Deuteronomy 28:32
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32 (A)Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, (B)but you shall be helpless.
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Joel 3:6
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6 You have sold (A)the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.
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Deuteronomy 28:41
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41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for (A)they shall go into captivity.
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2 Chronicles 29:9
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9 For behold, (A)our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
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Micah 4:10
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10 (A)Writhe and groan,[a] O daughter of Zion,
like a woman in labor,
for (B)now you shall go out from the city
and dwell in the open country;
you (C)shall go to Babylon.
There you shall be rescued;
(D)there the Lord will redeem you
from the hand of your enemies.
Footnotes
- Micah 4:10 Or push
Amos 5:27
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27 (A)and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is (B)the God of hosts.
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Ezekiel 24:25
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25 “As for you, (A)son of man, surely on the day when I take from them (B)their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their soul's desire, and also their sons and daughters,
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Lamentations 5:17
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Lamentations 4:17
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17 (A)Our eyes failed, ever watching
(B)vainly for help;
in our watching we watched
for (C)a nation which could not save.
Jeremiah 16:2-4
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2 “You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place. 3 For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore them and the fathers who fathered them in this land: 4 (A)They shall die of deadly diseases. (B)They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. (C)They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. (D)They shall perish by the sword and by famine, (E)and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.
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Jeremiah 15:7-9
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7 (A)I have winnowed them with (B)a winnowing fork
in the gates of the land;
I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people;
(C)they did not turn from their ways.
8 I have made their widows more in number
than (D)the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of young men
a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
fall upon them suddenly.
9 (E)She who bore seven has grown feeble;
(F)she has fainted away;
(G)her sun went down while it was yet day;
she has been shamed and disgraced.
And the rest of them I will give to the sword
before their enemies,
declares the Lord.”
Isaiah 38:14
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14 Like (A)a swallow or a crane I chirp;
(B)I moan like a dove.
(C)My eyes are weary with looking upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed; (D)be my pledge of safety!
Psalm 119:123
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123 My (A)eyes long for your salvation
and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.
Psalm 119:82
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Psalm 69:3
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3 (A)I am weary with my crying out;
(B)my throat is parched.
(C)My eyes grow dim
with (D)waiting for my God.
Job 17:5
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5 He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property—
the (A)eyes of his children will fail.
Job 11:20
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20 But (A)the eyes of the wicked will fail;
all way of escape will be lost to them,
and their hope is (B)to breathe their last.”
Nehemiah 5:2-5
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2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” 3 There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” 4 And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for (A)the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards. 5 Now (B)our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet (C)we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
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Deuteronomy 28:65
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65 And (A)among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but (B)the Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and (C)a languishing soul.
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Deuteronomy 28:18
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18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.
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Numbers 21:29
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29 (A)Woe to you, O Moab!
You are undone, O people of (B)Chemosh!
He has made his sons fugitives,
and his daughters captives,
to an Amorite king, Sihon.
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