Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
10 You wear yourselves out looking for other gods, but you never give up. You think your obscene idols give you strength, and so you never grow weak.
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You wearied yourself by such going about, but you would not say, ‘It is hopeless.’ You found renewal of your strength, and so you did not faint.
11 The Lord says, "Who are these gods that make you afraid, so that you tell me lies and forget me completely? Have you stopped honoring me because I have kept silent for so long?
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“Whom have you so dreaded and feared that you have not been true to me, and have neither remembered me nor taken this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear me?
12 You think that what you do is right, but I will expose your conduct, and your idols will not be able to help you.
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I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not benefit you.
13 When you cry for help, let those idols of yours save you! A puff of wind will carry them off! But those who trust in me will live in the land and will worship me in my Temple."
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When you cry out for help, let your collection of idols save you! The wind will carry all of them off, a mere breath will blow them away. But whoever takes refuge in me will inherit the land and possess my holy mountain.”
14 The Lord says, "Let my people return to me. Remove every obstacle from their path! Build the road and make it ready!
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And it will be said: “Build up, build up, prepare the road! Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.”
15 "I am the high and holy God, who lives forever. I live in a high and holy place, but I also live with people who are humble and repentant, so that I can restore their confidence and hope.
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For this is what the high and exalted One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.
16 I gave my people life, and I will not continue to accuse them or be angry with them forever.
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I will not accuse them forever, nor will I always be angry, for then they would faint away because of me— the very people I have created.
17 I was angry with them because of their sin and greed, and so I punished them and abandoned them. But they were stubborn and kept on going their own way.
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I was enraged by their sinful greed; I punished them, and hid my face in anger, yet they kept on in their willful ways.
18 "I have seen how they acted, but I will heal them. I will lead them and help them, and I will comfort those who mourn.
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I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will guide them and restore comfort to Israel’s mourners,
19 I offer peace to all, both near and far! I will heal my people.
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creating praise on their lips. Peace, peace, to those far and near,” says the LORD. “And I will heal them.”
20 But evil people are like the restless sea, whose waves never stop rolling in, bringing filth and muck.
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But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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