Amos 6:9-10
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9 And (A)if ten men remain in one house, they shall die. 10 And when one's relative, (B)the one who anoints him for burial, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, “Is there still anyone with you?” he shall say, “No”; and he shall say, (C)“Silence! We must not mention the name of the Lord.”
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Amos 5:23
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23 Take away from me the noise of your songs;
to (A)the melody of your harps I will not listen.
Jeremiah 9:21-22
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21 For death has come up into our windows;
it has entered our palaces,
(A)cutting off the children from the streets
and the young men from the squares.
22 Speak: “Thus declares the Lord,
(B)‘The dead bodies of men shall fall
like dung upon the open field,
(C)like sheaves after the reaper,
and none shall gather them.’”
Amos 8:10
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10 (A)I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
(B)I will bring sackcloth on every waist
(C)and baldness on every head;
(D)I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
Zechariah 11:1-3
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The Flock Doomed to Slaughter
11 Open your doors, (A)O Lebanon,
that the fire may devour your cedars!
2 Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
for the glorious trees are ruined!
Wail, (B)oaks of Bashan,
for the thick forest has been felled!
3 The sound of (C)the wail of (D)the shepherds,
for their glory is ruined!
The sound of the roar of (E)the lions,
(F)for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!
Nahum 3:3
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3 Horsemen charging,
flashing sword and (A)glittering spear,
(B)hosts of slain,
heaps of corpses,
dead bodies without end—
they stumble over the bodies!
Amos 5:16
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16 Therefore thus says the Lord, (A)the God of hosts, the Lord:
“In all the squares (B)there shall be wailing,
and in all the streets they shall say, ‘Alas! Alas!’
They shall call the farmers to mourning
and (C)to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,
Amos 4:10
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10 “I sent among you a pestilence (A)after the manner of Egypt;
I killed your young men with the sword,
and (B)carried away your horses,[a]
and (C)I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
(D)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.
Footnotes
- Amos 4:10 Hebrew along with the captivity of your horses
Joel 1:13
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Joel 1:11
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11 (A)Be ashamed,[a] O tillers of the soil;
wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
(B)because the harvest of the field has perished.
Joel 1:5
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5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep,
and (A)wail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of (B)the sweet wine,
for it is cut off from your mouth.
Hosea 10:5-6
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5 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
for (A)the calf[a] of (B)Beth-aven.
Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests—
those who rejoiced over it and (C)over its glory—
for it has departed[b] from them.
6 (D)The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria
as tribute to (E)the great king.[c]
Ephraim shall be put to shame,
and Israel shall be ashamed (F)of his idol.[d]
Footnotes
- Hosea 10:5 Or calves
- Hosea 10:5 Or has gone into exile
- Hosea 10:6 Or to King Jareb
- Hosea 10:6 Or counsel
Jeremiah 22:18
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18 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
(A)“They shall not lament for him, saying,
(B)‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’
They shall not lament for him, saying,
(C)‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’
Isaiah 37:36
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36 (A)And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
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Psalm 39:9
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Leviticus 10:3
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3 Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Among (A)those who are near me (B)I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” (C)And Aaron held his peace.
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