Deuteronomy 28:32
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32 Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people while you look on; you will strain your eyes looking for them all day but be powerless to do anything.(A)
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Joel 3:6
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6 You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border.
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Deuteronomy 28:41
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41 You shall have sons and daughters, but they shall not remain yours, for they shall go into captivity.(A)
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2 Chronicles 29:9
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9 Our fathers have fallen by the sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.(A)
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Micah 4:10
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10 Writhe and groan,[a] O daughter Zion,
like a woman in labor,
for now you shall go forth from the city
and camp in the open country;
you shall go to Babylon.
There you shall be rescued;
there the Lord will redeem you
from the hands of your enemies.(A)
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- 4.10 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Amos 5:27
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27 therefore I will take you into exile beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.(A)
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Ezekiel 24:25
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25 And you, mortal, on the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their heart’s affection, and also[a] their sons and their daughters,(A)
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- 24.25 Heb lacks and also
Lamentations 5:17
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17 Because of this our hearts are sick;
because of these things our eyes have grown dim:(A)
Lamentations 4:17
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17 Our eyes failed, ever watching
vainly for help;
we were watching eagerly
for a nation that could not save.(A)
Lamentations 2:11
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11 My eyes are spent with weeping;
my stomach churns;
my bile is poured out on the ground
because of the destruction of my people,[a]
because infants and babes faint
in the streets of the city.(A)
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- 2.11 Heb the daughter of my people
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.(A) 3 For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place and concerning the mothers who bear them and the fathers who father them in this land:(B) 4 They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall become like dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall become food for the birds of the air and for the wild animals of the earth.(C)
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Jeremiah 15:7-9
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7 I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork
in the gates of the land;
I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people;
they did not turn from their ways.(A)
8 Their widows became more numerous
than the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of youths
a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
fall upon her suddenly.
9 She who bore seven has languished;
she has swooned away;
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,
says the Lord.(B)
Isaiah 38:14
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14 Like a swallow or a crane[a] I clamor;
I moan like a dove.
My eyes are weary with looking upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security!(A)
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- 38.14 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 119:123
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123 My eyes fail from watching for your salvation
and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.(A)
Psalm 119:82
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82 My eyes fail with watching for your promise;
I ask, “When will you comfort me?”(A)
Psalm 69:3
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3 I am weary with my crying;
my throat is parched.
My eyes grow dim
with waiting for my God.(A)
Job 17:5
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5 Those who denounce friends for reward—
the eyes of their children will fail.(A)
Job 11:20
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20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail;
all way of escape will be lost to them,
and their hope is to breathe their last.”(A)
Nehemiah 5:2-5
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2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many; we must get grain, so that we may eat and stay alive.” 3 There were also those who said, “We are having to pledge our fields, our vineyards, and our houses in order to get grain during the famine.” 4 And there were those who said, “We are having to borrow money on our fields and vineyards to pay the king’s tax.(A) 5 Now our flesh is the same as that of our kindred; our children are the same as their children; and yet we are forcing our sons and daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been ravished; we are powerless, and our fields and vineyards now belong to others.”(B)
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Deuteronomy 28:65
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65 Among those nations you shall find no ease, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a languishing spirit.(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:18
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18 “Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock.
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Numbers 21:29
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29 Woe to you, O Moab!
You are undone, O people of Chemosh!
He has made his sons fugitives
and his daughters captives
to an Amorite king, Sihon.(A)
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