Proverbs 21:29 Cross References - NSB

²⁹ A wicked man hardens his face. The upright proceeds with care.

⁵ Oh that my ways may be established to keep your statutes!

⁵⁹ I considered my ways and turned my feet to your laws.

⁵ Righteousness of the undefiled [man of integrity] directs his way! Wickedness causes the evil to fall.

¹⁴ Blessed is the man reverencing God. He who hardens his heart will fall into trouble.

¹ He who is often reprimanded and hardens his neck will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

² »Lift up your eyes to the bare hills and see. You have had sex with men in every place. You sat by the roadside waiting for them like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled (corrupted) (profaned) the land with your prostitution and wickedness. ³ »Accordingly the rain has been withheld, and there have been no spring showers. Yet, you have the unashamed (conspicuous) (impudent) look of a prostitute, and you refuse to be ashamed.

³ Jehovah looks for faithfulness. He struck you, but you paid no attention. He crushed you, but you refused to learn. You were stubborn and would not turn from your sins.

¹² »Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done? They certainly were not ashamed! And they did not know how to blush. For that reason they will fall among those who fall. At the time of their punishment they will be brought down,« Says Jehovah.

¹⁶ »We refuse to listen to what you have told us in the name of Jehovah. ¹⁷ »We will do everything that we said we would. We will offer sacrifices to our goddess, the Queen of Heaven, and we will pour out wine offerings to her, just as our ancestors, our king and our leaders, and we used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty of food, we were prosperous, and had no troubles.

²⁸ ‘»He realized what he was doing and turned away from all the rebellious things that he had done. He will certainly live. He will not die.

⁵ Jehovah of Hosts said: »Consider your ways.

⁷ Then Jehovah said: »Consider your ways.

¹⁵ »Can you see what has happened to you,« Jehovah asked, »before you started to rebuild the Temple?

¹⁸ »Today is the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day that the foundation of the Temple of Jehovah was completed. See what is going to happen from now on. ¹⁹ »There is no grain left. The grapevines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olive trees have not yet produced. However from now on I will bless you.«

¹⁷ »Finally it dawned on him, my father’s hired workers have more than they can eat and I am about to starve! ¹⁸ »I will go to my father and say: ‘Father I have sinned against God and against you.

¹¹ May God our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.