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Job 35:9-10
People cry out because of severe oppression; they shout for help because of the power of the mighty.But no one asks,“ Where is God my Maker, who provides us with songs in the night,
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James 4:3
You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
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Jeremiah 3:10
Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah didn’t return to me with all her heart— only in pretense.” This is the LORD’s declaration.
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Zechariah 7:5
“ Ask all the people of the land and the priests: When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?
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Amos 2:8
They stretch out beside every altar on garments taken as collateral, and in the house of their God they drink wine obtained through fines.
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Psalms 78:34-37
When he killed some of them, the rest began to seek him; they repented and searched for God.They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their Redeemer.But they deceived him with their mouths, they lied to him with their tongues,their hearts were insincere toward him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.
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Isaiah 65:14
Look! My servants will shout for joy from a glad heart, but you will cry out from an anguished heart, and you will lament out of a broken spirit.
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Isaiah 29:13
The Lord said: These people approach me with their speeches to honor me with lip-service, yet their hearts are far from me, and human rules direct their worship of me.
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Micah 2:11
If a man comes and utters empty lies—“ I will preach to you about wine and beer”— he would be just the preacher for this people!
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Judges 9:27
So they went out to the countryside and harvested grapes from their vineyards. They trampled the grapes and held a celebration. Then they went to the house of their god, and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.
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Philippians 3:19
Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory is in their shame; and they are focused on earthly things.
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Amos 8:3
In that day the temple songs will become wailing”— this is the Lord GOD’s declaration.“ Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere! Silence!”
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Hosea 3:1
Then the LORD said to me,“ Go again; show love to a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, just as the LORD loves the Israelites though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”
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Isaiah 52:5
So now what have I here”— this is the LORD’s declaration—“ that my people are taken away for nothing? Its rulers wail”— this is the LORD’s declaration—“ and my name is continually blasphemed all day long.
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James 5:1
Come now, you rich people, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you.
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Exodus 32:6
Early the next morning they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented fellowship offerings. The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to party.
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Romans 16:18
because such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.
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Hosea 13:16
Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their children will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.