Jeremiah 14:9

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Why should you be like someone who is helpless, like a champion who cannot save anyone? You are indeed with us, and we belong to you. Do not abandon us!”

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  • Isa 59:1 : 1 Injustice Brings Alienation from God Look, the LORD’s hand is not too weak to deliver you; his ear is not too deaf to hear you.
  • Isa 63:19 : 19 We existed from ancient times, but you did not rule over them; they were not your subjects.
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you, O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Ps 46:5 : 5 God lives within it, it cannot be moved. God rescues it at the break of dawn.
  • Exod 29:45-46 : 45 I will reside among the Israelites, and I will be their God, 46 and they will know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, so that I may reside among them. I am the LORD their God.
  • Num 11:23 : 23 And the LORD said to Moses,“Is the LORD’s hand shortened? Now you will see whether my word to you will come true or not!”
  • Isa 50:1-2 : 1 This is what the LORD says:“Where is your mother’s divorce certificate by which I divorced her? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold because of your sins; because of your rebellious acts I divorced your mother. 2 Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? Is my hand too weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water.
  • Isa 51:9 : 9 Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the LORD! Wake up as in former times, as in antiquity! Did you not smash the Proud One? Did you not wound the sea monster?
  • Jer 8:19 : 19 I hear my dear people crying out throughout the length and breadth of the land. They are crying,‘Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her divine King no longer there?’” The LORD answers,“Why then do they provoke me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
  • Dan 9:18-19 : 18 Listen attentively, my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins and the city called by your name. For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, but because your compassion is abundant. 19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don’t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.”
  • Zech 2:5 : 5 But I(the LORD says) will be a wall of fire surrounding Jerusalem and the source of glory in her midst.’”
  • 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said,“I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
  • Heb 13:5 : 5 Your conduct must be free from the love of money and you must be content with what you have, for he has said,“I will never leave you and I will never abandon you.”
  • Rev 21:3 : 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying:“Look! The residence of God is among human beings. He will live among them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them.
  • Num 14:15-16 : 15 If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say, 16 ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’
  • Deut 23:14 : 14 For the LORD your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.
  • 1 Sam 12:22 : 22 The LORD will not abandon his people because he wants to uphold his great reputation. The LORD was pleased to make you his own people.
  • Ps 27:9 : 9 Do not reject me! Do not push your servant away in anger! You are my deliverer! Do not forsake or abandon me, O God who vindicates me!
  • Ps 44:23-26 : 23 Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Wake up! Do not reject us forever! 24 Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated? 25 For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground. 26 Rise up and help us! Rescue us because of your loyal love!
  • Lev 26:11-12 : 11 “‘I will put my tabernacle in your midst and I will not abhor you. 12 I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people.
  • Isa 12:6 : 6 Cry out and shout for joy, O citizens of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel acts mightily among you!”

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