Yet even then I will not completely destroy you,” says the Lord.

King Zedekiah said to them, “Very well, you can do what you want with him. For I cannot do anything to stop you.”

Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.”

I used you to smash horses and their riders. I used you to smash chariots and their drivers.

He did what displeased the Lord just as Jehoiakim had done.

because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.

So I will set fire to Rabbah’s city wall; fire will consume her fortresses. War cries will be heard on the day of battle; a strong gale will blow on the day of the windstorm.

You should not have gloated when your relatives suffered calamity. You should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah when they were destroyed. You should not have boasted when they suffered adversity.

I see the tents of Cushan overwhelmed by trouble; the tent curtains of the land of Midian are shaking.

Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance,

Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.

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Do not repay anyone evil for evil; consider what is good before all people.

so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it.

begging us with great earnestness for the blessing and fellowship of helping the saints.

So they glorified God because of me.

yet even angels, who are much more powerful, do not bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to the truth.