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For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of his sight.

Yahweh said, “I will also remove Judah out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’ ”

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me,

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,

Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.

For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.

“Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;

Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,

For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you.

The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.

He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away.’

For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.

You will also leave that place with your hands on your head; for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you won’t prosper with them.