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Leviticus 26:43

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“The land will be empty. The land will enjoy its time of rest. Then the survivors [454] will accept the punishment for their sins. They will learn that they were punished because they hated my laws and refused to obey my rules.

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When these troubles came to him, Manasseh begged for help from the Lord his God. Manasseh humbled himself before the God of his ancestors. {\cf2\super [409]}

And so the things the Lord told the people of Israel through the prophet Jeremiah really happened. The Lord had said through Jeremiah: “This place will be an empty wasteland for 70 years. {\cf2\super [456]} This will happen to make up for the Sabbath rests {\cf2\super [457]} that the people didn’t do.”

“A person is fortunate\par when God corrects him!\par So don’t complain when\par God All-Powerful punishes you.\par

Before I suffered, I did many wrong things.\par But now, I carefully obey your commands.\par

Suffering was good for me.\par I learned your laws.\par

Lord, I know that your decisions are fair.\par And it was right for you to punish me.\par

\{God says,\}\par “Call for me when you have troubles!\par I will help you.\par And then you can honor me.”\par

So why do you hate it when I correct you?\par Why do you ignore the things I say?\par

Lord, people remember you\par when they are in trouble.\par People say quiet prayers to you\par when you punish them.\par

Lord, I wandered away from you.\par But I learned about the bad things I did.\par So I changed my heart and life.\par I am ashamed and embarrassed about the foolish things I did when I was young.’\par

The Lord kept the terrible things ready for us—and he made those things happen to us. The Lord did this because he is fair in everything he does. But we still have not listened to him.

Also, I will place my Holy Tent [443] among you. I will not turn away from you!

If you refuse to obey my laws and commands, then you have broken my Agreement.

I will destroy your high places. [445] I will cut down your incense [446] altars. [447] I will put your dead bodies on the dead bodies of your idols. [448] You will be very disgusting to me.

Maybe they will admit that I turned against them and brought them into the land of their enemies. Those people will be like strangers to me. But maybe they will become humble [453] and accept the punishment for their sin.

\{Prophets\} go to the public places\par and speak against \{the bad things\par that people are doing\}.\par And the people hate \{those prophets\}.\par \{The prophets\} teach good, simple truths.\par And the people hate those \{prophets\}.\par

I fired the three shepherds all in one month. I became angry at the sheep, and they began to hate me.

The world cannot hate you. But the world hates me. Why? Because I tell the people in the world that they do evil things.

Why is this true? Because if a person’s thinking is controlled by his sinful self, then that person is against God. That person refuses to obey God’s law. And really that person is not able to obey God’s law.

“The Lord will judge his people. They are his servants, and he will show them mercy. He will see that their power is gone. He will see that they are all helpless— the slaves and free people, too.




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