CONDESCENSION OF GOD

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• Genesis 6:11

  The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

• Genesis 6:12

  God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

• Genesis 6:13

  God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.

• Genesis 15:1

  After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

• Genesis 15:2

  Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”

• Genesis 15:3

  Abram said, “Behold, to me you have given no children: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”

• Genesis 15:4

  Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.”

• Genesis 15:5

  Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So will your offspring be.”

• Genesis 15:6

  He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.

• Genesis 15:7

  He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”

• Genesis 15:8

  He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?”

• Genesis 15:9

  He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

• Genesis 15:10

  He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.

• Genesis 15:11

  The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

• Genesis 15:12

  When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

• Genesis 15:13

  He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

• Genesis 15:14

  I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,

• Genesis 15:15

  but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

• Genesis 15:16

  In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”

• Genesis 15:17

  It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

• Genesis 15:18

  In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

• Genesis 15:19

  the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

• Genesis 15:20

  the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

• Genesis 15:21

  the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

• Genesis 18:1

  Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

• Genesis 18:2

  He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

• Genesis 18:3

  and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.

• Genesis 18:4

  Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

• Genesis 18:5

  I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.” They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”

• Genesis 18:6

  Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”

• Genesis 18:7

  Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

• Genesis 18:8

  He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

• Genesis 18:9

  They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “See, in the tent.”

• Genesis 18:10

  He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

• Genesis 18:11

  Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

• Genesis 18:12

  Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

• Genesis 18:13

  Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?’

• Genesis 18:14

  Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

• Genesis 18:15

  Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

• Genesis 18:16

  The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

• Genesis 18:17

  Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

• Genesis 18:18

  since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

• Genesis 18:19

  For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

• Genesis 18:20

  Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

• Genesis 18:21

  I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”

• Genesis 18:22

  The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

• Genesis 18:23

  Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

• Genesis 18:24

  What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

• Genesis 18:25

  Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

• Genesis 18:26

  Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

• Genesis 18:27

  Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

• Genesis 18:28

  What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

• Genesis 18:29

  He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?” He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.”

• Genesis 18:30

  He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?” He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

• Genesis 18:31

  He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”

• Genesis 18:32

  He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”

• Genesis 18:33

  Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

• Genesis 20:3

  But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man’s wife.”

• Genesis 20:4

  Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

• Genesis 20:5

  Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister?’ She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.”

• Genesis 20:6

  God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

• Genesis 20:7

  Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”

• Exodus 4:2

  Yahweh said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A rod.”

• Exodus 4:3

  He said, “Throw it on the ground.” He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.

• Exodus 4:4

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand, and take it by the tail.” He stretched out his hand, and took hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand.

• Exodus 4:5

  “That they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

• Exodus 4:6

  Yahweh said furthermore to him, “Now put your hand inside your cloak.” He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.

• Exodus 4:7

  He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak again.” He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.

• Exodus 4:8

  “It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

• Exodus 4:9

  It will happen, if they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.”

• Exodus 4:10

  Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”

• Exodus 4:11

  Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?

• Exodus 4:12

  Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

• Exodus 4:13

  He said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”

• Exodus 4:14

  Yahweh’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

• Exodus 4:15

  You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.

• Exodus 4:16

  He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.

• Exodus 4:17

  You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”

• Exodus 16:12

  “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.’”

• Exodus 33:18

  He said, “Please show me your glory.”

• Exodus 33:19

  He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

• Exodus 33:20

  He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”

• Exodus 33:21

  Yahweh also said, “Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.

• Exodus 33:22

  It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;

• Exodus 33:23

  then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen.”

• Judges 6:36

  Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,

• Judges 6:37

  behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”

• Judges 6:38

  It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.

• Judges 6:39

  Gideon said to God, “Don’t let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.”

• Judges 6:40

  God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

• Psalms 8:4

  what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

• Psalms 8:5

  For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.

• Psalms 8:6

  You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

• Psalms 113:5

  Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,

• Psalms 113:6

  Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

• Psalms 144:3

  Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

• Isaiah 1:18

  “Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

• Isaiah 1:19

  If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

• Isaiah 1:20

  but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

• Isaiah 41:21

  Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob.

