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The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.

But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.

For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.

Repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil. Repay them for what their hands have done; bring back on them what they deserve.

I will remember the works of the LORD; yes, I will remember Your wonders of old.

…that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.

So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

Even a young man is known by his actions—whether his conduct is pure and upright.

Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.

Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”

“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”

Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.

For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

And the LORD informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds.

I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’

O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.

I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around you.’”

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.

But if they had stood in My council, they would have proclaimed My words to My people and turned them back from their evil ways and deeds.”

The prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.

Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.

So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you.

…the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.

Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.

So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations.

And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.

Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.

But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.

All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

The LORD has a charge to bring against Judah. He will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.

Should it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is the Spirit of the LORD impatient? Are these the things He does?” Do not My words bring good to him who walks uprightly?

Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.

Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.

Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”