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31 And I will (A)lay your cities waste and will (B)make your sanctuaries desolate, and (C)I will not smell your pleasing aromas. 32 And (D)I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be (E)appalled at it.

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(A)Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the Lord God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.

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Do not be like your parents(A) and your fellow Israelites, who were unfaithful(B) to the Lord, the God of their ancestors, so that he made them an object of horror,(C) as you see.

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18 (A)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, (B)to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;

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18 Jerusalem(A) and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin(B) and an object of horror and scorn,(C) a curse[a](D)—as they are today;(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:18 That is, their names to be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, to be seen by others as cursed

22 (A)The Lord could no longer bear your evil deeds and (B)the abominations that you committed. (C)Therefore your land has become (D)a desolation and a waste and a curse, (E)without inhabitant, as it is this day.

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22 When the Lord could no longer endure(A) your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became a curse(B) and a desolate waste(C) without inhabitants, as it is today.(D)

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16 For you have kept the statutes of (A)Omri,[a]
    and all the works of the house of (B)Ahab;
    and you have walked in their counsels,
that I may make you (C)a desolation, and your[b] inhabitants (D)a hissing;
    so you shall bear (E)the scorn of my people.”

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  1. Micah 6:16 Hebrew For the statutes of Omri are kept
  2. Micah 6:16 Hebrew its

16 You have observed the statutes of Omri(A)
    and all the practices of Ahab’s(B) house;
    you have followed their traditions.(C)
Therefore I will give you over to ruin(D)
    and your people to derision;
    you will bear the scorn(E) of the nations.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 6:16 Septuagint; Hebrew scorn due my people