Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring.”
but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods and metal images, provoking me to anger, and have cast me behind your back,
In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.
They have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction.
A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons because they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the Lord their God.
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,
but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.
For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds.
Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
But the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols when Israel went astray, shall bear their punishment.
But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.” For thus says the Lord God: “Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder. And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses. Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done. And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord God.”
And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
who think to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell one another, even as their fathers forgot my name for Baal?
This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you, declares the Lord, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.
“Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.
so that the people of Israel do not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.
And speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
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