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Jeremiah Chapter 23

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Jeremiah

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In this chapter Jeremiah describes the future restoration of Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the temple, emphasizing that the people will return and the king will lead them in worship. He also speaks of the day of the Lord and the need for repentance.

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(1) Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 2:8Jeremiah 2:26Ezekiel 13:3Ezekiel 34:2Zechariah 11:17Matthew 23:13Matthew 23:14Matthew 23:15Matthew 23:16Matthew 23:17Matthew 23:18Matthew 23:19

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Exodus 22:1John 10:12Revelation 8:13

(2) Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.
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Matthew 25:36Matthew 25:43James 1:27Jeremiah 23:34Jeremiah 5:9Jeremiah 5:29Jeremiah 8:12Jeremiah 11:22Jeremiah 13:21Exodus 32:34Hosea 2:13Micah 7:4

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Ezekiel 34:8Ezekiel 34:10Zechariah 11:7Ezekiel 34:12Micah 7:14

(3) And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
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Jeremiah 29:14Jeremiah 30:3Jeremiah 31:8Jeremiah 32:37Deuteronomy 30:3Deuteronomy 30:4Deuteronomy 30:5Psalms 106:47Isaiah 11:11Isaiah 11:12Isaiah 11:13Isaiah 11:14

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Ezekiel 34:8Jeremiah 32:37Ezekiel 34:10Micah 2:12Zechariah 11:7Jeremiah 23:8

(4) And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 3:14Jeremiah 3:15Jeremiah 33:26Psalms 78:70Psalms 78:71Psalms 78:72Isaiah 11:11Ezekiel 34:23Ezekiel 34:24Ezekiel 34:25Ezekiel 34:26Ezekiel 34:27

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Ezekiel 34:2Ezekiel 34:10

(5) Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
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Jeremiah 30:3Jeremiah 31:27Jeremiah 31:31Jeremiah 31:32Jeremiah 31:33Jeremiah 31:34Jeremiah 31:35Jeremiah 31:36Jeremiah 31:37Jeremiah 31:38Jeremiah 33:14Hebrews 8:8

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Habakkuk 1:4Matthew 10:41Job 36:17Jeremiah 22:15Ezekiel 45:9Jeremiah 33:15

(6) In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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Deuteronomy 33:28Deuteronomy 33:29Psalms 130:7Psalms 130:8Isaiah 12:1Isaiah 12:2Isaiah 33:22Isaiah 45:17Ezekiel 37:24Ezekiel 37:25Ezekiel 37:26Ezekiel 37:27

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Jeremiah 33:16Romans 9:30Romans 10:3Jeremiah 33:8

(7) Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
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Jeremiah 23:3Jeremiah 16:14Jeremiah 16:15Jeremiah 31:31Jeremiah 31:32Jeremiah 31:33Jeremiah 31:34Isaiah 43:18Isaiah 43:19

(8) But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
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Jeremiah 23:3Isaiah 14:1Isaiah 27:12Isaiah 27:13Isaiah 43:5Isaiah 43:6Isaiah 65:8Isaiah 65:9Isaiah 65:10Ezekiel 34:13Ezekiel 36:24Ezekiel 37:25

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Genesis 26:4Jeremiah 16:15Zechariah 6:8Genesis 28:14Jeremiah 33:26Jeremiah 23:3

(9) Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
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Jeremiah 9:1Jeremiah 14:17Jeremiah 14:18II Kings 22:19II Kings 22:20Ezekiel 9:4Ezekiel 9:6Daniel 8:27Habakkuk 3:16Jeremiah 5:31Jeremiah 25:15Jeremiah 25:16

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Jeremiah 8:1Mark 2:22II Samuel 21:13II Kings 23:18Genesis 9:21Ecclesiastes 12:6

(10) For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
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Jeremiah 5:7Jeremiah 5:8Jeremiah 7:9Jeremiah 9:2Ezekiel 22:9Ezekiel 22:10Ezekiel 22:11Hosea 4:2Hosea 4:3Malachi 3:5I Corinthians 6:9I Corinthians 6:10

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Hosea 13:15I Chronicles 27:4

(11) For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 23:15Jeremiah 5:31Jeremiah 6:13Jeremiah 8:10Ezekiel 22:25Ezekiel 22:26Zephaniah 3:4Jeremiah 7:10Jeremiah 7:11Jeremiah 7:30Jeremiah 11:15Jeremiah 32:34

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Jeremiah 44:9Jeremiah 28:9Jeremiah 28:12

(12) Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 13:16Psalms 35:6Psalms 73:18Proverbs 4:19Job 18:18Isaiah 8:22John 12:35I John 2:11Jude 1:13Jeremiah 11:23Jeremiah 48:44Jeremiah 50:27

