Deuteronomy 28:32
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32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to (A)another people, and your eyes shall look and (B)fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be [a]no strength in your (C)hand.
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- Deuteronomy 28:32 nothing you can do
Joel 3:6
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6 Also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem
You have sold to the Greeks,
That you may remove them far from their borders.
Deuteronomy 28:41
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41 You shall beget 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 indeed, because of this (A)our fathers have fallen by the sword; and our sons, our daughters, and our wives are in captivity.
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Micah 4:10
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10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth,
O daughter of Zion,
Like a woman in birth pangs.
For now you shall go forth from the city,
You shall dwell in the field,
And to (A)Babylon you shall go.
There you shall be delivered;
There the (B)Lord will (C)redeem you
From the hand of your enemies.
Amos 5:27
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27 Therefore I will send you into captivity (A)beyond Damascus,”
Says the Lord, (B)whose name is the God of hosts.
Ezekiel 24:25
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25 ‘And you, son of man—will it not be in the day when I take from them (A)their stronghold, their joy and their glory, the desire of their eyes, and [a]that on which they set their minds, their sons and their daughters:
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- Ezekiel 24:25 Lit. the lifting up of their soul
Lamentations 5:17
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17 Because of this our heart is faint;
(A)Because of these things our eyes grow dim;
Lamentations 4:17
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17 Still (A)our eyes failed us,
Watching vainly for our help;
In our watching we watched
For a nation that could not save us.
Lamentations 2:11
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11 (A)My eyes fail with tears,
My [a]heart is troubled;
(B)My [b]bile is poured on the ground
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
Because (C)the children and the infants
Faint in the streets of the city.
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- Lamentations 2:11 Lit. inward parts
- Lamentations 2:11 Lit. liver
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 their mothers who bore them and their fathers who begot them in this land: 4 “They shall die (A)gruesome deaths; they shall not be (B)lamented nor shall they be (C)buried, but they shall be (D)like refuse on the face of the earth. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their (E)corpses shall be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.”
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Jeremiah 15:7-9
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7 And I will winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land;
I will (A)bereave them of children;
I will destroy My people,
Since they (B)do not return from their ways.
8 Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas;
I will bring against them,
Against the mother of the young men,
A plunderer at noonday;
I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them (C)suddenly.
9 “She(D) languishes who has borne seven;
She has breathed her last;
(E)Her sun has gone down
While it was yet day;
She has been ashamed and confounded.
And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword
Before their enemies,” says the Lord.
Isaiah 38:14
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14 Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered;
(A)I mourned like a dove;
My eyes fail from looking upward.
O [a]Lord, I am oppressed;
[b]Undertake for me!
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- Isaiah 38:14 So with Bg.; MT, DSS Lord
- Isaiah 38:14 Be my surety
Psalm 119:123
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123 My eyes fail from seeking Your salvation
And Your righteous word.
Psalm 119:82
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82 My eyes fail from searching Your word,
Saying, “When will You comfort me?”
Psalm 69:3
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Job 17:5
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5 He who speaks flattery to his friends,
Even the eyes of his children will (A)fail.
Job 11:20
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20 But (A)the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And they shall not escape,
And (B)their hope—[a]loss of life!”
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- Job 11:20 Lit. the breathing out of life
Nehemiah 5:2-5
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2 For there were those who said, “We, our sons, and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
3 There were also some who said, “We have mortgaged our lands and vineyards and houses, that we might buy grain because of the famine.”
4 There were also those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our lands and vineyards. 5 Yet now (A)our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and indeed we (B)are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been brought into slavery. It is not in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.”
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Deuteronomy 28:65
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65 And (A)among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; (B)but there the Lord will give you a [a]trembling heart, failing eyes, and (C)anguish of soul.
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- Deuteronomy 28:65 anxious
Deuteronomy 28:18
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18 “Cursed shall be the [a]fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
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- Deuteronomy 28:18 offspring
Numbers 21:29
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29 Woe to you, (A)Moab!
You have perished, O people of (B)Chemosh!
He has given his (C)sons as fugitives,
And his (D)daughters into captivity,
To Sihon king of the Amorites.
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