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7 If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed,
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7 If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed,
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8 and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.
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8 and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.
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9 And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted,
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9 And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted,
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10 and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.
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10 and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.
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11 "Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, 'This is what the LORD says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.'
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11 "Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, 'This is what the LORD says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.'
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12 But they will reply, 'It's no use. We will continue with our own plans; each of us will follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.' "
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12 But they will reply, 'It's no use. We will continue with our own plans; each of us will follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.' "
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13 Therefore this is what the LORD says: "Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard anything like this? A most horrible thing has been done by Virgin Israel.
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13 Therefore this is what the LORD says: "Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard anything like this? A most horrible thing has been done by Virgin Israel.
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14 Does the snow of Lebanon ever vanish from its rocky slopes? Do its cool waters from distant sources ever cease to flow?
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14 Does the snow of Lebanon ever vanish from its rocky slopes? Do its cool waters from distant sources ever cease to flow?
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15 Yet my people have forgotten me; they burn incense to worthless idols, which made them stumble in their ways and in the ancient paths. They made them walk in bypaths and on roads not built up.
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15 Yet my people have forgotten me; they burn incense to worthless idols, which made them stumble in their ways and in the ancient paths. They made them walk in bypaths and on roads not built up.
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16 Their land will be laid waste, an object of lasting scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads.
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16 Their land will be laid waste, an object of lasting scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads.
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17 Like a wind from the east, I will scatter them before their enemies; I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster."
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17 Like a wind from the east, I will scatter them before their enemies; I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster."
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Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
