Psalms 99:8

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O LORD our God, you answered them. They found you to be a forgiving God, but also one who punished their sinful deeds.

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  • Num 20:12 : 12 The Lord’s Judgment Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron,“Because you did not trust me enough to show me as holy before the Israelites, therefore you will not bring this community into the land I have given them.”
  • Jer 46:28 : 28 I, the LORD, tell you not to be afraid, you descendants of Jacob, my servant, for I am with you. Though I completely destroy all the nations where I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will indeed discipline you but only in due measure. I will not allow you to go entirely unpunished.”
  • Ps 89:33 : 33 But I will not remove my loyal love from him, nor be unfaithful to my promise.
  • Num 20:24 : 24 “Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors, for he will not enter into the land I have given to the Israelites because both of you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.
  • Num 14:20-34 : 20 Then the LORD said,“I have forgiven them as you asked. 21 But truly, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD. 22 For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me, 23 they will by no means see the land that I swore to their fathers, nor will any of them who despised me see it. 24 Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully– I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants will possess it. 25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.) Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.” 26 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron: 27 “How long must I bear with this evil congregation that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me. 28 Say to them,‘As I live, says the LORD, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing. 29 Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness– all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me. 30 You will by no means enter into the land where I swore to settle you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. 31 But I will bring in your little ones, whom you said would become victims of war, and they will enjoy the land that you have despised. 32 But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, 33 and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness. 34 According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days– one day for a year– you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.
  • Zeph 3:7 : 7 I thought,‘Certainly you will respect me! Now you will accept correction!’ If she had done so, her home would not be destroyed by all the punishments I have threatened. But they eagerly sinned in everything they did.
  • Rom 1:21 : 21 For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.
  • Deut 3:26 : 26 But the LORD was angry at me because of you and would not listen to me. Instead, he said to me,“Enough of that! Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.
  • Deut 9:19-20 : 19 For I was terrified at the LORD’s intense anger that threatened to destroy you. But he listened to me this time as well. 20 The LORD was also angry enough at Aaron to kill him, but at that time I prayed for him too.
  • Eccl 7:29 : 29 This alone have I discovered: God made humankind upright, but they have sought many evil schemes.
  • Exod 32:2 : 2 So Aaron said to them,“Break off the gold earrings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”
  • Exod 32:34-35 : 34 So now go, lead the people to the place I have spoken to you about. See, my angel will go before you. But on the day that I punish, I will indeed punish them for their sin.” 35 And the LORD sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf– the one Aaron made.
  • Num 11:33-34 : 33 But while the meat was still between their teeth, before they chewed it, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very great plague. 34 So the name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people that craved different food.

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    15You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

    16“But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.

    17They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. You did not abandon them,

    18even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said,‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious blasphemies.

    19“Due to your great compassion you did not abandon them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud did not stop guiding them in the path by day, nor did the pillar of fire stop illuminating for them by night the path on which they should travel.

    20You imparted your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths; you provided water for their thirst.

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  • Ps 78:38
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  • 1 Kgs 8:50-51
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    50Forgive all the rebellious acts of your sinful people and cause their captors to have mercy on them.

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    18‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.’

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    30You prolonged your kindness with them for many years, and you solemnly admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they paid no attention, so you delivered them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.

    31However, due to your abundant mercy you did not do away with them altogether; you did not abandon them. For you are a merciful and compassionate God.

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    27Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they called to you, and you heard from heaven. In your abundant compassion you provided them with deliverers to rescue them from their adversaries.

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    9Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.

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    14The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just in all he has done, and we have not obeyed him.

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    7He spoke to them from a pillar of cloud; they obeyed his regulations and the ordinance he gave them.

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    42“We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven.”

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    8Do not blame your people Israel whom you redeemed, O LORD, and do not hold them accountable for the bloodshed of an innocent person.” Then atonement will be made for the bloodshed.

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    34When he struck them down, they sought his favor; they turned back and longed for God.

    35They remembered that God was their protector, and that God Most High was their deliverer.

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    9“You saw the affliction of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their cry at the Red Sea.

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  • 2 Chr 6:25
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    25then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to them and their ancestors.

  • 2 Chr 6:39
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    39then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help, vindicate them, and forgive your sinful people.

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