Exodus 9:2
Hebrew Text— Exodus 9:2For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them still,
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and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn’t repent of their works.
and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill, and all the firstborn of livestock.
At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.
You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot.
Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn’t let the people go.
Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
then you will delight yourself in Yahweh, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.
But if you will not listen to Yahweh’s voice, but rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then Yahweh’s hand will be against you, as it was against your fathers.
He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.
If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.
He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood.
He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.
He struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and animal.
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.
I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”
that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Then out of the smoke came locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’ ”
You shall tell him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness. Behold, until now you haven’t listened.”
If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs.
But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs among them;
But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go.
But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he wouldn’t let them go.
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring will not be satisfied with bread.
But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks.
and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.”
I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer. When I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem. It will not be quenched.” ’ ”
You shall tell them, “Yahweh says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
“Declare in Egypt, publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say, ‘Stand up, and prepare; for the sword has devoured around you.’
What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.
But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken.
Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.
He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”
Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?”
I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’
Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”
and I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me;” and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’ ”
Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.
Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, “Tomorrow Yahweh shall do this thing in the land.”
Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
If the sun has risen on him, he is guilty of bloodshed. He shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”
Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.
He must restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity!”
But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”
For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
His children will seek the favor of the poor. His hands will give back his wealth.
But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings.
Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.
but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.
“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.
Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.
Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.
When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,
But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”
Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.