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Psalms 79:6
Pour out your wrath on the nations that refuse to acknowledge you— on kingdoms that do not call upon your name.
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Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out your wrath on the nations that refuse to acknowledge you— on the peoples that do not call upon your name. For they have devoured your people Israel; they have devoured and consumed them, making the land a desolate wilderness.
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Isaiah 64:7
Yet no one calls on your name or pleads with you for mercy. Therefore, you have turned away from us and turned us over to our sins.
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Romans 1:28
Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.
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Psalms 82:5
But these oppressors know nothing; they are so ignorant! They wander about in darkness, while the whole world is shaken to the core.
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Psalms 27:2
When evil people come to devour me, when my enemies and foes attack me, they will stumble and fall.
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Amos 8:4
Listen to this, you who rob the poor and trample down the needy!
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Job 27:10
Can they take delight in the Almighty? Can they call to God at any time?
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2 Corinthians 4 3-2 Corinthians 4 4
If the Good News we preach is hidden behind a veil, it is hidden only from people who are perishing.Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.
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Isaiah 29:14
Because of this, I will once again astound these hypocrites with amazing wonders. The wisdom of the wise will pass away, and the intelligence of the intelligent will disappear.”
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Isaiah 44:19-20
The person who made the idol never stops to reflect,“ Why, it’s just a block of wood! I burned half of it for heat and used it to bake my bread and roast my meat. How can the rest of it be a god? Should I bow down to worship a piece of wood?”The poor, deluded fool feeds on ashes. He trusts something that can’t help him at all. Yet he cannot bring himself to ask,“ Is this idol that I’m holding in my hand a lie?”
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Hosea 7:7
Burning like an oven, they consume their leaders. They kill their kings one after another, and no one cries to me for help.
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Psalms 94:8-9
Think again, you fools! When will you finally catch on?Is he deaf— the one who made your ears? Is he blind— the one who formed your eyes?
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Galatians 5:15
But if you are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! Beware of destroying one another.
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Micah 3:2-3
but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh from their bones.Yes, you eat my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.
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Isaiah 45:20
“ Gather together and come, you fugitives from surrounding nations. What fools they are who carry around their wooden idols and pray to gods that cannot save!
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Ephesians 4:17-18
With the Lord’s authority I say this: Live no longer as the Gentiles do, for they are hopelessly confused.Their minds are full of darkness; they wander far from the life God gives because they have closed their minds and hardened their hearts against him.
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Isaiah 27:11
The people are like the dead branches of a tree, broken off and used for kindling beneath the cooking pots. Israel is a foolish and stupid nation, for its people have turned away from God. Therefore, the one who made them will show them no pity or mercy.
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Isaiah 5:13
So my people will go into exile far away because they do not know me. Those who are great and honored will starve, and the common people will die of thirst.
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Job 21:15
Who is the Almighty, and why should we obey him? What good will it do us to pray?’
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Romans 1:21-22
Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused.Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools.