Habakkuk 2:13
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13 Is it not from the Lord of hosts
that peoples labor only to feed the flames
and nations weary themselves for nothing?
Jeremiah 51:58
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58 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
The broad wall of Babylon
shall be leveled to the ground,
and her high gates
shall be burned with fire.
The peoples exhaust themselves for nothing,
the nations only for fire,
and they have become weary.(A)
Isaiah 50:11
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11 But all of you are kindlers of fire,
lighters of firebrands.[a]
Walk in the flame of your fire
and among the brands that you have kindled!
This is what you shall have from my hand:
you shall lie down in torment.(A)
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- 50.11 Syr: Heb you gird yourselves with firebrands
Malachi 1:4
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4 If Edom says, ‘We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,’ the Lord of hosts says: They may build, but I will tear down, until they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.
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Isaiah 55:2
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2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread
and your earnings for that which does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.(A)
Isaiah 41:5-8
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5 The coastlands have seen and are afraid;
the ends of the earth tremble;
they have drawn near and come.(A)
6 Each one helps the other,
saying to one another, “Take courage!”(B)
7 The artisan encourages the goldsmith,
and the one who smooths with the hammer encourages the one who strikes the anvil,
saying of the soldering, “It is good,”
and they fasten it with nails so that it cannot be moved.(C)
8 But you, Israel, my servant,
Jacob, whom I have chosen,
the offspring of Abraham, my friend;(D)
Proverbs 21:30
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30 No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel
can avail against the Lord.(A)
Psalm 127:1-2
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Psalm 127
God’s Blessings in the Home
A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.
1 Unless the Lord builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the Lord guards the city,
the guard keeps watch in vain.(A)
2 It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil,
for he gives sleep to his beloved.[a](B)
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- 127.2 Or for he provides for his beloved during sleep
Job 5:13-14
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13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime
and grope at noonday as in the night.(A)
Genesis 11:6-9
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6 And the Lord said, “Look, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.(A) 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”(B) 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.(C) 9 Therefore it was called Babel,[a] because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth, and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.(D)
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- 11.9 In Heb Babel is a play on the verb meaning to confuse
Psalm 39:6
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6 Surely everyone goes about like a shadow.
Surely for nothing they are in turmoil;
they heap up and do not know who will gather.(A)
Jeremiah 51:64
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64 and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disasters that I am bringing on her.’ ”[a]
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.(A)
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- 51.64 Gk: Heb on her. And they shall weary themselves
2 Samuel 15:31
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31 David was told that Ahithophel was among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, “O Lord, I pray you, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”(A)
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