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Bible Verses About The Afflictions of the Wicked: Impenitence is a cause of

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Verses on Impenitence is a cause of

  1. They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

  2. So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

  3. Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.

  4. “I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

  5. “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

  6. People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

  7. “I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

  8. “I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

  9. “Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

  10. “Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

  11. But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.

  12. They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.

  13. Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.

  14. Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds.