines.”

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2Sa 3:18 - Now is the time! For the LORD has said, ‘I have chosen David to save my people Israel from the hands of the Philistines and from all their other enemies.'”

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2Sa 3:21 - Then Abner said to David, “Let me go and call an assembly of all Israel to support my lord the king. They will make a covenant with you to make you their king, and you will rule over everything your heart desires.” So David sent Abner safely on his way.

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2Sa 3:28 - When David heard about it, he declared, “I vow by the LORD that I and my kingdom are forever innocent of this crime against Abner son of Ner.

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2Sa 4:9 - But David said to Recab and Baanah, “The LORD, who saves me from all my enemies, is my witness.

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2Sa 4:10 - Someone once told me, ‘Saul is dead,' thinking he was bringing me good news. But I seized him and killed him at Ziklag. That's the reward I gave him for his news!

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2Sa 5:2 - In the past,[fn] when Saul was our king, you were the one who really led the forces of Israel. And the LORD told you, ‘You will be the shepherd of my people Israel. You will be Israel's leader.'”

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2Sa 5:19 - So David asked the LORD, “Should I go out to fight the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?”
The LORD replied to David, “Yes, go ahead. I will certainly hand them over to you.”

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2Sa 5:20 - So David went to Baal-perazim and defeated the Philistines there. “The LORD did it!” David exclaimed. “He burst through my enemies like a raging flood!” So he named that place Baal-perazim (which means “the Lord who bursts through”).

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2Sa 7:5 - “Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD has declared: Are you the one to build a house for me to live in?

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2Sa 7:7 - Yet no matter where I have gone with the Israelites, I have never once complained to Israel's tribal leaders, the shepherds of my people Israel. I have never asked them, “Why haven't you built me a beautiful cedar house?”'

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2Sa 7:8 - “Now go and say to my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies has declared: I took you from tending sheep in the pasture and selected you to be the leader of my people Israel.

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2Sa 7:10 - And I will provide a homeland for my people Israel, planting them in a secure place where they will never be disturbed. Evil nations won't oppress them as they've done in the past,

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2Sa 7:11 - starting from the time I appointed judges to rule my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. “‘Furthermore, the LORD declares that he will make a house for you—a dynasty of kings!

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2Sa 7:13 - He is the one who will build a house—a temple—for my name. And I will secure his royal throne forever.

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2Sa 7:15 - But my favor will not be taken from him as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from your sight.

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2Sa 7:18 - Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and prayed, “Who am I, O Sovereign LORD, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?

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2Sa 7:19 - And now, Sovereign LORD, in addition to everything else, you speak of giving your servant a lasting dynasty! Do you deal with everyone this way, O Sovereign LORD?[fn]

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2Sa 7:20 - “What more can I say to you? You know what your servant is really like, Sovereign LORD.

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2Sa 7:22 - “How great you are, O Sovereign LORD! There is no one like you. We have never even heard of another God like you!

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2Sa 7:25 - “And now, O LORD God, I am your servant; do as you have promised concerning me and my family. Confirm it as a promise that will last forever.

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2Sa 7:28 - For you are God, O Sovereign LORD. Your words are truth, and you have promised these good things to your servant.

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2Sa 7:29 - And now, may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you have spoken, and when you grant a blessing to your servant, O Sovereign LORD, it is an eternal blessing!”

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2Sa 9:7 - “Don't be afraid!” David said. “I intend to show kindness to you because of my promise to your father, Jonathan. I will give you all the property that once belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will eat here with me at the king's table!”

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2Sa 9:10 - You and your sons and servants are to farm the land for him to produce food for your master's household.[fn] But Mephibosheth, your master's grandson, will eat here at my table.” (Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

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2Sa 9:11 - Ziba replied, “Yes, my lord the king; I am your servant, and I will do all that you have commanded.” And from that time on, Mephibosheth ate regularly at David's table,[fn] like one of the king's own sons.

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2Sa 11:11 - Uriah replied, “The Ark and the armies of Israel and Judah are living in tents,[fn] and Joab and my master's men are camping in the open fields. How could I go home to wine and dine and sleep with my wife? I swear that I would never do such a thing.”

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2Sa 12:28 - Now bring the rest of the army and capture the city. Otherwise, I will capture it and get credit for the victory.”

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2Sa 13:4 - One day Jonadab said to Amnon, “What's the trouble? Why should the son of a king look so dejected morning after morning?”
So Amnon told him, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.”

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2Sa 13:5 - “Well,” Jonadab said, “I'll tell you what to do. Go back to bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, ask him to let Tamar come and prepare some food for you. Tell him you'll feel better if she prepares it as you watch and feeds you with her own hands.”

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2Sa 13:6 - So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. And when the king came to see him, Amnon asked him, “Please let my sister Tamar come and cook my favorite dish[fn] as I watch. Then I can eat it from her own hands.”

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2Sa 13:9 - But when she set the serving tray before him, he refused to eat. “Everyone get out of here,” Amnon told his servants. So they all left.

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2Sa 13:11 - But as she was feeding him, he grabbed her and demanded, “Come to bed with me, my darling sister.”

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2Sa 13:12 - “No, my brother!” she cried. “Don't be foolish! Don't do this to me! Such wicked things aren't done in Israel.

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2Sa 13:13 - Where could I go in my shame? And you would be called one of the greatest fools in Israel. Please, just speak to the king about it, and he will let you marry me.”

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2Sa 13:20 - Her brother Absalom saw her and asked, “Is it true that Amnon has been with you? Well, my sister, keep quiet for now, since he's your brother. Don't you worry about it.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in her brother Absalom's house.

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2Sa 13:25 - The king replied, “No, my son. If we all came, we would be too much of a burden on you.” Absalom pressed him, but the king would not come, though he gave Absalom his blessing.

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2Sa 13:26 - “Well, then,” Absalom said, “if you can't come, how about sending my brother Amnon with us?”
“Why Amnon?” the king asked.

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2Sa 13:32 - But just then Jonadab, the son of David's brother Shimea, arrived and said, “No, don't believe that all the king's sons have been killed! It was only Amnon! Absalom has been plotting this ever since Amnon raped his sister Tamar.

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2Sa 13:33 - No, my lord the king, your sons aren't all dead! It was only Amnon.”

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2Sa 14:5 - “What's the trouble?” the king asked.
“Alas, I am a widow!” she replied. “My husband is dead.

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2Sa 14:7 - Now the rest of the family is demanding, ‘Let us have your son. We will execute him for murdering his brother. He doesn't deserve to inherit his family's property.' They want to extinguish the only coal I have left, and my husband's name and family will disappear from the face of the earth.”

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2Sa 14:9 - “Oh, thank you, my lord the king,” the woman from Tekoa replied. “If you are criticized for helping me, let the blame fall on me and on my father's house, and let the king and his throne be innocent.”

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2Sa 14:11 - Then she said, “Please swear to me by the LORD your God that you won't let anyone take vengeance against my son. I want no more bloodshed.”
“As surely as the LORD lives,” he replied, “not a hair on your son's head will be disturbed!”

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2Sa 14:12 - “Please allow me to ask one more thing of my lord the king,” she said.
“Go ahead and speak,” he responded.

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2Sa 14:15 - “I have come to plead with my lord the king because people have threatened me. I said to myself, ‘Perhaps the king will listen to me

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2Sa 14:16 - and rescue us from those who would cut us off from the inheritance[fn] God has given us.

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2Sa 14:17 - Yes, my lord the king will give us peace of mind again.' I know that you are like an angel of God in discerning good from evil. May the LORD your God be with you.”

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2Sa 14:18 - “I must know one thing,” the king replied, “and tell me the truth.”
“Yes, my lord the king,” she responded.

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2Sa 14:19 - “Did Joab put you up to this?”
And the woman replied, “My lord the king, how can I deny it? Nobody can hide anything from you. Yes, Joab sent me and told me what to say.

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2Sa 14:20 - He did it to place the matter before you in a different light. But you are as wise as an angel of God, and you understand everything that happens among us!”

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2Sa 14:22 - Joab bowed with his face to the ground in deep respect and said, “At last I know that I have gained your approval, my lord the king, for you have granted me this request!”

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2Sa 14:24 - But the king gave this order: “Absalom may go to his own house, but he must never come into my presence.” So Absalom did not see the king.

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2Sa 14:30 - So Absalom said to his servants, “Go and set fire to Joab's barley field, the field next to mine.” So they set his field on fire, as Absalom had commanded.

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2Sa 15:7 - After four years,[fn] Absalom said to the king, “Let me go to Hebron to offer a sacrifice to the LORD and fulfill a vow I made to him.

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2Sa 15:21 - But Ittai said to the king, “I vow by the LORD and by your own life that I will go wherever my lord the king goes, no matter what happens—whether it means life or death.”

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2Sa 15:31 - When someone told David that his adviser Ahithophel was now backing Absalom, David prayed, “O LORD, let Ahithophel give Absalom foolish advice!”

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2Sa 15:34 - Return to Jerusalem and tell Absalom, ‘I will now be your adviser, O king, just as I was your father's adviser in the past.' Then you can frustrate and counter Ahithophel's advice.

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2Sa 16:3 - “And where is Mephibosheth, Saul's grandson?” the king asked him.
“He stayed in Jerusalem,” Ziba replied. “He said, ‘Today I will get back the kingdom of my grandfather Saul.'”

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2Sa 16:4 - “In that case,” the king told Ziba, “I give you everything Mephibosheth owns.”
“I bow before you,” Ziba replied. “May I always be pleasing to you, my lord the king.”

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2Sa 16:9 - “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king?” Abishai son of Zeruiah demanded. “Let me go over and cut off his head!”

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2Sa 16:11 - Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “My own son is trying to kill me. Doesn't this relative of Saul[fn] have even more reason to do so? Leave him alone and let him curse, for the LORD has told him to do it.

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2Sa 16:12 - And perhaps the LORD will see that I am being wronged and will bless me because of these curses today.”

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2Sa 18:12 - “I would not kill the king's son for even a thousand pieces of silver,[fn]” the man replied to Joab. “We all heard the king say to you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake, please spare young Absalom.'

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2Sa 18:22 - But Ahimaaz continued to plead with Joab, “Whatever happens, please let me go, too.”
“Why should you go, my son?” Joab replied. “There will be no reward for your news.”

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2Sa 18:28 - Then Ahimaaz cried out to the king, “Everything is all right!” He bowed before the king with his face to the ground and said, “Praise to the LORD your God, who has handed over the rebels who dared to stand against my lord the king.”

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2Sa 18:31 - Then the man from Ethiopia arrived and said, “I have good news for my lord the king. Today the LORD has rescued you from all those who rebelled against you.”

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2Sa 18:32 - “What about young Absalom?” the king demanded. “Is he all right?”
And the Ethiopian replied, “May all of your enemies, my lord the king, both now and in the future, share the fate of that young man!”

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2Sa 18:33 - [fn]The king was overcome with emotion. He went up to the room over the gateway and burst into tears. And as he went, he cried, “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you! O Absalom, my son, my son.”

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2Sa 19:4 - The king covered his face with his hands and kept on crying, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”

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2Sa 19:12 - You are my relatives, my own tribe, my own flesh and blood! So why are you the last ones to welcome back the king?”

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2Sa 19:13 - And David told them to tell Amasa, “Since you are my own flesh and blood, like Joab, may God strike me and even kill me if I do not appoint you as commander of my army in his place.”

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2Sa 19:19 - “My lord the king, please forgive me,” he pleaded. “Forget the terrible thing your servant did when you left Jerusalem. May the king put it out of his mind.

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2Sa 19:20 - I know how much I sinned. That is why I have come here today, the very first person in all Israel[fn] to greet my lord the king.”

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2Sa 19:26 - Mephibosheth replied, “My lord the king, my servant Ziba deceived me. I told him, ‘Saddle my donkey[fn] so I can go with the king.' For as you know I am crippled.

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2Sa 19:27 - Ziba has slandered me by saying that I refused to come. But I know that my lord the king is like an angel of God, so do what you think is best.

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2Sa 19:28 - All my relatives and I could expect only death from you, my lord, but instead you have honored me by allowing me to eat at your own table! What more can I ask?”

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2Sa 19:30 - “Give him all of it,” Mephibosheth said. “I am content just to have you safely back again, my lord the king!”

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2Sa 19:34 - “No,” he replied, “I am far too old to go with the king to Jerusalem.

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2Sa 19:35 - I am eighty years old today, and I can no longer enjoy anything. Food and wine are no longer tasty, and I cannot hear the singers as they sing. I would only be a burden to my lord the king.

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2Sa 19:37 - Then let me return again to die in my own town, where my father and mother are buried. But here is your servant, my son Kimham. Let him go with my lord the king and receive whatever you want to give him.”

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2Sa 19:43 - “But there are ten tribes in Israel,” the others replied. “So we have ten times as much right to the king as you do. What right do you have to treat us with such contempt? Weren't we the first to speak of bringing him back to be our king again?” The argument continued back and forth, and the men of Judah spoke even more harshly than the men of Israel.

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2Sa 22:2 - He sang:
“The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my savior;

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2Sa 22:3 - my God is my rock, in whom I find protection.
He is my shield, the power that saves me,
and my place of safety.
He is my refuge, my savior,
the one who saves me from violence.

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2Sa 22:4 - I called on the LORD, who is worthy of praise,
and he saved me from my enemies.

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2Sa 22:7 - But in my distress I cried out to the LORD;
yes, I cried to my God for help.
He heard me from his sanctuary;
my cry reached his ears.

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2Sa 22:18 - He rescued me from my powerful enemies,
from those who hated me and were too strong for me.

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2Sa 22:19 - They attacked me at a moment when I was in distress,
but the LORD supported me.

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2Sa 22:21 - The LORD rewarded me for doing right;
he restored me because of my innocence.

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2Sa 22:22 - For I have kept the ways of the LORD;
I have not turned from my God to follow evil.

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2Sa 22:23 - I have followed all his regulations;
I have never abandoned his decrees.

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2Sa 22:24 - I am blameless before God;
I have kept myself from sin.

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2Sa 22:25 - The LORD rewarded me for doing right.
He has seen my innocence.

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2Sa 22:29 - O LORD, you are my lamp.
The LORD lights up my darkness.

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2Sa 22:30 - In your strength I can crush an army;
with my God I can scale any wall.

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2Sa 22:33 - God is my strong fortress,
and he makes my way perfect.

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2Sa 22:34 - He makes me as surefooted as a deer,
enabling me to stand on mountain heights.

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2Sa 22:35 - He trains my hands for battle;
he strengthens my arm to draw a bronze bow.

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2Sa 22:36 - You have given me your shield of victory;
your help[fn] has made me great.

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2Sa 22:37 - You have made a wide path for my feet
to keep them from slipping.

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2Sa 22:38 - “I chased my enemies and destroyed them;
I did not stop until they were conquered.

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2Sa 22:39 - I consumed them;
I struck them down so they did not get up;
they fell beneath my feet.

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2Sa 22:40 - You have armed me with strength for the battle;
you have subdued my enemies under my feet.

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2Sa 22:41 - You placed my foot on their necks.
I have destroyed all who hated me.

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2Sa 22:45 - Foreign nations cringe before me;
as soon as they hear of me, they submit.

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2Sa 22:47 - “The LORD lives! Praise to my Rock!
May God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted!

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2Sa 22:48 - He is the God who pays back those who harm me;
he brings down the nations under me

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2Sa 22:49 - and delivers me from my enemies.
You hold me safe beyond the reach of my enemies;
you save me from violent opponents.

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2Sa 23:2 - “The Spirit of the LORD speaks through me;
his words are upon my tongue.

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2Sa 23:5 - “Is it not my family God has chosen?
Yes, he has made an everlasting covenant with me.
His agreement is arranged and guaranteed in every detail.
He will ensure my safety and success.

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2Sa 24:3 - But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God let you live to see a hundred times as many people as there are now! But why, my lord the king, do you want to do this?”

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2Sa 24:17 - When David saw the angel, he said to the LORD, “I am the one who has sinned and done wrong! But these people are as innocent as sheep—what have they done? Let your anger fall against me and my family.”

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2Sa 24:21 - “Why have you come, my lord the king?” Araunah asked.
David replied, “I have come to buy your threshing floor and to build an altar to the LORD there, so that he will stop the plague.”

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2Sa 24:22 - “Take it, my lord the king, and use it as you wish,” Araunah said to David. “Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and you can use the threshing boards and ox yokes for wood to build a fire on the altar.

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2Sa 24:24 - But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on buying it, for I will not present burnt offerings to the LORD my God that have cost me nothing.” So David paid him fifty pieces of silver[fn] for the threshing floor and the oxen.

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1Ki 1:13 - Go at once to King David and say to him, ‘My lord the king, didn't you make a vow and say to me, “Your son Solomon will surely be the next king and will sit on my throne”? Why then has Adonijah become king?'

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1Ki 1:17 - She replied, “My lord, you made a vow before the LORD your God when you said to me, ‘Your son Solomon will surely be the next king and will sit on my throne.'

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1Ki 1:18 - But instead, Adonijah has made himself king, and my lord the king does not even know about it.

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1Ki 1:20 - And now, my lord the king, all Israel is waiting for you to announce who will become king after you.

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1Ki 1:21 - If you do not act, my son Solomon and I will be treated as criminals as soon as my lord the king has died.”

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1Ki 1:24 - Nathan asked, “My lord the king, have you decided that Adonijah will be the next king and that he will sit on your throne?

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1Ki 1:27 - Has my lord the king really done this without letting any of his officials know who should be the next king?”

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1Ki 1:29 - And the king repeated his vow: “As surely as the LORD lives, who has rescued me from every danger,

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1Ki 1:30 - your son Solomon will be the next king and will sit on my throne this very day, just as I vowed to you before the LORD, the God of Israel.”

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1Ki 1:31 - Then Bathsheba bowed down with her face to the ground before the king and exclaimed, “May my lord King David live forever!”

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1Ki 1:33 - the king said to them, “Take Solomon and my officials down to Gihon Spring. Solomon is to ride on my own mule.

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1Ki 1:35 - Then escort him back here, and he will sit on my throne. He will succeed me as king, for I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and Judah.”

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1Ki 1:36 - “Amen!” Benaiah son of Jehoiada replied. “May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, decree that it happen.

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1Ki 1:37 - And may the LORD be with Solomon as he has been with you, my lord the king, and may he make Solomon's reign even greater than yours!”

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1Ki 1:48 - and he said, ‘Praise the LORD, the God of Israel, who today has chosen a successor to sit on my throne while I am still alive to see it.'”

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1Ki 2:8 - “And remember Shimei son of Gera, the man from Bahurim in Benjamin. He cursed me with a terrible curse as I was fleeing to Mahanaim. When he came down to meet me at the Jordan River, I swore by the LORD that I would not kill him.

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1Ki 2:15 - He replied, “As you know, the kingdom was rightfully mine; all Israel wanted me to be the next king. But the tables were turned, and the kingdom went to my brother instead; for that is the way the LORD wanted it.

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1Ki 2:22 - “How can you possibly ask me to give Abishag to Adonijah?” King Solomon demanded. “You might as well ask me to give him the kingdom! You know that he is my older brother, and that he has Abiathar the priest and Joab son of Zeruiah on his side.”

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1Ki 2:24 - The LORD has confirmed me and placed me on the throne of my father, David; he has established my dynasty as he promised. So as surely as the LORD lives, Adonijah will die this very day!”

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1Ki 2:26 - Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your home in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not kill you now, because you carried the Ark of the Sovereign LORD for David my father and you shared all his hardships.”

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1Ki 2:31 - “Do as he said,” the king replied. “Kill him there beside the altar and bury him. This will remove the guilt of Joab's senseless murders from me and from my father's family.

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1Ki 2:32 - The LORD will repay him[fn] for the murders of two men who were more righteous and better than he. For my father knew nothing about the deaths of Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and of Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

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1Ki 2:38 - Shimei replied, “Your sentence is fair; I will do whatever my lord the king commands.” So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.

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1Ki 2:44 - The king also said to Shimei, “You certainly remember all the wicked things you did to my father, David. May the LORD now bring that evil on your own head.

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1Ki 3:6 - Solomon replied, “You showed faithful love to your servant my father, David, because he was honest and true and faithful to you. And you have continued your faithful love to him today by giving him a son to sit on his throne.

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1Ki 3:7 - “Now, O LORD my God, you have made me king instead of my father, David, but I am like a little child who doesn't know his way around.

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1Ki 3:14 - And if you follow me and obey my decrees and my commands as your father, David, did, I will give you a long life.”

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1Ki 3:18 - Three days later this woman also had a baby. We were alone; there were only two of us in the house.

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1Ki 3:20 - Then she got up in the night and took my son from beside me while I was asleep. She laid her dead child in my arms and took mine to sleep beside her.

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1Ki 3:21 - And in the morning when I tried to nurse my son, he was dead! But when I looked more closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn't my son at all.”

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1Ki 3:22 - Then the other woman interrupted, “It certainly was your son, and the living child is mine.”
“No,” the first woman said, “the living child is mine, and the dead one is yours.” And so they argued back and forth before the king.

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1Ki 3:23 - Then the king said, “Let's get the facts straight. Both of you claim the living child is yours, and each says that the dead one belongs to the other.

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1Ki 5:3 - “You know that my father, David, was not able to build a Temple to honor the name of the LORD his God because of the many wars waged against him by surrounding nations. He could not build until the LORD gave him victory over all his enemies.

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1Ki 5:4 - But now the LORD my God has given me peace on every side; I have no enemies, and all is well.

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1Ki 5:5 - So I am planning to build a Temple to honor the name of the LORD my God, just as he had instructed my father, David. For the LORD told him, ‘Your son, whom I will place on your throne, will build the Temple to honor my name.'

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1Ki 5:6 - “Therefore, please command that cedars from Lebanon be cut for me. Let my men work alongside yours, and I will pay your men whatever wages you ask. As you know, there is no one among us who can cut timber like you Sidonians!”

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1Ki 5:9 - My servants will bring the logs from the Lebanon mountains to the Mediterranean Sea[fn] and make them into rafts and float them along the coast to whatever place you choose. Then we will break the rafts apart so you can carry the logs away. You can pay me by supplying me with food for my household.”

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1Ki 8:15 - “Praise the LORD, the God of Israel, who has kept the promise he made to my father, David. For he told my father,

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1Ki 8:16 - ‘From the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have never chosen a city among any of the tribes of Israel as the place where a Temple should be built to honor my name. But I have chosen David to be king over my people Israel.'”

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1Ki 8:17 - Then Solomon said, “My father, David, wanted to build this Temple to honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

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1Ki 8:18 - But the LORD told him, ‘You wanted to build the Temple to honor my name. Your intention is good,

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1Ki 8:19 - but you are not the one to do it. One of your own sons will build the Temple to honor me.'

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1Ki 8:20 - “And now the LORD has fulfilled the promise he made, for I have become king in my father's place, and I now sit on the throne of Israel, just as the LORD promised. I have built this Temple to honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

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1Ki 8:24 - You have kept your promise to your servant David, my father. You made that promise with your own mouth, and with your own hands you have fulfilled it today.

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1Ki 8:25 - “And now, O LORD, God of Israel, carry out the additional promise you made to your servant David, my father. For you said to him, ‘If your descendants guard their behavior and faithfully follow me as you have done, one of them will always sit on the throne of Israel.'

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1Ki 8:26 - Now, O God of Israel, fulfill this promise to your servant David, my father.

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1Ki 8:28 - Nevertheless, listen to my prayer and my plea, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is making to you today.

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1Ki 8:29 - May you watch over this Temple night and day, this place where you have said, ‘My name will be there.' May you always hear the prayers I make toward this place.

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1Ki 8:53 - For when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt, O Sovereign LORD, you told your servant Moses that you had set Israel apart from all the nations of the earth to be your own special possession.”

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1Ki 9:3 - The LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your petition. I have set this Temple apart to be holy—this place you have built where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart.

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1Ki 9:4 - “As for you, if you will follow me with integrity and godliness, as David your father did, obeying all my commands, decrees, and regulations,

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1Ki 9:6 - “But if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey the commands and decrees I have given you, and if you serve and worship other gods,

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1Ki 9:7 - then I will uproot Israel from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make Israel an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.

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1Ki 10:6 - She exclaimed to the king, “Everything I heard in my country about your achievements[fn] and wisdom is true!

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1Ki 10:7 - I didn't believe what was said until I arrived here and saw it with my own eyes. In fact, I had not heard the half of it! Your wisdom and prosperity are far beyond what I was told.

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1Ki 11:11 - So now the LORD said to him, “Since you have not kept my covenant and have disobeyed my decrees, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your servants.

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1Ki 11:13 - And even so, I will not take away the entire kingdom; I will let him be king of one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, my chosen city.”

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1Ki 11:21 - When the news reached Hadad in Egypt that David and his commander Joab were both dead, he said to Pharaoh, “Let me return to my own country.”

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1Ki 11:32 - But I will leave him one tribe for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.

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1Ki 11:33 - For Solomon has[fn] abandoned me and worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians; Chemosh, the god of Moab; and Molech, the god of the Ammonites. He has not followed my ways and done what is pleasing in my sight. He has not obeyed my decrees and regulations as David his father did.

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1Ki 11:34 - “‘But I will not take the entire kingdom from Solomon at this time. For the sake of my servant David, the one whom I chose and who obeyed my commands and decrees, I will keep Solomon as leader for the rest of his life.

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1Ki 11:36 - His son will have one tribe so that the descendants of David my servant will continue to reign, shining like a lamp in Jerusalem, the city I have chosen to be the place for my name.

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1Ki 11:38 - If you listen to what I tell you and follow my ways and do whatever I consider to be right, and if you obey my decrees and commands, as my servant David did, then I will always be with you. I will establish an enduring dynasty for you as I did for David, and I will give Israel to you.

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1Ki 12:10 - The young men replied, “This is what you should tell those complainers who want a lighter burden: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's waist!

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1Ki 12:11 - Yes, my father laid heavy burdens on you, but I'm going to make them even heavier! My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions!'”

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1Ki 12:14 - and followed the counsel of his younger advisers. He told the people, “My father laid heavy burdens on you, but I'm going to make them even heavier! My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions!”

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1Ki 13:6 - The king cried out to the man of God, “Please ask the LORD your God to restore my hand again!” So the man of God prayed to the LORD, and the king's hand was restored and he could move it again.

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1Ki 13:31 - Afterward the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.

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1Ki 15:19 - “Let there be a treaty[fn] between you and me like the one between your father and my father. See, I am sending you a gift of silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel so that he will leave me alone.”

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1Ki 16:2 - “I lifted you out of the dust to make you ruler of my people Israel, but you have followed the evil example of Jeroboam. You have provoked my anger by causing my people Israel to sin.

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1Ki 16:28 - When Omri died, he was buried in Samaria. Then his son Ahab became the next king.

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1Ki 17:1 - Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives—the God I serve—there will be no dew or rain during the next few years until I give the word!”

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1Ki 17:12 - But she said, “I swear by the LORD your God that I don't have a single piece of bread in the house. And I have only a handful of flour left in the jar and a little cooking oil in the bottom of the jug. I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this last meal, and then my son and I will die.”

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1Ki 17:18 - Then she said to Elijah, “O man of God, what have you done to me? Have you come here to point out my sins and kill my son?”

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1Ki 17:21 - And he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, please let this child's life return to him.”

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1Ki 18:7 - As Obadiah was walking along, he suddenly saw Elijah coming toward him. Obadiah recognized him at once and bowed low to the ground before him. “Is it really you, my lord Elijah?” he asked.

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1Ki 18:10 - For I swear by the LORD your God that the king has searched every nation and kingdom on earth from end to end to find you. And each time he was told, ‘Elijah isn't here,' King Ahab forced the king of that nation to swear to the truth of his claim.

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1Ki 18:13 - Has no one told you, my lord, about the time when Jezebel was trying to kill the LORD's prophets? I hid 100 of them in two caves and supplied them with food and water.

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1Ki 18:24 - Then call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD. The god who answers by setting fire to the wood is the true God!” And all the people agreed.

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1Ki 18:29 - They raved all afternoon until the time of the evening sacrifice, but still there was no sound, no reply, no response.

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1Ki 18:36 - At the usual time for offering the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet walked up to the altar and prayed, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,[fn] prove today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant. Prove that I have done all this at your command.

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1Ki 18:37 - O LORD, answer me! Answer me so these people will know that you, O LORD, are God and that you have brought them back to yourself.”

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1Ki 19:4 - Then he went on alone into the wilderness, traveling all day. He sat down under a solitary broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors who have already died.”

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1Ki 19:10 - Elijah replied, “I have zealously served the LORD God Almighty. But the people of Israel have broken their covenant with you, torn down your altars, and killed every one of your prophets. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me, too.”

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1Ki 19:14 - He replied again, “I have zealously served the LORD God Almighty. But the people of Israel have broken their covenant with you, torn down your altars, and killed every one of your prophets. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me, too.”

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1Ki 19:20 - Elisha left the oxen standing there, ran after Elijah, and said to him, “First let me go and kiss my father and mother good-bye, and then I will go with you!”
Elijah replied, “Go on back, but think about what I have done to you.”

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1Ki 20:6 - But about this time tomorrow I will send my officials to search your palace and the homes of your people. They will take away everything you consider valuable!'”

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1Ki 20:7 - Then Ahab summoned all the elders of the land and said to them, “Look how this man is stirring up trouble! I already agreed with his demand that I give him my wives and children and silver and gold.”

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1Ki 20:10 - Then Ben-hadad sent this message to Ahab: “May the gods strike me and even kill me if there remains enough dust from Samaria to provide even a handful for each of my soldiers.”

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1Ki 20:32 - So they put on burlap and ropes, and they went to the king of Israel and begged, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please let me live!'”
The king of Israel responded, “Is he still alive? He is my brother!”

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1Ki 20:34 - Ben-hadad told him, “I will give back the towns my father took from your father, and you may establish places of trade in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.”
Then Ahab said, “I will release you under these conditions.” So they made a new treaty, and Ben-hadad was set free.

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1Ki 21:2 - One day Ahab said to Naboth, “Since your vineyard is so convenient to my palace, I would like to buy it to use as a vegetable garden. I will give you a better vineyard in exchange, or if you prefer, I will pay you for it.”

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1Ki 21:3 - But Naboth replied, “The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance that was passed down by my ancestors.”

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1Ki 21:6 - “I asked Naboth to sell me his vineyard or trade it, but he refused!” Ahab told her.

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1Ki 21:20 - “So, my enemy, you have found me!” Ahab exclaimed to Elijah.
“Yes,” Elijah answered, “I have come because you have sold yourself to what is evil in the LORD's sight.

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1Ki 21:29 - “Do you see how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has done this, I will not do what I promised during his lifetime. It will happen to his sons; I will destroy his dynasty.”

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1Ki 22:4 - Then he turned to Jehoshaphat and asked, “Will you join me in battle to recover Ramoth-gilead?”
Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, “Why, of course! You and I are as one. My troops are your troops, and my horses are your horses.”

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1Ki 22:30 - The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “As we go into battle, I will disguise myself so no one will recognize me, but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself, and they went into battle.

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2Ki 1:2 - One day Israel's new king, Ahaziah, fell through the latticework of an upper room at his palace in Samaria and was seriously injured. So he sent messengers to the temple of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether he would recover.

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2Ki 1:13 - Once more the king sent a third captain with fifty men. But this time the captain went up the hill and fell to his knees before Elijah. He pleaded with him, “O man of God, please spare my life and the lives of these, your fifty servants.

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2Ki 3:7 - On the way, he sent this message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you join me in battle against him?”
And Jehoshaphat replied, “Why, of course! You and I are as one. My troops are your troops, and my horses are your horses.”

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2Ki 4:1 - One day the widow of a member of the group of prophets came to Elisha and cried out, “My husband who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the LORD. But now a creditor has come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves.”

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2Ki 4:13 - Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tell her, ‘We appreciate the kind concern you have shown us. What can we do for you? Can we put in a good word for you to the king or to the commander of the army?'”
“No,” she replied, “my family takes good care of me.”

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2Ki 4:16 - “Next year at this time you will be holding a son in your arms!”
“No, my lord!” she cried. “O man of God, don't deceive me and get my hopes up like that.”

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2Ki 4:19 - Suddenly he cried out, “My head hurts! My head hurts!”
His father said to one of the servants, “Carry him home to his mother.”

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2Ki 4:28 - Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? And didn't I say, ‘Don't deceive me and get my hopes up'?”

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2Ki 4:29 - Then Elisha said to Gehazi, “Get ready to travel[fn]; take my staff and go! Don't talk to anyone along the way. Go quickly and lay the staff on the child's face.”

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2Ki 5:3 - One day the girl said to her mistress, “I wish my master would go to see the prophet in Samaria. He would heal him of his leprosy.”

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2Ki 5:6 - The letter to the king of Israel said: “With this letter I present my servant Naaman. I want you to heal him of his leprosy.”

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2Ki 5:18 - However, may the LORD pardon me in this one thing: When my master the king goes into the temple of the god Rimmon to worship there and leans on my arm, may the LORD pardon me when I bow, too.”

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2Ki 5:20 - But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said to himself, “My master should not have let this Aramean get away without accepting any of his gifts. As surely as the LORD lives, I will chase after him and get something from him.”

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2Ki 5:22 - “Yes,” Gehazi said, “but my master has sent me to tell you that two young prophets from the hill country of Ephraim have just arrived. He would like 75 pounds[fn] of silver and two sets of clothing to give to them.”

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2Ki 5:26 - But Elisha asked him, “Don't you realize that I was there in spirit when Naaman stepped down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to receive money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and cattle, and male and female servants?

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2Ki 6:12 - “It's not us, my lord the king,” one of the officers replied. “Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel even the words you speak in the privacy of your bedroom!”

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2Ki 6:19 - Then Elisha went out and told them, “You have come the wrong way! This isn't the right city! Follow me, and I will take you to the man you are looking for.” And he led them to the city of Samaria.

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2Ki 6:28 - But then the king asked, “What is the matter?”
She replied, “This woman said to me: ‘Come on, let's eat your son today, then we will eat my son tomorrow.'

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2Ki 6:29 - So we cooked my son and ate him. Then the next day I said to her, ‘Kill your son so we can eat him,' but she has hidden her son.”

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2Ki 6:32 - Elisha was sitting in his house with the elders of Israel when the king sent a messenger to summon him. But before the messenger arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “A murderer has sent a man to cut off my head. When he arrives, shut the door and keep him out. We will soon hear his master's steps following him.”

