Jeremiah 2:19
“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
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Jeremiah 2:19
“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
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Jeremiah 2:17
“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?
Jeremiah 2:13
“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.
Deuteronomy 29:25
Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,
Deuteronomy 29:26
and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them.
2 Chronicles 15:2
He went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
Deuteronomy 28:15
But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you and overtake you.
Deuteronomy 31:16
Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Deuteronomy 31:17
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
1 Chronicles 28:9
You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
2 Chronicles 24:20
The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’ ”
Jeremiah 4:10
Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart.”
Jeremiah 15:6
You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.
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Jeremiah 2:18
Now what do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or why do you to go on the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
Jeremiah 2:21
Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
Jeremiah 2:22
For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Jeremiah 2:23
“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,
Psalms 50:21
You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
Jeremiah 2:29
“Why will you contend with me? You all have transgressed against me,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 2:34
Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in, but it is because of all these things.
Jeremiah 2:35
“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
Jeremiah 2:36
Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
Jeremiah 2:37
You will also leave that place with your hands on your head; for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you won’t prosper with them.
Jeremiah 2:16
The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
Jeremiah 2:31
Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more’?
Jeremiah 2:32
“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
Jeremiah 13:25
This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”
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Jeremiah 4:18
“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness, for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”
Isaiah 3:9
The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
Isaiah 3:10
Tell the righteous that it will be well with them, for they will eat the fruit of their deeds.
Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them, for the deeds of their hands will be paid back to them.
Hosea 5:5
The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.
Psalms 107:17
Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.
Proverbs 8:36
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”
Isaiah 50:1
Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.
Jeremiah 6:19
Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
Lamentations 3:39
Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
Hosea 13:9
You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your helper.
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Proverbs 1:31
Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.
Proverbs 1:32
For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
Proverbs 5:22
The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
Proverbs 14:14
The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
Isaiah 66:4
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them, because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn’t listen, but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
Matthew 7:2
For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
Galatians 6:7
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Galatians 6:8
For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
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Job 20:11
His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.
Job 20:12
“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
Job 20:13
though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth,
Job 20:14
yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
Job 20:15
He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
Job 20:16
He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.
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Jeremiah 2:20
“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.
Jeremiah 5:6
Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.
Ezra 9:6
and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
Jeremiah 3:6
Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has played the prostitute there.
Jeremiah 3:11
Yahweh said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
Jeremiah 3:12
Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you, for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.
Jeremiah 3:13
Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’ ” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 3:14
“Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh, “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
Hosea 4:16
For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow?
Hosea 14:1
Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
Jeremiah 3:8
I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear, but she also went and played the prostitute.
Jeremiah 8:5
Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.
Jeremiah 14:7
Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you.
Ezekiel 23:19
Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.
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Jeremiah 5:19
It will happen when you say, ‘Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’
Jeremiah 5:25
“Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.
Jeremiah 16:10
It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity?’ or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’
Jeremiah 16:11
then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says Yahweh, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshiped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.
Jeremiah 16:12
You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.
Jeremiah 22:9
Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, worshiped other gods, and served them.’ ”
Isaiah 59:2
But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Isaiah 59:12
For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:
Isaiah 59:13
transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Jeremiah 13:22
If you say in your heart, “Why have these things come on me?” Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity, and your heels suffer violence.
Jeremiah 17:13
Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.
Hebrews 3:12
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
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Acts 8:23
For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”
Romans 3:14
“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,
Isaiah 5:20
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
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Genesis 13:12
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
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Genesis 14:12
They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
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Judges 18:27
They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword; then they burned the city with fire.
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2 Samuel 2:26
Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”
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2 Kings 17:7
It was so because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
2 Kings 17:8
and walked in the statutes of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.
2 Kings 17:9
The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against Yahweh their God; and they built high places for themselves in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
2 Kings 17:10
and they set up for themselves pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
2 Kings 17:11
and there they burned incense in all the high places, as the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them did; and they did wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;
2 Kings 17:12
and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”
2 Kings 17:13
Yet Yahweh testified to Israel and to Judah, by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
2 Kings 17:14
Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck like the neck of their fathers who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.
2 Kings 17:15
They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.
2 Kings 17:16
They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.
2 Kings 17:17
They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
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Jeremiah 46:10
For that day is of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself of his adversaries. The sword will devour and be satiated, and will drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
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Jeremiah 49:5
Behold, I will bring a terror on you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, “from all who are around you. All of you will be driven completely out, and there will be no one to gather together the fugitives.
Jeremiah 50:25
Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought out the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.
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Psalms 36:1
A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes.
Psalms 125:5
But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
Jeremiah 5:14
Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them.
Jeremiah 14:16
The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them.
Ezekiel 6:9
Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
Zephaniah 1:6
those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
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