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Jer. 3:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thereforeu the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; andw thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

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Jer. 9:12• ¹²Who is a wise man, that he may understand this? and he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished, burnt up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through? (Jer. 9:12)

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Jer. 14:4• ⁴Because the ground is chapt, for there hath been no rain on the earth, the ploughmen are ashamed, they cover their heads. (Jer. 14:4)

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Lev. 26:19• ¹⁹and I will break the arrogance of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze, (Lev. 26:19)

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Deut. 28:23‑24• ²³And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron.
²⁴Jehovah will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust; from the heavens shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed. (Deut. 28:23‑24)

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Ezek. 3:7• ⁷But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee, for none of them will hearken unto me. For all the house of Israel are hard of forehead and stiff of heart. (Ezek. 3:7)

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the showers.

Jer. 9:12• ¹²Who is a wise man, that he may understand this? and he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished, burnt up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through? (Jer. 9:12)

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Jer. 14:4,22• ⁴Because the ground is chapt, for there hath been no rain on the earth, the ploughmen are ashamed, they cover their heads.
²²Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou HE, Jehovah, our God? And we wait upon thee; for thou hast made all these things. (Jer. 14:4,22)

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Lev. 26:19• ¹⁹and I will break the arrogance of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze, (Lev. 26:19)

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Deut. 28:23• ²³And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron. (Deut. 28:23)

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Isa. 5:6• ⁶and I will make it a waste--it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. (Isa. 5:6)

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Joel 1:16‑20• ¹⁶Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
¹⁷The seeds are rotten under their clods, the granaries are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
¹⁸How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are bewildered, for they have no pasture; the flocks of sheep also are in suffering.
¹⁹To thee, Jehovah, do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned up all the trees of the field.
²⁰The beasts of the field also cry unto thee; for the water-courses are dried, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness. (Joel 1:16‑20)

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Amos 4:7• ⁷And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece of land was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. (Amos 4:7)

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Hag. 1:11• ¹¹And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon man, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands. (Hag. 1:11)

latter rain.

Jer. 5:24• ²⁴And they say not in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain, both the early and the latter, in its season; who preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of harvest. (Jer. 5:24)

a whore's.

Jer. 5:3• ³Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. (Jer. 5:3)

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Jer. 6:15• ¹⁵Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay, they are not at all ashamed, neither know they what it is to blush. Therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall stumble, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 6:15)

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Jer. 8:12• ¹²Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay, they are not at all ashamed, and they know not how to blush. Therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall stumble, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 8:12)

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Jer. 44:16‑17• ¹⁶As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee,
¹⁷but we will certainly do every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out drink-offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and we had plenty of bread, and were well, and saw no evil. (Jer. 44:16‑17)

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Ezek. 3:7• ⁷But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee, for none of them will hearken unto me. For all the house of Israel are hard of forehead and stiff of heart. (Ezek. 3:7)

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Ezek. 16:30‑34• ³⁰How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of a whorish woman, under no restraint;
³¹in that thou buildest thy place of debauchery at the head of every way, and makest thy high place in every street! And thou hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest reward,
³²O adulterous wife, that taketh strangers instead of her husband.
³³They give rewards to all harlots; but thou gavest thy rewards to all thy lovers, and rewardedst them, that they might come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms.
³⁴And in thee is the contrary from other women, in thy whoredoms, in that none followeth thee to commit fornication; and whereas thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, so art thou contrary. (Ezek. 16:30‑34)

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Zeph. 3:5• ⁵The righteous Jehovah is in the midst of her: he doeth no wrong. Every morning doth he bring his judgment to light; it faileth not: but the unrighteous knoweth no shame. (Zeph. 3:5)

thou refusedst.

Jer. 5:3• ³Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. (Jer. 5:3)

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Neh. 9:17• ¹⁷and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion made a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a +God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving-kindness, and thou forsookest them not. (Neh. 9:17)

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Zech. 7:11‑12• ¹¹But they refused to hearken, and turned a rebellious shoulder, and made their ears heavy, that they should not hear.
¹²And they made their heart as an adamant, that they should not hear the law, and the words that Jehovah of hosts sent by his Spirit by the hand of the former prophets: therefore was there great wrath from Jehovah of hosts. (Zech. 7:11‑12)

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Heb. 12:25• ²⁵See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him who does so from heaven: (Heb. 12:25)

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And the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; but thou hast a harlot’s forehead, thou refusest to be ashamed.