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Judah have done only evil before Me from Psalm 119:49–56
their youth. For the children of Israel have ZAYIN
provoked Me only to anger with the work of H 49
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their hands,’ says the LORD. ‘For this city has Remember the word to Your servant,
been to Me a provocation of My anger and My Upon which You have caused me to
fury from the day that they built it, even to this 50 hope.
day; so I will remove it from before My face This is my comfort in my affliction,
32 because of all the evil of the children of Israel For Your word has given me life.
51 The proud have me in great derision,
and the children of Judah, which they have
done to provoke Me to anger—they, their Yet I do not turn aside from Your law.
52 I remembered Your judgments of old,
kings, their princes, their priests, their O LORD,
prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabi- And have comforted myself.
tants of Jerusalem. And they have turned to 53 Indignation has taken hold of me
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Me the back, and not the face; though I taught Because of the wicked, who forsake
them, rising up early and teaching them, yet Your law.
they have not listened to receive instruction. 54
34 But they set their abominations in the house Your statutes have been my songs
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which is called by My name, to defile it. And 55 In the house of my pilgrimage.
I remember Your name in the night,
they built the high places of Baal which are in O LORD,
the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to cause their And I keep Your law.
sons and their daughters to pass through the 56 This has become mine,
fire to Molech, which I did not command them, Because I kept Your precepts.
nor did it come into My mind that they should
do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.’ Proverbs 27:20
36 “Now therefore, thus says the LORD, the
20 Hell and Destruction are never full;
God of Israel, concerning this city of which
you say, ‘It shall be delivered into the hand of So the eyes of man are never satisfied.
the king of Babylon by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence: Behold, I will
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gather them out of all countries where I have
driven them in My anger, in My fury, and in 27:20 Hell and Destruction. Man’s desires are
great wrath; I will bring them back to this never filled up.They are as insatiable as the place
place, and I will cause them to dwell safely. of eternal punishment which never overfills.
38 They shall be My people, and I will be their
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God; then I will give them one heart and one
way, that they may fear Me forever, for the 1 Timothy 2:1–15
good of them and their children after them.
40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with Therefore I exhort first of all that supplica-
them, that I will not turn away from doing 2 tions, prayers, intercessions, and giving of
them good; but I will put My fear in their thanks be made for all men, for kings and all
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hearts so that they will not depart from Me. who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet
41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.
and I will assuredly plant them in this land, 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of
with all My heart and with all My soul.’ God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved
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42 “For thus says the LORD: ‘Just as I have and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For
brought all this great calamity on this people, there is one God and one Mediator between God
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so I will bring on them all the good that I have and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave
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promised them. And fields will be bought in Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due
this land of which you say, “It is desolate, time, for which I was appointed a preacher and
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without man or beast; it has been given into an apostle—I am speaking the truth in Christ
the hand of the Chaldeans.” Men will buy and not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith
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fields for money, sign deeds and seal them, and truth.
and take witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, in 8 I desire therefore that the men pray every-
the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and
Judah, in the cities of the mountains, in the doubting; in like manner also, that the women
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cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the adorn themselves in modest apparel, with pro-
South; for I will cause their captives to return,’ priety and moderation, not with braided hair or
says the LORD.” gold or pearls or costly clothing, but, which is
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