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2Ki 8:8 - the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift to the man of God. Then tell him to ask the LORD, ‘Will I recover from this illness?'”

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2Ki 8:9 - So Hazael loaded down forty camels with the finest products of Damascus as a gift for Elisha. He went to him and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad, the king of Aram, has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?'”

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2Ki 8:12 - “What's the matter, my lord?” Hazael asked him.
Elisha replied, “I know the terrible things you will do to the people of Israel. You will burn their fortified cities, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little children to the ground, and rip open their pregnant women!”

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2Ki 9:7 - You are to destroy the family of Ahab, your master. In this way, I will avenge the murder of my prophets and all the LORD's servants who were killed by Jezebel.

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2Ki 9:18 - So a horseman went out to meet Jehu and said, “The king wants to know if you are coming in peace.”
Jehu replied, “What do you know about peace? Fall in behind me!”
The watchman called out to the king, “The messenger has met them, but he's not returning.”

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2Ki 9:19 - So the king sent out a second horseman. He rode up to them and said, “The king wants to know if you come in peace.”
Again Jehu answered, “What do you know about peace? Fall in behind me!”

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2Ki 10:6 - Jehu responded with a second letter: “If you are on my side and are going to obey me, bring the heads of your master's sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the seventy sons of the king were being cared for by the leaders of Samaria, where they had been raised since childhood.

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2Ki 10:9 - In the morning he went out and spoke to the crowd that had gathered around them. “You are not to blame,” he told them. “I am the one who conspired against my master and killed him. But who killed all these?

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2Ki 10:15 - When Jehu left there, he met Jehonadab son of Recab, who was coming to meet him. After they had greeted each other, Jehu said to him, “Are you as loyal to me as I am to you?”
“Yes, I am,” Jehonadab replied.
“If you are,” Jehu said, “then give me your hand.” So Jehonadab put out his hand, and Jehu helped him into the chariot.

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2Ki 10:30 - Nonetheless the LORD said to Jehu, “You have done well in following my instructions to destroy the family of Ahab. Therefore, your descendants will be kings of Israel down to the fourth generation.”

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2Ki 14:9 - But King Jehoash of Israel replied to King Amaziah of Judah with this story: “Out in the Lebanon mountains, a thistle sent a message to a mighty cedar tree: ‘Give your daughter in marriage to my son.' But just then a wild animal of Lebanon came by and stepped on the thistle, crushing it!

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2Ki 17:13 - Again and again the LORD had sent his prophets and seers to warn both Israel and Judah: “Turn from all your evil ways. Obey my commands and decrees—the entire law that I commanded your ancestors to obey, and that I gave you through my servants the prophets.”

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2Ki 18:23 - “I'll tell you what! Strike a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you 2,000 horses if you can find that many men to ride on them!

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2Ki 18:24 - With your tiny army, how can you think of challenging even the weakest contingent of my master's troops, even with the help of Egypt's chariots and charioteers?

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2Ki 18:27 - But Sennacherib's chief of staff replied, “Do you think my master sent this message only to you and your master? He wants all the people to hear it, for when we put this city under siege, they will suffer along with you. They will be so hungry and thirsty that they will eat their own dung and drink their own urine.”

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2Ki 18:29 - This is what the king says: Don't let Hezekiah deceive you. He will never be able to rescue you from my power.

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2Ki 18:34 - What happened to the gods of Hamath and Arpad? And what about the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Did any god rescue Samaria from my power?

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2Ki 18:35 - What god of any nation has ever been able to save its people from my power? So what makes you think that the LORD can rescue Jerusalem from me?”

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2Ki 19:12 - Have the gods of other nations rescued them—such nations as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Tel-assar? My predecessors destroyed them all!

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2Ki 19:23 - By your messengers you have defied the Lord.
You have said, ‘With my many chariots
I have conquered the highest mountains—
yes, the remotest peaks of Lebanon.
I have cut down its tallest cedars
and its finest cypress trees.
I have reached its farthest corners
and explored its deepest forests.

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2Ki 19:24 - I have dug wells in many foreign lands
and refreshed myself with their water.
With the sole of my foot
I stopped up all the rivers of Egypt!'

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2Ki 19:28 - And because of your raging against me
and your arrogance, which I have heard for myself,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth.
I will make you return
by the same road on which you came.”

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2Ki 19:34 - For my own honor and for the sake of my servant David,
I will defend this city and protect it.”

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2Ki 20:5 - “Go back to Hezekiah, the leader of my people. Tell him, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of your ancestor David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will heal you, and three days from now you will get out of bed and go to the Temple of the LORD.

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2Ki 20:6 - I will add fifteen years to your life, and I will rescue you and this city from the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own honor and for the sake of my servant David.'”

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2Ki 20:15 - “What did they see in your palace?” Isaiah asked.
“They saw everything,” Hezekiah replied. “I showed them everything I own—all my royal treasuries.”

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2Ki 20:19 - Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “This message you have given me from the LORD is good.” For the king was thinking, “At least there will be peace and security during my lifetime.”

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2Ki 21:4 - He built pagan altars in the Temple of the LORD, the place where the LORD had said, “My name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”

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2Ki 21:7 - Manasseh even made a carved image of Asherah and set it up in the Temple, the very place where the LORD had told David and his son Solomon: “My name will be honored forever in this Temple and in Jerusalem—the city I have chosen from among all the tribes of Israel.

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2Ki 21:8 - If the Israelites will be careful to obey my commands—all the laws my servant Moses gave them—I will not send them into exile from this land that I gave their ancestors.”

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2Ki 21:14 - Then I will reject even the remnant of my own people who are left, and I will hand them over as plunder for their enemies.

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2Ki 21:15 - For they have done great evil in my sight and have angered me ever since their ancestors came out of Egypt.”

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2Ki 22:17 - For my people have abandoned me and offered sacrifices to pagan gods, and I am very angry with them for everything they have done. My anger will burn against this place, and it will not be quenched.'

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2Ki 23:27 - For the LORD said, “I will also banish Judah from my presence just as I have banished Israel. And I will reject my chosen city of Jerusalem and the Temple where my name was to be honored.”

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1Ch 4:10 - He was the one who prayed to the God of Israel, “Oh, that you would bless me and expand my territory! Please be with me in all that I do, and keep me from all trouble and pain!” And God granted him his request.

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1Ch 7:23 - Afterward Ephraim slept with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Ephraim named him Beriah[fn] because of the tragedy his family had suffered.

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1Ch 11:2 - In the past,[fn] even when Saul was king, you were the one who really led the forces of Israel. And the LORD your God told you, ‘You will be the shepherd of my people Israel. You will be the leader of my people Israel.'”

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1Ch 12:17 - David went out to meet them and said, “If you have come in peace to help me, we are friends. But if you have come to betray me to my enemies when I am innocent, then may the God of our ancestors see it and punish you.”

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1Ch 14:10 - So David asked God, “Should I go out to fight the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?”
The LORD replied, “Yes, go ahead. I will hand them over to you.”

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1Ch 14:11 - So David and his troops went up to Baal-perazim and defeated the Philistines there. “God did it!” David exclaimed. “He used me to burst through my enemies like a raging flood!” So they named that place Baal-perazim (which means “the Lord who bursts through”).

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1Ch 16:22 - “Do not touch my chosen people,
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1Ch 17:4 - “Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD has declared: You are not the one to build a house for me to live in.

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1Ch 17:6 - Yet no matter where I have gone with the Israelites, I have never once complained to Israel's leaders,[fn] the shepherds of my people. I have never asked them, “Why haven't you built me a beautiful cedar house?”'

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1Ch 17:7 - “Now go and say to my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies has declared: I took you from tending sheep in the pasture and selected you to be the leader of my people Israel.

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1Ch 17:9 - And I will provide a homeland for my people Israel, planting them in a secure place where they will never be disturbed. Evil nations won't oppress them as they've done in the past,

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1Ch 17:10 - starting from the time I appointed judges to rule my people Israel. And I will defeat all your enemies. “‘Furthermore, I declare that the LORD will build a house for you—a dynasty of kings!

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1Ch 17:13 - I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never take my favor from him as I took it from the one who ruled before you.

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1Ch 17:14 - I will confirm him as king over my house and my kingdom for all time, and his throne will be secure forever.'”

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1Ch 17:16 - Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and prayed, “Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?

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1Ch 21:3 - But Joab replied, “May the LORD increase the number of his people a hundred times over! But why, my lord the king, do you want to do this? Are they not all your servants? Why must you cause Israel to sin?”

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1Ch 21:17 - And David said to God, “I am the one who called for the census! I am the one who has sinned and done wrong! But these people are as innocent as sheep—what have they done? O LORD my God, let your anger fall against me and my family, but do not destroy your people.”

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1Ch 21:23 - “Take it, my lord the king, and use it as you wish,” Araunah said to David. “I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, and the threshing boards for wood to build a fire on the altar, and the wheat for the grain offering. I will give it all to you.”

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1Ch 22:5 - David said, “My son Solomon is still young and inexperienced. And since the Temple to be built for the LORD must be a magnificent structure, famous and glorious throughout the world, I will begin making preparations for it now.” So David collected vast amounts of building materials before his death.

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1Ch 22:8 - “But the LORD said to me, ‘You have killed many men in the battles you have fought. And since you have shed so much blood in my sight, you will not be the one to build a Temple to honor my name.

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1Ch 22:10 - He is the one who will build a Temple to honor my name. He will be my son, and I will be his father. And I will secure the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.'

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1Ch 22:11 - “Now, my son, may the LORD be with you and give you success as you follow his directions in building the Temple of the LORD your God.

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1Ch 22:14 - “I have worked hard to provide materials for building the Temple of the LORD—nearly 4,000 tons of gold, 40,000 tons of silver,[fn] and so much iron and bronze that it cannot be weighed. I have also gathered timber and stone for the walls, though you may need to add more.

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1Ch 28:2 - David rose to his feet and said: “My brothers and my people! It was my desire to build a temple where the Ark of the LORD's Covenant, God's footstool, could rest permanently. I made the necessary preparations for building it,

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1Ch 28:3 - but God said to me, ‘You must not build a temple to honor my name, for you are a warrior and have shed much blood.'

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1Ch 28:4 - “Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, has chosen me from among all my father's family to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen the tribe of Judah to rule, and from among the families of Judah he chose my father's family. And from among my father's sons the LORD was pleased to make me king over all Israel.

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1Ch 28:5 - And from among my sons—for the LORD has given me many—he chose Solomon to succeed me on the throne of Israel and to rule over the LORD's kingdom.

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1Ch 28:6 - He said to me, ‘Your son Solomon will build my Temple and its courtyards, for I have chosen him as my son, and I will be his father.

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1Ch 28:7 - And if he continues to obey my commands and regulations as he does now, I will make his kingdom last forever.'

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1Ch 28:9 - “And Solomon, my son, learn to know the God of your ancestors intimately. Worship and serve him with your whole heart and a willing mind. For the LORD sees every heart and knows every plan and thought. If you seek him, you will find him. But if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.

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1Ch 28:20 - Then David continued, “Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Don't be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. He will see to it that all the work related to the Temple of the LORD is finished correctly.

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1Ch 29:1 - Then King David turned to the entire assembly and said, “My son Solomon, whom God has clearly chosen as the next king of Israel, is still young and inexperienced. The work ahead of him is enormous, for the Temple he will build is not for mere mortals—it is for the LORD God himself!

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1Ch 29:2 - Using every resource at my command, I have gathered as much as I could for building the Temple of my God. Now there is enough gold, silver, bronze, iron, and wood, as well as great quantities of onyx, other precious stones, costly jewels, and all kinds of fine stone and marble.

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1Ch 29:3 - “And now, because of my devotion to the Temple of my God, I am giving all of my own private treasures of gold and silver to help in the construction. This is in addition to the building materials I have already collected for his holy Temple.

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1Ch 29:14 - But who am I, and who are my people, that we could give anything to you? Everything we have has come from you, and we give you only what you first gave us!

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1Ch 29:19 - Give my son Solomon the wholehearted desire to obey all your commands, laws, and decrees, and to do everything necessary to build this Temple, for which I have made these preparations.”

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2Ch 1:8 - Solomon replied to God, “You showed faithful love to David, my father, and now you have made me king in his place.

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2Ch 1:9 - O LORD God, please continue to keep your promise to David my father, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth!

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2Ch 1:11 - God said to Solomon, “Because your greatest desire is to help your people, and you did not ask for wealth, riches, fame, or even the death of your enemies or a long life, but rather you asked for wisdom and knowledge to properly govern my people—

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2Ch 2:3 - Solomon also sent this message to King Hiram[fn] at Tyre: “Send me cedar logs as you did for my father, David, when he was building his palace.

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2Ch 2:4 - I am about to build a Temple to honor the name of the LORD my God. It will be a place set apart to burn fragrant incense before him, to display the special sacrificial bread, and to sacrifice burnt offerings each morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, at new moon celebrations, and at the other appointed festivals of the LORD our God. He has commanded Israel to do these things forever.

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2Ch 2:7 - “So send me a master craftsman who can work with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, as well as with purple, scarlet, and blue cloth. He must be a skilled engraver who can work with the craftsmen of Judah and Jerusalem who were selected by my father, David.

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2Ch 2:8 - “Also send me cedar, cypress, and red sandalwood[fn] logs from Lebanon, for I know that your men are without equal at cutting timber in Lebanon. I will send my men to help them.

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2Ch 2:13 - “I am sending you a master craftsman named Huram-abi, who is extremely talented.

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2Ch 2:14 - His mother is from the tribe of Dan in Israel, and his father is from Tyre. He is skillful at making things from gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and he also works with stone and wood. He can work with purple, blue, and scarlet cloth and fine linen. He is also an engraver and can follow any design given to him. He will work with your craftsmen and those appointed by my lord David, your father.

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2Ch 2:15 - “Send along the wheat, barley, olive oil, and wine that my lord has mentioned.

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2Ch 6:4 - “Praise the LORD, the God of Israel, who has kept the promise he made to my father, David. For he told my father,

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2Ch 6:5 - ‘From the day I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have never chosen a city among any of the tribes of Israel as the place where a Temple should be built to honor my name. Nor have I chosen a king to lead my people Israel.

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2Ch 6:6 - But now I have chosen Jerusalem as the place for my name to be honored, and I have chosen David to be king over my people Israel.'”

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2Ch 6:7 - Then Solomon said, “My father, David, wanted to build this Temple to honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

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2Ch 6:8 - But the LORD told him, ‘You wanted to build the Temple to honor my name. Your intention is good,

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2Ch 6:9 - but you are not the one to do it. One of your own sons will build the Temple to honor me.'

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2Ch 6:10 - “And now the LORD has fulfilled the promise he made, for I have become king in my father's place, and now I sit on the throne of Israel, just as the LORD promised. I have built this Temple to honor the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.

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2Ch 6:15 - You have kept your promise to your servant David, my father. You made that promise with your own mouth, and with your own hands you have fulfilled it today.

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2Ch 6:16 - “And now, O LORD, God of Israel, carry out the additional promise you made to your servant David, my father. For you said to him, ‘If your descendants guard their behavior and faithfully follow my Law as you have done, one of them will always sit on the throne of Israel.'

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2Ch 6:19 - Nevertheless, listen to my prayer and my plea, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is making to you.

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2Ch 7:13 - At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or command grasshoppers to devour your crops, or send plagues among you.

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2Ch 7:14 - Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.

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2Ch 7:15 - My eyes will be open and my ears attentive to every prayer made in this place.

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2Ch 7:16 - For I have chosen this Temple and set it apart to be holy—a place where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart.

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2Ch 7:17 - “As for you, if you faithfully follow me as David your father did, obeying all my commands, decrees, and regulations,

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2Ch 7:19 - “But if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey the decrees and commands I have given you, and if you serve and worship other gods,

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2Ch 7:20 - then I will uproot the people from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make it an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.

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2Ch 8:11 - Solomon moved his wife, Pharaoh's daughter, from the City of David to the new palace he had built for her. He said, “My wife must not live in King David's palace, for the Ark of the LORD has been there, and it is holy ground.”

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2Ch 9:5 - She exclaimed to the king, “Everything I heard in my country about your achievements[fn] and wisdom is true!

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2Ch 9:6 - I didn't believe what was said until I arrived here and saw it with my own eyes. In fact, I had not heard the half of your great wisdom! It is far beyond what I was told.

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2Ch 10:10 - The young men replied, “This is what you should tell those complainers who want a lighter burden: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's waist!

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2Ch 10:11 - Yes, my father laid heavy burdens on you, but I'm going to make them even heavier! My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions!'”

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2Ch 10:14 - and followed the counsel of his younger advisers. He told the people, “My father laid[fn] heavy burdens on you, but I'm going to make them even heavier! My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions!”

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2Ch 12:7 - When the LORD saw their change of heart, he gave this message to Shemaiah: “Since the people have humbled themselves, I will not completely destroy them and will soon give them some relief. I will not use Shishak to pour out my anger on Jerusalem.

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2Ch 12:8 - But they will become his subjects, so they will know the difference between serving me and serving earthly rulers.”

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2Ch 15:2 - and he went out to meet King Asa as he was returning from the battle. “Listen to me, Asa!” he shouted. “Listen, all you people of Judah and Benjamin! The LORD will stay with you as long as you stay with him! Whenever you seek him, you will find him. But if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

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2Ch 16:3 - “Let there be a treaty[fn] between you and me like the one between your father and my father. See, I am sending you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel so that he will leave me alone.”

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2Ch 18:3 - “Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead?” King Ahab of Israel asked King Jehoshaphat of Judah.
Jehoshaphat replied, “Why, of course! You and I are as one, and my troops are your troops. We will certainly join you in battle.”

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2Ch 18:29 - The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “As we go into battle, I will disguise myself so no one will recognize me, but you wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself, and they went into battle.

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2Ch 20:20 - Early the next morning the army of Judah went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. On the way Jehoshaphat stopped and said, “Listen to me, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be able to stand firm. Believe in his prophets, and you will succeed.”

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2Ch 25:16 - But the king interrupted him and said, “Since when have I made you the king's counselor? Be quiet now before I have you killed!”
So the prophet stopped with this warning: “I know that God has determined to destroy you because you have done this and have refused to accept my counsel.”

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2Ch 25:18 - But King Jehoash of Israel replied to King Amaziah of Judah with this story: “Out in the Lebanon mountains, a thistle sent a message to a mighty cedar tree: ‘Give your daughter in marriage to my son.' But just then a wild animal of Lebanon came by and stepped on the thistle, crushing it!

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2Ch 28:11 - Listen to me and return these prisoners you have taken, for they are your own relatives. Watch out, because now the LORD's fierce anger has been turned against you!”

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2Ch 28:23 - He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus who had defeated him, for he said, “Since these gods helped the kings of Aram, they will help me, too, if I sacrifice to them.” But instead, they led to his ruin and the ruin of all Judah.

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2Ch 32:13 - “Surely you must realize what I and the other kings of Assyria before me have done to all the people of the earth! Were any of the gods of those nations able to rescue their people from my power?

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2Ch 32:14 - Which of their gods was able to rescue its people from the destructive power of my predecessors? What makes you think your God can rescue you from me?

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2Ch 32:15 - Don't let Hezekiah deceive you! Don't let him fool you like this! I say it again—no god of any nation or kingdom has ever yet been able to rescue his people from me or my ancestors. How much less will your God rescue you from my power!”

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2Ch 32:17 - The king also sent letters scorning the LORD, the God of Israel. He wrote, “Just as the gods of all the other nations failed to rescue their people from my power, so the God of Hezekiah will also fail.”

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2Ch 33:4 - He built pagan altars in the Temple of the LORD, the place where the LORD had said, “My name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”

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2Ch 33:7 - Manasseh even took a carved idol he had made and set it up in God's Temple, the very place where God had told David and his son Solomon: “My name will be honored forever in this Temple and in Jerusalem—the city I have chosen from among all the tribes of Israel.

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2Ch 34:25 - For my people have abandoned me and offered sacrifices to pagan gods, and I am very angry with them for everything they have done. My anger will be poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.'

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2Ch 34:27 - You were sorry and humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this city and its people. You humbled yourself and tore your clothing in despair and wept before me in repentance. And I have indeed heard you, says the LORD.

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2Ch 35:19 - This Passover celebration took place in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign.

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Ezr 7:13 - “I decree that any of the people of Israel in my kingdom, including the priests and Levites, may volunteer to return to Jerusalem with you.

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Ezr 9:3 - When I heard this, I tore my cloak and my shirt, pulled hair from my head and beard, and sat down utterly shocked.

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Ezr 9:5 - At the time of the sacrifice, I stood up from where I had sat in mourning with my clothes torn. I fell to my knees and lifted my hands to the LORD my God.

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Ezr 9:6 - I prayed, “O my God, I am utterly ashamed; I blush to lift up my face to you. For our sins are piled higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached to the heavens.

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Neh 1:2 - Hanani, one of my brothers, came to visit me with some other men who had just arrived from Judah. I asked them about the Jews who had returned there from captivity and about how things were going in Jerusalem.

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Neh 1:6 - listen to my prayer! Look down and see me praying night and day for your people Israel. I confess that we have sinned against you. Yes, even my own family and I have sinned!

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Neh 1:9 - But if you return to me and obey my commands and live by them, then even if you are exiled to the ends of the earth, I will bring you back to the place I have chosen for my name to be honored.'

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Neh 2:3 - but I replied, “Long live the king! How can I not be sad? For the city where my ancestors are buried is in ruins, and the gates have been destroyed by fire.”

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Neh 2:5 - I replied, “If it please the king, and if you are pleased with me, your servant, send me to Judah to rebuild the city where my ancestors are buried.”

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Neh 2:12 - I slipped out during the night, taking only a few others with me. I had not told anyone about the plans God had put in my heart for Jerusalem. We took no pack animals with us except the donkey I was riding.

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Neh 2:14 - Then I went to the Fountain Gate and to the King's Pool, but my donkey couldn't get through the rubble.

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Neh 4:23 - During this time, none of us—not I, nor my relatives, nor my servants, nor the guards who were with me—ever took off our clothes. We carried our weapons with us at all times, even when we went for water.[fn]

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Neh 5:7 - After thinking it over, I spoke out against these nobles and officials. I told them, “You are hurting your own relatives by charging interest when they borrow money!” Then I called a public meeting to deal with the problem.

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Neh 5:10 - I myself, as well as my brothers and my workers, have been lending the people money and grain, but now let us stop this business of charging interest.

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Neh 5:13 - I shook out the folds of my robe and said, “If you fail to keep your promise, may God shake you like this from your homes and from your property!”
The whole assembly responded, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.

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Neh 5:14 - For the entire twelve years that I was governor of Judah—from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of the reign of King Artaxerxes[fn]—neither I nor my officials drew on our official food allowance.

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Neh 5:17 - I asked for nothing, even though I regularly fed 150 Jewish officials at my table, besides all the visitors from other lands!

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Neh 5:19 - Remember, O my God, all that I have done for these people, and bless me for it.

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Neh 6:9 - They were just trying to intimidate us, imagining that they could discourage us and stop the work. So I continued the work with even greater determination.[fn]

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Neh 6:19 - They kept telling me about Tobiah's good deeds, and then they told him everything I said. And Tobiah kept sending threatening letters to intimidate me.

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Neh 7:2 - I gave the responsibility of governing Jerusalem to my brother Hanani, along with Hananiah, the commander of the fortress, for he was a faithful man who feared God more than most.

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Neh 7:5 - So my God gave me the idea to call together all the nobles and leaders of the city, along with the ordinary citizens, for registration. I had found the genealogical record of those who had first returned to Judah. This is what was written there:

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Neh 13:14 - Remember this good deed, O my God, and do not forget all that I have faithfully done for the Temple of my God and its services.

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Neh 13:19 - Then I commanded that the gates of Jerusalem should be shut as darkness fell every Friday evening,[fn] not to be opened until the Sabbath ended. I sent some of my own servants to guard the gates so that no merchandise could be brought in on the Sabbath day.

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Neh 13:21 - But I spoke sharply to them and said, “What are you doing out here, camping around the wall? If you do this again, I will arrest you!” And that was the last time they came on the Sabbath.

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Neh 13:22 - Then I commanded the Levites to purify themselves and to guard the gates in order to preserve the holiness of the Sabbath. Remember this good deed also, O my God! Have compassion on me according to your great and unfailing love.

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Neh 13:31 - I also made sure that the supply of wood for the altar and the first portions of the harvest were brought at the proper times. Remember this in my favor, O my God.

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Est 4:8 - Mordecai gave Hathach a copy of the decree issued in Susa that called for the death of all Jews. He asked Hathach to show it to Esther and explain the situation to her. He also asked Hathach to direct her to go to the king to beg for mercy and plead for her people.

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Est 4:16 - “Go and gather together all the Jews of Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same. And then, though it is against the law, I will go in to see the king. If I must die, I must die.”

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Est 5:2 - When he saw Queen Esther standing there in the inner court, he welcomed her and held out the gold scepter to her. So Esther approached and touched the end of the scepter.

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Est 5:3 - Then the king asked her, “What do you want, Queen Esther? What is your request? I will give it to you, even if it is half the kingdom!”

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Est 5:4 - And Esther replied, “If it please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a banquet I have prepared for the king.”

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Est 5:7 - Esther replied, “This is my request and deepest wish.

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Est 7:2 - On this second occasion, while they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, “Tell me what you want, Queen Esther. What is your request? I will give it to you, even if it is half the kingdom!”

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Est 7:3 - Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor with the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my request, I ask that my life and the lives of my people will be spared.

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Est 7:4 - For my people and I have been sold to those who would kill, slaughter, and annihilate us. If we had merely been sold as slaves, I could remain quiet, for that would be too trivial a matter to warrant disturbing the king.”

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Est 7:8 - In despair he fell on the couch where Queen Esther was reclining, just as the king was returning from the palace garden.
The king exclaimed, “Will he even assault the queen right here in the palace, before my very eyes?” And as soon as the king spoke, his attendants covered Haman's face, signaling his doom.

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Est 8:6 - For how can I endure to see my people and my family slaughtered and destroyed?”

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Est 8:8 - Now go ahead and send a message to the Jews in the king's name, telling them whatever you want, and seal it with the king's signet ring. But remember that whatever has already been written in the king's name and sealed with his signet ring can never be revoked.”

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Job 1:5 - When these celebrations ended—sometimes after several days—Job would purify his children. He would get up early in the morning and offer a burnt offering for each of them. For Job said to himself, “Perhaps my children have sinned and have cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job's regular practice.

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Job 1:8 - Then the LORD asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil.”

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Job 1:21 - He said,
“I came naked from my mother's womb,
and I will be naked when I leave.
The LORD gave me what I had,
and the LORD has taken it away.
Praise the name of the LORD!”

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Job 2:3 - Then the LORD asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil. And he has maintained his integrity, even though you urged me to harm him without cause.”

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Job 2:9 - His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die.”

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Job 3:10 - Curse that day for failing to shut my mother's womb,
for letting me be born to see all this trouble.

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Job 3:24 - I cannot eat for sighing;
my groans pour out like water.

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Job 4:12 - “This truth was given to me in secret,
as though whispered in my ear.

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Job 4:14 - Fear gripped me,
and my bones trembled.

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Job 4:15 - A spirit[fn] swept past my face,
and my hair stood on end.[fn]

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Job 4:16 - The spirit stopped, but I couldn't see its shape.
There was a form before my eyes.
In the silence I heard a voice say,

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Job 6:2 - “If my misery could be weighed
and my troubles be put on the scales,

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Job 6:4 - For the Almighty has struck me down with his arrows.
Their poison infects my spirit.
God's terrors are lined up against me.

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Job 6:7 - My appetite disappears when I look at it;
I gag at the thought of eating it!

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Job 6:8 - “Oh, that I might have my request,
that God would grant my desire.

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Job 6:10 - At least I can take comfort in this:
Despite the pain,
I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

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Job 6:11 - But I don't have the strength to endure.
I have nothing to live for.

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Job 6:12 - Do I have the strength of a stone?
Is my body made of bronze?

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Job 6:15 - My brothers, you have proved as unreliable as a seasonal brook
that overflows its banks in the spring

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Job 6:30 - Do you think I am lying?
Don't I know the difference between right and wrong?

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Job 7:5 - My body is covered with maggots and scabs.
My skin breaks open, oozing with pus.

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Job 7:7 - O God, remember that my life is but a breath,
and I will never again feel happiness.

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Job 7:11 - “I cannot keep from speaking.
I must express my anguish.
My bitter soul must complain.

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Job 7:13 - I think, ‘My bed will comfort me,
and sleep will ease my misery,'

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Job 7:15 - I would rather be strangled—
rather die than suffer like this.

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Job 7:16 - I hate my life and don't want to go on living.
Oh, leave me alone for my few remaining days.

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Job 7:19 - Why won't you leave me alone,
at least long enough for me to swallow!

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Job 7:21 - Why not just forgive my sin
and take away my guilt?
For soon I will lie down in the dust and die.
When you look for me, I will be gone.”

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Job 9:14 - “So who am I, that I should try to answer God
or even reason with him?

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Job 9:15 - Even if I were right, I would have no defense.
I could only plead for mercy.

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Job 9:16 - And even if I summoned him and he responded,
I'm not sure he would listen to me.

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Job 9:17 - For he attacks me with a storm
and repeatedly wounds me without cause.

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Job 9:20 - Though I am innocent, my own mouth would pronounce me guilty.
Though I am blameless, it[fn] would prove me wicked.

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Job 9:21 - “I am innocent,
but it makes no difference to me—
I despise my life.

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Job 10:1 - “I am disgusted with my life.
Let me complain freely.
My bitter soul must complain.

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Job 10:6 - that you must quickly probe for my guilt
and search for my sin?

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Job 10:12 - You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love.
My life was preserved by your care.

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Job 10:17 - Again and again you witness against me.
You pour out your growing anger on me
and bring fresh armies against me.

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Job 10:20 - I have only a few days left, so leave me alone,
that I may have a moment of comfort

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Job 13:1 - “Look, I have seen all this with my own eyes
and heard it with my own ears, and now I understand.

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Job 13:6 - Listen to my charge;
pay attention to my arguments.

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Job 13:14 - Yes, I will take my life in my hands
and say what I really think.

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Job 13:17 - “Listen closely to what I am about to say.
Hear me out.

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Job 13:18 - I have prepared my case;
I will be proved innocent.

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Job 13:23 - Tell me, what have I done wrong?
Show me my rebellion and my sin.

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Job 13:27 - You put my feet in stocks.
You examine all my paths.
You trace all my footprints.

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Job 14:13 - “I wish you would hide me in the grave[fn]
and forget me there until your anger has passed.
But mark your calendar to think of me again!

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Job 14:16 - For then you would guard my steps,
instead of watching for my sins.

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Job 14:17 - My sins would be sealed in a pouch,
and you would cover my guilt.

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Job 15:17 - “If you will listen, I will show you.
I will answer you from my own experience.

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Job 16:5 - But if it were me, I would encourage you.
I would try to take away your grief.

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Job 16:8 - As if to prove I have sinned, you've reduced me to skin and bones.
My gaunt flesh testifies against me.

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Job 16:13 - and now his archers surround me.
His arrows pierce me without mercy.
The ground is wet with my blood.[fn]

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Job 16:15 - I wear burlap to show my grief.
My pride lies in the dust.

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Job 16:16 - My eyes are red with weeping;
dark shadows circle my eyes.

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Job 16:17 - Yet I have done no wrong,
and my prayer is pure.

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Job 16:18 - “O earth, do not conceal my blood.
Let it cry out on my behalf.

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Job 16:19 - Even now my witness is in heaven.
My advocate is there on high.

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Job 16:20 - My friends scorn me,
but I pour out my tears to God.

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Job 17:3 - “You must defend my innocence, O God,
since no one else will stand up for me.

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Job 17:5 - They betray their friends for their own advantage,
so let their children faint with hunger.

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Job 17:7 - My eyes are swollen with weeping,
and I am but a shadow of my former self.

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Job 17:11 - My days are over.
My hopes have disappeared.
My heart's desires are broken.

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Job 17:13 - What if I go to the grave[fn]
and make my bed in darkness?

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Job 17:14 - What if I call the grave my father,
and the maggot my mother or my sister?

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Job 17:15 - Where then is my hope?
Can anyone find it?

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Job 19:2 - “How long will you torture me?
How long will you try to crush me with your words?

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Job 19:3 - You have already insulted me ten times.
You should be ashamed of treating me so badly.

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Job 19:4 - Even if I have sinned,
that is my concern, not yours.

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Job 19:8 - God has blocked my way so I cannot move.
He has plunged my path into darkness.

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Job 19:9 - He has stripped me of my honor
and removed the crown from my head.

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Job 19:10 - He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished.
He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree.

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Job 19:12 - His troops advance.
They build up roads to attack me.
They camp all around my tent.

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Job 19:13 - “My relatives stay far away,
and my friends have turned against me.

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Job 19:14 - My family is gone,
and my close friends have forgotten me.

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Job 19:15 - My servants and maids consider me a stranger.
I am like a foreigner to them.

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Job 19:16 - When I call my servant, he doesn't come;
I have to plead with him!

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Job 19:17 - My breath is repulsive to my wife.
I am rejected by my own family.

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Job 19:20 - I have been reduced to skin and bones
and have escaped death by the skin of my teeth.

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Job 19:22 - Must you also persecute me, like God does?
Haven't you chewed me up enough?

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Job 19:23 - “Oh, that my words could be recorded.
Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument,

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Job 19:26 - And after my body has decayed,
yet in my body I will see God![fn]

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Job 19:27 - I will see him for myself.
Yes, I will see him with my own eyes.
I am overwhelmed at the thought!

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Job 20:3 - I've had to endure your insults,
but now my spirit prompts me to reply.

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Job 21:2 - “Listen closely to what I am saying.
That's one consolation you can give me.

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Job 21:3 - Bear with me, and let me speak.
After I have spoken, you may resume mocking me.

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Job 21:4 - “My complaint is with God, not with people.
I have good reason to be so impatient.

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Job 21:6 - When I think about what I am saying, I shudder.
My body trembles.

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Job 23:2 - “My complaint today is still a bitter one,
and I try hard not to groan aloud.

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Job 23:4 - I would lay out my case
and present my arguments.

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Job 23:7 - Honest people can reason with him,
so I would be forever acquitted by my judge.

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Job 23:10 - “But he knows where I am going.
And when he tests me, I will come out as pure as gold.

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Job 23:12 - I have not departed from his commands,
but have treasured his words more than daily food.

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Job 23:16 - God has made me sick at heart;
the Almighty has terrified me.

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Job 23:17 - Darkness is all around me;
thick, impenetrable darkness is everywhere.

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Job 24:25 - Can anyone claim otherwise?
Who can prove me wrong?”

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Job 27:2 - “I vow by the living God, who has taken away my rights,
by the Almighty who has embittered my soul—

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Job 27:3 - As long as I live,
while I have breath from God,

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Job 27:4 - my lips will speak no evil,
and my tongue will speak no lies.

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Job 27:5 - I will never concede that you are right;
I will defend my integrity until I die.

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Job 27:7 - “May my enemy be punished like the wicked,
my adversary like those who do evil.

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Job 28:10 - They cut tunnels in the rocks
and uncover precious stones.

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Job 29:3 - when he lit up the way before me
and I walked safely through the darkness.

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Job 29:4 - When I was in my prime,
God's friendship was felt in my home.

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Job 29:5 - The Almighty was still with me,
and my children were around me.

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Job 29:6 - My cows produced milk in abundance,
and my groves poured out streams of olive oil.

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Job 29:7 - “Those were the days when I went to the city gate
and took my place among the honored leaders.

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Job 29:18 - “I thought, ‘Surely I will die surrounded by my family
after a long, good life.[fn]

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Job 29:19 - For I am like a tree whose roots reach the water,
whose branches are refreshed with the dew.

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Job 29:20 - New honors are constantly bestowed on me,
and my strength is continually renewed.'

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Job 29:24 - When they were discouraged, I smiled at them.
My look of approval was precious to them.

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Job 30:1 - “But now I am mocked by people younger than I,
by young men whose fathers are not worthy to run with my sheepdogs.

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Job 30:10 - They despise me and won't come near me,
except to spit in my face.

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Job 30:11 - For God has cut my bowstring.
He has humbled me,
so they have thrown off all restraint.

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Job 30:13 - They block my road
and do everything they can to destroy me.
They know I have no one to help me.

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Job 30:15 - I live in terror now.
My honor has blown away in the wind,
and my prosperity has vanished like a cloud.

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Job 30:16 - “And now my life seeps away.
Depression haunts my days.

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Job 30:17 - At night my bones are filled with pain,
which gnaws at me relentlessly.

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Job 30:18 - With a strong hand, God grabs my shirt.
He grips me by the collar of my coat.

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Job 30:19 - He has thrown me into the mud.
I'm nothing more than dust and ashes.

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Job 30:20 - “I cry to you, O God, but you don't answer.
I stand before you, but you don't even look.

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Job 30:27 - My heart is troubled and restless.
Days of suffering torment me.

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Job 30:30 - My skin has turned dark,
and my bones burn with fever.

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Job 30:31 - My harp plays sad music,
and my flute accompanies those who weep.

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Job 31:1 - “I made a covenant with my eyes
not to look with lust at a young woman.

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Job 31:4 - Doesn't he see everything I do
and every step I take?

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Job 31:5 - “Have I lied to anyone
or deceived anyone?

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Job 31:6 - Let God weigh me on the scales of justice,
for he knows my integrity.

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Job 31:7 - If I have strayed from his pathway,
or if my heart has lusted for what my eyes have seen,
or if I am guilty of any other sin,

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Job 31:9 - “If my heart has been seduced by a woman,
or if I have lusted for my neighbor's wife,

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Job 31:10 - then let my wife belong to[fn] another man;
let other men sleep with her.

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Job 31:13 - “If I have been unfair to my male or female servants
when they brought their complaints to me,

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Job 31:14 - how could I face God?
What could I say when he questioned me?

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Job 31:17 - Have I been stingy with my food
and refused to share it with orphans?

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Job 31:18 - No, from childhood I have cared for orphans like a father,
and all my life I have cared for widows.

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Job 31:20 - did they not praise me
for providing wool clothing to keep them warm?

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Job 31:22 - then let my shoulder be wrenched out of place!
Let my arm be torn from its socket!

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Job 31:24 - “Have I put my trust in money
or felt secure because of my gold?

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Job 31:25 - Have I gloated about my wealth
and all that I own?

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Job 31:27 - and been secretly enticed in my heart
to throw kisses at them in worship?

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Job 31:29 - “Have I ever rejoiced when disaster struck my enemies,
or become excited when harm came their way?

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Job 31:30 - No, I have never sinned by cursing anyone
or by asking for revenge.

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Job 31:31 - “My servants have never said,
‘He let others go hungry.'

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Job 31:32 - I have never turned away a stranger
but have opened my doors to everyone.

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Job 31:33 - “Have I tried to hide my sins like other people do,
concealing my guilt in my heart?

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Job 31:34 - Have I feared the crowd
or the contempt of the masses,
so that I kept quiet and stayed indoors?

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Job 31:35 - “If only someone would listen to me!
Look, I will sign my name to my defense.
Let the Almighty answer me.
Let my accuser write out the charges against me.

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Job 32:10 - So listen to me,
and let me tell you what I think.

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Job 32:11 - “I have waited all this time,
listening very carefully to your arguments,
listening to you grope for words.

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Job 32:19 - I am like a cask of wine without a vent,
like a new wineskin ready to burst!

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Job 33:1 - “Listen to my words, Job;
pay attention to what I have to say.

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Job 33:2 - Now that I have begun to speak,
let me continue.

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Job 33:3 - I speak with all sincerity;
I speak the truth.

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Job 33:7 - So you don't need to be afraid of me.
I won't come down hard on you.

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Job 33:8 - “You have spoken in my hearing,
and I have heard your very words.

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Job 33:11 - He puts my feet in the stocks
and watches my every move.'

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Job 33:12 - “But you are wrong, and I will show you why.
For God is greater than any human being.

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Job 33:13 - So why are you bringing a charge against him?
Why say he does not respond to people's complaints?

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Job 33:28 - God rescued me from the grave,
and now my life is filled with light.'

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Job 33:30 - He rescues them from the grave
so they may enjoy the light of life.

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Job 33:31 - Mark this well, Job. Listen to me,
for I have more to say.

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Job 33:33 - But if not, then listen to me.
Keep silent and I will teach you wisdom!”

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Job 34:2 - “Listen to me, you wise men.
Pay attention, you who have knowledge.

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Job 34:5 - For Job also said, ‘I am innocent,
but God has taken away my rights.

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Job 34:6 - I am innocent, but they call me a liar.
My suffering is incurable, though I have not sinned.'

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Job 34:10 - “Listen to me, you who have understanding.
Everyone knows that God doesn't sin!
The Almighty can do no wrong.

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Job 34:34 - After all, bright people will tell me,
and wise people will hear me say,

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Job 36:3 - I will present profound arguments
for the righteousness of my Creator.

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Job 37:1 - “My heart pounds as I think of this.
It trembles within me.

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Job 38:7 - as the morning stars sang together
and all the angels[fn] shouted for joy?

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Job 40:4 - “I am nothing—how could I ever find the answers?
I will cover my mouth with my hand.

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Job 40:8 - “Will you discredit my justice
and condemn me just to prove you are right?

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Job 41:33 - Nothing on earth is its equal,
no other creature so fearless.

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Job 42:4 - You said, ‘Listen and I will speak!
I have some questions for you,
and you must answer them.'

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Job 42:5 - I had only heard about you before,
but now I have seen you with my own eyes.

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Job 42:7 - After the LORD had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken accurately about me, as my servant Job has.

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Job 42:8 - So take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer on your behalf. I will not treat you as you deserve, for you have not spoken accurately about me, as my servant Job has.”

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Psa 2:7 - The king proclaims the LORD's decree:
“The LORD said to me, ‘You are my son.[fn]
Today I have become your Father.[fn]

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Psa 3:2 - So many are saying,
“God will never rescue him!”
Interlude[fn]

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Psa 3:3 - But you, O LORD, are a shield around me;
you are my glory, the one who holds my head high.

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Psa 3:4 - I cried out to the LORD,
and he answered me from his holy mountain.
Interlude

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Psa 3:5 - I lay down and slept,
yet I woke up in safety,
for the LORD was watching over me.

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Psa 3:7 - Arise, O LORD!
Rescue me, my God!
Slap all my enemies in the face!
Shatter the teeth of the wicked!

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Psa 4:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by stringed instruments.

Answer me when I call to you,
O God who declares me innocent.
Free me from my troubles.
Have mercy on me and hear my prayer.

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Psa 4:3 - You can be sure of this:
The LORD set apart the godly for himself.
The LORD will answer when I call to him.

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Psa 4:7 - You have given me greater joy
than those who have abundant harvests of grain and new wine.

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Psa 5:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by the flute.

O LORD, hear me as I pray;
pay attention to my groaning.

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Psa 5:2 - Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God,
for I pray to no one but you.

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Psa 5:3 - Listen to my voice in the morning, LORD.
Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly.

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Psa 5:8 - Lead me in the right path, O LORD,
or my enemies will conquer me.
Make your way plain for me to follow.

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Psa 6:2 - Have compassion on me, LORD, for I am weak.
Heal me, LORD, for my bones are in agony.

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Psa 6:3 - I am sick at heart.
How long, O LORD, until you restore me?

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Psa 6:4 - Return, O LORD, and rescue me.
Save me because of your unfailing love.

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Psa 6:6 - I am worn out from sobbing.
All night I flood my bed with weeping,
drenching it with my tears.

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Psa 6:7 - My vision is blurred by grief;
my eyes are worn out because of all my enemies.

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Psa 6:8 - Go away, all you who do evil,
for the LORD has heard my weeping.

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Psa 6:9 - The LORD has heard my plea;
the LORD will answer my prayer.

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Psa 6:10 - May all my enemies be disgraced and terrified.
May they suddenly turn back in shame.

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Psa 7:1 - A psalm of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush of the tribe of Benjamin.

I come to you for protection, O LORD my God.
Save me from my persecutors—rescue me!

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Psa 7:2 - If you don't, they will maul me like a lion,
tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

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Psa 7:3 - O LORD my God, if I have done wrong
or am guilty of injustice,

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Psa 7:4 - if I have betrayed a friend
or plundered my enemy without cause,

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Psa 7:5 - then let my enemies capture me.
Let them trample me into the ground
and drag my honor in the dust.
Interlude

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Psa 7:6 - Arise, O LORD, in anger!
Stand up against the fury of my enemies!
Wake up, my God, and bring justice!

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Psa 7:8 - The LORD judges the nations.
Declare me righteous, O LORD,
for I am innocent, O Most High!

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Psa 7:10 - God is my shield,
saving those whose hearts are true and right.

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Psa 9:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be sung to the tune “Death of the Son.”

I will praise you, LORD, with all my heart;
I will tell of all the marvelous things you have done.

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Psa 9:3 - My enemies retreated;
they staggered and died when you appeared.

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Psa 9:4 - For you have judged in my favor;
from your throne you have judged with fairness.

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Psa 9:13 - LORD, have mercy on me.
See how my enemies torment me.
Snatch me back from the jaws of death.

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Psa 11:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David.

I trust in the LORD for protection.
So why do you say to me,
“Fly like a bird to the mountains for safety!

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Psa 13:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David.

O LORD, how long will you forget me? Forever?
How long will you look the other way?

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Psa 13:2 - How long must I struggle with anguish in my soul,
with sorrow in my heart every day?
How long will my enemy have the upper hand?

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Psa 13:3 - Turn and answer me, O LORD my God!
Restore the sparkle to my eyes, or I will die.

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Psa 13:4 - Don't let my enemies gloat, saying, “We have defeated him!”
Don't let them rejoice at my downfall.

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Psa 13:5 - But I trust in your unfailing love.
I will rejoice because you have rescued me.

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Psa 14:4 - Will those who do evil never learn?
They eat up my people like bread
and wouldn't think of praying to the LORD.

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Psa 16:2 - I said to the LORD, “You are my Master!
Every good thing I have comes from you.”

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Psa 16:4 - Troubles multiply for those who chase after other gods.
I will not take part in their sacrifices of blood
or even speak the names of their gods.

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Psa 16:5 - LORD, you alone are my inheritance, my cup of blessing.
You guard all that is mine.

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Psa 16:6 - The land you have given me is a pleasant land.
What a wonderful inheritance!

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Psa 16:7 - I will bless the LORD who guides me;
even at night my heart instructs me.

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Psa 16:8 - I know the LORD is always with me.
I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me.

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Psa 16:9 - No wonder my heart is glad, and I rejoice.[fn]
My body rests in safety.

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Psa 16:10 - For you will not leave my soul among the dead[fn]
or allow your holy one[fn] to rot in the grave.

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Psa 17:1 - A prayer of David.

O LORD, hear my plea for justice.
Listen to my cry for help.
Pay attention to my prayer,
for it comes from honest lips.

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Psa 17:2 - Declare me innocent,
for you see those who do right.

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Psa 17:3 - You have tested my thoughts and examined my heart in the night.
You have scrutinized me and found nothing wrong.
I am determined not to sin in what I say.

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Psa 17:4 - I have followed your commands,
which keep me from following cruel and evil people.

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Psa 17:5 - My steps have stayed on your path;
I have not wavered from following you.

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Psa 17:6 - I am praying to you because I know you will answer, O God.
Bend down and listen as I pray.

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Psa 17:9 - Protect me from wicked people who attack me,
from murderous enemies who surround me.

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Psa 17:13 - Arise, O LORD!
Stand against them, and bring them to their knees!
Rescue me from the wicked with your sword!

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Psa 18:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David, the servant of the LORD. He sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD rescued him from all his enemies and from Saul. He sang:

I love you, LORD;
you are my strength.

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Psa 18:2 - The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my savior;
my God is my rock, in whom I find protection.
He is my shield, the power that saves me,
and my place of safety.

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Psa 18:3 - I called on the LORD, who is worthy of praise,
and he saved me from my enemies.

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Psa 18:6 - But in my distress I cried out to the LORD;
yes, I prayed to my God for help.
He heard me from his sanctuary;
my cry to him reached his ears.

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Psa 18:17 - He rescued me from my powerful enemies,
from those who hated me and were too strong for me.

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Psa 18:18 - They attacked me at a moment when I was in distress,
but the LORD supported me.

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Psa 18:19 - He led me to a place of safety;
he rescued me because he delights in me.

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Psa 18:20 - The LORD rewarded me for doing right;
he restored me because of my innocence.

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Psa 18:21 - For I have kept the ways of the LORD;
I have not turned from my God to follow evil.

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Psa 18:22 - I have followed all his regulations;
I have never abandoned his decrees.

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Psa 18:23 - I am blameless before God;
I have kept myself from sin.

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Psa 18:24 - The LORD rewarded me for doing right.
He has seen my innocence.

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Psa 18:28 - You light a lamp for me.
The LORD, my God, lights up my darkness.

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Psa 18:29 - In your strength I can crush an army;
with my God I can scale any wall.

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Psa 18:30 - God's way is perfect.
All the LORD's promises prove true.
He is a shield for all who look to him for protection.

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Psa 18:32 - God arms me with strength,
and he makes my way perfect.

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Psa 18:33 - He makes me as surefooted as a deer,
enabling me to stand on mountain heights.

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Psa 18:34 - He trains my hands for battle;
he strengthens my arm to draw a bronze bow.

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Psa 18:35 - You have given me your shield of victory.
Your right hand supports me;
your help has made me great.

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Psa 18:36 - You have made a wide path for my feet
to keep them from slipping.

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Psa 18:37 - I chased my enemies and caught them;
I did not stop until they were conquered.

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Psa 18:38 - I struck them down so they could not get up;
they fell beneath my feet.

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Psa 18:39 - You have armed me with strength for the battle;
you have subdued my enemies under my feet.

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Psa 18:40 - You placed my foot on their necks.
I have destroyed all who hated me.

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Psa 18:46 - The LORD lives! Praise to my Rock!
May the God of my salvation be exalted!

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Psa 18:48 - and rescues me from my enemies.
You hold me safe beyond the reach of my enemies;
you save me from violent opponents.

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Psa 19:12 - How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart?
Cleanse me from these hidden faults.

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Psa 19:13 - Keep your servant from deliberate sins!
Don't let them control me.
Then I will be free of guilt
and innocent of great sin.

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Psa 19:14 - May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be pleasing to you,
O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.

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Psa 22:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be sung to the tune “Doe of the Dawn.”

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
Why are you so far away when I groan for help?

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Psa 22:2 - Every day I call to you, my God, but you do not answer.
Every night you hear my voice, but I find no relief.

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Psa 22:9 - Yet you brought me safely from my mother's womb
and led me to trust you at my mother's breast.

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Psa 22:10 - I was thrust into your arms at my birth.
You have been my God from the moment I was born.

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Psa 22:14 - My life is poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax,
melting within me.

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Psa 22:15 - My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay.
My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You have laid me in the dust and left me for dead.

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Psa 22:16 - My enemies surround me like a pack of dogs;
an evil gang closes in on me.
They have pierced my hands and feet.

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Psa 22:17 - I can count all my bones.
My enemies stare at me and gloat.

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Psa 22:18 - They divide my garments among themselves
and throw dice[fn] for my clothing.

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Psa 22:19 - O LORD, do not stay far away!
You are my strength; come quickly to my aid!

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Psa 22:20 - Save me from the sword;
spare my precious life from these dogs.

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Psa 22:21 - Snatch me from the lion's jaws
and from the horns of these wild oxen.

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Psa 22:22 - I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters.[fn]
I will praise you among your assembled people.

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Psa 22:24 - For he has not ignored or belittled the suffering of the needy.
He has not turned his back on them,
but has listened to their cries for help.

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Psa 22:25 - I will praise you in the great assembly.
I will fulfill my vows in the presence of those who worship you.

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Psa 22:29 - Let the rich of the earth feast and worship.
Bow before him, all who are mortal,
all whose lives will end as dust.

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Psa 22:30 - Our children will also serve him.
Future generations will hear about the wonders of the Lord.

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Psa 23:3 - He renews my strength.
He guides me along right paths,
bringing honor to his name.

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Psa 23:5 - You prepare a feast for me
in the presence of my enemies.
You honor me by anointing my head with oil.
My cup overflows with blessings.

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Psa 23:6 - Surely your goodness and unfailing love will pursue me
all the days of my life,
and I will live in the house of the LORD
forever.

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Psa 25:1 - A psalm of David.

O LORD, I give my life to you.

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Psa 25:2 - I trust in you, my God!
Do not let me be disgraced,
or let my enemies rejoice in my defeat.

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Psa 25:5 - Lead me by your truth and teach me,
for you are the God who saves me.
All day long I put my hope in you.

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Psa 25:7 - Do not remember the rebellious sins of my youth.
Remember me in the light of your unfailing love,
for you are merciful, O LORD.

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Psa 25:11 - For the honor of your name, O LORD,
forgive my many, many sins.

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Psa 25:15 - My eyes are always on the LORD,
for he rescues me from the traps of my enemies.

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Psa 25:17 - My problems go from bad to worse.
Oh, save me from them all!

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Psa 25:18 - Feel my pain and see my trouble.
Forgive all my sins.

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Psa 25:19 - See how many enemies I have
and how viciously they hate me!

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Psa 25:20 - Protect me! Rescue my life from them!
Do not let me be disgraced, for in you I take refuge.

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Psa 26:1 - A psalm of David.

Declare me innocent, O LORD,
for I have acted with integrity;
I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.

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Psa 26:2 - Put me on trial, LORD, and cross-examine me.
Test my motives and my heart.

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Psa 26:6 - I wash my hands to declare my innocence.
I come to your altar, O LORD,

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Psa 26:9 - Don't let me suffer the fate of sinners.
Don't condemn me along with murderers.

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Psa 26:11 - But I am not like that; I live with integrity.
So redeem me and show me mercy.

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Psa 26:12 - Now I stand on solid ground,
and I will publicly praise the LORD.

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Psa 27:1 - A psalm of David.

The LORD is my light and my salvation—
so why should I be afraid?
The LORD is my fortress, protecting me from danger,
so why should I tremble?

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Psa 27:2 - When evil people come to devour me,
when my enemies and foes attack me,
they will stumble and fall.

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Psa 27:3 - Though a mighty army surrounds me,
my heart will not be afraid.
Even if I am attacked,
I will remain confident.

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Psa 27:4 - The one thing I ask of the LORD—
the thing I seek most—
is to live in the house of the LORD all the days of my life,
delighting in the LORD's perfections
and meditating in his Temple.

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Psa 27:5 - For he will conceal me there when troubles come;
he will hide me in his sanctuary.
He will place me out of reach on a high rock.

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Psa 27:6 - Then I will hold my head high
above my enemies who surround me.
At his sanctuary I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy,
singing and praising the LORD with music.

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Psa 27:7 - Hear me as I pray, O LORD.
Be merciful and answer me!

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Psa 27:8 - My heart has heard you say, “Come and talk with me.”
And my heart responds, “LORD, I am coming.”

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Psa 27:9 - Do not turn your back on me.
Do not reject your servant in anger.
You have always been my helper.
Don't leave me now; don't abandon me,
O God of my salvation!

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Psa 27:10 - Even if my father and mother abandon me,
the LORD will hold me close.

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Psa 27:11 - Teach me how to live, O LORD.
Lead me along the right path,
for my enemies are waiting for me.

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Psa 28:1 - A psalm of David.

I pray to you, O LORD, my rock.
Do not turn a deaf ear to me.
For if you are silent,
I might as well give up and die.

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Psa 28:2 - Listen to my prayer for mercy
as I cry out to you for help,
as I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.

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Psa 28:3 - Do not drag me away with the wicked—
with those who do evil—
those who speak friendly words to their neighbors
while planning evil in their hearts.

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Psa 28:6 - Praise the LORD!
For he has heard my cry for mercy.

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Psa 28:7 - The LORD is my strength and shield.
I trust him with all my heart.
He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy.
I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.

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Psa 30:1 - A psalm of David. A song for the dedication of the Temple.

I will exalt you, LORD, for you rescued me.
You refused to let my enemies triumph over me.

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Psa 30:2 - O LORD my God, I cried to you for help,
and you restored my health.

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Psa 30:3 - You brought me up from the grave,[fn] O LORD.
You kept me from falling into the pit of death.

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Psa 30:6 - When I was prosperous, I said,
“Nothing can stop me now!”

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Psa 30:7 - Your favor, O LORD, made me as secure as a mountain.
Then you turned away from me, and I was shattered.

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Psa 30:8 - I cried out to you, O LORD.
I begged the Lord for mercy, saying,

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Psa 30:9 - “What will you gain if I die,
if I sink into the grave?
Can my dust praise you?
Can it tell of your faithfulness?

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Psa 30:10 - Hear me, LORD, and have mercy on me.
Help me, O LORD.”

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Psa 30:11 - You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing.
You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy,

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Psa 30:12 - that I might sing praises to you and not be silent.
O LORD my God, I will give you thanks forever!

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Psa 31:3 - You are my rock and my fortress.
For the honor of your name, lead me out of this danger.

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Psa 31:4 - Pull me from the trap my enemies set for me,
for I find protection in you alone.

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Psa 31:5 - I entrust my spirit into your hand.
Rescue me, LORD, for you are a faithful God.

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Psa 31:7 - I will be glad and rejoice in your unfailing love,
for you have seen my troubles,
and you care about the anguish of my soul.

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Psa 31:8 - You have not handed me over to my enemies
but have set me in a safe place.

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Psa 31:9 - Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress.
Tears blur my eyes.
My body and soul are withering away.

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Psa 31:10 - I am dying from grief;
my years are shortened by sadness.
Sin has drained my strength;
I am wasting away from within.

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Psa 31:11 - I am scorned by all my enemies
and despised by my neighbors—
even my friends are afraid to come near me.
When they see me on the street,
they run the other way.

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Psa 31:13 - I have heard the many rumors about me,
and I am surrounded by terror.
My enemies conspire against me,
plotting to take my life.

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Psa 31:14 - But I am trusting you, O LORD,
saying, “You are my God!”

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Psa 31:15 - My future is in your hands.
Rescue me from those who hunt me down relentlessly.

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Psa 31:22 - In panic I cried out,
“I am cut off from the LORD!”
But you heard my cry for mercy
and answered my call for help.

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Psa 32:3 - When I refused to confess my sin,
my body wasted away,
and I groaned all day long.

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Psa 32:5 - Finally, I confessed all my sins to you
and stopped trying to hide my guilt.
I said to myself, “I will confess my rebellion to the LORD.”
And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone.
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Psa 32:7 - For you are my hiding place;
you protect me from trouble.
You surround me with songs of victory.
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Psa 32:8 - The LORD says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life.
I will advise you and watch over you.

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Psa 34:1 - A psalm of David, regarding the time he pretended to be insane in front of Abimelech, who sent him away.

I will praise the LORD at all times.
I will constantly speak his praises.

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Psa 34:2 - I will boast only in the LORD;
let all who are helpless take heart.

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Psa 34:4 - I prayed to the LORD, and he answered me.
He freed me from all my fears.

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Psa 34:11 - Come, my children, and listen to me,
and I will teach you to fear the LORD.

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Psa 35:2 - Put on your armor, and take up your shield.
Prepare for battle, and come to my aid.

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Psa 35:3 - Lift up your spear and javelin
against those who pursue me.
Let me hear you say,
“I will give you victory!”

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Psa 35:4 - Bring shame and disgrace on those trying to kill me;
turn them back and humiliate those who want to harm me.

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Psa 35:7 - I did them no wrong, but they laid a trap for me.
I did them no wrong, but they dug a pit to catch me.

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Psa 35:9 - Then I will rejoice in the LORD.
I will be glad because he rescues me.

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Psa 35:10 - With every bone in my body I will praise him:
“LORD, who can compare with you?
Who else rescues the helpless from the strong?
Who else protects the helpless and poor from those who rob them?”

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Psa 35:12 - They repay me evil for good.
I am sick with despair.

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Psa 35:13 - Yet when they were ill, I grieved for them.
I denied myself by fasting for them,
but my prayers returned unanswered.

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Psa 35:17 - How long, O Lord, will you look on and do nothing?
Rescue me from their fierce attacks.
Protect my life from these lions!

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Psa 35:23 - Wake up! Rise to my defense!
Take up my case, my God and my Lord.

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Psa 35:24 - Declare me not guilty, O LORD my God, for you give justice.
Don't let my enemies laugh about me in my troubles.

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Psa 35:26 - May those who rejoice at my troubles
be humiliated and disgraced.
May those who triumph over me
be covered with shame and dishonor.

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Psa 35:27 - But give great joy to those who came to my defense.
Let them continually say, “Great is the LORD,
who delights in blessing his servant with peace!”

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Psa 35:28 - Then I will proclaim your justice,
and I will praise you all day long.

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Psa 38:3 - Because of your anger, my whole body is sick;
my health is broken because of my sins.

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Psa 38:4 - My guilt overwhelms me—
it is a burden too heavy to bear.

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Psa 38:5 - My wounds fester and stink
because of my foolish sins.

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Psa 38:7 - A raging fever burns within me,
and my health is broken.

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Psa 38:8 - I am exhausted and completely crushed.
My groans come from an anguished heart.

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Psa 38:9 - You know what I long for, Lord;
you hear my every sigh.

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Psa 38:10 - My heart beats wildly, my strength fails,
and I am going blind.

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Psa 38:11 - My loved ones and friends stay away, fearing my disease.
Even my own family stands at a distance.

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Psa 38:12 - Meanwhile, my enemies lay traps to kill me.
Those who wish me harm make plans to ruin me.
All day long they plan their treachery.

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Psa 38:15 - For I am waiting for you, O LORD.
You must answer for me, O Lord my God.

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Psa 38:16 - I prayed, “Don't let my enemies gloat over me
or rejoice at my downfall.”

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Psa 38:17 - I am on the verge of collapse,
facing constant pain.

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Psa 38:18 - But I confess my sins;
I am deeply sorry for what I have done.

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Psa 38:19 - I have many aggressive enemies;
they hate me without reason.

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Psa 38:21 - Do not abandon me, O LORD.
Do not stand at a distance, my God.

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Psa 38:22 - Come quickly to help me,
O Lord my savior.

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Psa 39:1 - For Jeduthun, the choir director: A psalm of David.

I said to myself, “I will watch what I do
and not sin in what I say.
I will hold my tongue
when the ungodly are around me.”

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Psa 39:2 - But as I stood there in silence—
not even speaking of good things—
the turmoil within me grew worse.

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Psa 39:3 - The more I thought about it,
the hotter I got,
igniting a fire of words:

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Psa 39:4 - “LORD, remind me how brief my time on earth will be.
Remind me that my days are numbered—
how fleeting my life is.

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Psa 39:5 - You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand.
My entire lifetime is just a moment to you;
at best, each of us is but a breath.”
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Psa 39:7 - And so, Lord, where do I put my hope?
My only hope is in you.

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Psa 39:8 - Rescue me from my rebellion.
Do not let fools mock me.

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Psa 39:9 - I am silent before you; I won't say a word,
for my punishment is from you.

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Psa 39:12 - Hear my prayer, O LORD!
Listen to my cries for help!
Don't ignore my tears.
For I am your guest—
a traveler passing through,
as my ancestors were before me.

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Psa 40:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David.

I waited patiently for the LORD to help me,
and he turned to me and heard my cry.

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Psa 40:2 - He lifted me out of the pit of despair,
out of the mud and the mire.
He set my feet on solid ground
and steadied me as I walked along.

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Psa 40:3 - He has given me a new song to sing,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see what he has done and be amazed.
They will put their trust in the LORD.

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Psa 40:5 - O LORD my God, you have performed many wonders for us.
Your plans for us are too numerous to list.
You have no equal.
If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds,
I would never come to the end of them.

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Psa 40:8 - I take joy in doing your will, my God,
for your instructions are written on my heart.”

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Psa 40:9 - I have told all your people about your justice.
I have not been afraid to speak out,
as you, O LORD, well know.

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Psa 40:10 - I have not kept the good news of your justice hidden in my heart;
I have talked about your faithfulness and saving power.
I have told everyone in the great assembly
of your unfailing love and faithfulness.

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Psa 40:11 - LORD, don't hold back your tender mercies from me.
Let your unfailing love and faithfulness always protect me.

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Psa 40:12 - For troubles surround me—
too many to count!
My sins pile up so high
I can't see my way out.
They outnumber the hairs on my head.
I have lost all courage.

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Psa 40:14 - May those who try to destroy me
be humiliated and put to shame.
May those who take delight in my trouble
be turned back in disgrace.

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Psa 40:17 - As for me, since I am poor and needy,
let the Lord keep me in his thoughts.
You are my helper and my savior.
O my God, do not delay.

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Psa 41:4 - “O LORD,” I prayed, “have mercy on me.
Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

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Psa 41:5 - But my enemies say nothing but evil about me.
“How soon will he die and be forgotten?” they ask.

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Psa 41:7 - All who hate me whisper about me,
imagining the worst.

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Psa 41:9 - Even my best friend, the one I trusted completely,
the one who shared my food, has turned against me.

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Psa 41:11 - I know you are pleased with me,
for you have not let my enemies triumph over me.

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Psa 42:1 - For the choir director: A psalm[fn] of the descendants of Korah.

As the deer longs for streams of water,
so I long for you, O God.

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Psa 42:2 - I thirst for God, the living God.
When can I go and stand before him?

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Psa 42:3 - Day and night I have only tears for food,
while my enemies continually taunt me, saying,
“Where is this God of yours?”

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Psa 42:4 - My heart is breaking
as I remember how it used to be:
I walked among the crowds of worshipers,
leading a great procession to the house of God,
singing for joy and giving thanks
amid the sound of a great celebration!

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Psa 42:5 - Why am I discouraged?
Why is my heart so sad?
I will put my hope in God!
I will praise him again—
my Savior and

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Psa 42:6 - my God!
Now I am deeply discouraged,
but I will remember you—
even from distant Mount Hermon, the source of the Jordan,
from the land of Mount Mizar.

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Psa 42:8 - But each day the LORD pours his unfailing love upon me,
and through each night I sing his songs,
praying to God who gives me life.

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Psa 42:9 - “O God my rock,” I cry,
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I wander around in grief,
oppressed by my enemies?”

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Psa 42:10 - Their taunts break my bones.
They scoff, “Where is this God of yours?”

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Psa 42:11 - Why am I discouraged?
Why is my heart so sad?
I will put my hope in God!
I will praise him again—
my Savior and my God!

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Psa 43:1 - Declare me innocent, O God!
Defend me against these ungodly people.
Rescue me from these unjust liars.

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Psa 43:2 - For you are God, my only safe haven.
Why have you tossed me aside?
Why must I wander around in grief,
oppressed by my enemies?

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Psa 43:4 - There I will go to the altar of God,
to God—the source of all my joy.
I will praise you with my harp,
O God, my God!

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Psa 43:5 - Why am I discouraged?
Why is my heart so sad?
I will put my hope in God!
I will praise him again—
my Savior and my God!

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Psa 44:4 - You are my King and my God.
You command victories for Israel.[fn]

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Psa 44:6 - I do not trust in my bow;
I do not count on my sword to save me.

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Psa 44:15 - We can't escape the constant humiliation;
shame is written across our faces.

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Psa 45:1 - For the choir director: A love song to be sung to the tune “Lilies.” A psalm[fn] of the descendants of Korah.

Beautiful words stir my heart.
I will recite a lovely poem about the king,
for my tongue is like the pen of a skillful poet.

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Psa 49:3 - For my words are wise,
and my thoughts are filled with insight.

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Psa 49:4 - I listen carefully to many proverbs
and solve riddles with inspiration from a harp.

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Psa 49:5 - Why should I fear when trouble comes,
when enemies surround me?

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Psa 49:15 - But as for me, God will redeem my life.
He will snatch me from the power of the grave.
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Psa 50:7 - “O my people, listen as I speak.
Here are my charges against you, O Israel:
I am God, your God!

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Psa 50:16 - But God says to the wicked:
“Why bother reciting my decrees
and pretending to obey my covenant?

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Psa 50:17 - For you refuse my discipline
and treat my words like trash.

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Psa 51:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David, regarding the time Nathan the prophet came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.

Have mercy on me, O God,
because of your unfailing love.
Because of your great compassion,
blot out the stain of my sins.

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Psa 51:2 - Wash me clean from my guilt.
Purify me from my sin.

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Psa 51:3 - For I recognize my rebellion;
it haunts me day and night.

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Psa 51:5 - For I was born a sinner—
yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.

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Psa 51:9 - Don't keep looking at my sins.
Remove the stain of my guilt.

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Psa 51:10 - Create in me a clean heart, O God.
Renew a loyal spirit within me.

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Psa 51:14 - Forgive me for shedding blood, O God who saves;
then I will joyfully sing of your forgiveness.

