17 Have you not (A)done this to yourself
By your abandoning the Lord your God
When He (B)led you in the way?

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17 Have you not brought this on yourselves(A)
    by forsaking(B) the Lord your God
    when he led you in the way?

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19 (A)Your own wickedness will correct you,
And your (B)apostasies will punish you;
Know therefore and see that it is evil and (C)bitter
For you to abandon the Lord your God,
And (D)the fear of Me is not in you,” declares the Lord [a]God of armies.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:19 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord

19 Your wickedness will punish you;
    your backsliding(A) will rebuke(B) you.
Consider then and realize
    how evil and bitter(C) it is for you
when you forsake(D) the Lord your God
    and have no awe(E) of me,”
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

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12 “But you are (A)profaning it by your saying, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is to be despised.’ 13 You also say, ‘See, [a]how (B)tiresome it is!’ And you view it as trivial,” says the Lord of armies, “and you bring what was taken by (C)robbery and what is (D)lame or sick; so you bring the offering! Should I (E)accept it from your hand?” says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 1:13 Lit it is hardship

12 “But you profane it by saying, ‘The Lord’s table(A) is defiled,’ and, ‘Its food(B) is contemptible.’ 13 And you say, ‘What a burden!’(C) and you sniff at it contemptuously,(D)” says the Lord Almighty.

“When you bring injured, lame or diseased animals and offer them as sacrifices,(E) should I accept them from your hands?”(F) says the Lord.

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