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Isaiah 9:19In the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts Hath the land been consumed, And the people is as fuel of fire; A man on his brother hath no pity,Isaiah 9:20And cutteth down on the right, and hath been hungry, And he devoureth on the left, And they have not been satisfied, Each the flesh of his own arm they devour.Isaiah 9:21Manasseh—Ephraim, and Ephraim—Manasseh, Together they are against Judah, With all this not turned back hath His anger. And still His hand is stretched out!Isaiah 17:7In that day doth man look to His Maker, Yea, his eyes to the Holy One of Israel look,Isaiah 17:10Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it,Isaiah 17:11In the day thy plant thou causest to become great, And in the morning thy seed makest to flourish, A heap is the harvest in a day of overflowing, And of mortal pain.Isaiah 24:5And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.Isaiah 24:6Therefore a curse hath consumed the land, And the inhabitants in it are become desolate, Therefore consumed have been inhabitants of the land, And few men have been left.Isaiah 29:24And the erring in spirit have known understanding, And murmurers learn doctrine!’Isaiah 30:9That a rebellious people is this, sons—liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah.Isaiah 30:15For thus said the Lord Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel: ‘In returning and rest ye are saved, In keeping quiet and in confidence is your might, And ye have not been willing.Isaiah 31:6Turn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened apostasy.Isaiah 31:7For in that day despise doth each His idols of silver, and his idols of gold, That your hands made to you—a sin.Isaiah 42:3A bruised reed he breaketh not, And dim flax he quencheth not, To truth he bringeth forth judgment.Isaiah 43:22And Me thou hast not called, O Jacob, For thou hast been wearied of me, O Israel,Isaiah 43:24Thou hast not bought for Me with money sweet cane, And with the fat of thy sacrifices hast not filled Me, Only—thou hast caused Me to serve with thy sins, Thou hast wearied Me with thine iniquities.Isaiah 50:1Thus said Jehovah: ‘Where is this—the bill of your mother’s divorce, Whom I sent away? Or to which of My creditors have I sold you? Lo, for your iniquities ye have been sold, And for your transgressions Hath your mother been sent away.Isaiah 51:17Stir thyself, stir thyself, rise, Jerusalem, Who hast drunk from the hand of Jehovah The cup of His fury, The goblet, the cup of trembling, thou hast drunk, Thou hast wrung out.Isaiah 51:18There is not a leader to her Out of all the sons she hath borne, And there is none laying hold on her hand Out of all the sons she hath nourished.Isaiah 51:19These two are meeting thee, who is moved for thee? Spoiling and destruction—Famine and sword, who—I comfort thee?Isaiah 51:20Thy sons have been wrapped up, they have lain down, At the head of all out places, as a wild ox in a net, They are full of the fury of Jehovah, The rebuke of Thy God.Isaiah 57:18His ways I have seen, and I heal him, yea, I lead him, And recompense comforts to him and to his mourning ones.Isaiah 57:19Producing the fruit of the lips, ‘Peace, peace,’ to the far off, and to the near, And I have healed him, said Jehovah.Isaiah 63:17Why causest Thou us to wander, O Jehovah, from Thy ways? Thou hardenest our heart from Thy fear, Turn back for Thy servants’ sake, The tribes of Thine inheritance.Isaiah 65:2I have spread out My hands all the day Unto an apostate people, Who are going in the way not good after their own thoughts.Isaiah 65:3The people who are provoking Me to anger, To My face continually, Sacrificing in gardens, and making perfume on the bricks:Jeremiah 2:5Thus said Jehovah: What—have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain,Jeremiah 2:11Hath a nation changed gods? (And they are no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit.Jeremiah 2:12Be astonished, ye heavens, at this, Yea, be frightened, be greatly wasted, An affirmation of Jehovah.Jeremiah 2:13For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells—broken wells, That contain not the waters.Jeremiah 2:17Dost thou not do this to thyself? By thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, At the time He is leading thee in the way?Jeremiah 2:19Instruct thee doth thy wickedness, And thy backslidings reprove thee, Know and see that an evil and a bitter thing Is thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, And My fear not being on thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.Jeremiah 2:21And I planted thee a choice vine, wholly a true seed, And how hast thou been turned to Me, To the degenerate shoots of a strange vine?Jeremiah 2:27Saying to wood, ‘My father art thou!’ And to a stone, ‘Thou hast brought me forth,’ For they turned unto me the back and not the face, And in the time of their vexation, They say, ‘Arise Thou, and save us.’Jeremiah 2:31O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah: A wilderness have I been to Israel? A land of thick darkness? Wherefore have My people said, ‘We mourned, We come not in again unto Thee.’Jeremiah 2:32Doth a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me days without number.Jeremiah 3:1Saying, ‘Lo, one sendeth away his wife, And she hath gone from him, And she hath been to another man, Doth he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And thou hast committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of Jehovah.Jeremiah 3:2Lift thine eyes to the high places, and see, Where hast thou not been lain with? On the ways thou hast sat for them, As an Arab in a wilderness, And thou defilest the land, By thy fornications, and by thy wickedness.Jeremiah 3:3And withheld are showers, and gathered rain hath not been. The forehead of a whorish woman thou hast, Thou hast refused to be ashamed.Jeremiah 3:4Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, ‘My father, Thou art the leader of my youth?Jeremiah 3:5Doth He keep to the age? watch for ever?’ Lo, these things thou hast spoken, And thou dost the evil things, and prevailest.Jeremiah 3:6And Jehovah saith unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, ‘Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? She is going on every high mountain, and unto the place of every green tree, and committeth fornication there.Jeremiah 3:7And I say, after her doing all these, Unto Me thou dost turn back, and she hath not turned back, and see it doth her treacherous sister Judah.Jeremiah 3:8And I see when (for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery) I have sent her away, and I give the bill of her divorce unto her, that treacherous Judah her sister hath not feared, and goeth and committeth fornication—she also.Jeremiah 3:9And it hath come to pass, from the vileness of her fornication, that the land is defiled, and she committeth fornication with stone and with wood.Jeremiah 3:10And even in all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned back unto Me with all her heart, but with falsehood, an affirmation of Jehovah.’Jeremiah 3:11And Jehovah saith unto me: ‘Justified herself hath backsliding Israel, More than treacherous Judah.Jeremiah 3:12Go, and thou hast proclaimed these words toward the north, and hast said, Turn back, O backsliding Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah! I cause not Mine anger to fall upon you, For I am kind, an affirmation of Jehovah, I watch not to the age.Jeremiah 3:13Only, know thine iniquity, For against Jehovah thy God thou hast transgressed, And thou dost scatter thy ways to strangers, Under every green tree, And to My voice thou hast not hearkened, An affirmation of Jehovah.Jeremiah 3:14Turn back, O backsliding sons, An affirmation of Jehovah. For I have ruled over you, And taken you one of a city, and two of a family, And have brought you to Zion,Jeremiah 3:15And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart, And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding.Jeremiah 3:16And it hath come to pass, when ye are multiplied, And have been fruitful in the land, In those days—an affirmation of Jehovah, They say not any more, ‘The ark of the covenant of Jehovah,’ Nor doth it go up on the heart, Nor do they remember concerning it, Nor do they inspect, nor is it made again.Jeremiah 3:17At that time they cry to Jerusalem, ‘O throne of Jehovah,’ And gathered unto her hath been all the nations, For the name of Jehovah, to Jerusalem, Nor do they go any more after the stubbornness of their evil heart.Jeremiah 3:18In those days do the house of Judah Go unto the house of Israel, And they come together from the land of the south, unto the land That I caused your fathers to inherit.Jeremiah 3:19And I have said, How do I put thee among the sons, And give to thee a desirable land, A beauteous inheritance of the hosts of nations, And I say, My father—ye do call to Me, And from after Me ye do not turn back.Jeremiah 3:20But—a woman hath deceived her friend, So ye have dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah.Jeremiah 3:21A voice on high places is heard—weeping, Supplications of the sons of Israel, For they have made perverse their way, They have forgotten Jehovah their God.Jeremiah 3:22Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease.—Behold us, we have come to Thee, For Thou art Jehovah our God.Jeremiah 3:23Surely in vain from the heights, The multitude of mountains—Surely in Jehovah our God is the salvation of Israel.Jeremiah 3:24And the shameful thing hath devoured The labour of our fathers from our youth, Their flock and their herd, Their sons and their daughters.