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Psa 51:15 - Unseal my lips, O Lord,
that my mouth may praise you.

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Psa 53:4 - Will those who do evil never learn?
They eat up my people like bread
and wouldn't think of praying to God.

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Psa 54:2 - Listen to my prayer, O God.
Pay attention to my plea.

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Psa 54:3 - For strangers are attacking me;
violent people are trying to kill me.
They care nothing for God.
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Psa 54:4 - But God is my helper.
The Lord keeps me alive!

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Psa 54:5 - May the evil plans of my enemies be turned against them.
Do as you promised and put an end to them.

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Psa 54:7 - For you have rescued me from my troubles
and helped me to triumph over my enemies.

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Psa 55:1 - For the choir director: A psalm[fn] of David, to be accompanied by stringed instruments.

Listen to my prayer, O God.
Do not ignore my cry for help!

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Psa 55:2 - Please listen and answer me,
for I am overwhelmed by my troubles.

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Psa 55:4 - My heart pounds in my chest.
The terror of death assaults me.

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Psa 55:13 - Instead, it is you—my equal,
my companion and close friend.

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Psa 55:16 - But I will call on God,
and the LORD will rescue me.

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Psa 55:17 - Morning, noon, and night
I cry out in my distress,
and the LORD hears my voice.

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Psa 55:18 - He ransoms me and keeps me safe
from the battle waged against me,
though many still oppose me.

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Psa 56:2 - I am constantly hounded by those who slander me,
and many are boldly attacking me.

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Psa 56:4 - I praise God for what he has promised.
I trust in God, so why should I be afraid?
What can mere mortals do to me?

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Psa 56:5 - They are always twisting what I say;
they spend their days plotting to harm me.

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Psa 56:6 - They come together to spy on me—
watching my every step, eager to kill me.

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Psa 56:8 - You keep track of all my sorrows.[fn]
You have collected all my tears in your bottle.
You have recorded each one in your book.

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Psa 56:9 - My enemies will retreat when I call to you for help.
This I know: God is on my side!

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Psa 56:13 - For you have rescued me from death;
you have kept my feet from slipping.
So now I can walk in your presence, O God,
in your life-giving light.

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Psa 57:1 - For the choir director: A psalm[fn] of David, regarding the time he fled from Saul and went into the cave. To be sung to the tune “Do Not Destroy!”

Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy!
I look to you for protection.
I will hide beneath the shadow of your wings
until the danger passes by.

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Psa 57:4 - I am surrounded by fierce lions
who greedily devour human prey—
whose teeth pierce like spears and arrows,
and whose tongues cut like swords.

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Psa 57:6 - My enemies have set a trap for me.
I am weary from distress.
They have dug a deep pit in my path,
but they themselves have fallen into it.
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Psa 57:7 - My heart is confident in you, O God;
my heart is confident.
No wonder I can sing your praises!

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Psa 57:8 - Wake up, my heart!
Wake up, O lyre and harp!
I will wake the dawn with my song.

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Psa 59:1 - For the choir director: A psalm[fn] of David, regarding the time Saul sent soldiers to watch David's house in order to kill him. To be sung to the tune “Do Not Destroy!”

Rescue me from my enemies, O God.
Protect me from those who have come to destroy me.

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Psa 59:3 - They have set an ambush for me.
Fierce enemies are out there waiting, LORD,
though I have not sinned or offended them.

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Psa 59:4 - I have done nothing wrong,
yet they prepare to attack me.
Wake up! See what is happening and help me!

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Psa 59:9 - You are my strength; I wait for you to rescue me,
for you, O God, are my fortress.

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Psa 59:10 - In his unfailing love, my God will stand with me.
He will let me look down in triumph on all my enemies.

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Psa 59:11 - Don't kill them, for my people soon forget such lessons;
stagger them with your power, and bring them to their knees,
O Lord our shield.

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Psa 59:16 - But as for me, I will sing about your power.
Each morning I will sing with joy about your unfailing love.
For you have been my refuge,
a place of safety when I am in distress.

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Psa 59:17 - O my Strength, to you I sing praises,
for you, O God, are my refuge,
the God who shows me unfailing love.

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Psa 60:5 - Now rescue your beloved people.
Answer and save us by your power.

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Psa 60:7 - Gilead is mine,
and Manasseh, too.
Ephraim, my helmet, will produce my warriors,
and Judah, my scepter, will produce my kings.

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Psa 60:8 - But Moab, my washbasin, will become my servant,
and I will wipe my feet on Edom
and shout in triumph over Philistia.”

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Psa 61:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by stringed instruments.

O God, listen to my cry!
Hear my prayer!

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Psa 61:2 - From the ends of the earth,
I cry to you for help
when my heart is overwhelmed.
Lead me to the towering rock of safety,

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Psa 61:3 - for you are my safe refuge,
a fortress where my enemies cannot reach me.

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Psa 61:5 - For you have heard my vows, O God.
You have given me an inheritance reserved for those who fear your name.

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Psa 61:8 - Then I will sing praises to your name forever
as I fulfill my vows each day.

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Psa 62:1 - For Jeduthun, the choir director: A psalm of David.

I wait quietly before God,
for my victory comes from him.

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Psa 62:2 - He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress where I will never be shaken.

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Psa 62:4 - They plan to topple me from my high position.
They delight in telling lies about me.
They praise me to my face
but curse me in their hearts.
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Psa 62:5 - Let all that I am wait quietly before God,
for my hope is in him.

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Psa 62:6 - He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress where I will not be shaken.

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Psa 62:7 - My victory and honor come from God alone.
He is my refuge, a rock where no enemy can reach me.

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Psa 63:1 - A psalm of David, regarding a time when David was in the wilderness of Judah.

O God, you are my God;
I earnestly search for you.
My soul thirsts for you;
my whole body longs for you
in this parched and weary land
where there is no water.

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Psa 63:3 - Your unfailing love is better than life itself;
how I praise you!

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Psa 63:4 - I will praise you as long as I live,
lifting up my hands to you in prayer.

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Psa 63:5 - You satisfy me more than the richest feast.
I will praise you with songs of joy.

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Psa 63:6 - I lie awake thinking of you,
meditating on you through the night.

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Psa 63:7 - Because you are my helper,
I sing for joy in the shadow of your wings.

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Psa 63:8 - I cling to you;
your strong right hand holds me securely.

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Psa 63:9 - But those plotting to destroy me will come to ruin.
They will go down into the depths of the earth.

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Psa 64:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David.

O God, listen to my complaint.
Protect my life from my enemies' threats.

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Psa 65:2 - for you answer our prayers.
All of us must come to you.

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Psa 66:9 - Our lives are in his hands,
and he keeps our feet from stumbling.

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Psa 66:13 - Now I come to your Temple with burnt offerings
to fulfill the vows I made to you—

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Psa 66:14 - yes, the sacred vows that I made
when I was in deep trouble.

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Psa 66:16 - Come and listen, all you who fear God,
and I will tell you what he did for me.

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Psa 66:17 - For I cried out to him for help,
praising him as I spoke.

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Psa 66:18 - If I had not confessed the sin in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened.

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Psa 66:19 - But God did listen!
He paid attention to my prayer.

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Psa 66:20 - Praise God, who did not ignore my prayer
or withdraw his unfailing love from me.

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Psa 68:24 - Your procession has come into view, O God—
the procession of my God and King as he goes into the sanctuary.

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Psa 69:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be sung to the tune “Lilies.”

Save me, O God,
for the floodwaters are up to my neck.

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Psa 69:3 - I am exhausted from crying for help;
my throat is parched.
My eyes are swollen with weeping,
waiting for my God to help me.

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Psa 69:4 - Those who hate me without cause
outnumber the hairs on my head.
Many enemies try to destroy me with lies,
demanding that I give back what I didn't steal.

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Psa 69:5 - O God, you know how foolish I am;
my sins cannot be hidden from you.

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Psa 69:7 - For I endure insults for your sake;
humiliation is written all over my face.

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Psa 69:8 - Even my own brothers pretend they don't know me;
they treat me like a stranger.

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Psa 69:10 - When I weep and fast,
they scoff at me.

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Psa 69:11 - When I dress in burlap to show sorrow,
they make fun of me.

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Psa 69:13 - But I keep praying to you, LORD,
hoping this time you will show me favor.
In your unfailing love, O God,
answer my prayer with your sure salvation.

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Psa 69:16 - Answer my prayers, O LORD,
for your unfailing love is wonderful.
Take care of me,
for your mercy is so plentiful.

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Psa 69:17 - Don't hide from your servant;
answer me quickly, for I am in deep trouble!

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Psa 69:18 - Come and redeem me;
free me from my enemies.

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Psa 69:19 - You know of my shame, scorn, and disgrace.
You see all that my enemies are doing.

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Psa 69:20 - Their insults have broken my heart,
and I am in despair.
If only one person would show some pity;
if only one would turn and comfort me.

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Psa 69:21 - But instead, they give me poison[fn] for food;
they offer me sour wine for my thirst.

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Psa 69:29 - I am suffering and in pain.
Rescue me, O God, by your saving power.

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Psa 70:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David, asking God to remember him.

Please, God, rescue me!
Come quickly, LORD, and help me.

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Psa 70:2 - May those who try to kill me
be humiliated and put to shame.
May those who take delight in my trouble
be turned back in disgrace.

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Psa 70:5 - But as for me, I am poor and needy;
please hurry to my aid, O God.
You are my helper and my savior;
O LORD, do not delay.

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Psa 71:3 - Be my rock of safety
where I can always hide.
Give the order to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

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Psa 71:4 - My God, rescue me from the power of the wicked,
from the clutches of cruel oppressors.

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Psa 71:5 - O Lord, you alone are my hope.
I've trusted you, O LORD, from childhood.

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Psa 71:6 - Yes, you have been with me from birth;
from my mother's womb you have cared for me.
No wonder I am always praising you!

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Psa 71:8 - That is why I can never stop praising you;
I declare your glory all day long.

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Psa 71:9 - And now, in my old age, don't set me aside.
Don't abandon me when my strength is failing.

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Psa 71:10 - For my enemies are whispering against me.
They are plotting together to kill me.

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Psa 71:12 - O God, don't stay away.
My God, please hurry to help me.

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Psa 71:13 - Bring disgrace and destruction on my accusers.
Humiliate and shame those who want to harm me.

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Psa 71:15 - I will tell everyone about your righteousness.
All day long I will proclaim your saving power,
though I am not skilled with words.[fn]

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Psa 71:17 - O God, you have taught me from my earliest childhood,
and I constantly tell others about the wonderful things you do.

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Psa 71:23 - I will shout for joy and sing your praises,
for you have ransomed me.

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Psa 71:24 - I will tell about your righteous deeds
all day long,
for everyone who tried to hurt me
has been shamed and humiliated.

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Psa 73:2 - But as for me, I almost lost my footing.
My feet were slipping, and I was almost gone.

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Psa 73:10 - And so the people are dismayed and confused,
drinking in all their words.

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Psa 73:13 - Did I keep my heart pure for nothing?
Did I keep myself innocent for no reason?

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Psa 73:14 - I get nothing but trouble all day long;
every morning brings me pain.

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Psa 73:16 - So I tried to understand why the wicked prosper.
But what a difficult task it is!

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Psa 73:21 - Then I realized that my heart was bitter,
and I was all torn up inside.

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Psa 73:23 - Yet I still belong to you;
you hold my right hand.

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Psa 73:26 - My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak,
but God remains the strength of my heart;
he is mine forever.

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Psa 73:28 - But as for me, how good it is to be near God!
I have made the Sovereign LORD my shelter,
and I will tell everyone about the wonderful things you do.

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Psa 77:1 - For Jeduthun, the choir director: A psalm of Asaph.

I cry out to God; yes, I shout.
Oh, that God would listen to me!

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Psa 77:2 - When I was in deep trouble,
I searched for the Lord.
All night long I prayed, with hands lifted toward heaven,
but my soul was not comforted.

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Psa 77:3 - I think of God, and I moan,
overwhelmed with longing for his help.
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Psa 77:4 - You don't let me sleep.
I am too distressed even to pray!

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Psa 77:6 - when my nights were filled with joyful songs.
I search my soul and ponder the difference now.

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Psa 78:1 - A psalm[fn] of Asaph.

O my people, listen to my instructions.
Open your ears to what I am saying,

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Psa 78:2 - for I will speak to you in a parable.
I will teach you hidden lessons from our past—

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Psa 81:8 - “Listen to me, O my people, while I give you stern warnings.
O Israel, if you would only listen to me!

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Psa 81:11 - “But no, my people wouldn't listen.
Israel did not want me around.

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Psa 81:13 - Oh, that my people would listen to me!
Oh, that Israel would follow me, walking in my paths!

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Psa 81:14 - How quickly I would then subdue their enemies!
How soon my hands would be upon their foes!

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Psa 83:13 - O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed,
like chaff before the wind!

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Psa 84:2 - I long, yes, I faint with longing
to enter the courts of the LORD.
With my whole being, body and soul,
I will shout joyfully to the living God.

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Psa 84:3 - Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow builds her nest and raises her young
at a place near your altar,
O LORD of Heaven's Armies, my King and my God!

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Psa 84:8 - O LORD God of Heaven's Armies, hear my prayer.
Listen, O God of Jacob.
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Psa 86:1 - A prayer of David.

Bend down, O LORD, and hear my prayer;
answer me, for I need your help.

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Psa 86:2 - Protect me, for I am devoted to you.
Save me, for I serve you and trust you.
You are my God.

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Psa 86:4 - Give me happiness, O Lord,
for I give myself to you.

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Psa 86:6 - Listen closely to my prayer, O LORD;
hear my urgent cry.

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Psa 86:7 - I will call to you whenever I'm in trouble,
and you will answer me.

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Psa 86:11 - Teach me your ways, O LORD,
that I may live according to your truth!
Grant me purity of heart,
so that I may honor you.

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Psa 86:12 - With all my heart I will praise you, O Lord my God.
I will give glory to your name forever,

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Psa 86:13 - for your love for me is very great.
You have rescued me from the depths of death.[fn]

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Psa 86:14 - O God, insolent people rise up against me;
a violent gang is trying to kill me.
You mean nothing to them.

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Psa 88:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of the descendants of Korah. A song to be sung to the tune “The Suffering of Affliction.” A psalm[fn] of Heman the Ezrahite.

O LORD, God of my salvation,
I cry out to you by day.
I come to you at night.

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Psa 88:2 - Now hear my prayer;
listen to my cry.

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Psa 88:3 - For my life is full of troubles,
and death[fn] draws near.

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Psa 88:8 - You have driven my friends away
by making me repulsive to them.
I am in a trap with no way of escape.

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Psa 88:9 - My eyes are blinded by my tears.
Each day I beg for your help, O LORD;
I lift my hands to you for mercy.

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Psa 88:13 - O LORD, I cry out to you.
I will keep on pleading day by day.

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Psa 88:14 - O LORD, why do you reject me?
Why do you turn your face from me?

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Psa 88:15 - I have been sick and close to death since my youth.
I stand helpless and desperate before your terrors.

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Psa 88:18 - You have taken away my companions and loved ones.
Darkness is my closest friend.

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Psa 89:1 - A psalm[fn] of Ethan the Ezrahite.

I will sing of the LORD's unfailing love forever!
Young and old will hear of your faithfulness.

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Psa 89:3 - The LORD said, “I have made a covenant with David, my chosen servant.
I have sworn this oath to him:

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Psa 89:19 - Long ago you spoke in a vision to your faithful people.
You said, “I have raised up a warrior.
I have selected him from the common people to be king.

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Psa 89:20 - I have found my servant David.
I have anointed him with my holy oil.

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Psa 89:21 - I will steady him with my hand;
with my powerful arm I will make him strong.

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Psa 89:24 - My faithfulness and unfailing love will be with him,
and by my authority he will grow in power.

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Psa 89:26 - And he will call out to me, ‘You are my Father,
my God, and the Rock of my salvation.'

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Psa 89:28 - I will love him and be kind to him forever;
my covenant with him will never end.

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Psa 89:30 - But if his descendants forsake my instructions
and fail to obey my regulations,

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Psa 89:31 - if they do not obey my decrees
and fail to keep my commands,

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Psa 89:33 - But I will never stop loving him
nor fail to keep my promise to him.

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Psa 89:34 - No, I will not break my covenant;
I will not take back a single word I said.

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Psa 89:35 - I have sworn an oath to David,
and in my holiness I cannot lie:

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Psa 89:36 - His dynasty will go on forever;
his kingdom will endure as the sun.

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Psa 89:47 - Remember how short my life is,
how empty and futile this human existence!

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Psa 89:50 - Consider, Lord, how your servants are disgraced!
I carry in my heart the insults of so many people.

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Psa 91:2 - This I declare about the LORD:
He alone is my refuge, my place of safety;
he is my God, and I trust him.

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Psa 91:9 - If you make the LORD your refuge,
if you make the Most High your shelter,

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Psa 91:14 - The LORD says, “I will rescue those who love me.
I will protect those who trust in my name.

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Psa 91:16 - I will reward them with a long life
and give them my salvation.”

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Psa 92:10 - But you have made me as strong as a wild ox.
You have anointed me with the finest oil.

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Psa 92:11 - My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies;
my ears have heard the defeat of my wicked opponents.

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Psa 92:15 - They will declare, “The LORD is just!
He is my rock!
There is no evil in him!”

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Psa 94:17 - Unless the LORD had helped me,
I would soon have settled in the silence of the grave.

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Psa 94:18 - I cried out, “I am slipping!”
but your unfailing love, O LORD, supported me.

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Psa 94:19 - When doubts filled my mind,
your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer.

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Psa 94:22 - But the LORD is my fortress;
my God is the mighty rock where I hide.

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Psa 95:9 - For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience,
even though they saw everything I did.

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Psa 95:10 - For forty years I was angry with them, and I said,
‘They are a people whose hearts turn away from me.
They refuse to do what I tell them.'

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Psa 95:11 - So in my anger I took an oath:
‘They will never enter my place of rest.'”

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Psa 101:2 - I will be careful to live a blameless life—
when will you come to help me?
I will lead a life of integrity
in my own home.

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Psa 101:3 - I will refuse to look at
anything vile and vulgar.
I hate all who deal crookedly;
I will have nothing to do with them.

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Psa 101:6 - I will search for faithful people
to be my companions.
Only those who are above reproach
will be allowed to serve me.

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Psa 101:7 - I will not allow deceivers to serve in my house,
and liars will not stay in my presence.

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Psa 102:1 - A prayer of one overwhelmed with trouble, pouring out problems before the LORD.

LORD, hear my prayer!
Listen to my plea!

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Psa 102:2 - Don't turn away from me
in my time of distress.
Bend down to listen,
and answer me quickly when I call to you.

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Psa 102:3 - For my days disappear like smoke,
and my bones burn like red-hot coals.

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Psa 102:4 - My heart is sick, withered like grass,
and I have lost my appetite.

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Psa 102:5 - Because of my groaning,
I am reduced to skin and bones.

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Psa 102:8 - My enemies taunt me day after day.
They mock and curse me.

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Psa 102:9 - I eat ashes for food.
My tears run down into my drink

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Psa 102:11 - My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows.
I am withering away like grass.

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Psa 102:23 - He broke my strength in midlife,
cutting short my days.

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Psa 102:24 - But I cried to him, “O my God, who lives forever,
don't take my life while I am so young!

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Psa 103:1 - A psalm of David.

Let all that I am praise the LORD;
with my whole heart, I will praise his holy name.

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Psa 103:2 - Let all that I am praise the LORD;
may I never forget the good things he does for me.

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Psa 103:22 - Praise the LORD, everything he has created,
everything in all his kingdom.
Let all that I am praise the LORD.

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Psa 104:1 - Let all that I am praise the LORD.
O LORD my God, how great you are!
You are robed with honor and majesty.

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Psa 104:33 - I will sing to the LORD as long as I live.
I will praise my God to my last breath!

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Psa 104:34 - May all my thoughts be pleasing to him,
for I rejoice in the LORD.

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Psa 104:35 - Let all sinners vanish from the face of the earth;
let the wicked disappear forever.
Let all that I am praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD!

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Psa 105:15 - “Do not touch my chosen people,
and do not hurt my prophets.”

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Psa 108:1 - A song. A psalm of David.

My heart is confident in you, O God;
no wonder I can sing your praises with all my heart!

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Psa 108:6 - Now rescue your beloved people.
Answer and save us by your power.

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Psa 108:8 - Gilead is mine,
and Manasseh, too.
Ephraim, my helmet, will produce my warriors,
and Judah, my scepter, will produce my kings.

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Psa 108:9 - But Moab, my washbasin, will become my servant,
and I will wipe my feet on Edom
and shout in triumph over Philistia.”

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Psa 109:1 - For the choir director: A psalm of David.

O God, whom I praise,
don't stand silent and aloof

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Psa 109:5 - They repay evil for good,
and hatred for my love.

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Psa 109:20 - May those curses become the LORD's punishment
for my accusers who speak evil of me.

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Psa 109:22 - For I am poor and needy,
and my heart is full of pain.

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Psa 109:24 - My knees are weak from fasting,
and I am skin and bones.

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Psa 109:26 - Help me, O LORD my God!
Save me because of your unfailing love.

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Psa 109:30 - But I will give repeated thanks to the LORD,
praising him to everyone.

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Psa 109:31 - For he stands beside the needy,
ready to save them from those who condemn them.

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Psa 110:1 - A psalm of David.

The LORD said to my Lord,
“Sit in the place of honor at my right hand
until I humble your enemies,
making them a footstool under your feet.”

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Psa 111:1 - Praise the LORD!
I will thank the LORD with all my heart
as I meet with his godly people.

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Psa 116:1 - I love the LORD because he hears my voice
and my prayer for mercy.

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Psa 116:2 - Because he bends down to listen,
I will pray as long as I have breath!

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Psa 116:4 - Then I called on the name of the LORD:
“Please, LORD, save me!”

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Psa 116:7 - Let my soul be at rest again,
for the LORD has been good to me.

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Psa 116:8 - He has saved me from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling.

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Psa 116:11 - In my anxiety I cried out to you,
“These people are all liars!”

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Psa 116:16 - O LORD, I am your servant;
yes, I am your servant, born into your household;
you have freed me from my chains.

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Psa 116:18 - I will fulfill my vows to the LORD
in the presence of all his people—

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Psa 118:5 - In my distress I prayed to the LORD,
and the LORD answered me and set me free.

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Psa 118:7 - Yes, the LORD is for me; he will help me.
I will look in triumph at those who hate me.

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Psa 118:13 - My enemies did their best to kill me,
but the LORD rescued me.

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Psa 118:14 - The LORD is my strength and my song;
he has given me victory.

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Psa 118:21 - I thank you for answering my prayer
and giving me victory!

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Psa 118:28 - You are my God, and I will praise you!
You are my God, and I will exalt you!

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Psa 119:5 - Oh, that my actions would consistently
reflect your decrees!

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Psa 119:10 - I have tried hard to find you—
don't let me wander from your commands.

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Psa 119:11 - I have hidden your word in my heart,
that I might not sin against you.

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Psa 119:13 - I have recited aloud
all the regulations you have given us.

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Psa 119:18 - Open my eyes to see
the wonderful truths in your instructions.

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Psa 119:20 - I am always overwhelmed
with a desire for your regulations.

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Psa 119:24 - Your laws please me;
they give me wise advice.

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Psa 119:25 - Daleth
I lie in the dust;
revive me by your word.

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Psa 119:26 - I told you my plans, and you answered.
Now teach me your decrees.

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Psa 119:28 - I weep with sorrow;
encourage me by your word.

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Psa 119:32 - I will pursue your commands,
for you expand my understanding.

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Psa 119:34 - Give me understanding and I will obey your instructions;
I will put them into practice with all my heart.

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Psa 119:36 - Give me an eagerness for your laws
rather than a love for money!

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Psa 119:37 - Turn my eyes from worthless things,
and give me life through your word.[fn]

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Psa 119:39 - Help me abandon my shameful ways;
for your regulations are good.

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Psa 119:43 - Do not snatch your word of truth from me,
for your regulations are my only hope.

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Psa 119:48 - I honor and love your commands.
I meditate on your decrees.

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Psa 119:50 - Your promise revives me;
it comforts me in all my troubles.

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Psa 119:54 - Your decrees have been the theme of my songs
wherever I have lived.

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Psa 119:57 - Heth
LORD, you are mine!
I promise to obey your words!

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Psa 119:58 - With all my heart I want your blessings.
Be merciful as you promised.

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Psa 119:59 - I pondered the direction of my life,
and I turned to follow your laws.

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Psa 119:69 - Arrogant people smear me with lies,
but in truth I obey your commandments with all my heart.

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Psa 119:80 - May I be blameless in keeping your decrees;
then I will never be ashamed.

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Psa 119:81 - Kaph
I am worn out waiting for your rescue,
but I have put my hope in your word.

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Psa 119:82 - My eyes are straining to see your promises come true.
When will you comfort me?

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Psa 119:92 - If your instructions hadn't sustained me with joy,
I would have died in my misery.

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Psa 119:98 - Your commands make me wiser than my enemies,
for they are my constant guide.

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Psa 119:101 - I have refused to walk on any evil path,
so that I may remain obedient to your word.

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Psa 119:103 - How sweet your words taste to me;
they are sweeter than honey.

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Psa 119:105 - Nun
Your word is a lamp to guide my feet
and a light for my path.

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Psa 119:108 - LORD, accept my offering of praise,
and teach me your regulations.

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Psa 119:109 - My life constantly hangs in the balance,
but I will not stop obeying your instructions.

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Psa 119:112 - I am determined to keep your decrees
to the very end.

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Psa 119:114 - You are my refuge and my shield;
your word is my source of hope.

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Psa 119:115 - Get out of my life, you evil-minded people,
for I intend to obey the commands of my God.

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Psa 119:116 - LORD, sustain me as you promised, that I may live!
Do not let my hope be crushed.

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Psa 119:120 - I tremble in fear of you;
I stand in awe of your regulations.

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Psa 119:123 - My eyes strain to see your rescue,
to see the truth of your promise fulfilled.

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Psa 119:129 - Pe
Your laws are wonderful.
No wonder I obey them!

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Psa 119:131 - I pant with expectation,
longing for your commands.

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Psa 119:133 - Guide my steps by your word,
so I will not be overcome by evil.

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Psa 119:136 - Rivers of tears gush from my eyes
because people disobey your instructions.

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Psa 119:139 - I am overwhelmed with indignation,
for my enemies have disregarded your words.

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Psa 119:143 - As pressure and stress bear down on me,
I find joy in your commands.

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Psa 119:145 - Qoph
I pray with all my heart; answer me, LORD!
I will obey your decrees.

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Psa 119:148 - I stay awake through the night,
thinking about your promise.

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Psa 119:149 - In your faithful love, O LORD, hear my cry;
let me be revived by following your regulations.

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Psa 119:153 - Resh
Look upon my suffering and rescue me,
for I have not forgotten your instructions.

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Psa 119:154 - Argue my case; take my side!
Protect my life as you promised.

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Psa 119:161 - Shin
Powerful people harass me without cause,
but my heart trembles only at your word.

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Psa 119:167 - I have obeyed your laws,
for I love them very much.

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Psa 119:168 - Yes, I obey your commandments and laws
because you know everything I do.

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Psa 119:169 - Taw
O LORD, listen to my cry;
give me the discerning mind you promised.

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Psa 119:170 - Listen to my prayer;
rescue me as you promised.

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Psa 119:171 - Let praise flow from my lips,
for you have taught me your decrees.

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Psa 119:172 - Let my tongue sing about your word,
for all your commands are right.

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Psa 119:175 - Let me live so I can praise you,
and may your regulations help me.

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Psa 120:1 - A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem.

I took my troubles to the LORD;
I cried out to him, and he answered my prayer.

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Psa 120:2 - Rescue me, O LORD, from liars
and from all deceitful people.

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Psa 120:5 - How I suffer in far-off Meshech.
It pains me to live in distant Kedar.

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Psa 120:6 - I am tired of living
among people who hate peace.

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Psa 121:1 - A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem.

I look up to the mountains—
does my help come from there?

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Psa 121:2 - My help comes from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth!

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Psa 122:8 - For the sake of my family and friends, I will say,
“May you have peace.”

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Psa 123:1 - A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem.

I lift my eyes to you,
O God, enthroned in heaven.

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Psa 129:1 - A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem.

From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me.
Let all Israel repeat this:

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Psa 129:2 - From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me,
but they have never defeated me.

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Psa 129:3 - My back is covered with cuts,
as if a farmer had plowed long furrows.

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Psa 130:2 - Hear my cry, O Lord.
Pay attention to my prayer.

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Psa 130:5 - I am counting on the LORD;
yes, I am counting on him.
I have put my hope in his word.

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Psa 130:6 - I long for the Lord
more than sentries long for the dawn,
yes, more than sentries long for the dawn.

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Psa 131:1 - A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. A psalm of David.

LORD, my heart is not proud;
my eyes are not haughty.
I don't concern myself with matters too great
or too awesome for me to grasp.

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Psa 131:2 - Instead, I have calmed and quieted myself,
like a weaned child who no longer cries for its mother's milk.
Yes, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

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Psa 132:3 - “I will not go home;
I will not let myself rest.

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Psa 132:4 - I will not let my eyes sleep
nor close my eyelids in slumber

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Psa 132:12 - If your descendants obey the terms of my covenant
and the laws that I teach them,
then your royal line
will continue forever and ever.”

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Psa 132:14 - “This is my resting place forever,” he said.
“I will live here, for this is the home I desired.

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Psa 132:17 - Here I will increase the power of David;
my anointed one will be a light for my people.

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Psa 132:18 - I will clothe his enemies with shame,
but he will be a glorious king.”

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Psa 137:5 - If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
let my right hand forget how to play the harp.

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Psa 137:6 - May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth
if I fail to remember you,
if I don't make Jerusalem my greatest joy.

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Psa 138:1 - A psalm of David.

I give you thanks, O LORD, with all my heart;
I will sing your praises before the gods.

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Psa 138:3 - As soon as I pray, you answer me;
you encourage me by giving me strength.

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Psa 138:7 - Though I am surrounded by troubles,
you will protect me from the anger of my enemies.
You reach out your hand,
and the power of your right hand saves me.

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Psa 139:2 - You know when I sit down or stand up.
You know my thoughts even when I'm far away.

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Psa 139:3 - You see me when I travel
and when I rest at home.
You know everything I do.

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Psa 139:4 - You know what I am going to say
even before I say it, LORD.

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Psa 139:9 - If I ride the wings of the morning,
if I dwell by the farthest oceans,

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Psa 139:11 - I could ask the darkness to hide me
and the light around me to become night—

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Psa 139:13 - You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother's womb.

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Psa 139:14 - Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

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Psa 139:15 - You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.

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Psa 139:16 - You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.

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Psa 139:23 - Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.

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Psa 140:4 - O LORD, keep me out of the hands of the wicked.
Protect me from those who are violent,
for they are plotting against me.

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Psa 140:5 - The proud have set a trap to catch me;
they have stretched out a net;
they have placed traps all along the way.
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Psa 140:6 - I said to the LORD, “You are my God!”
Listen, O LORD, to my cries for mercy!

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Psa 140:7 - O Sovereign LORD, the strong one who rescued me,
you protected me on the day of battle.

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Psa 140:8 - LORD, do not let evil people have their way.
Do not let their evil schemes succeed,
or they will become proud.
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Psa 141:1 - A psalm of David.

O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry!
Listen when I cry to you for help!

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Psa 141:2 - Accept my prayer as incense offered to you,
and my upraised hands as an evening offering.

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Psa 141:3 - Take control of what I say, O LORD,
and guard my lips.

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Psa 141:4 - Don't let me drift toward evil
or take part in acts of wickedness.
Don't let me share in the delicacies
of those who do wrong.

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Psa 141:5 - Let the godly strike me!
It will be a kindness!
If they correct me, it is soothing medicine.
Don't let me refuse it.
But I pray constantly
against the wicked and their deeds.

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Psa 141:6 - When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff,
the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.

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Psa 141:8 - I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD.
You are my refuge; don't let them kill me.

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Psa 142:1 - A psalm[fn] of David, regarding his experience in the cave. A prayer.

I cry out to the LORD;
I plead for the LORD's mercy.

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Psa 142:2 - I pour out my complaints before him
and tell him all my troubles.

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Psa 142:3 - When I am overwhelmed,
you alone know the way I should turn.
Wherever I go,
my enemies have set traps for me.

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Psa 142:4 - I look for someone to come and help me,
but no one gives me a passing thought!
No one will help me;
no one cares a bit what happens to me.

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Psa 142:5 - Then I pray to you, O LORD.
I say, “You are my place of refuge.
You are all I really want in life.

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Psa 142:6 - Hear my cry,
for I am very low.
Rescue me from my persecutors,
for they are too strong for me.

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Psa 142:7 - Bring me out of prison
so I can thank you.
The godly will crowd around me,
for you are good to me.”

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Psa 143:1 - A psalm of David.

Hear my prayer, O LORD;
listen to my plea!
Answer me because you are faithful and righteous.

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Psa 143:3 - My enemy has chased me.
He has knocked me to the ground
and forces me to live in darkness like those in the grave.

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Psa 143:4 - I am losing all hope;
I am paralyzed with fear.

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Psa 143:6 - I lift my hands to you in prayer.
I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for rain.
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Psa 143:7 - Come quickly, LORD, and answer me,
for my depression deepens.
Don't turn away from me,
or I will die.

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Psa 143:8 - Let me hear of your unfailing love each morning,
for I am trusting you.
Show me where to walk,
for I give myself to you.

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Psa 143:9 - Rescue me from my enemies, LORD;
I run to you to hide me.

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Psa 143:10 - Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God.
May your gracious Spirit lead me forward
on a firm footing.

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Psa 143:11 - For the glory of your name, O LORD, preserve my life.
Because of your faithfulness, bring me out of this distress.

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Psa 143:12 - In your unfailing love, silence all my enemies
and destroy all my foes,
for I am your servant.

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Psa 144:1 - A psalm of David.

Praise the LORD, who is my rock.
He trains my hands for war
and gives my fingers skill for battle.

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Psa 144:2 - He is my loving ally and my fortress,
my tower of safety, my rescuer.
He is my shield, and I take refuge in him.
He makes the nations[fn] submit to me.

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Psa 145:1 - A psalm of praise of David.

I will exalt you, my God and King,
and praise your name forever and ever.

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Psa 145:21 - I will praise the LORD,
and may everyone on earth bless his holy name
forever and ever.

