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Psalm 78:58They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.Psalm 78:59On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.Psalm 78:60He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.Psalm 78:61He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.Psalm 78:62He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.Psalm 78:63Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.Psalm 78:64His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.Psalm 80:3Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.Psalm 80:4O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?Psalm 80:5You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.Psalm 80:6You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.Psalm 80:7Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.Psalm 80:14Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—Psalm 80:15the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.Psalm 80:16Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.Psalm 80:17Let Your hand be upon the man at Your right hand, on the son of man You have raised up for Yourself.Psalm 80:18Then we will not turn away from You; revive us, and we will call on Your name.Psalm 80:19Restore us, O LORD God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.Psalm 81:13If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,Psalm 81:14how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!Psalm 85:8I will listen to what God the LORD will say; for He will surely speak peace to His people and His saints; He will not let them return to folly.Psalm 106:13Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.Psalm 106:14They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.Psalm 125:5But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.Proverbs 2:17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.Proverbs 14:14The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.Proverbs 24:16For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.Proverbs 26:11As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.Isaiah 1:4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.Isaiah 1:5Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.Isaiah 1:6From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.Isaiah 1:21See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!Isaiah 1:22Your silver has become dross; your fine wine is diluted with water.Isaiah 2:6For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.Isaiah 5:12At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.Isaiah 5:13Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.Isaiah 5:14Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!Isaiah 5:15So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.Isaiah 5:16But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.Isaiah 5:17Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.Isaiah 5:18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,Isaiah 5:19to those who say, “Let Him hurry and hasten His work so that we may see it! Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come so that we may know it!”Isaiah 5:20Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.Isaiah 5:21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.Isaiah 5:22Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,Isaiah 5:23who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.Isaiah 5:24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.Isaiah 5:25Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.Isaiah 5:26He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!Isaiah 5:27None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.Isaiah 5:28Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.Isaiah 5:29Their roaring is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they carry it away, and no one can rescue it.Isaiah 5:30In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.Isaiah 9:13But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.Isaiah 9:14So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.Isaiah 9:15The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.Isaiah 9:16For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.Isaiah 9:17Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke.