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1. Jeremiah 50:34 לְמַ֙עַן֙

   Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of Hosts is His name. He will fervently plead their case so that He may bring rest to the earth, but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.

2. Jeremiah 51:39 לְמַ֣עַן

   While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.

3. Ezekiel 4:17 לְמַ֥עַן

   So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.

4. Ezekiel 6:6 לְמַעַן֩

   Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.

5. Ezekiel 11:20 לְמַ֙עַן֙

   so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

6. Ezekiel 12:16 לְמַ֨עַן

   But I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

7. Ezekiel 12:19 לְמַ֜עַן

   Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: ‘They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it.

8. Ezekiel 14:5 לְמַ֛עַן

   so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.’

9. Ezekiel 14:11 לְ֠מַעַן

   in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Then they will be My people and I will be their God, declares the Lord GOD.’”

10. Ezekiel 16:54 לְמַ֙עַן֙

    So you will bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you did to comfort them.

11. Ezekiel 16:63 לְמַ֤עַן

    so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, declares the Lord GOD.”

12. Ezekiel 19:9 לְמַ֗עַן

    With hooks they caged him and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into captivity so that his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.

13. Ezekiel 20:9 לְמַ֣עַן

    But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

14. Ezekiel 20:14 לְמַ֣עַן

    But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

15. Ezekiel 20:22 לְמַ֣עַן

    But I withheld My hand and acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

16. Ezekiel 20:26 לְמַ֣עַןלְמַ֙עַן֙

    And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire—so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.

17. Ezekiel 20:44 לְמַ֣עַן

    Then you will know, O house of Israel, that I am the LORD, when I have dealt with you for the sake of My name and not according to your wicked ways and corrupt acts, declares the Lord GOD.”

18. Ezekiel 21:10 לְמַ֨עַןלְמַעַן־

    it is sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son? The sword despises every such stick.

19. Ezekiel 21:15 לְמַ֣עַן׀

    So that their hearts may melt and many may stumble, I have appointed at all their gates a sword for slaughter. Yes, it is ready to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaughter.

20. Ezekiel 21:28 לְמַ֥עַן

    Now prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—

21. Ezekiel 22:6 לְמַ֖עַן

    See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood.

22. Ezekiel 22:9 לְמַ֣עַן

    Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.

23. Ezekiel 22:12 לְמַ֣עַן

    In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.

24. Ezekiel 22:27 לְמַ֖עַן

    Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.

25. Ezekiel 23:21 לְמַ֖עַן

    So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.

26. Ezekiel 24:11 לְמַ֨עַן

    Set the empty pot on its coals until it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt within; its rust will be consumed.

27. Ezekiel 25:10 לְמַ֛עַן

    I will give it along with the Ammonites as a possession to the people of the East, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.

28. Ezekiel 26:20 לְמַ֖עַן

    then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living.

29. Ezekiel 31:14 לְמַ֡עַן

    This happened so that no other trees by the waters would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the depths of the earth, among the mortals who descend to the Pit.’

30. Ezekiel 36:5 לְמַ֥עַן

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.

31. Ezekiel 36:22 לְמַעַנְכֶ֛ם

    Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went.

32. Ezekiel 36:30 לְמַ֗עַן

    I will also make the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field plentiful, so that you will no longer bear reproach among the nations on account of famine.

33. Ezekiel 36:32 לְמַעַנְכֶ֣ם

    It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord GOD—let it be known to you. Be ashamed and disgraced for your ways, O house of Israel!

34. Ezekiel 38:16 לְמַעַן֩

    You will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the latter days, O Gog, that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy in you before their eyes.

35. Ezekiel 39:12 לְמַ֖עַן

    For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.

36. Ezekiel 40:4 לְמַ֥עַן

    “Son of man,” he said to me, “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Report to the house of Israel everything you see.”

37. Ezekiel 46:18 לְמַ֙עַן֙

    The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.’”

38. Daniel 9:17 לְמַ֖עַן

    So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.

39. Daniel 9:19 לְמַֽעֲנְךָ֣

    O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For Your sake, O my God, do not delay, because Your city and Your people bear Your name.”

40. Hosea 8:4 לְמַ֖עַן

    They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.

41. Joel 3:6 לְמַ֥עַן

    You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.

42. Amos 1:13 לְמַ֖עַן

    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.

43. Amos 2:7 לְמַ֥עַן

    They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.

44. Amos 5:14 לְמַ֣עַן

    Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.

45. Amos 9:12 לְמַ֨עַן

    that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name,” declares the LORD, who will do this.

46. Obadiah 1:9 לְמַ֧עַן

    Then your mighty men, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone in the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.

47. Micah 6:5 לְמַ֕עַן

    My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD.’”

48. Micah 6:16 לְמַעַן֩

    You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”

49. Habakkuk 2:2 לְמַ֥עַן

    Then the LORD answered me: “Write down this vision and clearly inscribe it on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.

50. Habakkuk 2:15 לְמַ֥עַן

    Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!