Judges 10:16

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Summary

And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

They put

His soul

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They put

and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I -- I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

And at Asa's hearing these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he hath strengthened himself, and doth cause the abominations to pass away out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities that he hath captured from the hill-country of Ephraim, and reneweth the altar of Jehovah that is before the porch of Jehovah,

And he turneth aside the gods of the stranger, and the idol, out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Jehovah and in Jerusalem, and casteth them to the outside of the city.

The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy,

Therefore, each according to his ways I judge you, O house of Israel? An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Turn ye back, yea, turn yourselves back, From all your transgressions, And iniquity is not to you for a stumbling-block,

Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.

His soul

and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself -- unto His heart.

And He looketh on their distress When He heareth their cry,

In all their distress He is no adversary, And the messenger of His presence saved them, In His love and in His pity He redeemed them, And He doth lift them up, And beareth them all the days of old.

A precious son is Ephraim to Me? A child of delights? For since My speaking against him, I do thoroughly remember him still, Therefore have My bowels been moved for him, I do greatly love him, An affirmation of Jehovah.

How do I give thee up, O Ephraim? Do I deliver thee up, O Israel? How do I make thee as Admah? Do I set thee as Zeboim? Turned in Me is My heart, kindled together have been My repentings.

'And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;

And when he came nigh, having seen the city, he wept over it,

'Where have ye laid him?' they say to him, 'Sir, come and see;'

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;

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And the sons of Israel turn aside the Baalim and Ashtaroth, and serve Jehovah alone;

In that day doth man look to His Maker, Yea, his eyes to the Holy One of Israel look,

For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness.

Jehovah hath repented of this, 'It also shall not be,' said the Lord Jehovah.