• Isaiah 41:22

  “Let them announce, and declare to us what shall happen. Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.

• Isaiah 41:23

  Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.

• Isaiah 41:24

  Behold, you are of nothing, and your work is of nothing. He who chooses you is an abomination.

• Isaiah 43:1

  But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

• Isaiah 43:2

  When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

• Isaiah 43:3

  For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

• Isaiah 43:4

  Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.

• Isaiah 43:5

  Don’t be afraid; for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west.

• Isaiah 43:6

  I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth —

• Isaiah 43:7

  everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’”

• Isaiah 43:8

  Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

• Isaiah 43:9

  Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”

• Isaiah 43:10

  “You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

• Isaiah 43:11

  I myself am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior.

• Isaiah 43:12

  I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown; and there was no strange god among you. Therefore you are my witnesses”, says Yahweh, “and I am God.

• Isaiah 43:13

  Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

• Isaiah 43:14

  Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

• Isaiah 43:15

  I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”

• Isaiah 43:16

  Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters says:

• Isaiah 43:17

  who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick):

• Isaiah 43:18

  “Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old.

• Isaiah 43:19

  Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

• Isaiah 45:11

  Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

• Isaiah 65:1

  “I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.

• Isaiah 65:2

  I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

• Isaiah 65:3

  a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;

• Isaiah 65:4

  who sit among the graves, and spend nights in secret places; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

• Isaiah 65:5

  who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

• Isaiah 65:6

  “Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,

• Isaiah 65:7

  your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says Yahweh, “who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills. Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.”

• Isaiah 65:8

  Yahweh says, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so will I do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.

• Isaiah 65:9

  I will bring offspring out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains. My chosen will inherit it, and my servants will dwell there.

• Isaiah 65:10

  Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.

• Isaiah 65:11

  “But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;

• Isaiah 65:12

  I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer. When I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

• Isaiah 65:13

  Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed;

• Isaiah 65:14

  Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.

• Isaiah 65:15

  You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you. He will call his servants by another name,

• Isaiah 65:16

  so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes.

• Jeremiah 3:1

  “They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 3:2

  “Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

• Jeremiah 3:3

  Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute’s forehead. You refused to be ashamed.

• Jeremiah 3:4

  Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

• Jeremiah 3:5

  “‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.”

• 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 3:7

  I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return; and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

• 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 bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.

• Jeremiah 3:9

  Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood.

• Jeremiah 3:10

  Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.

• 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.

• Jeremiah 3:15

  I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

• Jeremiah 4:1

  “If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you shall not be removed;

• Jeremiah 4:2

  and you shall swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.”

• Jeremiah 4:3

  For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

• Jeremiah 4:4

  Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

• Jeremiah 4:5

  Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let us go into the fortified cities!’

• Jeremiah 4:6

  Set up a standard toward Zion. Flee for safety! Don’t wait; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”

• Jeremiah 4:7

  A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

• Jeremiah 4:8

  For this clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn’t turned back from us.

• Jeremiah 4:9

  “It shall happen at that day,” says Yahweh, “that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.”

• Jeremiah 4:10

  Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall have peace;’ whereas the sword reaches to the heart.”

• Jeremiah 4:11

  At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;

• Jeremiah 4:12

  a full wind from these shall come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them.”

• Jeremiah 4:13

  Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.

• Jeremiah 4:14

  Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

• Jeremiah 4:15

  For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:

• Jeremiah 4:16

  “Tell the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, ‘Watchers come from a far country, and raise their voice against the cities of Judah.

• Jeremiah 4:17

  As keepers of a field, they are against her all around, because she has been rebellious against me,’” says Yahweh.

• 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.”

• Jeremiah 4:19

  My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can’t hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

• Jeremiah 4:20

  Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, and my curtains in a moment.

• Jeremiah 4:21

  How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

• Jeremiah 4:22

  “For my people are foolish, they don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

• Jeremiah 4:23

  I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

• Jeremiah 4:24

  I saw the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills moved back and forth.

