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Jeremiah 23:17

Jeremiah 23:17

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that despise: Numbers 11:20; 1 Samuel 2:30; 2 Samuel 12:10; Malachi 1:6; Luke 10:16; 1 Thessalonians 4:8

Ye: Jeremiah 4:10, Jeremiah 6:14, Jeremiah 8:11, Jeremiah 14:13-14, Jeremiah 28:3-9; Isaiah 3:10-11, Isaiah 57:21; Lamentations 2:14; Ezekiel 13:10, Ezekiel 13:15-16, Ezekiel 13:22; Micah 3:5, Micah 3:11; Zechariah 10:2

imagination: or, stubbornness, Jeremiah 3:17, Jeremiah 7:24, Jeremiah 9:14, Jeremiah 13:10; Deuteronomy 29:19

No: Jeremiah 18:18; Amos 9:10; Micah 3:11; Zephaniah 1:12

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