16 And the Lord said to Moses: “You are going to rest with your ancestors,(A) and these people will soon prostitute(B) themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake(C) me and break the covenant I made with them.

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16 And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

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16 And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you will [a]rest with your fathers; and this people will (A)rise and (B)play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will (C)forsake Me and (D)break My covenant which I have made with them.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 31:16 Die and join your ancestors

Woe to the sinful nation,
    a people whose guilt is great,(A)
a brood of evildoers,(B)
    children given to corruption!(C)
They have forsaken(D) the Lord;
    they have spurned the Holy One(E) of Israel
    and turned their backs(F) on him.

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Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

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Alas, sinful nation,
A people [a]laden with iniquity,
(A)A [b]brood of evildoers,
Children who are corrupters!
They have forsaken the Lord,
They have provoked to anger
The Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away backward.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:4 Lit. heavy, weighed down
  2. Isaiah 1:4 offspring, seed

28 But rebels and sinners(A) will both be broken,
    and those who forsake(B) the Lord will perish.(C)

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28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

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28 The (A)destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together,
And those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

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For day after day they seek(A) me out;
    they seem eager to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that does what is right
    and has not forsaken(B) the commands of its God.
They ask me for just decisions
    and seem eager for God to come near(C) them.

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Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

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Yet they seek Me daily,
And delight to know My ways,
As a nation that did righteousness,
And did not forsake the ordinance of their God.
They ask of Me the ordinances of justice;
They take delight in approaching God.

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11 “But as for you who forsake(A) the Lord
    and forget my holy mountain,(B)
who spread a table for Fortune
    and fill bowls of mixed wine(C) for Destiny,

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11 But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.

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11 “But you are those who forsake the Lord,
Who forget (A)My holy mountain,
Who prepare (B)a table for [a]Gad,
And who furnish a drink offering for [b]Meni.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:11 Lit. Troop or Fortune; a pagan deity
  2. Isaiah 65:11 Lit. Number or Destiny; a pagan deity

You have rejected(A) me,” declares the Lord.
    “You keep on backsliding.
So I will reach out(B) and destroy you;
    I am tired of holding back.(C)

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Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

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(A)You have forsaken Me,” says the Lord,
“You have (B)gone backward.
Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you;
(C)I am [a]weary of relenting!

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  1. Jeremiah 15:6 tired

I will do this to recapture the hearts of the people of Israel, who have all deserted(A) me for their idols.’(B)

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That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

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that I may seize the house of Israel by their heart, because they are all estranged from Me by their idols.” ’

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