Isaiah 59:13
13transgressing, and denying the Lord,and turning back from following our God,
aspeaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.
Jeremiah 18:11-12
11Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. bReturn, every one from his evil way, and camend your ways and your deeds.’12“But they say, d‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to ethe stubbornness of his evil heart.’
Jeremiah 42:20
20that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. fFor you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, g‘Pray for us to the Lord our God, and hwhatever the Lord our God says, declare to us and we will do it.’Jeremiah 44:17-18
17 iBut we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to jthe queen of heaven kand pour out drink offerings to her, las we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster. 18But since we left off making offerings to mthe queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything nand have been consumed by the sword and by famine.”Ezekiel 18:2
2“What do you ▼▼The Hebrew for you is plural
mean pby repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, q‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’? Ezekiel 18:25
25 r“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?Hosea 7:3
3By their evil sthey make tthe king glad,and the princes by their treachery.
Hosea 11:12
12 ▼▼Ch 12:1 in Hebrew
Ephraim vhas surrounded me with lies,and the house of Israel with deceit,
but Judah still walks with God
and is faithful to the Holy One.
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