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Psa 146:1 - Praise the LORD!
Let all that I am praise the LORD.

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Psa 146:2 - I will praise the LORD as long as I live.
I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath.

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Pro 1:1 - These are the proverbs of Solomon, David's son, king of Israel.

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Pro 1:2 - Their purpose is to teach people wisdom and discipline,
to help them understand the insights of the wise.

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Pro 1:3 - Their purpose is to teach people to live disciplined and successful lives,
to help them do what is right, just, and fair.

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Pro 1:4 - These proverbs will give insight to the simple,
knowledge and discernment to the young.

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Pro 1:5 - Let the wise listen to these proverbs and become even wiser.
Let those with understanding receive guidance

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Pro 3:1 - My child,[fn] never forget the things I have taught you.
Store my commands in your heart.

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Pro 5:7 - So now, my sons, listen to me.
Never stray from what I am about to say:

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Pro 5:12 - You will say, “How I hated discipline!
If only I had not ignored all the warnings!

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Pro 5:13 - Oh, why didn't I listen to my teachers?
Why didn't I pay attention to my instructors?

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Pro 7:14 - “I've just made my peace offerings
and fulfilled my vows.

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Pro 7:16 - My bed is spread with beautiful blankets,
with colored sheets of Egyptian linen.

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Pro 7:17 - I've perfumed my bed
with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

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Pro 7:19 - for my husband is not home.
He's away on a long trip.

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Pro 7:24 - So listen to me, my sons,
and pay attention to my words.

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Pro 8:6 - Listen to me! For I have important things to tell you.
Everything I say is right,

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Pro 8:7 - for I speak the truth
and detest every kind of deception.

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Pro 8:8 - My advice is wholesome.
There is nothing devious or crooked in it.

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Pro 8:32 - “And so, my children,[fn] listen to me,
for all who follow my ways are joyful.

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Pro 8:34 - Joyful are those who listen to me,
watching for me daily at my gates,
waiting for me outside my home!

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Pro 8:35 - For whoever finds me finds life
and receives favor from the LORD.

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Pro 24:27 - Do your planning and prepare your fields
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Pro 27:11 - Be wise, my child,[fn] and make my heart glad.
Then I will be able to answer my critics.

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Pro 30:7 - O God, I beg two favors from you;
let me have them before I die.

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Pro 30:8 - First, help me never to tell a lie.
Second, give me neither poverty nor riches!
Give me just enough to satisfy my needs.

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Ecc 1:13 - I devoted myself to search for understanding and to explore by wisdom everything being done under heaven. I soon discovered that God has dealt a tragic existence to the human race.

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Ecc 1:16 - I said to myself, “Look, I am wiser than any of the kings who ruled in Jerusalem before me. I have greater wisdom and knowledge than any of them.”

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Ecc 1:17 - So I set out to learn everything from wisdom to madness and folly. But I learned firsthand that pursuing all this is like chasing the wind.

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Ecc 2:1 - I said to myself, “Come on, let's try pleasure. Let's look for the ‘good things' in life.” But I found that this, too, was meaningless.

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Ecc 2:3 - After much thought, I decided to cheer myself with wine. And while still seeking wisdom, I clutched at foolishness. In this way, I tried to experience the only happiness most people find during their brief life in this world.

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Ecc 2:4 - I also tried to find meaning by building huge homes for myself and by planting beautiful vineyards.

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Ecc 2:7 - I bought slaves, both men and women, and others were born into my household. I also owned large herds and flocks, more than any of the kings who had lived in Jerusalem before me.

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Ecc 2:9 - So I became greater than all who had lived in Jerusalem before me, and my wisdom never failed me.

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Ecc 2:10 - Anything I wanted, I would take. I denied myself no pleasure. I even found great pleasure in hard work, a reward for all my labors.

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Ecc 2:11 - But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless—like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.

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Ecc 2:15 - Both will die. So I said to myself, “Since I will end up the same as the fool, what's the value of all my wisdom? This is all so meaningless!”

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Ecc 2:18 - I came to hate all my hard work here on earth, for I must leave to others everything I have earned.

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Ecc 2:19 - And who can tell whether my successors will be wise or foolish? Yet they will control everything I have gained by my skill and hard work under the sun. How meaningless!

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Ecc 2:20 - So I gave up in despair, questioning the value of all my hard work in this world.

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Ecc 3:17 - I said to myself, “In due season God will judge everyone, both good and bad, for all their deeds.”

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Ecc 3:18 - I also thought about the human condition—how God proves to people that they are like animals.

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Ecc 4:8 - This is the case of a man who is all alone, without a child or a brother, yet who works hard to gain as much wealth as he can. But then he asks himself, “Who am I working for? Why am I giving up so much pleasure now?” It is all so meaningless and depressing.

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Ecc 7:15 - I have seen everything in this meaningless life, including the death of good young people and the long life of wicked people.

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Ecc 7:25 - I searched everywhere, determined to find wisdom and to understand the reason for things. I was determined to prove to myself that wickedness is stupid and that foolishness is madness.

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Ecc 7:28 - Though I have searched repeatedly, I have not found what I was looking for. Only one out of a thousand men is virtuous, but not one woman!

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Ecc 8:9 - I have thought deeply about all that goes on here under the sun, where people have the power to hurt each other.

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Ecc 8:16 - In my search for wisdom and in my observation of people's burdens here on earth, I discovered that there is ceaseless activity, day and night.

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Ecc 9:1 - This, too, I carefully explored: Even though the actions of godly and wise people are in God's hands, no one knows whether God will show them favor.

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Ecc 12:12 - But, my child,[fn] let me give you some further advice: Be careful, for writing books is endless, and much study wears you out.

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Sng 1:6 - Don't stare at me because I am dark—
the sun has darkened my skin.
My brothers were angry with me;
they forced me to care for their vineyards,
so I couldn't care for myself—my own vineyard.

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Sng 1:7 - Tell me, my love, where are you leading your flock today?
Where will you rest your sheep at noon?
For why should I wander like a prostitute[fn]
among your friends and their flocks?

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Sng 1:9 - You are as exciting, my darling,
as a mare among Pharaoh's stallions.

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Sng 1:12 - Young Woman
The king is lying on his couch,
enchanted by the fragrance of my perfume.

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Sng 1:13 - My lover is like a sachet of myrrh
lying between my breasts.

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Sng 1:14 - He is like a bouquet of sweet henna blossoms
from the vineyards of En-gedi.

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Sng 1:15 - Young Man
How beautiful you are, my darling,
how beautiful!
Your eyes are like doves.

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Sng 1:16 - Young Woman
You are so handsome, my love,
pleasing beyond words!
The soft grass is our bed;

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Sng 2:2 - Young Man
Like a lily among thistles
is my darling among young women.

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Sng 2:3 - Young Woman
Like the finest apple tree in the orchard
is my lover among other young men.
I sit in his delightful shade
and taste his delicious fruit.

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Sng 2:6 - His left arm is under my head,
and his right arm embraces me.

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Sng 2:8 - Ah, I hear my lover coming!
He is leaping over the mountains,
bounding over the hills.

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Sng 2:9 - My lover is like a swift gazelle
or a young stag.
Look, there he is behind the wall,
looking through the window,
peering into the room.

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Sng 2:10 - My lover said to me,
“Rise up, my darling!
Come away with me, my fair one!

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Sng 2:13 - The fig trees are forming young fruit,
and the fragrant grapevines are blossoming.
Rise up, my darling!
Come away with me, my fair one!”

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Sng 2:14 - Young Man
My dove is hiding behind the rocks,
behind an outcrop on the cliff.
Let me see your face;
let me hear your voice.
For your voice is pleasant,
and your face is lovely.

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Sng 2:16 - Young Woman
My lover is mine, and I am his.
He browses among the lilies.

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Sng 2:17 - Before the dawn breezes blow
and the night shadows flee,
return to me, my love, like a gazelle
or a young stag on the rugged mountains.[fn]

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Sng 3:1 - Young Woman
One night as I lay in bed, I yearned for my lover.
I yearned for him, but he did not come.

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Sng 3:2 - So I said to myself, “I will get up and roam the city,
searching in all its streets and squares.
I will search for the one I love.”
So I searched everywhere but did not find him.

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Sng 3:3 - The watchmen stopped me as they made their rounds,
and I asked, “Have you seen the one I love?”

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Sng 3:4 - Then scarcely had I left them
when I found my love!
I caught and held him tightly,
then I brought him to my mother's house,
into my mother's bed, where I had been conceived.

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Sng 4:1 - Young Man
You are beautiful, my darling,
beautiful beyond words.
Your eyes are like doves
behind your veil.
Your hair falls in waves,
like a flock of goats winding down the slopes of Gilead.

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Sng 4:7 - You are altogether beautiful, my darling,
beautiful in every way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:9

Sng 4:9 - You have captured my heart,
my treasure,[fn] my bride.
You hold it hostage with one glance of your eyes,
with a single jewel of your necklace.

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Sng 4:10 - Your love delights me,
my treasure, my bride.
Your love is better than wine,
your perfume more fragrant than spices.

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Sng 4:12 - You are my private garden, my treasure, my bride,
a secluded spring, a hidden fountain.

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Sng 4:16 - Young Woman
Awake, north wind!
Rise up, south wind!
Blow on my garden
and spread its fragrance all around.
Come into your garden, my love;
taste its finest fruits.

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Sng 5:1 - Young Man
I have entered my garden, my treasure,[fn] my bride!
I gather myrrh with my spices
and eat honeycomb with my honey.
I drink wine with my milk.

Young Women of Jerusalem
Oh, lover and beloved, eat and drink!
Yes, drink deeply of your love!

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Sng 5:2 - Young Woman
I slept, but my heart was awake,
when I heard my lover knocking and calling:
“Open to me, my treasure, my darling,
my dove, my perfect one.
My head is drenched with dew,
my hair with the dampness of the night.”

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Sng 5:3 - But I responded,
“I have taken off my robe.
Should I get dressed again?
I have washed my feet.
Should I get them soiled?”

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Sng 5:4 - My lover tried to unlatch the door,
and my heart thrilled within me.

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Sng 5:5 - I jumped up to open the door for my love,
and my hands dripped with perfume.
My fingers dripped with lovely myrrh
as I pulled back the bolt.

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Sng 5:6 - I opened to my lover,
but he was gone!
My heart sank.
I searched for him
but could not find him anywhere.
I called to him,
but there was no reply.

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Sng 5:7 - The night watchmen found me
as they made their rounds.
They beat and bruised me
and stripped off my veil,
those watchmen on the walls.

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Sng 5:8 - Make this promise, O women of Jerusalem—
If you find my lover,
tell him I am weak with love.

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Sng 5:10 - Young Woman
My lover is dark and dazzling,
better than ten thousand others!

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Sng 5:16 - His mouth is sweetness itself;
he is desirable in every way.
Such, O women of Jerusalem,
is my lover, my friend.

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Sng 6:2 - Young Woman
My lover has gone down to his garden,
to his spice beds,
to browse in the gardens
and gather the lilies.

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Sng 6:3 - I am my lover's, and my lover is mine.
He browses among the lilies.

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Sng 6:4 - Young Man
You are beautiful, my darling,
like the lovely city of Tirzah.
Yes, as beautiful as Jerusalem,
as majestic as an army with billowing banners.

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Sng 6:5 - Turn your eyes away,
for they overpower me.
Your hair falls in waves,
like a flock of goats winding down the slopes of Gilead.

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Sng 6:9 - I would still choose my dove, my perfect one—
the favorite of her mother,
dearly loved by the one who bore her.
The young women see her and praise her;
even queens and royal concubines sing her praises:

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Sng 6:11 - Young Woman
I went down to the grove of walnut trees
and out to the valley to see the new spring growth,
to see whether the grapevines had budded
or the pomegranates were in bloom.

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Sng 6:12 - Before I realized it,
my strong desires had taken me to the chariot of a noble man.[fn]

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Sng 7:9 - May your kisses be as exciting as the best wine,
flowing gently over lips and teeth.[fn]

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Sng 7:10 - Young Woman
I am my lover's,
and he claims me as his own.

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Sng 7:11 - Come, my love, let us go out to the fields
and spend the night among the wildflowers.[fn]

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Sng 7:12 - Let us get up early and go to the vineyards
to see if the grapevines have budded,
if the blossoms have opened,
and if the pomegranates have bloomed.
There I will give you my love.

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Sng 7:13 - There the mandrakes give off their fragrance,
and the finest fruits are at our door,
new delights as well as old,
which I have saved for you, my lover.

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Sng 8:1 - Young Woman
Oh, I wish you were my brother,
who nursed at my mother's breasts.
Then I could kiss you no matter who was watching,
and no one would criticize me.

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Sng 8:2 - I would bring you to my childhood home,
and there you would teach me.[fn]
I would give you spiced wine to drink,
my sweet pomegranate wine.

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Sng 8:3 - Your left arm would be under my head,
and your right arm would embrace me.

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Sng 8:10 - Young Woman
I was a virgin, like a wall;
now my breasts are like towers.
When my lover looks at me,
he is delighted with what he sees.

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Sng 8:12 - But my vineyard is mine to give,
and Solomon need not pay a thousand pieces of silver.
But I will give two hundred pieces
to those who care for its vines.

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Sng 8:14 - Young Woman
Come away, my love! Be like a gazelle
or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

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Isa 1:12 - When you come to worship me,
who asked you to parade through my courts with all your ceremony?

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Isa 1:14 - I hate your new moon celebrations and your annual festivals.
They are a burden to me. I cannot stand them!

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Isa 1:15 - When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will not look.
Though you offer many prayers, I will not listen,
for your hands are covered with the blood of innocent victims.

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Isa 1:16 - Wash yourselves and be clean!
Get your sins out of my sight.
Give up your evil ways.

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Isa 1:19 - If you will only obey me,
you will have plenty to eat.

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Isa 1:20 - But if you turn away and refuse to listen,
you will be devoured by the sword of your enemies.
I, the LORD, have spoken!”

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Isa 1:24 - Therefore, the Lord, the LORD of Heaven's Armies,
the Mighty One of Israel, says,
“I will take revenge on my enemies
and pay back my foes!

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Isa 1:25 - I will raise my fist against you.
I will melt you down and skim off your slag.
I will remove all your impurities.

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Isa 3:7 - But he will reply,
“No! I can't help.
I don't have any extra food or clothes.
Don't put me in charge!”

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Isa 3:12 - Childish leaders oppress my people,
and women rule over them.
O my people, your leaders mislead you;
they send you down the wrong road.

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Isa 3:14 - The LORD comes forward to pronounce judgment
on the elders and rulers of his people:
“You have ruined Israel, my vineyard.
Your houses are filled with things stolen from the poor.

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Isa 3:15 - How dare you crush my people,
grinding the faces of the poor into the dust?”
demands the Lord, the LORD of Heaven's Armies.

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Isa 5:1 - Now I will sing for the one I love
a song about his vineyard:
My beloved had a vineyard
on a rich and fertile hill.

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Isa 5:3 - Now, you people of Jerusalem and Judah,
you judge between me and my vineyard.

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Isa 5:4 - What more could I have done for my vineyard
that I have not already done?
When I expected sweet grapes,
why did my vineyard give me bitter grapes?

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Isa 5:5 - Now let me tell you
what I will do to my vineyard:
I will tear down its hedges
and let it be destroyed.
I will break down its walls
and let the animals trample it.

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Isa 5:6 - I will make it a wild place
where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed,
a place overgrown with briers and thorns.
I will command the clouds
to drop no rain on it.

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Isa 5:13 - So my people will go into exile far away
because they do not know me.
Those who are great and honored will starve,
and the common people will die of thirst.

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Isa 6:5 - Then I said, “It's all over! I am doomed, for I am a sinful man. I have filthy lips, and I live among a people with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the King, the LORD of Heaven's Armies.”

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Isa 6:7 - He touched my lips with it and said, “See, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed, and your sins are forgiven.”

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Isa 7:4 - Tell him to stop worrying. Tell him he doesn't need to fear the fierce anger of those two burned-out embers, King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah.

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Isa 10:2 - They deprive the poor of justice
and deny the rights of the needy among my people.
They prey on widows
and take advantage of orphans.

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Isa 10:5 - “What sorrow awaits Assyria, the rod of my anger.
I use it as a club to express my anger.

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Isa 10:6 - I am sending Assyria against a godless nation,
against a people with whom I am angry.
Assyria will plunder them,
trampling them like dirt beneath its feet.

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Isa 10:10 - Yes, we have finished off many a kingdom
whose gods were greater than those in Jerusalem and Samaria.

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Isa 10:24 - So this is what the Lord, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, says: “O my people in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians when they oppress you with rod and club as the Egyptians did long ago.

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Isa 10:25 - In a little while my anger against you will end, and then my anger will rise up to destroy them.”

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Isa 11:9 - Nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain,
for as the waters fill the sea,
so the earth will be filled with people who know the LORD.

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Isa 11:16 - He will make a highway for the remnant of his people,
the remnant coming from Assyria,
just as he did for Israel long ago
when they returned from Egypt.

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Isa 12:2 - See, God has come to save me.
I will trust in him and not be afraid.
The LORD GOD is my strength and my song;
he has given me victory.”

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Isa 13:3 - I, the LORD, have dedicated these soldiers for this task.
Yes, I have called mighty warriors to express my anger,
and they will rejoice when I am exalted.”

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Isa 14:13 - For you said to yourself,
‘I will ascend to heaven and set my throne above God's stars.
I will preside on the mountain of the gods
far away in the north.[fn]

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Isa 14:20 - You will not be given a proper burial,
for you have destroyed your nation
and slaughtered your people.
The descendants of such an evil person
will never again receive honor.

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Isa 14:25 - I will break the Assyrians when they are in Israel;
I will trample them on my mountains.
My people will no longer be their slaves
nor bow down under their heavy loads.

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Isa 16:11 - My heart's cry for Moab is like a lament on a harp.
I am filled with anguish for Kir-hareseth.[fn]

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Isa 19:25 - For the LORD of Heaven's Armies will say, “Blessed be Egypt, my people. Blessed be Assyria, the land I have made. Blessed be Israel, my special possession!”

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Isa 20:3 - Then the LORD said, “My servant Isaiah has been walking around naked and barefoot for the last three years. This is a sign—a symbol of the terrible troubles I will bring upon Egypt and Ethiopia.[fn]

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Isa 21:3 - My stomach aches and burns with pain.
Sharp pangs of anguish are upon me,
like those of a woman in labor.
I grow faint when I hear what God is planning;
I am too afraid to look.

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Isa 21:4 - My mind reels and my heart races.
I longed for evening to come,
but now I am terrified of the dark.

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Isa 22:4 - That's why I said, “Leave me alone to weep;
do not try to comfort me.
Let me cry for my people
as I watch them being destroyed.”

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Isa 22:20 - And then I will call my servant Eliakim son of Hilkiah to replace you.

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Isa 25:1 - O LORD, I will honor and praise your name,
for you are my God.
You do such wonderful things!
You planned them long ago,
and now you have accomplished them.

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Isa 26:9 - All night long I search for you;
in the morning I earnestly seek for God.
For only when you come to judge the earth
will people learn what is right.

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Isa 26:20 - Go home, my people,
and lock your doors!
Hide yourselves for a little while
until the LORD's anger has passed.

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Isa 28:5 - Then at last the LORD of Heaven's Armies
will himself be Israel's glorious crown.
He will be the pride and joy
of the remnant of his people.

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Isa 28:17 - I will test you with the measuring line of justice
and the plumb line of righteousness.
Since your refuge is made of lies,
a hailstorm will knock it down.
Since it is made of deception,
a flood will sweep it away.

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Isa 28:23 - Listen to me;
listen, and pay close attention.

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Isa 28:28 - Grain for bread is easily crushed,
so he doesn't keep on pounding it.
He threshes it under the wheels of a cart,
but he doesn't pulverize it.

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Isa 29:23 - For when they see their many children
and all the blessings I have given them,
they will recognize the holiness of the Holy One of Israel.
They will stand in awe of the God of Jacob.

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Isa 30:1 - “What sorrow awaits my rebellious children,”
says the LORD.
“You make plans that are contrary to mine.
You make alliances not directed by my Spirit,
thus piling up your sins.

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Isa 30:29 - But the people of God will sing a song of joy,
like the songs at the holy festivals.
You will be filled with joy,
as when a flutist leads a group of pilgrims
to Jerusalem, the mountain of the LORD—
to the Rock of Israel.

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Isa 32:9 - Listen, you women who lie around in ease.
Listen to me, you who are so smug.

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Isa 32:13 - For your land will be overgrown with thorns and briers.
Your joyful homes and happy towns will be gone.

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Isa 33:13 - Listen to what I have done, you nations far away!
And you that are near, acknowledge my might!”

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Isa 33:22 - For the LORD is our judge,
our lawgiver, and our king.
He will care for us and save us.

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Isa 34:5 - And when my sword has finished its work in the heavens,
it will fall upon Edom,
the nation I have marked for destruction.

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Isa 35:2 - Yes, there will be an abundance of flowers
and singing and joy!
The deserts will become as green as the mountains of Lebanon,
as lovely as Mount Carmel or the plain of Sharon.
There the LORD will display his glory,
the splendor of our God.

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Isa 36:8 - “I'll tell you what! Strike a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you 2,000 horses if you can find that many men to ride on them!

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Isa 36:12 - But Sennacherib's chief of staff replied, “Do you think my master sent this message only to you and your master? He wants all the people to hear it, for when we put this city under siege, they will suffer along with you. They will be so hungry and thirsty that they will eat their own dung and drink their own urine.”

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Isa 36:19 - What happened to the gods of Hamath and Arpad? And what about the gods of Sepharvaim? Did any god rescue Samaria from my power?

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Isa 36:20 - What god of any nation has ever been able to save its people from my power? So what makes you think that the LORD can rescue Jerusalem from me?”

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Isa 37:12 - Have the gods of other nations rescued them—such nations as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Tel-assar? My predecessors destroyed them all!

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Isa 37:35 - ‘For my own honor and for the sake of my servant David,
I will defend this city and protect it.'”

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Isa 38:10 - I said, “In the prime of my life,
must I now enter the place of the dead?[fn]
Am I to be robbed of the rest of my years?”

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Isa 38:12 - My life has been blown away
like a shepherd's tent in a storm.
It has been cut short,
as when a weaver cuts cloth from a loom.
Suddenly, my life was over.

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Isa 38:13 - I waited patiently all night,
but I was torn apart as though by lions.
Suddenly, my life was over.

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Isa 38:14 - Delirious, I chattered like a swallow or a crane,
and then I moaned like a mourning dove.
My eyes grew tired of looking to heaven for help.
I am in trouble, Lord. Help me!”

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Isa 38:15 - But what could I say?
For he himself sent this sickness.
Now I will walk humbly throughout my years
because of this anguish I have felt.

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Isa 38:16 - Lord, your discipline is good,
for it leads to life and health.
You restore my health
and allow me to live!

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Isa 38:17 - Yes, this anguish was good for me,
for you have rescued me from death
and forgiven all my sins.

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Isa 38:20 - Think of it—the LORD is ready to heal me!
I will sing his praises with instruments
every day of my life
in the Temple of the LORD.

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Isa 39:4 - “What did they see in your palace?” asked Isaiah.
“They saw everything,” Hezekiah replied. “I showed them everything I own—all my royal treasuries.”

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Isa 39:8 - Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “This message you have given me from the LORD is good.” For the king was thinking, “At least there will be peace and security during my lifetime.”

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Isa 40:1 - “Comfort, comfort my people,”
says your God.

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Isa 40:27 - O Jacob, how can you say the LORD does not see your troubles?
O Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights?

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Isa 41:8 - “But as for you, Israel my servant,
Jacob my chosen one,
descended from Abraham my friend,

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Isa 41:9 - I have called you back from the ends of the earth,
saying, ‘You are my servant.'
For I have chosen you
and will not throw you away.

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Isa 41:10 - Don't be afraid, for I am with you.
Don't be discouraged, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you.
I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.

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Isa 41:25 - “But I have stirred up a leader who will come from the north.
I have called him by name from the east.
I will give him victory over kings and princes.
He will trample them as a potter treads on clay.

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Isa 42:1 - “Look at my servant, whom I strengthen.
He is my chosen one, who pleases me.
I have put my Spirit upon him.
He will bring justice to the nations.

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Isa 42:8 - “I am the LORD; that is my name!
I will not give my glory to anyone else,
nor share my praise with carved idols.

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Isa 42:19 - Who is as blind as my own people, my servant?
Who is as deaf as my messenger?
Who is as blind as my chosen people,
the servant of the LORD?

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Isa 43:4 - Others were given in exchange for you.
I traded their lives for yours
because you are precious to me.
You are honored, and I love you.

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Isa 43:6 - I will say to the north and south,
‘Bring my sons and daughters back to Israel
from the distant corners of the earth.

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Isa 43:7 - Bring all who claim me as their God,
for I have made them for my glory.
It was I who created them.'”

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Isa 43:10 - “But you are my witnesses, O Israel!” says the LORD.
“You are my servant.
You have been chosen to know me, believe in me,
and understand that I alone am God.
There is no other God—
there never has been, and there never will be.

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Isa 43:13 - “From eternity to eternity I am God.
No one can snatch anyone out of my hand.
No one can undo what I have done.”

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Isa 43:20 - The wild animals in the fields will thank me,
the jackals and owls, too,
for giving them water in the desert.
Yes, I will make rivers in the dry wasteland
so my chosen people can be refreshed.

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Isa 43:21 - I have made Israel for myself,
and they will someday honor me before the whole world.

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Isa 43:28 - That is why I have disgraced your priests;
I have decreed complete destruction[fn] for Jacob
and shame for Israel.

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Isa 44:1 - “But now, listen to me, Jacob my servant,
Israel my chosen one.

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Isa 44:2 - The LORD who made you and helps you says:
Do not be afraid, O Jacob, my servant,
O dear Israel,[fn] my chosen one.

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Isa 44:3 - For I will pour out water to quench your thirst
and to irrigate your parched fields.
And I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants,
and my blessing on your children.

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Isa 44:17 - Then he takes what's left
and makes his god: a carved idol!
He falls down in front of it,
worshiping and praying to it.
“Rescue me!” he says.
“You are my god!”

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Isa 44:20 - The poor, deluded fool feeds on ashes.
He trusts something that can't help him at all.
Yet he cannot bring himself to ask,
“Is this idol that I'm holding in my hand a lie?”

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Isa 44:21 - “Pay attention, O Jacob,
for you are my servant, O Israel.
I, the LORD, made you,
and I will not forget you.

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Isa 44:28 - When I say of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd,'
he will certainly do as I say.
He will command, ‘Rebuild Jerusalem';
he will say, ‘Restore the Temple.'”

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Isa 45:1 - This is what the LORD says to Cyrus, his anointed one,
whose right hand he will empower.
Before him, mighty kings will be paralyzed with fear.
Their fortress gates will be opened,
never to shut again.

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Isa 45:4 - “And why have I called you for this work?
Why did I call you by name when you did not know me?
It is for the sake of Jacob my servant,
Israel my chosen one.

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Isa 45:11 - This is what the LORD says—
the Holy One of Israel and your Creator:
“Do you question what I do for my children?
Do you give me orders about the work of my hands?

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Isa 45:12 - I am the one who made the earth
and created people to live on it.
With my hands I stretched out the heavens.
All the stars are at my command.

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Isa 45:13 - I will raise up Cyrus to fulfill my righteous purpose,
and I will guide his actions.
He will restore my city and free my captive people—
without seeking a reward!
I, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, have spoken!”

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Isa 45:23 - I have sworn by my own name;
I have spoken the truth,
and I will never go back on my word:
Every knee will bend to me,
and every tongue will confess allegiance to me.[fn]”

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Isa 46:3 - “Listen to me, descendants of Jacob,
all you who remain in Israel.
I have cared for you since you were born.
Yes, I carried you before you were born.

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Isa 46:10 - Only I can tell you the future
before it even happens.
Everything I plan will come to pass,
for I do whatever I wish.

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Isa 46:12 - “Listen to me, you stubborn people
who are so far from doing right.

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Isa 46:13 - For I am ready to set things right,
not in the distant future, but right now!
I am ready to save Jerusalem[fn]
and show my glory to Israel.

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Isa 47:6 - For I was angry with my chosen people
and punished them by letting them fall into your hands.
But you, Babylon, showed them no mercy.
You oppressed even the elderly.

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Isa 48:3 - Long ago I told you what was going to happen.
Then suddenly I took action,
and all my predictions came true.

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Isa 48:5 - That is why I told you what would happen;
I told you beforehand what I was going to do.
Then you could never say, ‘My idols did it.
My wooden image and metal god commanded it to happen!'

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Isa 48:9 - Yet for my own sake and for the honor of my name,
I will hold back my anger and not wipe you out.

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Isa 48:11 - I will rescue you for my sake—
yes, for my own sake!
I will not let my reputation be tarnished,
and I will not share my glory with idols!

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Isa 48:12 - “Listen to me, O family of Jacob,
Israel my chosen one!
I alone am God,
the First and the Last.

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Isa 48:13 - It was my hand that laid the foundations of the earth,
my right hand that spread out the heavens above.
When I call out the stars,
they all appear in order.”

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Isa 48:18 - Oh, that you had listened to my commands!
Then you would have had peace flowing like a gentle river
and righteousness rolling over you like waves in the sea.

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Isa 48:19 - Your descendants would have been like the sands along the seashore—
too many to count!
There would have been no need for your destruction,
or for cutting off your family name.”

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Isa 48:21 - They were not thirsty
when he led them through the desert.
He divided the rock,
and water gushed out for them to drink.

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Isa 49:1 - Listen to me, all you in distant lands!
Pay attention, you who are far away!
The LORD called me before my birth;
from within the womb he called me by name.

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Isa 49:2 - He made my words of judgment as sharp as a sword.
He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand.
I am like a sharp arrow in his quiver.

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Isa 49:3 - He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel,
and you will bring me glory.”

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Isa 49:4 - I replied, “But my work seems so useless!
I have spent my strength for nothing and to no purpose.
Yet I leave it all in the LORD's hand;
I will trust God for my reward.”

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Isa 49:5 - And now the LORD speaks—
the one who formed me in my mother's womb to be his servant,
who commissioned me to bring Israel back to him.
The LORD has honored me,
and my God has given me strength.

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Isa 49:6 - He says, “You will do more than restore the people of Israel to me.
I will make you a light to the Gentiles,
and you will bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.”

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Isa 49:14 - Yet Jerusalem[fn] says, “The LORD has deserted us;
the Lord has forgotten us.”

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Isa 49:16 - See, I have written your name on the palms of my hands.
Always in my mind is a picture of Jerusalem's walls in ruins.

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Isa 49:22 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
“See, I will give a signal to the godless nations.
They will carry your little sons back to you in their arms;
they will bring your daughters on their shoulders.

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Isa 50:2 - Why was no one there when I came?
Why didn't anyone answer when I called?
Is it because I have no power to rescue?
No, that is not the reason!
For I can speak to the sea and make it dry up!
I can turn rivers into deserts covered with dying fish.

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Isa 50:5 - The Sovereign LORD has spoken to me,
and I have listened.
I have not rebelled or turned away.

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Isa 50:6 - I offered my back to those who beat me
and my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard.
I did not hide my face
from mockery and spitting.

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Isa 50:7 - Because the Sovereign LORD helps me,
I will not be disgraced.
Therefore, I have set my face like a stone,
determined to do his will.
And I know that I will not be put to shame.

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Isa 51:1 - “Listen to me, all who hope for deliverance—
all who seek the LORD!
Consider the rock from which you were cut,
the quarry from which you were mined.

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Isa 51:4 - “Listen to me, my people.
Hear me, Israel,
for my law will be proclaimed,
and my justice will become a light to the nations.

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Isa 51:5 - My mercy and justice are coming soon.
My salvation is on the way.
My strong arm will bring justice to the nations.
All distant lands will look to me
and wait in hope for my powerful arm.

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Isa 51:6 - Look up to the skies above,
and gaze down on the earth below.
For the skies will disappear like smoke,
and the earth will wear out like a piece of clothing.
The people of the earth will die like flies,
but my salvation lasts forever.
My righteous rule will never end!

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Isa 51:7 - “Listen to me, you who know right from wrong,
you who cherish my law in your hearts.
Do not be afraid of people's scorn,
nor fear their insults.

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Isa 51:8 - For the moth will devour them as it devours clothing.
The worm will eat at them as it eats wool.
But my righteousness will last forever.
My salvation will continue from generation to generation.”

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Isa 51:16 - And I have put my words in your mouth
and hidden you safely in my hand.
I stretched out[fn] the sky like a canopy
and laid the foundations of the earth.
I am the one who says to Israel,
‘You are my people!'”

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Isa 52:4 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “Long ago my people chose to live in Egypt. Now they are oppressed by Assyria.

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Isa 52:5 - What is this?” asks the LORD. “Why are my people enslaved again? Those who rule them shout in exultation. My name is blasphemed all day long.[fn]

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Isa 52:6 - But I will reveal my name to my people, and they will come to know its power. Then at last they will recognize that I am the one who speaks to them.”

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Isa 52:13 - See, my servant will prosper;
he will be highly exalted.

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Isa 53:8 - Unjustly condemned,
he was led away.[fn]
No one cared that he died without descendants,
that his life was cut short in midstream.[fn]
But he was struck down
for the rebellion of my people.

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Isa 54:8 - In a burst of anger I turned my face away for a little while.
But with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,”
says the LORD, your Redeemer.

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Isa 55:2 - Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength?
Why pay for food that does you no good?
Listen to me, and you will eat what is good.
You will enjoy the finest food.

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Isa 55:3 - “Come to me with your ears wide open.
Listen, and you will find life.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you.
I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David.

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Isa 55:8 - “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD.
“And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.

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Isa 55:9 - For just as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so my ways are higher than your ways
and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

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Isa 55:11 - It is the same with my word.
I send it out, and it always produces fruit.
It will accomplish all I want it to,
and it will prosper everywhere I send it.

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Isa 56:1 - This is what the LORD says:
“Be just and fair to all.
Do what is right and good,
for I am coming soon to rescue you
and to display my righteousness among you.

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Isa 56:4 - For this is what the LORD says:
I will bless those eunuchs
who keep my Sabbath days holy
and who choose to do what pleases me
and commit their lives to me.

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Isa 56:5 - I will give them—within the walls of my house—
a memorial and a name
far greater than sons and daughters could give.
For the name I give them is an everlasting one.
It will never disappear!

