Isaiah 5:4-7

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⁴What more could have been done for my vineyard
    than I have done for it?^(A)
When I looked for good grapes,
    why did it yield only bad?^(B)
⁵Now I will tell you
    what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I will take away its hedge,
    and it will be destroyed;^(C)
I will break down its wall,^(D)
    and it will be trampled.^(E)
⁶I will make it a wasteland,^(F)
    neither pruned nor cultivated,
    and briers and thorns^(G) will grow there.
I will command the clouds
    not to rain^(H) on it.”

⁷The vineyard^(I) of the Lord Almighty
    is the nation of Israel,
and the people of Judah
    are the vines he delighted in.
And he looked for justice,^(J) but saw bloodshed;
    for righteousness,^(K) but heard cries of distress.^(L)

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Ezekiel 20:11-13

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¹¹I gave them my decrees and made known to them my laws, by which the person who obeys them will live.^(A) ¹²Also I gave them my Sabbaths^(B) as a sign^(C) between us,^(D) so they would know that I the Lord made them holy.^(E)

¹³“‘Yet the people of Israel rebelled^(F) against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my decrees but rejected my laws^(G)—by which the person who obeys them will live—and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths.^(H) So I said I would pour out my wrath^(I) on them and destroy^(J) them in the wilderness.^(K)

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Amos 2:4

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⁴This is what the Lord says:

“For three sins of Judah,^(A)
    even for four, I will not relent.
Because they have rejected the law^(B) of the Lord
    and have not kept his decrees,^(C)
because they have been led astray^(D) by false gods,^[a]^(E)
    the gods^[b] their ancestors followed,^(F)

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Footnotes

Amos 2:4 Or by lies
Amos 2:4 Or lies

Amos 2:4 in all English translations

Amos 3:1

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Witnesses Summoned Against Israel

3 Hear this word, people of Israel, the word the Lord has spoken against you^(A)—against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt:^(B)

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Amos 3:2

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²“You only have I chosen^(A)
of all the families of the earth;
therefore I will punish^(B) you
for all your sins.^(C)”

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Matthew 11:21-24

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²¹“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!^(A) For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon,^(B) they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.^(C) ²²But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.^(D) ²³And you, Capernaum,^(E) will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.^[a]^(F) For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. ²⁴But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”^(G)