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Hosea 4:9
The same judgment will happen to both people and priests. I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
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Ezekiel 7:12-13
The time has come; the day has arrived. Let the buyer not rejoice and the seller not mourn, for wrath is on all her masses.The seller will certainly not return to what was sold as long as he and the buyer remain alive. For the vision concerning all its people will not be revoked, and none of them will preserve his life because of his iniquity.
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Isaiah 5:15
Humanity is brought low, man is humbled, and haughty eyes are humbled.
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2 Chronicles 36 20
He deported those who escaped from the sword to Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the rise of the Persian kingdom.
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Daniel 9:5-8
we have sinned, done wrong, acted wickedly, rebelled, and turned away from Your commands and ordinances.We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, fathers, and all the people of the land.Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but this day public shame belongs to us: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel— those who are near and those who are far, in all the countries where You have dispersed them because of the disloyalty they have shown toward You.Lord, public shame belongs to us, our kings, our leaders, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
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Jeremiah 52:24-30
The commander of the guards also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of the second rank, and the three doorkeepers.From the city he took a court official who had been appointed over the warriors; seven trusted royal aides found in the city; the secretary of the commander of the army, who enlisted the people of the land for military duty; and 60 men from the common people who were found within the city.Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.These are the people Nebuchadnezzar deported: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;in his eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, deported 745 Jews. All together 4,600 people were deported.
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Lamentations 5:12-14
Princes are hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.Young men labor at millstones; boys stumble under loads of wood.The elders have left the city gate, the young men, their music.
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Lamentations 4:13
Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous within her.
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Jeremiah 44:11-13
“ Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am about to turn against you to bring disaster, to cut off all Judah.And I will take away the remnant of Judah, those who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to live there for a while; they will meet their end. All of them in the land of Egypt will fall by the sword; they will meet their end by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by the sword and by famine. Then they will become an object of cursing, scorn, execration, and disgrace.I will punish those living in the land of Egypt just as I punished Jerusalem by sword, famine, and plague.
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2 Chronicles 36 14-2 Chronicles 36 17
All the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, imitating all the detestable practices of the nations, and they defiled the Lord’s temple that He had consecrated in Jerusalem.But Yahweh, the God of their ancestors sent word against them by the hand of His messengers, sending them time and time again, for He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising His words, and scoffing at His prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against His people that there was no remedy.So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their choice young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He had no pity on young men or young women, elderly or aged; He handed them all over to him.
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Genesis 41:50
Two sons were born to Joseph before the years of famine arrived. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest at On, bore them to him.
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Jeremiah 23:11-13
because both prophet and priest are ungodly, even in My house I have found their evil. This is the Lord’s declaration.Therefore, their way will be to them like slippery paths in the gloom. They will be driven away and fall down there, for I will bring disaster on them, the year of their punishment. This is the Lord’s declaration.Among the prophets of Samaria I saw something disgusting: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.
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Jeremiah 5:3-6
Lord, don’t Your eyes look for faithfulness? You have struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They made their faces harder than rock, and they refused to return.Then I thought: They are just the poor; they have played the fool. For they don’t understand the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God. However, these also had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.Therefore, a lion from the forest will strike them down. A wolf from an arid plain will ravage them. A leopard keeps watch over their cities. Anyone who leaves them will be torn to pieces because their rebellious acts are many, their unfaithful deeds numerous.
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Isaiah 9:14-17
So the Lord cut off Israel’s head and tail, palm branch and reed in a single day.The head is the elder, the honored one; the tail is the prophet, the lying teacher.The leaders of the people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over Israel’s young men and has no compassion on its fatherless and widows, for everyone is a godless evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. In all this, His anger is not removed, and His hand is still raised to strike.
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Jeremiah 41:2
but then Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the 10 men who were with him got up and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, with the sword; he killed the one the king of Babylon had appointed in the land.
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Deuteronomy 23:19-20
“ Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or anything that can earn interest.You may charge a foreigner interest, but you must not charge your brother interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you do in the land you are entering to possess.
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Leviticus 25:36-37
Do not profit or take interest from him, but fear your God and let your brother live among you.You are not to lend him your silver with interest or sell him your food for profit.
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Ephesians 6:8-9
knowing that whatever good each one does, slave or free, he will receive this back from the Lord.And masters, treat your slaves the same way, without threatening them, because you know that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with Him.
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Jeremiah 42:18
“ For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says:‘ Just as My anger and fury were poured out on Jerusalem’s residents, so will My fury pour out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing, scorn, execration, and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’
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Ezekiel 14:8-10
I will turn against that one and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among My people. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.“ But if the prophet is deceived and speaks a message, it was I, Yahweh, who deceived that prophet. I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.They will bear their punishment— the punishment of the one who inquires will be the same as that of the prophet—
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Isaiah 3:2-8
the hero and warrior, the judge and prophet, the fortune-teller and elder,the commander of 50 and the dignitary, the counselor, cunning magician, and necromancer.“ I will make youths their leaders, and the unstable will govern them.”The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the youth will act arrogantly toward the elder, and the worthless toward the honorable.A man will even seize his brother in his father’s house, saying:“ You have a cloak— you be our leader! This heap of rubble will be under your control.”On that day he will cry out, saying:“ I’m not a healer. I don’t even have food or clothing in my house. Don’t make me the leader of the people!”For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they have spoken and acted against the Lord, defying His glorious presence.
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Isaiah 2:9
So humanity is brought low, and man is humbled. Do not forgive them!