• Jeremiah 4:25

  I saw, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the sky had fled.

• Jeremiah 4:26

  I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, before his fierce anger.

• Jeremiah 4:27

  For Yahweh says, “The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.

• Jeremiah 4:28

  For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”

• Jeremiah 4:29

  Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.

• Jeremiah 4:30

  You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.

• Jeremiah 4:31

  For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”

• Jeremiah 7:1

  The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

• Jeremiah 7:2

  “Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.’”

• Jeremiah 7:3

  Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

• Jeremiah 7:4

  Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’

• Jeremiah 7:5

  For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

• Jeremiah 7:6

  if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

• Jeremiah 7:7

  then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.

• Jeremiah 7:8

  Behold, you trust in lying words, that can’t profit.

• Jeremiah 7:9

  Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

• Jeremiah 7:10

  and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered;’ that you may do all these abominations?

• Jeremiah 7:11

  Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 7:12

  “But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

• Jeremiah 7:13

  Now, because you have done all these works,” says Yahweh, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer:

• Jeremiah 7:14

  therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

• Jeremiah 7:15

  I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole offspring of Ephraim.

• Jeremiah 7:16

  “Therefore don’t pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

• Jeremiah 7:17

  Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

• Jeremiah 7:18

  The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

• Jeremiah 7:19

  Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”

• Jeremiah 7:20

  Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.”

• Jeremiah 7:21

  Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.

• Jeremiah 7:22

  For I didn’t speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

• Jeremiah 7:23

  but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

• Jeremiah 7:24

  But they didn’t listen nor turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

• Jeremiah 7:25

  Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

• Jeremiah 7:26

  yet they didn’t listen to me, nor did they incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.

• Jeremiah 7:27

  “You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.

• Jeremiah 7:28

  You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to Yahweh their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’

• Jeremiah 7:29

  Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

• Jeremiah 7:30

  “For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight,” says Yahweh. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

• Jeremiah 7:31

  They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind.

• Jeremiah 7:32

  Therefore behold, the days come”, says Yahweh, “that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter; for they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

• Jeremiah 7:33

  The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and no one shall frighten them away.

• Jeremiah 7:34

  Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.”

• Ezekiel 18:25

  “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

• Ezekiel 18:26

  When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.

• Ezekiel 18:27

  Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

• Ezekiel 18:28

  Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

• Ezekiel 18:29

  Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair?

• Ezekiel 18:30

  “Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

• Ezekiel 18:31

  Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

• Ezekiel 18:32

  For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

• Ezekiel 33:10

  You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?

• Ezekiel 33:11

  Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?

• Ezekiel 33:12

  You, son of man, tell the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.

• Ezekiel 33:13

  When I tell the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.

• Ezekiel 33:14

  Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

• Ezekiel 33:15

  if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

• Ezekiel 33:16

  None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

• Ezekiel 33:17

  Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

• Ezekiel 33:18

  When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.

• Ezekiel 33:19

  When the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

• Ezekiel 33:20

  Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.

• Micah 6:1

  Listen now to what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.

• Micah 6:2

  Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

• Micah 6:3

  My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

• Micah 6:4

  For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

• Micah 6:5

  My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of Yahweh.”

• Micah 6:6

  How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

• Micah 6:7

  Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

• Micah 6:8

  He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

• Micah 6:9

  Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.

• Malachi 3:7

  From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

• Malachi 3:8

  Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.

• Malachi 3:9

  You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation.

• Malachi 3:10

  Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.

• Malachi 3:11

  I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field,” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Malachi 3:12

  “All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Malachi 3:13

  “Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’

• Malachi 3:14

  You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

• Malachi 3:15

  Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

• John 3:16

  For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

• Romans 5:8

  But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

• Hebrews 2:11

  For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

• Hebrews 6:17

  In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

• Hebrews 6:18

  that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

• 1 John 4:10

  In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

• 1 John 4:19

  We love him, because he first loved us.