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Job 10:22Isaiah 8:22Matthew 6:23I John 2:11Jeremiah 8:12Hosea 14:9

(13) And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
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Hosea 9:7Hosea 9:8Jeremiah 2:8I Kings 18:18I Kings 18:19I Kings 18:20I Kings 18:21I Kings 18:25I Kings 18:26I Kings 18:27I Kings 18:28I Kings 18:40

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II Kings 10:19I Samuel 10:11I Kings 22:10II Chronicles 18:9Jeremiah 2:8I Kings 18:19

(14) I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
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Jeremiah 5:30Jeremiah 5:31Jeremiah 14:14Jeremiah 23:32Ezekiel 13:2Ezekiel 13:3Ezekiel 13:4Ezekiel 13:16Ezekiel 22:25Isaiah 41:6Isaiah 41:7Micah 3:11

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Jeremiah 44:9Romans 2:22Hosea 4:14Matthew 19:9Song of Solomon 6:13Ezekiel 16:55

(15) Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
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Jeremiah 8:14Jeremiah 9:15Psalms 69:21Lamentations 3:5Lamentations 3:15Lamentations 3:19Matthew 27:34Revelation 8:11

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Jeremiah 14:15Jeremiah 27:19Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 9:15Zechariah 7:12Zechariah 8:9

(16) Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
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Jeremiah 27:9Jeremiah 27:10Jeremiah 27:14Jeremiah 27:15Jeremiah 27:16Jeremiah 27:17Jeremiah 29:8Proverbs 19:27Matthew 7:15II Corinthians 11:13II Corinthians 11:14II Corinthians 11:15

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Jeremiah 27:16Jeremiah 14:14Ezekiel 13:2Jeremiah 27:14Jeremiah 29:8Zechariah 1:4

(17) They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
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Numbers 11:20I Samuel 2:30II Samuel 12:10Malachi 1:6Luke 10:16I Thessalonians 4:8Jeremiah 4:10Jeremiah 6:14Jeremiah 8:11Jeremiah 14:13Jeremiah 14:14Jeremiah 28:3

(18) For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
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Jeremiah 23:22I Kings 22:24Job 15:8Job 15:9Job 15:10II Chronicles 18:23Isaiah 40:13Isaiah 40:14I Corinthians 2:16Psalms 25:14Amos 3:7John 15:15

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II Samuel 17:14

(19) Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
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Jeremiah 4:11Jeremiah 25:32Jeremiah 30:23Psalms 58:9Proverbs 1:27Proverbs 10:25Isaiah 5:25Isaiah 5:26Isaiah 5:27Isaiah 5:28Isaiah 21:1Isaiah 40:24

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Jeremiah 30:23Isaiah 66:15

(20) The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
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Jeremiah 30:24Isaiah 14:24Zechariah 1:6Zechariah 8:14Zechariah 8:15Genesis 49:1Deuteronomy 31:29Deuteronomy 31:30I Kings 8:47Proverbs 5:11Proverbs 5:12Proverbs 5:13

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Jeremiah 30:24Song of Solomon 6:13Genesis 3:19Jeremiah 3:12Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14

(21) I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
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Jeremiah 23:32Jeremiah 14:14Jeremiah 27:15Jeremiah 28:15Jeremiah 29:9Jeremiah 29:31Isaiah 6:8John 20:21Acts 13:4Romans 10:15

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I Samuel 10:11

(22) But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
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Jeremiah 23:18Ezekiel 2:7Ezekiel 3:17Acts 20:27Jeremiah 25:5Jeremiah 35:15Jeremiah 36:3Ezekiel 13:22Ezekiel 18:30Zechariah 1:4Acts 26:18Acts 26:19

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II Samuel 17:14

(23) Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
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I Kings 20:23I Kings 20:28Psalms 113:5Psalms 139:1Psalms 139:2Psalms 139:3Psalms 139:4Psalms 139:5Psalms 139:6Psalms 139:7Psalms 139:8Psalms 139:9

(24) Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 49:10Genesis 16:13Job 22:13Job 22:14Job 24:13Job 24:14Job 24:15Job 24:16Psalms 10:11Psalms 90:8Psalms 139:7Psalms 139:11

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Psalms 27:5Jeremiah 49:10Psalms 10:8

(25) I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
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Jeremiah 8:6Jeremiah 13:27Jeremiah 16:17Jeremiah 29:23Psalms 139:2Psalms 139:4Luke 12:3I Corinthians 4:5Hebrews 4:13Revelation 2:23Jeremiah 23:28Jeremiah 23:32

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Genesis 37:9Genesis 41:11Jeremiah 14:14Jeremiah 23:26Ezekiel 13:2Jeremiah 29:8

(26) How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
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Jeremiah 4:14Jeremiah 13:27Psalms 4:2Hosea 8:5Acts 13:10Jeremiah 14:14Jeremiah 17:9Isaiah 30:10II Thessalonians 2:9II Thessalonians 2:10II Thessalonians 2:11I Timothy 4:1

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Jeremiah 14:14Jeremiah 14:15Ezekiel 13:2Isaiah 30:10Jeremiah 23:25Jeremiah 27:15

(27) Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
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Deuteronomy 13:1Deuteronomy 13:2Deuteronomy 13:3Deuteronomy 13:4Deuteronomy 13:5Acts 13:8II Timothy 2:17II Timothy 2:18II Timothy 3:6II Timothy 3:7II Timothy 3:8Judges 3:7

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Isaiah 49:15Romans 12:3II Kings 10:19II Kings 10:21II Kings 10:23

(28) The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
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Proverbs 14:5Matthew 24:45Luke 12:42I Corinthians 4:2II Corinthians 2:17I Timothy 1:12I Corinthians 3:12I Corinthians 3:13

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Genesis 40:5Genesis 37:9Genesis 40:9Genesis 41:11Genesis 41:15Judges 7:13

(29) Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
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Jeremiah 5:14Jeremiah 20:9Luke 24:32John 6:63Acts 2:3Acts 2:37II Corinthians 2:16II Corinthians 10:4II Corinthians 10:5Hebrews 4:12Revelation 11:5

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Daniel 2:40II Chronicles 25:12Isaiah 8:9Jeremiah 51:22Jeremiah 51:23

(30) Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
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Jeremiah 14:14Jeremiah 14:15Jeremiah 44:11Jeremiah 44:29Leviticus 20:3Leviticus 26:17Deuteronomy 18:20Deuteronomy 29:20Psalms 34:16Ezekiel 13:8Ezekiel 13:20Ezekiel 15:7

(31) Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
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Isaiah 30:10Micah 2:11Jeremiah 23:17II Chronicles 18:5II Chronicles 18:10II Chronicles 18:11II Chronicles 18:12II Chronicles 18:19II Chronicles 18:20II Chronicles 18:21

(32) Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 23:16Jeremiah 27:14Jeremiah 27:15Jeremiah 27:16Jeremiah 27:17Jeremiah 27:18Jeremiah 27:19Jeremiah 27:20Jeremiah 27:21Jeremiah 27:22Jeremiah 28:15Jeremiah 28:16

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Jeremiah 14:14Ezekiel 13:2Micah 2:6

(33) And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 17:15Jeremiah 20:7Jeremiah 20:8Isaiah 13:1Isaiah 14:28Nahum 1:1Habakkuk 1:1Malachi 1:1Jeremiah 23:39Jeremiah 23:40Jeremiah 12:7Deuteronomy 31:17

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Jeremiah 23:38Jeremiah 23:36Jeremiah 23:34Jeremiah 28:9Jeremiah 28:12Habakkuk 1:1

(34) And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.
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Jeremiah 23:33Jeremiah 28:9Jeremiah 28:12Jeremiah 23:38

(35) Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
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Jeremiah 31:34Hebrews 8:11

(36) And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
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Psalms 12:3Psalms 64:8Psalms 120:3Psalms 149:9Proverbs 17:20Isaiah 3:8Matthew 12:36Luke 19:22II Peter 2:17II Peter 2:18Jude 1:15Jude 1:16

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Jeremiah 23:38Jeremiah 23:33Genesis 8:21Isaiah 22:25Zechariah 1:3

(37) Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
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Jeremiah 28:9Jeremiah 28:12

(38) But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
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II Chronicles 11:13II Chronicles 11:14

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Jeremiah 23:33Jeremiah 23:36Exodus 18:22Exodus 23:5Numbers 4:15Numbers 4:19

(39) Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
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Genesis 6:17Leviticus 26:28Deuteronomy 32:39Isaiah 48:15Isaiah 51:12Ezekiel 5:8Ezekiel 6:3Ezekiel 34:11Ezekiel 34:20Proverbs 13:13Hosea 4:6Hosea 5:14

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II Samuel 16:19Isaiah 49:15

(40) And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
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Jeremiah 20:11Jeremiah 24:9Jeremiah 42:18Jeremiah 44:8Jeremiah 44:9Jeremiah 44:10Jeremiah 44:11Jeremiah 44:12Deuteronomy 28:37Ezekiel 5:14Ezekiel 5:15Daniel 9:16

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Habakkuk 3:6Daniel 12:2Isaiah 54:4

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