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Isa 56:6 - “I will also bless the foreigners who commit themselves to the LORD,
who serve him and love his name,
who worship him and do not desecrate the Sabbath day of rest,
and who hold fast to my covenant.

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Isa 56:7 - I will bring them to my holy mountain of Jerusalem
and will fill them with joy in my house of prayer.
I will accept their burnt offerings and sacrifices,
because my Temple will be called a house of prayer for all nations.

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Isa 57:10 - You grew weary in your search,
but you never gave up.
Desire gave you renewed strength,
and you did not grow weary.

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Isa 57:11 - “Are you afraid of these idols?
Do they terrify you?
Is that why you have lied to me
and forgotten me and my words?
Is it because of my long silence
that you no longer fear me?

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Isa 57:12 - Now I will expose your so-called good deeds.
None of them will help you.

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Isa 57:13 - Let's see if your idols can save you
when you cry to them for help.
Why, a puff of wind can knock them down!
If you just breathe on them, they fall over!
But whoever trusts in me will inherit the land
and possess my holy mountain.”

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Isa 57:14 - God says, “Rebuild the road!
Clear away the rocks and stones
so my people can return from captivity.”

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Isa 57:17 - I was angry,
so I punished these greedy people.
I withdrew from them,
but they kept going on their own stubborn way.

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Isa 58:1 - “Shout with the voice of a trumpet blast.
Shout aloud! Don't be timid.
Tell my people Israel[fn] of their sins!

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Isa 58:2 - Yet they act so pious!
They come to the Temple every day
and seem delighted to learn all about me.
They act like a righteous nation
that would never abandon the laws of its God.
They ask me to take action on their behalf,
pretending they want to be near me.

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Isa 60:7 - The flocks of Kedar will be given to you,
and the rams of Nebaioth will be brought for my altars.
I will accept their offerings,
and I will make my Temple glorious.

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Isa 60:10 - “Foreigners will come to rebuild your towns,
and their kings will serve you.
For though I have destroyed you in my anger,
I will now have mercy on you through my grace.

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Isa 60:13 - “The glory of Lebanon will be yours—
the forests of cypress, fir, and pine—
to beautify my sanctuary.
My Temple will be glorious!

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Isa 61:10 - I am overwhelmed with joy in the LORD my God!
For he has dressed me with the clothing of salvation
and draped me in a robe of righteousness.
I am like a bridegroom in his wedding suit
or a bride with her jewels.

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Isa 62:1 - Because I love Zion,
I will not keep still.
Because my heart yearns for Jerusalem,
I cannot remain silent.
I will not stop praying for her
until her righteousness shines like the dawn,
and her salvation blazes like a burning torch.

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Isa 62:9 - You raised the grain, and you will eat it,
praising the LORD.
Within the courtyards of the Temple,
you yourselves will drink the wine you have pressed.”

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Isa 62:10 - Go out through the gates!
Prepare the highway for my people to return!
Smooth out the road; pull out the boulders;
raise a flag for all the nations to see.

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Isa 63:5 - I was amazed to see that no one intervened
to help the oppressed.
So I myself stepped in to save them with my strong arm,
and my wrath sustained me.

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Isa 63:6 - I crushed the nations in my anger
and made them stagger and fall to the ground,
spilling their blood upon the earth.”

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Isa 63:8 - He said, “They are my very own people.
Surely they will not betray me again.”
And he became their Savior.

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Isa 65:1 - The LORD says,
“I was ready to respond, but no one asked for help.
I was ready to be found, but no one was looking for me.
I said, ‘Here I am, here I am!'
to a nation that did not call on my name.[fn]

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Isa 65:2 - All day long I opened my arms to a rebellious people.[fn]
But they follow their own evil paths
and their own crooked schemes.

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Isa 65:5 - Yet they say to each other,
‘Don't come too close or you will defile me!
I am holier than you!'
These people are a stench in my nostrils,
an acrid smell that never goes away.

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Isa 65:6 - “Look, my decree is written out[fn] in front of me:
I will not stand silent;
I will repay them in full!
Yes, I will repay them—

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Isa 65:9 - I will preserve a remnant of the people of Israel[fn]
and of Judah to possess my land.
Those I choose will inherit it,
and my servants will live there.

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Isa 65:10 - The plain of Sharon will again be filled with flocks
for my people who have searched for me,
and the valley of Achor will be a place to pasture herds.

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Isa 65:11 - “But because the rest of you have forsaken the LORD
and have forgotten his Temple,
and because you have prepared feasts to honor the god of Fate
and have offered mixed wine to the god of Destiny,

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Isa 65:15 - Your name will be a curse word among my people,
for the Sovereign LORD will destroy you
and will call his true servants by another name.

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Isa 65:18 - Be glad; rejoice forever in my creation!
And look! I will create Jerusalem as a place of happiness.
Her people will be a source of joy.

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Isa 65:19 - I will rejoice over Jerusalem
and delight in my people.
And the sound of weeping and crying
will be heard in it no more.

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Isa 65:22 - Unlike the past, invaders will not take their houses
and confiscate their vineyards.
For my people will live as long as trees,
and my chosen ones will have time to enjoy their hard-won gains.

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Isa 65:23 - They will not work in vain,
and their children will not be doomed to misfortune.
For they are people blessed by the LORD,
and their children, too, will be blessed.

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Isa 65:25 - The wolf and the lamb will feed together.
The lion will eat hay like a cow.
But the snakes will eat dust.
In those days no one will be hurt or destroyed on my holy mountain.
I, the LORD, have spoken!”

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Isa 66:1 - This is what the LORD says:
“Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool.
Could you build me a temple as good as that?
Could you build me such a resting place?

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Isa 66:2 - My hands have made both heaven and earth;
they and everything in them are mine.[fn]
I, the LORD, have spoken!
“I will bless those who have humble and contrite hearts,
who tremble at my word.

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Isa 66:4 - I will send them great trouble—
all the things they feared.
For when I called, they did not answer.
When I spoke, they did not listen.
They deliberately sinned before my very eyes
and chose to do what they know I despise.”

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Isa 66:9 - Would I ever bring this nation to the point of birth
and then not deliver it?” asks the LORD.
“No! I would never keep this nation from being born,”
says your God.

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Isa 66:18 - “I can see what they are doing, and I know what they are thinking. So I will gather all nations and peoples together, and they will see my glory.

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Isa 66:19 - I will perform a sign among them. And I will send those who survive to be messengers to the nations—to Tarshish, to the Libyans[fn] and Lydians[fn] (who are famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece,[fn] and to all the lands beyond the sea that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. There they will declare my glory to the nations.

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Isa 66:22 - “As surely as my new heavens and earth will remain,
so will you always be my people,
with a name that will never disappear,”
says the LORD.

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Isa 66:23 - “All humanity will come to worship me
from week to week
and from month to month.

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Jer 1:9 - Then the LORD reached out and touched my mouth and said,
“Look, I have put my words in your mouth!

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Jer 1:12 - And the LORD said, “That's right, and it means that I am watching,[fn] and I will certainly carry out all my plans.”

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Jer 2:7 - “And when I brought you into a fruitful land
to enjoy its bounty and goodness,
you defiled my land and
corrupted the possession I had promised you.

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Jer 2:11 - Has any nation ever traded its gods for new ones,
even though they are not gods at all?
Yet my people have exchanged their glorious God[fn]
for worthless idols!

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Jer 2:13 - “For my people have done two evil things:
They have abandoned me—
the fountain of living water.
And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns
that can hold no water at all!

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Jer 2:20 - “Long ago I broke the yoke that oppressed you
and tore away the chains of your slavery,
but still you said,
‘I will not serve you.'
On every hill and under every green tree,
you have prostituted yourselves by bowing down to idols.

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Jer 2:27 - To an image carved from a piece of wood they say,
‘You are my father.'
To an idol chiseled from a block of stone they say,
‘You are my mother.'
They turn their backs on me,
but in times of trouble they cry out to me,
‘Come and save us!'

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Jer 2:31 - “O my people, listen to the words of the LORD!
Have I been like a desert to Israel?
Have I been to them a land of darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘At last we are free from God!
We don't need him anymore!'

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Jer 2:32 - Does a young woman forget her jewelry?
Does a bride hide her wedding dress?
Yet for years on end
my people have forgotten me.

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Jer 3:12 - Therefore, go and give this message to Israel.[fn] This is what the LORD says:
“O Israel, my faithless people,
come home to me again,
for I am merciful.
I will not be angry with you forever.

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Jer 3:13 - Only acknowledge your guilt.
Admit that you rebelled against the LORD your God
and committed adultery against him
by worshiping idols under every green tree.
Confess that you refused to listen to my voice.
I, the LORD, have spoken!

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Jer 3:15 - And I will give you shepherds after my own heart,
who will guide you with knowledge and understanding.

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Jer 4:1 - “O Israel,” says the LORD,
“if you wanted to return to me, you could.
You could throw away your detestable idols
and stray away no more.

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Jer 4:4 - O people of Judah and Jerusalem,
surrender your pride and power.
Change your hearts before the LORD,[fn]
or my anger will burn like an unquenchable fire
because of all your sins.

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Jer 4:11 - The time is coming when the LORD will say
to the people of Jerusalem,
“My dear people, a burning wind is blowing in from the desert,
and it's not a gentle breeze useful for winnowing grain.

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Jer 4:19 - My heart, my heart—I writhe in pain!
My heart pounds within me! I cannot be still.
For I have heard the blast of enemy trumpets
and the roar of their battle cries.

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Jer 4:20 - Waves of destruction roll over the land,
until it lies in complete desolation.
Suddenly my tents are destroyed;
in a moment my shelters are crushed.

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Jer 4:22 - “My people are foolish
and do not know me,” says the LORD.
“They are stupid children
who have no understanding.
They are clever enough at doing wrong,
but they have no idea how to do right!”

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Jer 4:31 - I hear a cry, like that of a woman in labor,
the groans of a woman giving birth to her first child.
It is beautiful Jerusalem[fn]
gasping for breath and crying out,
“Help! I'm being murdered!”

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Jer 5:9 - Should I not punish them for this?” says the LORD.
“Should I not avenge myself against such a nation?

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Jer 5:14 - Therefore, this is what the LORD God of Heaven's Armies says:
“Because the people are talking like this,
my messages will flame out of your mouth
and burn the people like kindling wood.

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Jer 5:22 - Have you no respect for me?
Why don't you tremble in my presence?
I, the LORD, define the ocean's sandy shoreline
as an everlasting boundary that the waters cannot cross.
The waves may toss and roar,
but they can never pass the boundaries I set.

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Jer 5:26 - “Among my people are wicked men
who lie in wait for victims like a hunter hiding in a blind.
They continually set traps
to catch people.

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Jer 5:29 - Should I not punish them for this?” says the LORD.
“Should I not avenge myself against such a nation?

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Jer 5:31 - the prophets give false prophecies,
and the priests rule with an iron hand.
Worse yet, my people like it that way!
But what will you do when the end comes?

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Jer 6:8 - Listen to this warning, Jerusalem,
or I will turn from you in disgust.
Listen, or I will turn you into a heap of ruins,
a land where no one lives.”

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Jer 6:11 - So now I am filled with the LORD's fury.
Yes, I am tired of holding it in!
“I will pour out my fury on children playing in the streets
and on gatherings of young men,
on husbands and wives
and on those who are old and gray.

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Jer 6:12 - Their homes will be turned over to their enemies,
as will their fields and their wives.
For I will raise my powerful fist
against the people of this land,”
says the LORD.

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Jer 6:14 - They offer superficial treatments
for my people's mortal wound.
They give assurances of peace
when there is no peace.

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Jer 6:19 - Listen, all the earth!
I will bring disaster on my people.
It is the fruit of their own schemes,
because they refuse to listen to me.
They have rejected my word.

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Jer 6:26 - Oh, my people, dress yourselves in burlap
and sit among the ashes.
Mourn and weep bitterly, as for the loss of an only son.
For suddenly the destroying armies will be upon you!

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Jer 7:10 - and then come here and stand before me in my Temple and chant, “We are safe!”—only to go right back to all those evils again?

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Jer 7:11 - Don't you yourselves admit that this Temple, which bears my name, has become a den of thieves? Surely I see all the evil going on there. I, the LORD, have spoken!

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Jer 7:12 - “‘Go now to the place at Shiloh where I once put the Tabernacle that bore my name. See what I did there because of all the wickedness of my people, the Israelites.

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Jer 7:13 - While you were doing these wicked things, says the LORD, I spoke to you about it repeatedly, but you would not listen. I called out to you, but you refused to answer.

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Jer 7:14 - So just as I destroyed Shiloh, I will now destroy this Temple that bears my name, this Temple that you trust in for help, this place that I gave to you and your ancestors.

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Jer 7:15 - And I will send you out of my sight into exile, just as I did your relatives, the people of Israel.[fn]'

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Jer 7:20 - So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “I will pour out my terrible fury on this place. Its people, animals, trees, and crops will be consumed by the unquenchable fire of my anger.”

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Jer 7:23 - This is what I told them: ‘Obey me, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Do everything as I say, and all will be well!'

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Jer 7:24 - “But my people would not listen to me. They kept doing whatever they wanted, following the stubborn desires of their evil hearts. They went backward instead of forward.

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Jer 7:25 - From the day your ancestors left Egypt until now, I have continued to send my servants, the prophets—day in and day out.

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Jer 7:26 - But my people have not listened to me or even tried to hear. They have been stubborn and sinful—even worse than their ancestors.

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Jer 7:30 - “The people of Judah have sinned before my very eyes,” says the LORD. “They have set up their abominable idols right in the Temple that bears my name, defiling it.

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Jer 7:31 - They have built pagan shrines at Topheth, the garbage dump in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, and there they burn their sons and daughters in the fire. I have never commanded such a horrible deed; it never even crossed my mind to command such a thing!

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Jer 8:5 - Then why do these people stay on their self-destructive path?
Why do the people of Jerusalem refuse to turn back?
They cling tightly to their lies
and will not turn around.

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Jer 8:7 - Even the stork that flies across the sky
knows the time of her migration,
as do the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane.[fn]
They all return at the proper time each year.
But not my people!
They do not know the LORD's laws.

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Jer 8:19 - Listen to the weeping of my people;
it can be heard all across the land.
“Has the LORD abandoned Jerusalem?[fn]” the people ask.
“Is her King no longer there?”
“Oh, why have they provoked my anger with their carved idols
and their worthless foreign gods?” says the LORD.

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Jer 8:21 - I hurt with the hurt of my people.
I mourn and am overcome with grief.

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Jer 8:22 - Is there no medicine in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why is there no healing
for the wounds of my people?

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Jer 9:1 - [fn]If only my head were a pool of water
and my eyes a fountain of tears,
I would weep day and night
for all my people who have been slaughtered.

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Jer 9:2 - [fn]Oh, that I could go away and forget my people
and live in a travelers' shack in the desert.
For they are all adulterers—
a pack of treacherous liars.

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Jer 9:7 - Therefore, this is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies says:
“See, I will melt them down in a crucible
and test them like metal.
What else can I do with my people?[fn]

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Jer 9:9 - Should I not punish them for this?” says the LORD.
“Should I not avenge myself against such a nation?”

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Jer 9:13 - The LORD replies, “This has happened because my people have abandoned my instructions; they have refused to obey what I said.

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Jer 9:24 - But those who wish to boast
should boast in this alone:
that they truly know me and understand that I am the LORD
who demonstrates unfailing love
and who brings justice and righteousness to the earth,
and that I delight in these things.
I, the LORD, have spoken!

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Jer 10:19 - My wound is severe,
and my grief is great.
My sickness is incurable,
but I must bear it.

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Jer 10:20 - My home is gone,
and no one is left to help me rebuild it.
My children have been taken away,
and I will never see them again.

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Jer 11:4 - For I said to your ancestors when I brought them out of the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt, “If you obey me and do whatever I command you, then you will be my people, and I will be your God.”

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Jer 11:5 - I said this so I could keep my promise to your ancestors to give you a land flowing with milk and honey—the land you live in today.'”
Then I replied, “Amen, LORD! May it be so.”

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Jer 11:10 - They have returned to the sins of their forefathers. They have refused to listen to me and are worshiping other gods. Israel and Judah have both broken the covenant I made with their ancestors.

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Jer 11:15 - “What right do my beloved people have to come to my Temple,
when they have done so many immoral things?
Can their vows and sacrifices prevent their destruction?
They actually rejoice in doing evil!

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Jer 11:20 - O LORD of Heaven's Armies,
you make righteous judgments,
and you examine the deepest thoughts and secrets.
Let me see your vengeance against them,
for I have committed my cause to you.

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Jer 11:21 - This is what the LORD says about the men of Anathoth who wanted me dead. They had said, “We will kill you if you do not stop prophesying in the LORD's name.”

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Jer 12:3 - But as for me, LORD, you know my heart.
You see me and test my thoughts.
Drag these people away like sheep to be butchered!
Set them aside to be slaughtered!

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Jer 12:7 - “I have abandoned my people, my special possession.
I have surrendered my dearest ones to their enemies.

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Jer 12:8 - My chosen people have roared at me like a lion of the forest,
so I have treated them with contempt.

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Jer 12:9 - My chosen people act like speckled vultures,[fn]
but they themselves are surrounded by vultures.
Bring on the wild animals to pick their corpses clean!

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Jer 12:10 - “Many rulers have ravaged my vineyard,
trampling down the vines
and turning all its beauty into a barren wilderness.

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Jer 12:14 - Now this is what the LORD says: “I will uproot from their land all the evil nations reaching out for the possession I gave my people Israel. And I will uproot Judah from among them.

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Jer 12:16 - And if these nations truly learn the ways of my people, and if they learn to swear by my name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives' (just as they taught my people to swear by the name of Baal), then they will be given a place among my people.

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Jer 13:2 - So I bought the loincloth as the LORD directed me, and I put it on.

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Jer 13:10 - These wicked people refuse to listen to me. They stubbornly follow their own desires and worship other gods. Therefore, they will become like this loincloth—good for nothing!

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Jer 13:11 - As a loincloth clings to a man's waist, so I created Judah and Israel to cling to me, says the LORD. They were to be my people, my pride, my glory—an honor to my name. But they would not listen to me.

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Jer 13:25 - This is your allotment,
the portion I have assigned to you,”
says the LORD,
“for you have forgotten me,
putting your trust in false gods.

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Jer 13:27 - I have seen your adultery and lust,
and your disgusting idol worship out in the fields and on the hills.
What sorrow awaits you, Jerusalem!
How long before you are pure?”

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Jer 14:14 - Then the LORD said, “These prophets are telling lies in my name. I did not send them or tell them to speak. I did not give them any messages. They prophesy of visions and revelations they have never seen or heard. They speak foolishness made up in their own lying hearts.

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Jer 14:15 - Therefore, this is what the LORD says: I will punish these lying prophets, for they have spoken in my name even though I never sent them. They say that no war or famine will come, but they themselves will die by war and famine!

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Jer 14:17 - Now, Jeremiah, say this to them:
“Night and day my eyes overflow with tears.
I cannot stop weeping,
for my virgin daughter—my precious people—
has been struck down
and lies mortally wounded.

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Jer 15:1 - Then the LORD said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I wouldn't help them. Away with them! Get them out of my sight!

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Jer 15:6 - You have abandoned me
and turned your back on me,”
says the LORD.
“Therefore, I will raise my fist to destroy you.
I am tired of always giving you another chance.

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Jer 15:7 - I will winnow you like grain at the gates of your cities
and take away the children you hold dear.
I will destroy my own people,
because they refuse to change their evil ways.

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Jer 15:10 - Then I said,
“What sorrow is mine, my mother.
Oh, that I had died at birth!
I am hated everywhere I go.
I am neither a lender who threatens to foreclose
nor a borrower who refuses to pay—
yet they all curse me.”

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Jer 15:14 - I will tell your enemies to take you
as captives to a foreign land.
For my anger blazes like a fire
that will burn forever.[fn]”

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Jer 15:15 - Then I said,
“LORD, you know what's happening to me.
Please step in and help me. Punish my persecutors!
Please give me time; don't let me die young.
It's for your sake that I am suffering.

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Jer 15:16 - When I discovered your words, I devoured them.
They are my joy and my heart's delight,
for I bear your name,
O LORD God of Heaven's Armies.

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Jer 15:18 - Why then does my suffering continue?
Why is my wound so incurable?
Your help seems as uncertain as a seasonal brook,
like a spring that has gone dry.”

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Jer 15:19 - This is how the LORD responds:
“If you return to me, I will restore you
so you can continue to serve me.
If you speak good words rather than worthless ones,
you will be my spokesman.
You must influence them;
do not let them influence you!

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Jer 16:5 - This is what the LORD says: “Do not go to funerals to mourn and show sympathy for these people, for I have removed my protection and peace from them. I have taken away my unfailing love and my mercy.

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Jer 16:11 - “Then you will give them the LORD's reply: ‘It is because your ancestors were unfaithful to me. They worshiped other gods and served them. They abandoned me and did not obey my word.

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Jer 16:12 - And you are even worse than your ancestors! You stubbornly follow your own evil desires and refuse to listen to me.

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Jer 16:17 - I am watching them closely, and I see every sin. They cannot hope to hide from me.

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Jer 16:18 - I will double their punishment for all their sins, because they have defiled my land with lifeless images of their detestable gods and have filled my territory with their evil deeds.”

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Jer 16:19 - LORD, you are my strength and fortress,
my refuge in the day of trouble!
Nations from around the world
will come to you and say,
“Our ancestors left us a foolish heritage,
for they worshiped worthless idols.

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Jer 16:21 - The LORD says,
“Now I will show them my power;
now I will show them my might.
At last they will know and understand
that I am the LORD.

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Jer 17:14 - O LORD, if you heal me, I will be truly healed;
if you save me, I will be truly saved.
My praises are for you alone!

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Jer 17:16 - LORD, I have not abandoned my job
as a shepherd for your people.
I have not urged you to send disaster.
You have heard everything I've said.

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Jer 17:17 - LORD, don't terrorize me!
You alone are my hope in the day of disaster.

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Jer 17:23 - but they did not listen or obey. They stubbornly refused to pay attention or accept my discipline.

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Jer 17:24 - “‘But if you obey me, says the LORD, and do not carry on your trade at the gates or work on the Sabbath day, and if you keep it holy,

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Jer 17:27 - “‘But if you do not listen to me and refuse to keep the Sabbath holy, and if on the Sabbath day you bring loads of merchandise through the gates of Jerusalem just as on other days, then I will set fire to these gates. The fire will spread to the palaces, and no one will be able to put out the roaring flames.'”

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Jer 18:2 - “Go down to the potter's shop, and I will speak to you there.”

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Jer 18:6 - “O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand.

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Jer 18:10 - but then that nation turns to evil and refuses to obey me, I will not bless it as I said I would.

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Jer 18:15 - But my people are not so reliable, for they have deserted me;
they burn incense to worthless idols.
They have stumbled off the ancient highways
and walk in muddy paths.

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Jer 18:19 - LORD, hear me and help me!
Listen to what my enemies are saying.

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Jer 18:20 - Should they repay evil for good?
They have dug a pit to kill me,
though I pleaded for them
and tried to protect them from your anger.

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Jer 18:22 - Let screaming be heard from their homes
as warriors come suddenly upon them.
For they have dug a pit for me
and have hidden traps along my path.

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Jer 19:5 - They have built pagan shrines to Baal, and there they burn their sons as sacrifices to Baal. I have never commanded such a horrible deed; it never even crossed my mind to command such a thing!

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Jer 19:15 - “This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will bring disaster upon this city and its surrounding towns as I promised, because you have stubbornly refused to listen to me.'”

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Jer 20:8 - When I speak, the words burst out.
“Violence and destruction!” I shout.
So these messages from the LORD
have made me a household joke.

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Jer 20:9 - But if I say I'll never mention the LORD
or speak in his name,
his word burns in my heart like a fire.
It's like a fire in my bones!
I am worn out trying to hold it in!
I can't do it!

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Jer 20:12 - O LORD of Heaven's Armies,
you test those who are righteous,
and you examine the deepest thoughts and secrets.
Let me see your vengeance against them,
for I have committed my cause to you.

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Jer 20:14 - Yet I curse the day I was born!
May no one celebrate the day of my birth.

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Jer 20:15 - I curse the messenger who told my father,
“Good news—you have a son!”

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Jer 20:17 - because he did not kill me at birth.
Oh, that I had died in my mother's womb,
that her body had been my grave!

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Jer 20:18 - Why was I ever born?
My entire life has been filled
with trouble, sorrow, and shame.

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Jer 21:10 - For I have decided to bring disaster and not good upon this city, says the LORD. It will be handed over to the king of Babylon, and he will reduce it to ashes.'

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Jer 21:12 - This is what the LORD says to the dynasty of David:
“‘Give justice each morning to the people you judge!
Help those who have been robbed;
rescue them from their oppressors.
Otherwise, my anger will burn like an unquenchable fire
because of all your sins.

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Jer 22:21 - I warned you when you were prosperous,
but you replied, ‘Don't bother me.'
You have been that way since childhood—
you simply will not obey me!

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Jer 22:24 - “As surely as I live,” says the LORD, “I will abandon you, Jehoiachin[fn] son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah. Even if you were the signet ring on my right hand, I would pull you off.

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Jer 23:1 - “What sorrow awaits the leaders of my people—the shepherds of my sheep—for they have destroyed and scattered the very ones they were expected to care for,” says the LORD.

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Jer 23:2 - Therefore, this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says to these shepherds: “Instead of caring for my flock and leading them to safety, you have deserted them and driven them to destruction. Now I will pour out judgment on you for the evil you have done to them.

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Jer 23:3 - But I will gather together the remnant of my flock from the countries where I have driven them. I will bring them back to their own sheepfold, and they will be fruitful and increase in number.

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Jer 23:9 - My heart is broken because of the false prophets,
and my bones tremble.
I stagger like a drunkard,
like someone overcome by wine,
because of the holy words
the LORD has spoken against them.

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Jer 23:11 - “Even the priests and prophets
are ungodly, wicked men.
I have seen their despicable acts
right here in my own Temple,”
says the LORD.

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Jer 23:13 - “I saw that the prophets of Samaria were terribly evil,
for they prophesied in the name of Baal
and led my people of Israel into sin.

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Jer 23:22 - If they had stood before me and listened to me,
they would have spoken my words,
and they would have turned my people
from their evil ways and deeds.

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Jer 23:25 - “I have heard these prophets say, ‘Listen to the dream I had from God last night.' And then they proceed to tell lies in my name.

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Jer 23:27 - By telling these false dreams, they are trying to get my people to forget me, just as their ancestors did by worshiping the idols of Baal.

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Jer 23:28 - “Let these false prophets tell their dreams,
but let my true messengers faithfully proclaim my every word.
There is a difference between straw and grain!

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Jer 23:29 - Does not my word burn like fire?”
says the LORD.
“Is it not like a mighty hammer
that smashes a rock to pieces?

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Jer 23:30 - “Therefore,” says the LORD, “I am against these prophets who steal messages from each other and claim they are from me.

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Jer 23:32 - I am against these false prophets. Their imaginary dreams are flagrant lies that lead my people into sin. I did not send or appoint them, and they have no message at all for my people. I, the LORD, have spoken!

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Jer 24:6 - I will watch over and care for them, and I will bring them back here again. I will build them up and not tear them down. I will plant them and not uproot them.

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Jer 25:4 - “Again and again the LORD has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention.

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Jer 25:7 - “But you would not listen to me,” says the LORD. “You made me furious by worshiping idols you made with your own hands, bringing on yourselves all the disasters you now suffer.

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Jer 25:8 - And now the LORD of Heaven's Armies says: Because you have not listened to me,

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Jer 25:13 - I will bring upon them all the terrors I have promised in this book—all the penalties announced by Jeremiah against the nations.

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Jer 25:15 - This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled to the brim with my anger, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.

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Jer 25:29 - I have begun to punish Jerusalem, the city that bears my name. Now should I let you go unpunished? No, you will not escape disaster. I will call for war against all the nations of the earth. I, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, have spoken!'

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Jer 25:37 - Peaceful meadows will be turned into a wasteland
by the LORD's fierce anger.

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Jer 26:4 - “Say to them, ‘This is what the LORD says: If you will not listen to me and obey my word I have given you,

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Jer 26:5 - and if you will not listen to my servants, the prophets—for I sent them again and again to warn you, but you would not listen to them—

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Jer 27:5 - With my great strength and powerful arm I made the earth and all its people and every animal. I can give these things of mine to anyone I choose.

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Jer 27:15 - This is what the LORD says: ‘I have not sent these prophets! They are telling you lies in my name, so I will drive you from this land. You will all die—you and all these prophets, too.'”

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Jer 28:8 - The ancient prophets who preceded you and me spoke against many nations, always warning of war, disaster, and disease.

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Jer 29:9 - because they are telling you lies in my name. I have not sent them,” says the LORD.

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Jer 29:10 - This is what the LORD says: “You will be in Babylon for seventy years. But then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised, and I will bring you home again.

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Jer 29:23 - For these men have done terrible things among my people. They have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives and have lied in my name, saying things I did not command. I am a witness to this. I, the LORD, have spoken.”

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Jer 29:25 - “This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says: You wrote a letter on your own authority to Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, the priest, and you sent copies to the other priests and people in Jerusalem. You wrote to Zephaniah,

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Jer 30:3 - For the time is coming when I will restore the fortunes of my people of Israel and Judah. I will bring them home to this land that I gave to their ancestors, and they will possess it again. I, the LORD, have spoken!”

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Jer 30:20 - Their children will prosper as they did long ago.
I will establish them as a nation before me,
and I will punish anyone who hurts them.

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Jer 31:14 - The priests will enjoy abundance,
and my people will feast on my good gifts.
I, the LORD, have spoken!”

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Jer 31:18 - I have heard Israel[fn] saying,
‘You disciplined me severely,
like a calf that needs training for the yoke.
Turn me again to you and restore me,
for you alone are the LORD my God.

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Jer 31:19 - I turned away from God,
but then I was sorry.
I kicked myself for my stupidity!
I was thoroughly ashamed of all I did in my younger days.'

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Jer 31:20 - “Is not Israel still my son,
my darling child?” says the LORD.
“I often have to punish him,
but I still love him.
That's why I long for him
and surely will have mercy on him.

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Jer 31:26 - At this, I woke up and looked around. My sleep had been very sweet.

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Jer 31:32 - This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,” says the LORD.

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Jer 31:33 - “But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day,” says the LORD. “I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

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Jer 31:36 - “I am as likely to reject my people Israel
as I am to abolish the laws of nature!”

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Jer 32:7 - “Your cousin Hanamel son of Shallum will come and say to you, ‘Buy my field at Anathoth. By law you have the right to buy it before it is offered to anyone else.'”

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Jer 32:8 - Then, just as the LORD had said he would, my cousin Hanamel came and visited me in the prison. He said, “Please buy my field at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. By law you have the right to buy it before it is offered to anyone else, so buy it for yourself.” Then I knew that the message I had heard was from the LORD.

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Jer 32:9 - So I bought the field at Anathoth, paying Hanamel seventeen pieces[fn] of silver for it.

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Jer 32:12 - and I handed them to Baruch son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah. I did all this in the presence of my cousin Hanamel, the witnesses who had signed the deed, and all the men of Judah who were there in the courtyard of the guardhouse.

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Jer 32:30 - Israel and Judah have done nothing but wrong since their earliest days. They have infuriated me with all their evil deeds,” says the LORD.

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Jer 32:31 - “From the time this city was built until now, it has done nothing but anger me, so I am determined to get rid of it.

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Jer 32:34 - They have set up their abominable idols right in my own Temple, defiling it.

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Jer 32:35 - They have built pagan shrines to Baal in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, and there they sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech. I have never commanded such a horrible deed; it never even crossed my mind to command such a thing. What an incredible evil, causing Judah to sin so greatly!

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Jer 32:37 - I will certainly bring my people back again from all the countries where I will scatter them in my fury. I will bring them back to this very city and let them live in peace and safety.

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Jer 32:40 - And I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good for them. I will put a desire in their hearts to worship me, and they will never leave me.

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Jer 33:5 - You expect to fight the Babylonians,[fn] but the men of this city are already as good as dead, for I have determined to destroy them in my terrible anger. I have abandoned them because of all their wickedness.

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Jer 34:14 - I told them that every Hebrew slave must be freed after serving six years. But your ancestors paid no attention to me.

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Jer 34:15 - Recently you repented and did what was right, following my command. You freed your slaves and made a solemn covenant with me in the Temple that bears my name.

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Jer 34:16 - But now you have shrugged off your oath and defiled my name by taking back the men and women you had freed, forcing them to be slaves once again.

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Jer 34:17 - “Therefore, this is what the LORD says: Since you have not obeyed me by setting your countrymen free, I will set you free to be destroyed by war, disease, and famine. You will be an object of horror to all the nations of the earth.

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Jer 34:18 - Because you have broken the terms of our covenant, I will cut you apart just as you cut apart the calf when you walked between its halves to solemnize your vows.

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Jer 35:13 - “This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says: Go and say to the people in Judah and Jerusalem, ‘Come and learn a lesson about how to obey me.

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Jer 35:15 - Time after time I sent you prophets, who told you, “Turn from your wicked ways, and start doing things right. Stop worshiping other gods so that you might live in peace here in the land I have given to you and your ancestors.” But you would not listen to me or obey me.

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Jer 35:16 - The descendants of Jehonadab son of Recab have obeyed their ancestor completely, but you have refused to listen to me.'

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Jer 35:19 - Therefore, this is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jehonadab son of Recab will always have descendants who serve me.'”

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Jer 36:2 - “Get a scroll, and write down all my messages against Israel, Judah, and the other nations. Begin with the first message back in the days of Josiah, and write down every message, right up to the present time.

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Jer 37:20 - Listen, my lord the king, I beg you. Don't send me back to the dungeon in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for I will die there.”

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Jer 38:15 - Jeremiah said, “If I tell you the truth, you will kill me. And if I give you advice, you won't listen to me anyway.”

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Jer 38:19 - “But I am afraid to surrender,” the king said, “for the Babylonians may hand me over to the Judeans who have defected to them. And who knows what they will do to me!”

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Jer 38:26 - If this happens, just tell them you begged me not to send you back to Jonathan's dungeon, for fear you would die there.”

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Jer 39:16 - “Say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian,[fn] ‘This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says: I will do to this city everything I have threatened. I will send disaster, not prosperity. You will see its destruction,

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Jer 40:4 - But I am going to take off your chains and let you go. If you want to come with me to Babylon, you are welcome. I will see that you are well cared for. But if you don't want to come, you may stay here. The whole land is before you—go wherever you like.

