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Lest I be (A)full and deny (B)You and say, “Who is Yahweh?”
Or lest I be (C)impoverished and steal,
And [a](D)profane the name of my God.

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  1. Proverbs 30:9 Lit take hold of

22 Are there any among the [a](A)idols of the nations who (B)give rain?
Or can the heavens give showers?
Is it not You, O Yahweh our God?
Therefore we [b](C)hope in You,
For You are the one who has done all these things.

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  1. Jeremiah 14:22 Lit vanities
  2. Jeremiah 14:22 Or wait for

Jeremiah Taken to Egypt

43 But it happened that as soon as Jeremiah, whom Yahweh their God had sent, had (A)finished speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God—that is, all these words— Azariah the (B)son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are (C)speaking a lie! Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You are not to enter Egypt to sojourn there’; but (D)Baruch the son of Neriah is inciting you against us to give us over into the hand of the Chaldeans, so they will put us to death or exile us to Babylon.” So (E)Johanan the son of Kareah and all the [a]commanders of the military forces and all the people (F)did not listen to the voice of Yahweh to (G)stay in the land of Judah.

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  1. Jeremiah 43:4 Or princes