1 Chronicles 17:9
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9 I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may live in their own place and be disturbed no more, and evildoers shall wear them down no more, as they did formerly,
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Revelation 21:4
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4 he will wipe every tear from their eyes.
Death will be no more;
mourning and crying and pain will be no more,
for[a] the first things have passed away.”(A)
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- 21.4 Other ancient authorities lack for
Ephesians 5:6
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6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on those who are disobedient.[a](A)
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- 5.6 Gk sons of disobedience
Ezekiel 36:14-15
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14 therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, says the Lord God, 15 and no longer will I let you hear the insults of the nations; no longer shall you bear the disgrace of the peoples, and no longer shall you cause your nation to stumble, says the Lord God.(A)
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Ezekiel 28:4
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4 by your wisdom and your understanding
you have amassed wealth for yourself
and have gathered gold and silver
into your treasuries.(A)
Psalm 44:2
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2 you with your own hand drove out the nations,
but them you planted;
you afflicted the peoples,
but them you set free;(A)
Exodus 2:23
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23 After a long time the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried out. Their cry for help rose up to God from their slavery.(A)
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Exodus 1:13-14
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13 The Egyptians subjected the Israelites to hard servitude 14 and made their lives bitter with hard servitude in mortar and bricks and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.(A)
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Ephesians 2:2-3
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2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world,[a] following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient.[b](A) 3 All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,(B)
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Amos 9:15
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15 I will plant them upon their land,
and they shall never again be plucked up
out of the land that I have given them,
says the Lord your God.(A)
Ezekiel 37:25
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25 They shall live in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your ancestors lived; they and their children and their children’s children shall live there forever, and my servant David shall be their prince forever.(A)
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Ezekiel 34:13
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13 I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them into their own land, and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited parts of the land.(A)
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Jeremiah 31:3-12
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3 the Lord appeared to him[a] from far away.[b]
I have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.(A)
4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built,
O virgin Israel!
Again you shall adorn yourself with your tambourines
and go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.(B)
5 Again you shall plant vineyards
on the mountains of Samaria;
the planters shall plant
and shall enjoy the fruit.(C)
6 For there shall be a day when sentinels will call
in the hill country of Ephraim:
“Come, let us go up to Zion,
to the Lord our God.”(D)
7 For thus says the Lord:
Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob,
and raise shouts for the chief of the nations;
proclaim, give praise, and say,
“Save, O Lord, your people,
the remnant of Israel.”(E)
8 See, I am going to bring them from the land of the north
and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth,
among them the blind and the lame,
those with child and those in labor together;
a great company, they shall return here.(F)
9 With weeping they shall come,
and with consolations[c] I will lead them back;
I will let them walk by brooks of water,
in a straight path where they shall not stumble,
for I have become a father to Israel,
and Ephraim is my firstborn.(G)
10 Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,
and declare it in the coastlands far away;
say, “He who scattered Israel will gather him
and will keep him as a shepherd does a flock.”(H)
11 For the Lord has ransomed Jacob
and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.(I)
12 They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion,
and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord,
over the grain, the wine, and the oil,
and over the young of the flock and the herd;
their life shall become like a watered garden,
and they shall never languish again.(J)
Jeremiah 24:6
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6 I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not pluck them up.(A)
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Isaiah 61:3
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3 to provide for those who mourn in Zion—
to give them a garland instead of ashes,
the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord, to display his glory.(A)
Isaiah 60:18
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18 Violence shall no more be heard in your land,
devastation or destruction within your borders;
you shall call your walls Salvation
and your gates Praise.(A)
Isaiah 49:17
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- 49.17 Or Your children come swiftly; your destroyers
Psalm 92:13
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13 They are planted in the house of the Lord;
they flourish in the courts of our God.
Psalm 89:22
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22 The enemy shall not outwit him;
the wicked shall not humble him.(A)
Jeremiah 32:41
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41 I will rejoice in doing good to them, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.(A)
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