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Jer 42:18 - “This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as my anger and fury have been poured out on the people of Jerusalem, so they will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. You will be an object of damnation, horror, cursing, and mockery. And you will never see your homeland again.'

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Jer 44:4 - “Again and again I sent my servants, the prophets, to plead with them, ‘Don't do these horrible things that I hate so much.'

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Jer 44:5 - But my people would not listen or turn back from their wicked ways. They kept on burning incense to these gods.

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Jer 44:6 - And so my fury boiled over and fell like fire on the towns of Judah and into the streets of Jerusalem, and they are still a desolate ruin today.

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Jer 44:10 - To this very hour you have shown no remorse or reverence. No one has chosen to follow my word and the decrees I gave to you and your ancestors before you.

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Jer 44:11 - “Therefore, this is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am determined to destroy every one of you!

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Jer 44:26 - “But listen to this message from the LORD, all you Judeans now living in Egypt: ‘I have sworn by my great name,' says the LORD, ‘that my name will no longer be spoken by any of the Judeans in the land of Egypt. None of you may invoke my name or use this oath: “As surely as the Sovereign LORD lives.”

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Jer 46:27 - “But do not be afraid, Jacob, my servant;
do not be dismayed, Israel.
For I will bring you home again from distant lands,
and your children will return from their exile.
Israel[fn] will return to a life of peace and quiet,
and no one will terrorize them.

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Jer 46:28 - Do not be afraid, Jacob, my servant,
for I am with you,” says the LORD.
“I will completely destroy the nations to which I have exiled you,
but I will not completely destroy you.
I will discipline you, but with justice;
I cannot let you go unpunished.”

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Jer 48:36 - My heart moans like a flute for Moab and Kir-hareseth, for all their wealth has disappeared.

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Jer 49:19 - I will come like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan,
leaping on the sheep in the pasture.
I will chase Edom from its land,
and I will appoint the leader of my choice.
For who is like me, and who can challenge me?
What ruler can oppose my will?”

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Jer 49:37 - I myself will go with Elam's enemies to shatter it.
In my fierce anger, I will bring great disaster
upon the people of Elam,” says the LORD.
“Their enemies will chase them with the sword
until I have destroyed them completely.

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Jer 49:38 - I will set my throne in Elam,” says the LORD,
“and I will destroy its king and officials.

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Jer 50:6 - “My people have been lost sheep.
Their shepherds have led them astray
and turned them loose in the mountains.
They have lost their way
and can't remember how to get back to the sheepfold.

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Jer 50:11 - “You rejoice and are glad,
you who plundered my chosen people.
You frisk about like a calf in a meadow
and neigh like a stallion.

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Jer 50:44 - “I will come like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan,
leaping on the sheep in the pasture.
I will chase Babylon from its land,
and I will appoint the leader of my choice.
For who is like me, and who can challenge me?
What ruler can oppose my will?”

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Jer 51:25 - “Look, O mighty mountain, destroyer of the earth!
I am your enemy,” says the LORD.
“I will raise my fist against you,
to knock you down from the heights.
When I am finished,
you will be nothing but a heap of burnt rubble.

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Jer 51:34 - “King Nebuchadnezzar[fn] of Babylon has eaten and crushed us
and drained us of strength.
He has swallowed us like a great monster
and filled his belly with our riches.
He has thrown us out of our own country.

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Jer 51:35 - Make Babylon suffer as she made us suffer,”
say the people of Zion.
“Make the people of Babylonia pay for spilling our blood,”
says Jerusalem.

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Lam 1:9 - She defiled herself with immorality
and gave no thought to her future.
Now she lies in the gutter
with no one to lift her out.
“LORD, see my misery,” she cries.
“The enemy has triumphed.”

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Lam 1:12 - “Does it mean nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Look around and see if there is any suffering like mine,
which the LORD brought on me
when he erupted in fierce anger.

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Lam 1:13 - “He has sent fire from heaven that burns in my bones.
He has placed a trap in my path and turned me back.
He has left me devastated,
racked with sickness all day long.

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Lam 1:14 - “He wove my sins into ropes
to hitch me to a yoke of captivity.
The Lord sapped my strength and turned me over to my enemies;
I am helpless in their hands.

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Lam 1:15 - “The Lord has treated my mighty men
with contempt.
At his command a great army has come
to crush my young warriors.
The Lord has trampled his beloved city[fn]
like grapes are trampled in a winepress.

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Lam 1:16 - “For all these things I weep;
tears flow down my cheeks.
No one is here to comfort me;
any who might encourage me are far away.
My children have no future,
for the enemy has conquered us.”

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Lam 1:18 - “The LORD is right,” Jerusalem says,
“for I rebelled against him.
Listen, people everywhere;
look upon my anguish and despair,
for my sons and daughters
have been taken captive to distant lands.

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Lam 1:19 - “I begged my allies for help,
but they betrayed me.
My priests and leaders
starved to death in the city,
even as they searched for food
to save their lives.

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Lam 1:20 - “LORD, see my anguish!
My heart is broken
and my soul despairs,
for I have rebelled against you.
In the streets the sword kills,
and at home there is only death.

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Lam 1:21 - “Others heard my groans,
but no one turned to comfort me.
When my enemies heard about my troubles,
they were happy to see what you had done.
Oh, bring the day you promised,
when they will suffer as I have suffered.

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Lam 1:22 - “Look at all their evil deeds, LORD.
Punish them,
as you have punished me
for all my sins.
My groans are many,
and I am sick at heart.”

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Lam 2:4 - He bends his bow against his people,
as though he were their enemy.
His strength is used against them
to kill their finest youth.
His fury is poured out like fire
on beautiful Jerusalem.[fn]

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Lam 2:11 - I have cried until the tears no longer come;
my heart is broken.
My spirit is poured out in agony
as I see the desperate plight of my people.
Little children and tiny babies
are fainting and dying in the streets.

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Lam 2:21 - “See them lying in the streets—
young and old,
boys and girls,
killed by the swords of the enemy.
You have killed them in your anger,
slaughtering them without mercy.

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Lam 2:22 - “You have invited terrors from all around,
as though you were calling them to a day of feasting.
In the day of the LORD's anger,
no one has escaped or survived.
The enemy has killed all the children
whom I carried and raised.”

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Lam 3:4 - He has made my skin and flesh grow old.
He has broken my bones.

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Lam 3:5 - He has besieged and surrounded me
with anguish and distress.

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Lam 3:7 - He has walled me in, and I cannot escape.
He has bound me in heavy chains.

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Lam 3:8 - And though I cry and shout,
he has shut out my prayers.

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Lam 3:9 - He has blocked my way with a high stone wall;
he has made my road crooked.

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Lam 3:13 - He shot his arrows
deep into my heart.

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Lam 3:14 - My own people laugh at me.
All day long they sing their mocking songs.

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Lam 3:16 - He has made me chew on gravel.
He has rolled me in the dust.

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Lam 3:17 - Peace has been stripped away,
and I have forgotten what prosperity is.

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Lam 3:18 - I cry out, “My splendor is gone!
Everything I had hoped for from the LORD is lost!”

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Lam 3:19 - The thought of my suffering and homelessness
is bitter beyond words.[fn]

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Lam 3:20 - I will never forget this awful time,
as I grieve over my loss.

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Lam 3:21 - Yet I still dare to hope
when I remember this:

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Lam 3:48 - Tears stream from my eyes
because of the destruction of my people!

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Lam 3:49 - My tears flow endlessly;
they will not stop

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Lam 3:51 - My heart is breaking
over the fate of all the women of Jerusalem.

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Lam 3:52 - My enemies, whom I have never harmed,
hunted me down like a bird.

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Lam 3:53 - They threw me into a pit
and dropped stones on me.

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Lam 3:54 - The water rose over my head,
and I cried out, “This is the end!”

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Lam 3:56 - You heard me when I cried, “Listen to my pleading!
Hear my cry for help!”

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Lam 3:57 - Yes, you came when I called;
you told me, “Do not fear.”

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Lam 3:58 - Lord, you are my lawyer! Plead my case!
For you have redeemed my life.

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Lam 3:59 - You have seen the wrong they have done to me, LORD.
Be my judge, and prove me right.

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Lam 4:3 - Even the jackals feed their young,
but not my people Israel.
They ignore their children's cries,
like ostriches in the desert.

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Lam 4:6 - The guilt[fn] of my people
is greater than that of Sodom,
where utter disaster struck in a moment
and no hand offered help.

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Lam 4:10 - Tenderhearted women
have cooked their own children.
They have eaten them
to survive the siege.

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Eze 1:28 - All around him was a glowing halo, like a rainbow shining in the clouds on a rainy day. This is what the glory of the LORD looked like to me. When I saw it, I fell face down on the ground, and I heard someone's voice speaking to me.

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Eze 2:2 - The Spirit came into me as he spoke, and he set me on my feet. I listened carefully to his words.

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Eze 2:7 - You must give them my messages whether they listen or not. But they won't listen, for they are completely rebellious!

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Eze 3:2 - So I opened my mouth, and he fed me the scroll.

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Eze 3:3 - “Fill your stomach with this,” he said. And when I ate it, it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.

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Eze 3:4 - Then he said, “Son of man, go to the people of Israel and give them my messages.

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Eze 3:7 - But the people of Israel won't listen to you any more than they listen to me! For the whole lot of them are hard-hearted and stubborn.

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Eze 3:12 - Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a loud rumbling sound behind me. (May the glory of the LORD be praised in his place!)[fn]

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Eze 3:14 - The Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I went in bitterness and turmoil, but the LORD's hold on me was strong.

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Eze 3:17 - “Son of man, I have appointed you as a watchman for Israel. Whenever you receive a message from me, warn people immediately.

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Eze 3:23 - So I got up and went, and there I saw the glory of the LORD, just as I had seen in my first vision by the Kebar River. And I fell face down on the ground.

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Eze 3:24 - Then the Spirit came into me and set me on my feet. He spoke to me and said, “Go to your house and shut yourself in.

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Eze 4:14 - Then I said, “O Sovereign LORD, must I be defiled by using human dung? For I have never been defiled before. From the time I was a child until now I have never eaten any animal that died of sickness or was killed by other animals. I have never eaten any meat forbidden by the law.”

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Eze 5:6 - but she has rebelled against my regulations and decrees and has been even more wicked than the surrounding nations. She has refused to obey the regulations and decrees I gave her to follow.

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Eze 5:7 - “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: You people have behaved worse than your neighbors and have refused to obey my decrees and regulations. You have not even lived up to the standards of the nations around you.

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Eze 5:11 - “As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, I will cut you off completely. I will show you no pity at all because you have defiled my Temple with your vile images and detestable sins.

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Eze 5:13 - Then at last my anger will be spent, and I will be satisfied. And when my fury against them has subsided, all Israel will know that I, the LORD, have spoken to them in my jealous anger.

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Eze 5:15 - You will become an object of mockery and taunting and horror. You will be a warning to all the nations around you. They will see what happens when the LORD punishes a nation in anger and rebukes it, says the LORD.

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Eze 5:16 - “I will shower you with the deadly arrows of famine to destroy you. The famine will become more and more severe until every crumb of food is gone.

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Eze 6:9 - Then when they are exiled among the nations, they will remember me. They will recognize how hurt I am by their unfaithful hearts and lustful eyes that long for their idols. Then at last they will hate themselves for all their detestable sins.

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Eze 6:12 - Disease will strike down those who are far away in exile. War will destroy those who are nearby. And anyone who survives will be killed by famine. So at last I will spend my fury on them.

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Eze 6:14 - I will crush them and make their cities desolate from the wilderness in the south to Riblah[fn] in the north. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

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Eze 7:4 - I will turn my eyes away and show no pity.
I will repay you for all your detestable sins.
Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 7:8 - Soon I will pour out my fury on you
and unleash my anger against you.
I will call you to account
for all your detestable sins.

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Eze 7:9 - I will turn my eyes away and show no pity.
I will repay you for all your detestable sins.
Then you will know that it is I, the LORD,
who is striking the blow.

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Eze 7:22 - I will turn my eyes from them
as these robbers invade and defile my treasured land.

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Eze 8:1 - Then on September 17,[fn] during the sixth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity, while the leaders of Judah were in my home, the Sovereign LORD took hold of me.

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Eze 8:3 - He reached out what seemed to be a hand and took me by the hair. Then the Spirit lifted me up into the sky and transported me to Jerusalem in a vision from God. I was taken to the north gate of the inner courtyard of the Temple, where there is a large idol that has made the LORD very jealous.

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Eze 8:5 - Then the LORD said to me, “Son of man, look toward the north.” So I looked, and there to the north, beside the entrance to the gate near the altar, stood the idol that had made the LORD so jealous.

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Eze 8:6 - “Son of man,” he said, “do you see what they are doing? Do you see the detestable sins the people of Israel are committing to drive me from my Temple? But come, and you will see even more detestable sins than these!”

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Eze 8:18 - Therefore, I will respond in fury. I will neither pity nor spare them. And though they cry for mercy, I will not listen.”

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Eze 9:1 - Then the LORD thundered, “Bring on the men appointed to punish the city! Tell them to bring their weapons with them!”

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Eze 9:5 - Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, “Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity!

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Eze 9:6 - Kill them all—old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin right here at the Temple.” So they began by killing the seventy leaders.

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Eze 9:8 - While they were out killing, I was all alone. I fell face down on the ground and cried out, “O Sovereign LORD! Will your fury against Jerusalem wipe out everyone left in Israel?”

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Eze 9:10 - So I will not spare them or have any pity on them. I will fully repay them for all they have done.”

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Eze 10:2 - Then the LORD spoke to the man in linen clothing and said, “Go between the whirling wheels beneath the cherubim, and take a handful of burning coals and scatter them over the city.” He did this as I watched.

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Eze 10:13 - I heard someone refer to the wheels as “the whirling wheels.”

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Eze 11:13 - While I was still prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah suddenly died. Then I fell face down on the ground and cried out, “O Sovereign LORD, are you going to kill everyone in Israel?”

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Eze 11:20 - so they will obey my decrees and regulations. Then they will truly be my people, and I will be their God.

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Eze 12:13 - Then I will throw my net over him and capture him in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Babylonians,[fn] though he will never see it, and he will die there.

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Eze 12:25 - For I am the LORD! If I say it, it will happen. There will be no more delays, you rebels of Israel. I will fulfill my threat of destruction in your own lifetime. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”

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Eze 12:28 - Therefore, tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: No more delay! I will now do everything I have threatened. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!'”

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Eze 13:9 - I will raise my fist against all the prophets who see false visions and make lying predictions, and they will be banished from the community of Israel. I will blot their names from Israel's record books, and they will never again set foot in their own land. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 13:10 - “This will happen because these evil prophets deceive my people by saying, ‘All is peaceful' when there is no peace at all! It's as if the people have built a flimsy wall, and these prophets are trying to reinforce it by covering it with whitewash!

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Eze 13:13 - “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will sweep away your whitewashed wall with a storm of indignation, with a great flood of anger, and with hailstones of fury.

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Eze 13:15 - At last my anger against the wall and those who covered it with whitewash will be satisfied. Then I will say to you: ‘The wall and those who whitewashed it are both gone.

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Eze 13:18 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: What sorrow awaits you women who are ensnaring the souls of my people, young and old alike. You tie magic charms on their wrists and furnish them with magic veils. Do you think you can trap others without bringing destruction on yourselves?

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Eze 13:19 - You bring shame on me among my people for a few handfuls of barley or a piece of bread. By lying to my people who love to listen to lies, you kill those who should not die, and you promise life to those who should not live.

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Eze 13:21 - I will tear off the magic veils and save my people from your grasp. They will no longer be your victims. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 13:23 - Because of all this, you will no longer talk of seeing visions that you never saw, nor will you make predictions. For I will rescue my people from your grasp. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”

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Eze 14:1 - Then some of the leaders of Israel visited me, and while they were sitting with me,

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Eze 14:8 - I will turn against such people and make a terrible example of them, eliminating them from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 14:9 - “‘And if a prophet is deceived into giving a message, it is because I, the LORD, have deceived that prophet. I will lift my fist against such prophets and cut them off from the community of Israel.

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Eze 14:13 - “Son of man, suppose the people of a country were to sin against me, and I lifted my fist to crush them, cutting off their food supply and sending a famine to destroy both people and animals.

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Eze 14:19 - “Or suppose I were to pour out my fury by sending an epidemic into the land, and the disease killed people and animals alike.

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Eze 14:21 - “Now this is what the Sovereign LORD says: How terrible it will be when all four of these dreadful punishments fall upon Jerusalem—war, famine, wild animals, and disease—destroying all her people and animals.

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Eze 15:7 - And I will see to it that if they escape from one fire, they will fall into another. When I turn against them, you will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 16:5 - No one had the slightest interest in you; no one pitied you or cared for you. On the day you were born, you were unwanted, dumped in a field and left to die.

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Eze 16:8 - And when I passed by again, I saw that you were old enough for love. So I wrapped my cloak around you to cover your nakedness and declared my marriage vows. I made a covenant with you, says the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine.

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Eze 16:17 - You took the very jewels and gold and silver ornaments I had given you and made statues of men and worshiped them. This is adultery against me!

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Eze 16:18 - You used the beautifully embroidered clothes I gave you to dress your idols. Then you used my special oil and my incense to worship them.

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Eze 16:19 - Imagine it! You set before them as a sacrifice the choice flour, olive oil, and honey I had given you, says the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 16:27 - That is why I struck you with my fist and reduced your boundaries. I handed you over to your enemies, the Philistines, and even they were shocked by your lewd conduct.

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Eze 16:42 - “Then at last my fury against you will be spent, and my jealous anger will subside. I will be calm and will not be angry with you anymore.

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Eze 16:50 - She was proud and committed detestable sins, so I wiped her out, as you have seen.[fn]

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Eze 16:59 - “Now this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will give you what you deserve, for you have taken your solemn vows lightly by breaking your covenant.

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Eze 16:60 - Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you when you were young, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

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Eze 16:62 - And I will reaffirm my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 17:16 - No! For as surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, the king of Israel will die in Babylon, the land of the king who put him in power and whose treaty he disregarded and broke.

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Eze 17:19 - “So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, I will punish him for breaking my covenant and disregarding the solemn oath he made in my name.

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Eze 17:20 - I will throw my net over him and capture him in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon and put him on trial for this treason against me.

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Eze 18:9 - and faithfully obeys my decrees and regulations. Anyone who does these things is just and will surely live, says the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 18:17 - He helps the poor,[fn] does not lend money at interest, and obeys all my regulations and decrees. Such a person will not die because of his father's sins; he will surely live.

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Eze 18:18 - But the father will die for his many sins—for being cruel, robbing people, and doing what was clearly wrong among his people.

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Eze 18:19 - “‘What?' you ask. ‘Doesn't the child pay for the parent's sins?' No! For if the child does what is just and right and keeps my decrees, that child will surely live.

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Eze 18:21 - But if wicked people turn away from all their sins and begin to obey my decrees and do what is just and right, they will surely live and not die.

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Eze 18:25 - “Yet you say, ‘The Lord isn't doing what's right!' Listen to me, O people of Israel. Am I the one not doing what's right, or is it you?

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Eze 18:29 - And yet the people of Israel keep saying, ‘The Lord isn't doing what's right!' O people of Israel, it is you who are not doing what's right, not I.

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Eze 20:1 - On August 14,[fn] during the seventh year of King Jehoiachin's captivity, some of the leaders of Israel came to request a message from the LORD. They sat down in front of me to wait for his reply.

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Eze 20:5 - Give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: When I chose Israel—when I revealed myself to the descendants of Jacob in Egypt—I took a solemn oath that I, the LORD, would be their God.

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Eze 20:6 - I took a solemn oath that day that I would bring them out of Egypt to a land I had discovered and explored for them—a good land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the best of all lands anywhere.

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Eze 20:8 - “But they rebelled against me and would not listen. They did not get rid of the vile images they were obsessed with, or forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I threatened to pour out my fury on them to satisfy my anger while they were still in Egypt.

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Eze 20:9 - But I didn't do it, for I acted to protect the honor of my name. I would not allow shame to be brought on my name among the surrounding nations who saw me reveal myself by bringing the Israelites out of Egypt.

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Eze 20:11 - There I gave them my decrees and regulations so they could find life by keeping them.

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Eze 20:12 - And I gave them my Sabbath days of rest as a sign between them and me. It was to remind them that I am the LORD, who had set them apart to be holy.

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Eze 20:13 - “But the people of Israel rebelled against me, and they refused to obey my decrees there in the wilderness. They wouldn't obey my regulations even though obedience would have given them life. They also violated my Sabbath days. So I threatened to pour out my fury on them, and I made plans to utterly consume them in the wilderness.

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Eze 20:14 - But again I held back in order to protect the honor of my name before the nations who had seen my power in bringing Israel out of Egypt.

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Eze 20:15 - But I took a solemn oath against them in the wilderness. I swore I would not bring them into the land I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful place on earth.

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Eze 20:16 - For they had rejected my regulations, refused to follow my decrees, and violated my Sabbath days. Their hearts were given to their idols.

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Eze 20:17 - Nevertheless, I took pity on them and held back from destroying them in the wilderness.

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Eze 20:19 - ‘I am the LORD your God,' I told them. ‘Follow my decrees, pay attention to my regulations,

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Eze 20:20 - and keep my Sabbath days holy, for they are a sign to remind you that I am the LORD your God.'

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Eze 20:21 - “But their children, too, rebelled against me. They refused to keep my decrees and follow my regulations, even though obedience would have given them life. And they also violated my Sabbath days. So again I threatened to pour out my fury on them in the wilderness.

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Eze 20:22 - Nevertheless, I withdrew my judgment against them to protect the honor of my name before the nations that had seen my power in bringing them out of Egypt.

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Eze 20:23 - But I took a solemn oath against them in the wilderness. I swore I would scatter them among all the nations

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Eze 20:24 - because they did not obey my regulations. They scorned my decrees by violating my Sabbath days and longing for the idols of their ancestors.

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Eze 20:28 - for when I brought them into the land I had promised them, they offered sacrifices on every high hill and under every green tree they saw! They roused my fury as they offered up sacrifices to their gods. They brought their perfumes and incense and poured out their liquid offerings to them.

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Eze 20:37 - I will examine you carefully and hold you to the terms of the covenant.

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Eze 20:39 - “As for you, O people of Israel, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Go right ahead and worship your idols, but sooner or later you will obey me and will stop bringing shame on my holy name by worshiping idols.

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Eze 20:40 - For on my holy mountain, the great mountain of Israel, says the Sovereign LORD, the people of Israel will someday worship me, and I will accept them. There I will require that you bring me all your offerings and choice gifts and sacrifices.

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Eze 20:42 - Then when I have brought you home to the land I promised with a solemn oath to give to your ancestors, you will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 20:44 - You will know that I am the LORD, O people of Israel, when I have honored my name by treating you mercifully in spite of your wickedness. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”

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Eze 21:3 - Tell her, ‘This is what the LORD says: I am your enemy, O Israel, and I am about to unsheath my sword to destroy your people—the righteous and the wicked alike.

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Eze 21:4 - Yes, I will cut off both the righteous and the wicked! I will draw my sword against everyone in the land from south to north.

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Eze 21:5 - Everyone in the world will know that I am the LORD. My sword is in my hand, and it will not return to its sheath until its work is finished.'

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Eze 21:12 - “Son of man, cry out and wail;
pound your thighs in anguish,
for that sword will slaughter my people and their leaders—
everyone will die!

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Eze 21:17 - I, too, will clap my hands,
and I will satisfy my fury.
I, the LORD, have spoken!”

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Eze 21:31 - I will pour out my fury on you
and blow on you with the fire of my anger.
I will hand you over to cruel men
who are skilled in destruction.

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Eze 22:8 - You despise my holy things and violate my Sabbath days of rest.

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Eze 22:13 - “But now I clap my hands in indignation over your dishonest gain and bloodshed.

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Eze 22:20 - Just as copper, iron, lead, and tin are melted down in a furnace, I will melt you down in the heat of my fury.

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Eze 22:21 - I will gather you together and blow the fire of my anger upon you,

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Eze 22:22 - and you will melt like silver in fierce heat. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out my fury on you.'”

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Eze 22:26 - Your priests have violated my instructions and defiled my holy things. They make no distinction between what is holy and what is not. And they do not teach my people the difference between what is ceremonially clean and unclean. They disregard my Sabbath days so that I am dishonored among them.

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Eze 22:30 - “I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn't have to destroy the land, but I found no one.

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Eze 22:31 - So now I will pour out my fury on them, consuming them with the fire of my anger. I will heap on their heads the full penalty for all their sins. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”

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Eze 23:18 - “In the same way, I became disgusted with Oholibah and rejected her, just as I had rejected her sister, because she flaunted herself before them and gave herself to satisfy their lusts.

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Eze 23:25 - I will turn my jealous anger against you, and they will deal harshly with you. They will cut off your nose and ears, and any survivors will then be slaughtered by the sword. Your children will be taken away as captives, and everything that is left will be burned.

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Eze 23:35 - “And because you have forgotten me and turned your back on me, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: You must bear the consequences of all your lewdness and prostitution.”

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Eze 23:38 - Furthermore, they have defiled my Temple and violated my Sabbath day!

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Eze 23:39 - On the very day that they sacrificed their children to their idols, they boldly came into my Temple to worship! They came in and defiled my house.

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Eze 23:41 - You sat with them on a beautifully embroidered couch and put my incense and my special oil on a table that was spread before you.

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Eze 24:13 - Your impurity is your lewdness
and the corruption of your idolatry.
I tried to cleanse you,
but you refused.
So now you will remain in your filth
until my fury against you has been satisfied.

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Eze 24:18 - So I proclaimed this to the people the next morning, and in the evening my wife died. The next morning I did everything I had been told to do.

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Eze 24:21 - and I was told to give this message to the people of Israel. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will defile my Temple, the source of your security and pride, the place your heart delights in. Your sons and daughters whom you left behind in Judea will be slaughtered by the sword.

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Eze 25:3 - Give the Ammonites this message from the Sovereign LORD: Hear the word of the Sovereign LORD! Because you cheered when my Temple was defiled, mocked Israel in her desolation, and laughed at Judah as she went away into exile,

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Eze 25:7 - I will raise my fist of judgment against you. I will give you as plunder to many nations. I will cut you off from being a nation and destroy you completely. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 25:13 - Therefore, says the Sovereign LORD, I will raise my fist of judgment against Edom. I will wipe out its people and animals with the sword. I will make a wasteland of everything from Teman to Dedan.

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Eze 25:14 - I will accomplish this by the hand of my people of Israel. They will carry out my vengeance with anger, and Edom will know that this vengeance is from me. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!

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Eze 25:16 - Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will raise my fist of judgment against the land of the Philistines. I will wipe out the Kerethites and utterly destroy the people who live by the sea.

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Eze 25:17 - I will execute terrible vengeance against them to punish them for what they have done. And when I have inflicted my revenge, they will know that I am the LORD.”

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Eze 27:3 - that mighty gateway to the sea, the trading center of the world. Give Tyre this message from the Sovereign LORD:
“You boasted, O Tyre,
‘My beauty is perfect!'

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Eze 28:25 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The people of Israel will again live in their own land, the land I gave my servant Jacob. For I will gather them from the distant lands where I have scattered them. I will reveal to the nations of the world my holiness among my people.

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Eze 30:5 - Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, all Arabia,[fn]
and all their other allies
will be destroyed in that war.

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Eze 30:15 - I will pour out my fury on Pelusium,[fn]
the strongest fortress of Egypt,
and I will stamp out
the hordes of Thebes.

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Eze 30:24 - I will strengthen the arms of Babylon's king and put my sword in his hand. But I will break the arms of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he will lie there mortally wounded, groaning in pain.

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Eze 30:25 - I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, while the arms of Pharaoh fall useless to his sides. And when I put my sword in the hand of Babylon's king and he brings it against the land of Egypt, Egypt will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 32:3 - Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says:
I will send many people
to catch you in my net
and haul you out of the water.

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Eze 32:10 - Yes, I will shock many lands, and their kings will be terrified at your fate. They will shudder in fear for their lives as I brandish my sword before them on the day of your fall.

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Eze 33:7 - “Now, son of man, I am making you a watchman for the people of Israel. Therefore, listen to what I say and warn them for me.

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Eze 33:22 - The previous evening the LORD had taken hold of me and given me back my voice. So I was able to speak when this man arrived the next morning.

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Eze 34:3 - You drink the milk, wear the wool, and butcher the best animals, but you let your flocks starve.

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Eze 34:5 - So my sheep have been scattered without a shepherd, and they are easy prey for any wild animal.

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Eze 34:6 - They have wandered through all the mountains and all the hills, across the face of the earth, yet no one has gone to search for them.

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Eze 34:8 - As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, you abandoned my flock and left them to be attacked by every wild animal. And though you were my shepherds, you didn't search for my sheep when they were lost. You took care of yourselves and left the sheep to starve.

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Eze 34:10 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I now consider these shepherds my enemies, and I will hold them responsible for what has happened to my flock. I will take away their right to feed the flock, and I will stop them from feeding themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths; the sheep will no longer be their prey.

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Eze 34:11 - “For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself will search and find my sheep.

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Eze 34:12 - I will be like a shepherd looking for his scattered flock. I will find my sheep and rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on that dark and cloudy day.

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Eze 34:15 - I myself will tend my sheep and give them a place to lie down in peace, says the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 34:19 - Why must my flock eat what you have trampled down and drink water you have fouled?

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Eze 34:22 - So I will rescue my flock, and they will no longer be abused. I will judge between one animal of the flock and another.

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Eze 34:23 - And I will set over them one shepherd, my servant David. He will feed them and be a shepherd to them.

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Eze 34:26 - I will bless my people and their homes around my holy hill. And in the proper season I will send the showers they need. There will be showers of blessing.

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Eze 34:30 - In this way, they will know that I, the LORD their God, am with them. And they will know that they, the people of Israel, are my people, says the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 34:31 - You are my flock, the sheep of my pasture. You are my people, and I am your God. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”

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Eze 35:3 - Give them this message from the Sovereign LORD:
“I am your enemy, O Mount Seir,
and I will raise my fist against you
to destroy you completely.

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Eze 36:5 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: My jealous anger burns against these nations, especially Edom, because they have shown utter contempt for me by gleefully taking my land for themselves as plunder.

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Eze 36:6 - “Therefore, prophesy to the hills and mountains, the ravines and valleys of Israel. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am furious that you have suffered shame before the surrounding nations.

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Eze 36:7 - Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I have taken a solemn oath that those nations will soon have their own shame to endure.

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Eze 36:8 - “But the mountains of Israel will produce heavy crops of fruit for my people—for they will be coming home again soon!

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Eze 36:12 - I will cause my people to walk on you once again, and you will be their territory. You will never again rob them of their children.

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Eze 36:17 - “Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by the evil way they lived. To me their conduct was as unclean as a woman's menstrual cloth.

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Eze 36:18 - They polluted the land with murder and the worship of idols,[fn] so I poured out my fury on them.

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Eze 36:20 - But when they were scattered among the nations, they brought shame on my holy name. For the nations said, ‘These are the people of the LORD, but he couldn't keep them safe in his own land!'

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Eze 36:21 - Then I was concerned for my holy name, on which my people brought shame among the nations.

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Eze 36:22 - “Therefore, give the people of Israel this message from the Sovereign LORD: I am bringing you back, but not because you deserve it. I am doing it to protect my holy name, on which you brought shame while you were scattered among the nations.

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Eze 36:23 - I will show how holy my great name is—the name on which you brought shame among the nations. And when I reveal my holiness through you before their very eyes, says the Sovereign LORD, then the nations will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 36:27 - And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations.

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Eze 37:6 - I will put flesh and muscles on you and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.'”

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Eze 37:13 - When this happens, O my people, you will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 37:14 - I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live again and return home to your own land. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken, and I have done what I said. Yes, the LORD has spoken!'”

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Eze 37:22 - I will unify them into one nation on the mountains of Israel. One king will rule them all; no longer will they be divided into two nations or into two kingdoms.

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Eze 37:24 - “My servant David will be their king, and they will have only one shepherd. They will obey my regulations and be careful to keep my decrees.

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Eze 37:25 - They will live in the land I gave my servant Jacob, the land where their ancestors lived. They and their children and their grandchildren after them will live there forever, generation after generation. And my servant David will be their prince forever.

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Eze 37:26 - And I will make a covenant of peace with them, an everlasting covenant. I will give them their land and increase their numbers,[fn] and I will put my Temple among them forever.

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Eze 37:27 - I will make my home among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

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Eze 37:28 - And when my Temple is among them forever, the nations will know that I am the LORD, who makes Israel holy.”

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Eze 38:14 - “Therefore, son of man, prophesy against Gog. Give him this message from the Sovereign LORD: When my people are living in peace in their land, then you will rouse yourself.[fn]

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Eze 38:16 - and you will attack my people Israel, covering their land like a cloud. At that time in the distant future, I will bring you against my land as everyone watches, and my holiness will be displayed by what happens to you, Gog. Then all the nations will know that I am the LORD.

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Eze 38:17 - “This is what the Sovereign LORD asks: Are you the one I was talking about long ago, when I announced through Israel's prophets that in the future I would bring you against my people?

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Eze 38:18 - But this is what the Sovereign LORD says: When Gog invades the land of Israel, my fury will boil over!

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Eze 38:19 - In my jealousy and blazing anger, I promise a mighty shaking in the land of Israel on that day.

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Eze 39:7 - “In this way, I will make known my holy name among my people of Israel. I will not let anyone bring shame on it. And the nations, too, will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

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Eze 39:17 - “And now, son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Call all the birds and wild animals. Say to them: Gather together for my great sacrificial feast. Come from far and near to the mountains of Israel, and there eat flesh and drink blood!

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Eze 39:19 - Gorge yourselves with flesh until you are glutted; drink blood until you are drunk. This is the sacrificial feast I have prepared for you.

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Eze 39:20 - Feast at my banquet table—feast on horses and charioteers, on mighty men and all kinds of valiant warriors, says the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 39:21 - “In this way, I will demonstrate my glory to the nations. Everyone will see the punishment I have inflicted on them and the power of my fist when I strike.

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Eze 39:23 - The nations will then know why Israel was sent away to exile—it was punishment for sin, for they were unfaithful to their God. Therefore, I turned away from them and let their enemies destroy them.

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Eze 39:24 - I turned my face away and punished them because of their defilement and their sins.

