1Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly?

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Malachi 3:15, Malachi 3:15, Psalms 92:7, Psalms 37:1, Psalms 92:7

2Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root: they prosper and bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

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Isaiah 29:13, Isaiah 29:13, Titus 1:16, Titus 1:16, Matthew 15:8

3And thou, O Lord, hast known me, thou hast seen me, and proved my heart with thee: gather them together as for the day of slaughter.

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2 Kings 20:3, Jeremiah 17:18, 2 Kings 20:3, Jeremiah 17:18, Psalms 139:1

4How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of every field wither for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The beasts and the birds are consumed: because they have said: He shall not see our last end.

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Jeremiah 9:10, Jeremiah 9:10, Psalms 107:34, Jeremiah 4:25, Psalms 107:34

5If thou hast been wearied with running with footmen, how canst thou contend with horses? and if thou hast been secure in a land of peace, what wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?

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1 Peter 4:12, 1 Peter 4:12, Proverbs 24:10, Proverbs 24:10, Hebrews 12:3

6For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have fought against thee, and have cried after thee with full voice: believe them not when they speak good things to thee.

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Proverbs 26:25, Proverbs 26:25, Jeremiah 9:4, Jeremiah 9:4, Genesis 37:4

7I have forsaken my house, I have left my inheritance: I have given my dear soul into the hand of her enemies.

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Isaiah 2:6, Isaiah 2:6, Jeremiah 11:15, Psalms 78:59, Psalms 78:60

8My inheritance is become to me as a lion in the wood: it hath cried out against me, therefore have I hated it.

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Amos 6:8, Amos 6:8, Hosea 9:15, Hosea 9:15, Jeremiah 2:15

9Is my inheritance to me as a speckled bird? is it as a bird dyed throughout? come ye, assemble yourselves, all ye beasts of the earth, make haste to devour.

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Isaiah 56:9, Isaiah 56:9, Jeremiah 7:33, Jeremiah 7:33, Revelation 19:17

10Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot: they have changed my delightful portion into a desolate wilderness.

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Isaiah 5:1, Isaiah 5:7, Isaiah 63:18, Jeremiah 23:1, Isaiah 5:1

11They have laid it waste, and it hath mourned for me. With desolation is all the land made desolate; because there is none that considereth in the heart.

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Jeremiah 23:10, Isaiah 42:25, Jeremiah 23:10, Isaiah 42:25, Jeremiah 14:2

12The spoilers are come upon all the ways of the wilderness, for the sword of the Lord shall devour from one end of the land to the other end thereof: there is no peace for all flesh.

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Amos 9:4, Jeremiah 47:6, Amos 9:4, Jeremiah 47:6, Ezekiel 14:17

13They have sown wheat, and reaped thorns: they have received an inheritance, and it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce wrath of the Lord.

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Deuteronomy 28:38, Micah 6:15, Haggai 1:6, Deuteronomy 28:38, Micah 6:15

14Thus saith the Lord against all wicked neighbours, that touch the inheritance that I have shared out to my people Israel: Behold I will pluck them out of their land, and I will pluck the house of Juda out of the midst of them.

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Jeremiah 3:18, Zechariah 2:8, Jeremiah 3:18, Zechariah 2:8, Zechariah 10:6

15And when I shall have plucked them out, I will return, and have mercy on them: and will bring them back, every man to his inheritance, and every man into his land.

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Jeremiah 49:6, Jeremiah 49:6, Jeremiah 48:47, Jeremiah 48:47, Jeremiah 49:39

16And it shall come to pass, if they will be taught, and will learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name: The Lord liveth, as they have taught my people to swear by Baal: that they shall be built up in the midst of my people.

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Jeremiah 4:2, Jeremiah 4:2, Joshua 23:7, Zephaniah 1:5, Deuteronomy 10:20

17But if they will not hear, I will utterly pluck out and destroy that nation, saith the Lord.

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Isaiah 60:12, Isaiah 60:12, Psalms 2:8, Psalms 2:12, Psalms 2:8