Bible Verses About National Sins

Take words with you, and return to ADONAI; say to him, "Forgive all guilt, and accept what is good; we will pay instead of bulls [the offerings of] our lips.

"Yet even now," says ADONAI, "turn to me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping and lamenting."

Let the cohanim, who serve ADONAI, stand weeping between the vestibule and the altar. Let them say, "Spare your people, ADONAI! Don't expose your heritage to mockery, or make them a byward among the Goyim. Why should the peoples say, 'Where is their God?'"

Here is what ADONAI says: "For Y'hudah's three crimes, no, four - I will not reverse it because they rejected ADONAI's Torah and haven't observed his laws, and their lies caused them to fall into error and live the way their ancestors did;

"Listen to this word which ADONAI has spoken against you, people of Isra'el, against the entire family that I brought up from the land of Egypt:

"Of all the families on earth, only you have I intimately known. This is why I will punish you for all your crimes."

"I hate, I utterly loathe your festivals; I take no pleasure in your solemn assemblies.

If you offer me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; nor will I consider the peace offerings of your stall-fed cattle.

"The time is coming," says Adonai ELOHIM, "when I will send famine over the land, not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of ADONAI.

"Set out for the great city of Ninveh, and proclaim to it that their wickedness has come to my attention."

when the people of Ninveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

When God saw by their deeds that they had turned from their evil way, he relented and did not bring on them the punishment he had threatened.

Get up and go! You can't stay here! Because [the land] is now unclean, it will destroy you with a grievous destruction."

Woe to the city of blood, steeped in lies, full of prey, with no end to the plunder!

Hagai then said, "'That is the condition of this people, that is the condition of this nation before me,' says ADONAI, 'and that is the condition of everything their hands produce; so that anything they offer there is unclean.

"Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Beit-Tzaidah! Why, if the miracles done in you had been done in Tzor and Tzidon, they would long ago have put on sackcloth and ashes as evidence that they had changed their ways.

But I tell you it will be more bearable for Tzor and Tzidon than for you on the Day of Judgment!

And you, K'far-Nachum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Sh'ol!b For if the miracles done in you had been done in S'dom, it would still be in existence today.

But I tell you that on the Day of Judgment it will be more bearable for the land of S'dom than for you!"

And so, on you will fall the guilt for all the innocent blood that has ever been shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Hevel to the blood of Z'kharyah Ben-Berekhyah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.

Yes! I tell you that all this will fall on this generation

"Yerushalayim! Yerushalayim! You kill the prophets! You stone those who are sent to you! How often I wanted to gather your children, just as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you refused!

Look! God is abandoning your house to you, leaving it desolate

For I tell you, from now on, you will not see me again until you say, `Blessed is he who comes in the name of ADONAI.'"

All the people answered, "His blood is on us and on our children!"