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Eze 39:25 - “So now, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will end the captivity of my people[fn]; I will have mercy on all Israel, for I jealously guard my holy reputation!

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Eze 39:29 - And I will never again turn my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit upon the people of Israel. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”

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Eze 43:3 - This vision was just like the others I had seen, first by the Kebar River and then when he came to destroy Jerusalem. I fell face down on the ground.

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Eze 43:6 - And I heard someone speaking to me from within the Temple, while the man who had been measuring stood beside me.

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Eze 43:7 - The LORD said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place where I will rest my feet. I will live here forever among the people of Israel. They and their kings will not defile my holy name any longer by their adulterous worship of other gods or by honoring the relics of their kings who have died.

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Eze 43:8 - They put their idol altars right next to mine with only a wall between them and me. They defiled my holy name by such detestable sin, so I consumed them in my anger.

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Eze 43:11 - and they will be ashamed[fn] of what they have done. Describe to them all the specifications of the Temple—including its entrances and exits—and everything else about it. Tell them about its decrees and laws. Write down all these specifications and decrees as they watch so they will be sure to remember and follow them.

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Eze 44:4 - Then the man brought me through the north gateway to the front of the Temple. I looked and saw that the glory of the LORD filled the Temple of the LORD, and I fell face down on the ground.

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Eze 44:7 - You have brought uncircumcised foreigners into my sanctuary—people who have no heart for God. In this way, you defiled my Temple even as you offered me my food, the fat and blood of sacrifices. In addition to all your other detestable sins, you have broken my covenant.

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Eze 44:8 - Instead of safeguarding my sacred rituals, you have hired foreigners to take charge of my sanctuary.

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Eze 44:9 - “So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: No foreigners, including those who live among the people of Israel, will enter my sanctuary if they have not been circumcised and have not surrendered themselves to the LORD.

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Eze 44:11 - They may still be Temple guards and gatekeepers, and they may slaughter the animals brought for burnt offerings and be present to help the people.

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Eze 44:12 - But they encouraged my people to worship idols, causing Israel to fall into deep sin. So I have taken a solemn oath that they must bear the consequences for their sins, says the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 44:13 - They may not approach me to minister as priests. They may not touch any of my holy things or the holy offerings, for they must bear the shame of all the detestable sins they have committed.

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Eze 44:15 - “However, the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok continued to minister faithfully in the Temple when Israel abandoned me for idols. These men will serve as my ministers. They will stand in my presence and offer the fat and blood of the sacrifices, says the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 44:16 - They alone will enter my sanctuary and approach my table to serve me. They will fulfill all my requirements.

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Eze 44:23 - They will teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is common, what is ceremonially clean and unclean.

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Eze 44:24 - “They will serve as judges to resolve any disagreements among my people. Their decisions must be based on my regulations. And the priests themselves must obey my instructions and decrees at all the sacred festivals, and see to it that the Sabbaths are set apart as holy days.

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Eze 45:8 - These sections of land will be the prince's allotment. Then my princes will no longer oppress and rob my people; they will assign the rest of the land to the people, giving an allotment to each tribe.

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Eze 45:9 - “For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Stop your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Quit robbing and cheating my people out of their land. Stop expelling them from their homes, says the Sovereign LORD.

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Eze 46:18 - And the prince may never take anyone's property by force. If he gives property to his sons, it must be from his own land, for I do not want any of my people unjustly evicted from their property.”

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Eze 47:7 - When I returned, I was surprised by the sight of many trees growing on both sides of the river.

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Eze 47:14 - Otherwise each tribe will receive an equal share. I took a solemn oath and swore that I would give this land to your ancestors, and it will now come to you as your possession.

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Dan 1:10 - But he responded, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has ordered that you eat this food and wine. If you become pale and thin compared to the other youths your age, I am afraid the king will have me beheaded.”

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Dan 2:3 - he said, “I have had a dream that deeply troubles me, and I must know what it means.”

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Dan 2:9 - ‘If you don't tell me the dream, you are doomed.' So you have conspired to tell me lies, hoping I will change my mind. But tell me the dream, and then I'll know that you can tell me what it means.”

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Dan 2:23 - I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors,
for you have given me wisdom and strength.
You have told me what we asked of you
and revealed to us what the king demanded.”

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Dan 3:14 - Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you refuse to serve my gods or to worship the gold statue I have set up?

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Dan 3:15 - I will give you one more chance to bow down and worship the statue I have made when you hear the sound of the musical instruments.[fn] But if you refuse, you will be thrown immediately into the blazing furnace. And then what god will be able to rescue you from my power?”

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Dan 4:4 - [fn]“I, Nebuchadnezzar, was living in my palace in comfort and prosperity.

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Dan 4:5 - But one night I had a dream that frightened me; I saw visions that terrified me as I lay in my bed.

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Dan 4:6 - So I issued an order calling in all the wise men of Babylon, so they could tell me what my dream meant.

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Dan 4:8 - At last Daniel came in before me, and I told him the dream. (He was named Belteshazzar after my god, and the spirit of the holy gods is in him.)

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Dan 4:10 - “‘While I was lying in my bed, this is what I dreamed. I saw a large tree in the middle of the earth.

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Dan 4:13 - “‘Then as I lay there dreaming, I saw a messenger,[fn] a holy one, coming down from heaven.

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Dan 4:18 - “‘Belteshazzar, that was the dream that I, King Nebuchadnezzar, had. Now tell me what it means, for none of the wise men of my kingdom can do so. But you can tell me because the spirit of the holy gods is in you.'

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Dan 4:24 - “‘This is what the dream means, Your Majesty, and what the Most High has declared will happen to my lord the king.

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Dan 4:27 - “‘King Nebuchadnezzar, please accept my advice. Stop sinning and do what is right. Break from your wicked past and be merciful to the poor. Perhaps then you will continue to prosper.'

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Dan 4:30 - As he looked out across the city, he said, ‘Look at this great city of Babylon! By my own mighty power, I have built this beautiful city as my royal residence to display my majestic splendor.'

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Dan 4:34 - “After this time had passed, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven. My sanity returned, and I praised and worshiped the Most High and honored the one who lives forever. His rule is everlasting, and his kingdom is eternal.

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Dan 4:36 - “When my sanity returned to me, so did my honor and glory and kingdom. My advisers and nobles sought me out, and I was restored as head of my kingdom, with even greater honor than before.

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Dan 5:7 - The king shouted for the enchanters, astrologers,[fn] and fortune-tellers to be brought before him. He said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever can read this writing and tell me what it means will be dressed in purple robes of royal honor and will have a gold chain placed around his neck. He will become the third highest ruler in the kingdom!”

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Dan 5:13 - So Daniel was brought in before the king. The king asked him, “Are you Daniel, one of the exiles brought from Judah by my predecessor, King Nebuchadnezzar?

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Dan 5:15 - My wise men and enchanters have tried to read the words on the wall and tell me their meaning, but they cannot do it.

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Dan 5:16 - I am told that you can give interpretations and solve difficult problems. If you can read these words and tell me their meaning, you will be clothed in purple robes of royal honor, and you will have a gold chain placed around your neck. You will become the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”

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Dan 6:22 - My God sent his angel to shut the lions' mouths so that they would not hurt me, for I have been found innocent in his sight. And I have not wronged you, Your Majesty.”

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Dan 6:26 - “I decree that everyone throughout my kingdom should tremble with fear before the God of Daniel. For he is the living God, and he will endure forever. His kingdom will never be destroyed, and his rule will never end.

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Dan 7:2 - In my vision that night, I, Daniel, saw a great storm churning the surface of a great sea, with strong winds blowing from every direction.

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Dan 7:15 - I, Daniel, was troubled by all I had seen, and my visions terrified me.

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Dan 7:28 - That was the end of the vision. I, Daniel, was terrified by my thoughts and my face was pale with fear, but I kept these things to myself.

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Dan 8:3 - As I looked up, I saw a ram with two long horns standing beside the river.[fn] One of the horns was longer than the other, even though it had grown later than the other one.

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Dan 8:17 - As Gabriel approached the place where I was standing, I became so terrified that I fell with my face to the ground. “Son of man,” he said, “you must understand that the events you have seen in your vision relate to the time of the end.”

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Dan 8:18 - While he was speaking, I fainted and lay there with my face to the ground. But Gabriel roused me with a touch and helped me to my feet.

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Dan 9:3 - So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and fasting. I also wore rough burlap and sprinkled myself with ashes.

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Dan 9:4 - I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed: “O Lord, you are a great and awesome God! You always fulfill your covenant and keep your promises of unfailing love to those who love you and obey your commands.

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Dan 9:18 - “O my God, lean down and listen to me. Open your eyes and see our despair. See how your city—the city that bears your name—lies in ruins. We make this plea, not because we deserve help, but because of your mercy.

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Dan 9:19 - “O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, listen and act! For your own sake, do not delay, O my God, for your people and your city bear your name.”

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Dan 9:20 - I went on praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people, pleading with the LORD my God for Jerusalem, his holy mountain.

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Dan 9:21 - As I was praying, Gabriel, whom I had seen in the earlier vision, came swiftly to me at the time of the evening sacrifice.

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Dan 9:27 - The ruler will make a treaty with the people for a period of one set of seven,[fn] but after half this time, he will put an end to the sacrifices and offerings. And as a climax to all his terrible deeds,[fn] he will set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration,[fn] until the fate decreed for this defiler is finally poured out on him.”

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Dan 10:3 - All that time I had eaten no rich food. No meat or wine crossed my lips, and I used no fragrant lotions until those three weeks had passed.

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Dan 10:5 - I looked up and saw a man dressed in linen clothing, with a belt of pure gold around his waist.

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Dan 10:8 - So I was left there all alone to see this amazing vision. My strength left me, my face grew deathly pale, and I felt very weak.

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Dan 10:9 - Then I heard the man speak, and when I heard the sound of his voice, I fainted and lay there with my face to the ground.

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Dan 10:10 - Just then a hand touched me and lifted me, still trembling, to my hands and knees.

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Dan 10:13 - But for twenty-one days the spirit prince[fn] of the kingdom of Persia blocked my way. Then Michael, one of the archangels,[fn] came to help me, and I left him there with the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia.[fn]

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Dan 10:15 - While he was speaking to me, I looked down at the ground, unable to say a word.

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Dan 10:16 - Then the one who looked like a man[fn] touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and began to speak. I said to the one standing in front of me, “I am filled with anguish because of the vision I have seen, my lord, and I am very weak.

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Dan 10:17 - How can someone like me, your servant, talk to you, my lord? My strength is gone, and I can hardly breathe.”

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Dan 10:18 - Then the one who looked like a man touched me again, and I felt my strength returning.

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Dan 10:19 - “Don't be afraid,” he said, “for you are very precious to God. Peace! Be encouraged! Be strong!”
As he spoke these words to me, I suddenly felt stronger and said to him, “Please speak to me, my lord, for you have strengthened me.”

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Hos 1:9 - And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi—‘Not my people'—for Israel is not my people, and I am not their God.

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Hos 1:10 - [fn]“Yet the time will come when Israel's people will be like the sands of the seashore—too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,' it will be said, ‘You are children of the living God.'

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Hos 2:2 - “But now bring charges against Israel—your mother—
for she is no longer my wife,
and I am no longer her husband.
Tell her to remove the prostitute's makeup from her face
and the clothing that exposes her breasts.

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Hos 2:5 - Their mother is a shameless prostitute
and became pregnant in a shameful way.
She said, ‘I'll run after other lovers
and sell myself to them for food and water,
for clothing of wool and linen,
and for olive oil and drinks.'

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Hos 2:7 - When she runs after her lovers,
she won't be able to catch them.
She will search for them
but not find them.
Then she will think,
‘I might as well return to my husband,
for I was better off with him than I am now.'

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Hos 2:9 - “But now I will take back the ripened grain and new wine
I generously provided each harvest season.
I will take away the wool and linen clothing
I gave her to cover her nakedness.

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Hos 2:10 - I will strip her naked in public,
while all her lovers look on.
No one will be able
to rescue her from my hands.

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Hos 2:12 - I will destroy her grapevines and fig trees,
things she claims her lovers gave her.
I will let them grow into tangled thickets,
where only wild animals will eat the fruit.

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Hos 2:16 - When that day comes,” says the LORD,
“you will call me ‘my husband'
instead of ‘my master.'[fn]

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Hos 2:23 - At that time I will plant a crop of Israelites
and raise them for myself.
I will show love
to those I called ‘Not loved.'[fn]
And to those I called ‘Not my people,'[fn]
I will say, ‘Now you are my people.'
And they will reply, ‘You are our God!'”

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Hos 4:4 - “Don't point your finger at someone else
and try to pass the blame!
My complaint, you priests,
is with you.[fn]

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Hos 4:6 - My people are being destroyed
because they don't know me.
Since you priests refuse to know me,
I refuse to recognize you as my priests.
Since you have forgotten the laws of your God,
I will forget to bless your children.

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Hos 4:8 - “When the people bring their sin offerings, the priests get fed.
So the priests are glad when the people sin!

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Hos 4:11 - to worship other gods.
“Wine has robbed my people
of their understanding.

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Hos 5:10 - “The leaders of Judah have become like thieves.[fn]
So I will pour my anger on them like a waterfall.

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Hos 5:15 - Then I will return to my place
until they admit their guilt and turn to me.
For as soon as trouble comes,
they will earnestly search for me.”

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Hos 6:5 - I sent my prophets to cut you to pieces—
to slaughter you with my words,
with judgments as inescapable as light.

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Hos 6:7 - But like Adam,[fn] you broke my covenant
and betrayed my trust.

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Hos 6:11 - “O Judah, a harvest of punishment is also waiting for you,
though I wanted to restore the fortunes of my people.

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Hos 7:2 - Its people don't realize
that I am watching them.
Their sinful deeds are all around them,
and I see them all.

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Hos 7:12 - But as they fly about,
I will throw my net over them
and bring them down like a bird from the sky.
I will punish them for all the evil they do.[fn]

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Hos 8:1 - “Sound the alarm!
The enemy descends like an eagle on the people of the LORD,
for they have broken my covenant
and revolted against my law.

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Hos 8:5 - “O Samaria, I reject this calf—
this idol you have made.
My fury burns against you.
How long will you be incapable of innocence?

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Hos 9:12 - Even if you do have children who grow up,
I will take them from you.
It will be a terrible day when I turn away
and leave you alone.

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Hos 9:15 - The LORD says, “All their wickedness began at Gilgal;
there I began to hate them.
I will drive them from my land
because of their evil actions.
I will love them no more
because all their leaders are rebels.

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Hos 11:2 - But the more I[fn] called to him,
the farther he moved from me,
offering sacrifices to the images of Baal
and burning incense to idols.

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Hos 11:3 - I myself taught Israel[fn] how to walk,
leading him along by the hand.
But he doesn't know or even care
that it was I who took care of him.

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Hos 11:4 - I led Israel along
with my ropes of kindness and love.
I lifted the yoke from his neck,
and I myself stooped to feed him.

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Hos 11:8 - “Oh, how can I give you up, Israel?
How can I let you go?
How can I destroy you like Admah
or demolish you like Zeboiim?
My heart is torn within me,
and my compassion overflows.

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Hos 11:9 - No, I will not unleash my fierce anger.
I will not completely destroy Israel,
for I am God and not a mere mortal.
I am the Holy One living among you,
and I will not come to destroy.

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Hos 12:4 - Yes, he wrestled with the angel and won.
He wept and pleaded for a blessing from him.
There at Bethel he met God face to face,
and God spoke to him[fn]—

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Hos 13:6 - But when you had eaten and were satisfied,
you became proud and forgot me.

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Hos 13:11 - In my anger I gave you kings,
and in my fury I took them away.

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Hos 13:14 - “Should I ransom them from the grave[fn]?
Should I redeem them from death?
O death, bring on your terrors!
O grave, bring on your plagues![fn]
For I will not take pity on them.

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Hos 14:4 - The LORD says,
“Then I will heal you of your faithlessness;
my love will know no bounds,
for my anger will be gone forever.

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Joe 1:6 - A vast army of locusts[fn] has invaded my land,
a terrible army too numerous to count.
Its teeth are like lions' teeth,
its fangs like those of a lioness.

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Joe 1:7 - It has destroyed my grapevines
and ruined my fig trees,
stripping their bark and destroying it,
leaving the branches white and bare.

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Joe 2:1 - Sound the alarm in Jerusalem[fn]!
Raise the battle cry on my holy mountain!
Let everyone tremble in fear
because the day of the LORD is upon us.

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Joe 2:25 - The LORD says, “I will give you back what you lost
to the swarming locusts, the hopping locusts,
the stripping locusts, and the cutting locusts.[fn]
It was I who sent this great destroying army against you.

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Joe 2:26 - Once again you will have all the food you want,
and you will praise the LORD your God,
who does these miracles for you.
Never again will my people be disgraced.

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Joe 2:27 - Then you will know that I am among my people Israel,
that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other.
Never again will my people be disgraced.

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Joe 2:28 - [fn]“Then, after doing all those things,
I will pour out my Spirit upon all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy.
Your old men will dream dreams,
and your young men will see visions.

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Joe 2:29 - In those days I will pour out my Spirit
even on servants—men and women alike.

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Joe 3:2 - I will gather the armies of the world
into the valley of Jehoshaphat.[fn]
There I will judge them
for harming my people, my special possession,
for scattering my people among the nations,
and for dividing up my land.

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Joe 3:3 - They threw dice[fn] to decide which of my people
would be their slaves.
They traded boys to obtain prostitutes
and sold girls for enough wine to get drunk.

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Joe 3:5 - You have taken my silver and gold and all my precious treasures, and have carried them off to your pagan temples.

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Joe 3:17 - “Then you will know that I, the LORD your God,
live in Zion, my holy mountain.
Jerusalem will be holy forever,
and foreign armies will never conquer her again.

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Amo 1:8 - I will slaughter the people of Ashdod
and destroy the king of Ashkelon.
Then I will turn to attack Ekron,
and the few Philistines still left will be killed,”
says the Sovereign LORD.

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Amo 4:10 - “I sent plagues on you
like the plagues I sent on Egypt long ago.
I killed your young men in war
and led all your horses away.[fn]
The stench of death filled the air!
But still you would not return to me,”
says the LORD.

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Amo 7:8 - And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”
I answered, “A plumb line.”
And the Lord replied, “I will test my people with this plumb line. I will no longer ignore all their sins.

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Amo 7:15 - But the LORD called me away from my flock and told me, ‘Go and prophesy to my people in Israel.'

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Amo 8:2 - “What do you see, Amos?” he asked.
I replied, “A basket full of ripe fruit.”
Then the LORD said, “Like this fruit, Israel is ripe for punishment! I will not delay their punishment again.

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Amo 9:2 - “Even if they dig down to the place of the dead,[fn]
I will reach down and pull them up.
Even if they climb up into the heavens,
I will bring them down.

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Amo 9:3 - Even if they hide at the very top of Mount Carmel,
I will search them out and capture them.
Even if they hide at the bottom of the ocean,
I will send the sea serpent after them to bite them.

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Amo 9:4 - Even if their enemies drive them into exile,
I will command the sword to kill them there.
I am determined to bring disaster upon them
and not to help them.”

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Amo 9:10 - But all the sinners will die by the sword—
all those who say, ‘Nothing bad will happen to us.'

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Amo 9:12 - And Israel will possess what is left of Edom
and all the nations I have called to be mine.[fn]”
The LORD has spoken,
and he will do these things.

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Amo 9:14 - I will bring my exiled people of Israel
back from distant lands,
and they will rebuild their ruined cities
and live in them again.
They will plant vineyards and gardens;
they will eat their crops and drink their wine.

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Oba 1:16 - Just as you swallowed up my people
on my holy mountain,
so you and the surrounding nations
will swallow the punishment I pour out on you.
Yes, all you nations will drink and stagger
and disappear from history.

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Jon 2:2 - He said,
“I cried out to the LORD in my great trouble,
and he answered me.
I called to you from the land of the dead,[fn]
and LORD, you heard me!

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Jon 2:5 - “I sank beneath the waves,
and the waters closed over me.
Seaweed wrapped itself around my head.

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Jon 2:6 - I sank down to the very roots of the mountains.
I was imprisoned in the earth,
whose gates lock shut forever.
But you, O LORD my God,
snatched me from the jaws of death!

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Jon 2:7 - As my life was slipping away,
I remembered the LORD.
And my earnest prayer went out to you
in your holy Temple.

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Jon 4:2 - So he complained to the LORD about it: “Didn't I say before I left home that you would do this, LORD? That is why I ran away to Tarshish! I knew that you are a merciful and compassionate God, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. You are eager to turn back from destroying people.

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Jon 4:3 - Just kill me now, LORD! I'd rather be dead than alive if what I predicted will not happen.”

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Mic 1:9 - For my people's wound
is too deep to heal.
It has reached into Judah,
even to the gates of Jerusalem.

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Mic 2:4 - In that day your enemies will make fun of you
by singing this song of despair about you:
“We are finished,
completely ruined!
God has confiscated our land,
taking it from us.
He has given our fields
to those who betrayed us.[fn]”

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Mic 2:8 - Yet to this very hour
my people rise against me like an enemy!
You steal the shirts right off the backs
of those who trusted you,
making them as ragged as men
returning from battle.

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Mic 2:9 - You have evicted women from their pleasant homes
and forever stripped their children of all that God would give them.

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Mic 3:3 - Yes, you eat my people's flesh,
strip off their skin,
and break their bones.
You chop them up
like meat for the cooking pot.

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Mic 3:5 - This is what the LORD says:
“You false prophets are leading my people astray!
You promise peace for those who give you food,
but you declare war on those who refuse to feed you.

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Mic 6:3 - “O my people, what have I done to you?
What have I done to make you tired of me?
Answer me!

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Mic 6:5 - Don't you remember, my people,
how King Balak of Moab tried to have you cursed
and how Balaam son of Beor blessed you instead?
And remember your journey from Acacia Grove[fn] to Gilgal,
when I, the LORD, did everything I could
to teach you about my faithfulness.”

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Mic 6:6 - What can we bring to the LORD?
What kind of offerings should we give him?
Should we bow before God
with offerings of yearling calves?

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Mic 6:7 - Should we offer him thousands of rams
and ten thousand rivers of olive oil?
Should we sacrifice our firstborn children
to pay for our sins?

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Mic 6:15 - You will plant crops
but not harvest them.
You will press your olives
but not get enough oil to anoint yourselves.
You will trample the grapes
but get no juice to make your wine.

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Mic 7:7 - As for me, I look to the LORD for help.
I wait confidently for God to save me,
and my God will certainly hear me.

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Mic 7:8 - Do not gloat over me, my enemies!
For though I fall, I will rise again.
Though I sit in darkness,
the LORD will be my light.

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Mic 7:9 - I will be patient as the LORD punishes me,
for I have sinned against him.
But after that, he will take up my case
and give me justice for all I have suffered from my enemies.
The LORD will bring me into the light,
and I will see his righteousness.

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Mic 7:10 - Then my enemies will see that the LORD is on my side.
They will be ashamed that they taunted me, saying,
“So where is the LORD—
that God of yours?”
With my own eyes I will see their downfall;
they will be trampled like mud in the streets.

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Hab 1:3 - Must I forever see these evil deeds?
Why must I watch all this misery?
Wherever I look,
I see destruction and violence.
I am surrounded by people
who love to argue and fight.

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Hab 1:11 - They sweep past like the wind
and are gone.
But they are deeply guilty,
for their own strength is their god.”

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Hab 1:12 - O LORD my God, my Holy One, you who are eternal—
surely you do not plan to wipe us out?
O LORD, our Rock, you have sent these Babylonians to correct us,
to punish us for our many sins.

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Hab 2:1 - I will climb up to my watchtower
and stand at my guardpost.
There I will wait to see what the LORD says
and how he[fn] will answer my complaint.

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Hab 2:4 - “Look at the proud!
They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked.
But the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God.[fn]

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Hab 3:2 - I have heard all about you, LORD.
I am filled with awe by your amazing works.
In this time of our deep need,
help us again as you did in years gone by.
And in your anger,
remember your mercy.

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Hab 3:16 - I trembled inside when I heard this;
my lips quivered with fear.
My legs gave way beneath me,[fn]
and I shook in terror.
I will wait quietly for the coming day
when disaster will strike the people who invade us.

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Hab 3:18 - yet I will rejoice in the LORD!
I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

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Hab 3:19 - The Sovereign LORD is my strength!
He makes me as surefooted as a deer,[fn]
able to tread upon the heights. (For the choir director: This prayer is to be accompanied by stringed instruments.)

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Zep 1:4 - “I will crush Judah and Jerusalem with my fist
and destroy every last trace of their Baal worship.
I will put an end to all the idolatrous priests,
so that even the memory of them will disappear.

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Zep 2:8 - “I have heard the taunts of the Moabites
and the insults of the Ammonites,
mocking my people
and invading their borders.

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Zep 2:9 - Now, as surely as I live,”
says the LORD of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel,
“Moab and Ammon will be destroyed—
destroyed as completely as Sodom and Gomorrah.
Their land will become a place of stinging nettles,
salt pits, and eternal desolation.
The remnant of my people will plunder them
and take their land.”

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Zep 3:8 - Therefore, be patient,” says the LORD.
“Soon I will stand and accuse these evil nations.
For I have decided to gather the kingdoms of the earth
and pour out my fiercest anger and fury on them.
All the earth will be devoured
by the fire of my jealousy.

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Zep 3:11 - On that day you will no longer need to be ashamed,
for you will no longer be rebels against me.
I will remove all proud and arrogant people from among you.
There will be no more haughtiness on my holy mountain.

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Hag 2:5 - My Spirit remains among you, just as I promised when you came out of Egypt. So do not be afraid.'

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Hag 2:23 - “But when this happens, says the LORD of Heaven's Armies, I will honor you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant. I will make you like a signet ring on my finger, says the LORD, for I have chosen you. I, the LORD of Heaven's Armies, have spoken!”

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Zec 1:4 - Don't be like your ancestors who would not listen or pay attention when the earlier prophets said to them, ‘This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies says: Turn from your evil ways, and stop all your evil practices.'

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Zec 1:6 - But everything I said through my servants the prophets happened to your ancestors, just as I said. As a result, they repented and said, ‘We have received what we deserved from the LORD of Heaven's Armies. He has done what he said he would do.'”

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Zec 1:16 - “‘Therefore, this is what the LORD says: I have returned to show mercy to Jerusalem. My Temple will be rebuilt, says the LORD of Heaven's Armies, and measurements will be taken for the reconstruction of Jerusalem.[fn]'

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Zec 1:18 - [fn]Then I looked up and saw four animal horns.

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Zec 2:1 - [fn]When I looked again, I saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

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Zec 2:9 - I will raise my fist to crush them, and their own slaves will plunder them.” Then you will know that the LORD of Heaven's Armies has sent me.

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Zec 3:7 - “This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies says: If you follow my ways and carefully serve me, then you will be given authority over my Temple and its courtyards. I will let you walk among these others standing here.

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Zec 3:8 - “Listen to me, O Jeshua the high priest, and all you other priests. You are symbols of things to come. Soon I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.

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Zec 4:6 - Then he said to me, “This is what the LORD says to Zerubbabel: It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of Heaven's Armies.

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Zec 5:1 - I looked up again and saw a scroll flying through the air.

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Zec 5:4 - And this is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies says: I am sending this curse into the house of every thief and into the house of everyone who swears falsely using my name. And my curse will remain in that house and completely destroy it—even its timbers and stones.”

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Zec 5:9 - Then I looked up and saw two women flying toward us, gliding on the wind. They had wings like a stork, and they picked up the basket and flew into the sky.

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Zec 6:1 - Then I looked up again and saw four chariots coming from between two bronze mountains.

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Zec 6:8 - Then the LORD summoned me and said, “Look, those who went north have vented the anger of my Spirit[fn] there in the land of the north.”

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Zec 7:12 - They made their hearts as hard as stone, so they could not hear the instructions or the messages that the LORD of Heaven's Armies had sent them by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. That is why the LORD of Heaven's Armies was so angry with them.

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Zec 8:7 - “This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies says: You can be sure that I will rescue my people from the east and from the west.

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Zec 8:12 - For I am planting seeds of peace and prosperity among you. The grapevines will be heavy with fruit. The earth will produce its crops, and the heavens will release the dew. Once more I will cause the remnant in Judah and Israel to inherit these blessings.

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Zec 9:8 - I will guard my Temple
and protect it from invading armies.
I am watching closely to ensure
that no more foreign oppressors overrun my people's land.

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Zec 10:3 - “My anger burns against your shepherds,
and I will punish these leaders.[fn]
For the LORD of Heaven's Armies has arrived
to look after Judah, his flock.
He will make them strong and glorious,
like a proud warhorse in battle.

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Zec 10:9 - Though I have scattered them like seeds among the nations,
they will still remember me in distant lands.
They and their children will survive
and return again to Israel.

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Zec 11:8 - I got rid of their three evil shepherds in a single month.
But I became impatient with these sheep, and they hated me, too.

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Zec 11:10 - Then I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, showing that I had revoked the covenant I had made with all the nations.

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Zec 11:12 - And I said to them, “If you like, give me my wages, whatever I am worth; but only if you want to.” So they counted out for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

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Zec 12:4 - “On that day,” says the LORD, “I will cause every horse to panic and every rider to lose his nerve. I will watch over the people of Judah, but I will blind all the horses of their enemies.

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Zec 13:5 - He will say, ‘I'm no prophet; I'm a farmer. I began working for a farmer as a boy.'

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Zec 13:6 - And if someone asks, ‘Then what about those wounds on your chest?[fn]' he will say, ‘I was wounded at my friends' house!'

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Zec 13:7 - “Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,
the man who is my partner,”
says the LORD of Heaven's Armies.
“Strike down the shepherd,
and the sheep will be scattered,
and I will turn against the lambs.

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Zec 13:9 - I will bring that group through the fire
and make them pure.
I will refine them like silver
and purify them like gold.
They will call on my name,
and I will answer them.
I will say, ‘These are my people,'
and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.'”

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Zec 14:2 - I will gather all the nations to fight against Jerusalem. The city will be taken, the houses looted, and the women raped. Half the population will be taken into captivity, and the rest will be left among the ruins of the city.

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Zec 14:5 - You will flee through this valley, for it will reach across to Azal.[fn] Yes, you will flee as you did from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all his holy ones with him.[fn]

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Mal 1:6 - The LORD of Heaven's Armies says to the priests: “A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. If I am your father and master, where are the honor and respect I deserve? You have shown contempt for my name!
“But you ask, ‘How have we ever shown contempt for your name?'

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Mal 1:7 - “You have shown contempt by offering defiled sacrifices on my altar.
“Then you ask, ‘How have we defiled the sacrifices?[fn]'
“You defile them by saying the altar of the LORD deserves no respect.

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Mal 1:10 - “How I wish one of you would shut the Temple doors so that these worthless sacrifices could not be offered! I am not pleased with you,” says the LORD of Heaven's Armies, “and I will not accept your offerings.

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Mal 1:11 - But my name is honored[fn] by people of other nations from morning till night. All around the world they offer[fn] sweet incense and pure offerings in honor of my name. For my name is great among the nations,” says the LORD of Heaven's Armies.

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Mal 1:14 - “Cursed is the cheat who promises to give a fine ram from his flock but then sacrifices a defective one to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the LORD of Heaven's Armies, “and my name is feared among the nations!

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Mal 2:2 - Listen to me and make up your minds to honor my name,” says the LORD of Heaven's Armies, “or I will bring a terrible curse against you. I will curse even the blessings you receive. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you have not taken my warning to heart.

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Mal 2:4 - Then at last you will know it was I who sent you this warning so that my covenant with the Levites can continue,” says the LORD of Heaven's Armies.

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Mal 2:5 - “The purpose of my covenant with the Levites was to bring life and peace, and that is what I gave them. This required reverence from them, and they greatly revered me and stood in awe of my name.

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Mal 2:9 - “So I have made you despised and humiliated in the eyes of all the people. For you have not obeyed me but have shown favoritism in the way you carry out my instructions.”

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Mal 3:1 - “Look! I am sending my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. Then the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his Temple. The messenger of the covenant, whom you look for so eagerly, is surely coming,” says the LORD of Heaven's Armies.

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Mal 3:5 - “At that time I will put you on trial. I am eager to witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me,” says the LORD of Heaven's Armies.

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Mal 3:7 - Ever since the days of your ancestors, you have scorned my decrees and failed to obey them. Now return to me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Heaven's Armies.
“But you ask, ‘How can we return when we have never gone away?'

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Mal 3:10 - Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the LORD of Heaven's Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won't have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test!

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Mal 4:2 - “But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings.[fn] And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture.

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Mal 4:4 - “Remember to obey the Law of Moses, my servant—all the decrees and regulations that I gave him on Mount Sinai[fn] for all Israel.

P-GSF

Occurrences: 7 times in 5 verses

Speech: Personal / Possessive Pronoun

Parsing: Genitive Singular Feminine

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Rth 1:11 - But Naomi replied, “Why should you go on with me? Can I still give birth to other sons who could grow up to be your husbands?

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Rth 1:12 - No, my daughters, return to your parents' homes, for I am too old to marry again. And even if it were possible, and I were to get married tonight and bear sons, then what?

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Rth 1:13 - Would you wait for them to grow up and refuse to marry someone else? No, of course not, my daughters! Things are far more bitter for me than for you, because the LORD himself has raised his fist against me.”

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Rth 1:16 - But Ruth replied, “Don't ask me to leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

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Rth 2:21 - Then Ruth[fn] said, “What's more, Boaz even told me to come back and stay with his harvesters until the entire harvest is completed.”

P-GSM

Occurrences: 6 times in 5 verses

Speech: Personal / Possessive Pronoun

Parsing: Genitive Singular Masculine

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Rth 2:8 - Boaz went over and said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Stay right here with us when you gather grain; don't go to any other fields. Stay right behind the young women working in my field.

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Rth 3:11 - Now don't worry about a thing, my daughter. I will do what is necessary, for everyone in town knows you are a virtuous woman.

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Rth 4:4 - I thought I should speak to you about it so that you can redeem it if you wish. If you want the land, then buy it here in the presence of these witnesses. But if you don't want it, let me know right away, because I am next in line to redeem it after you.”
The man replied, “All right, I'll redeem it.”

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Rth 4:6 - “Then I can't redeem it,” the family redeemer replied, “because this might endanger my own estate. You redeem the land; I cannot do it.”

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Rth 4:8 - So the other family redeemer drew off his sandal as he said to Boaz, “You buy the land.”

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