Ezekiel 16:5
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5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out into the open field, when you yourself were [a]loathed on the day you were born.
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- Ezekiel 16:5 abhorred
Deuteronomy 32:10
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10 “He found him (A)in a desert land
And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;
He encircled him, He instructed him,
He (B)kept him as the [a]apple of His eye.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:10 pupil
Lamentations 4:3
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3 Even the jackals present their breasts
To nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people is cruel,
(A)Like ostriches in the wilderness.
Numbers 19:16
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16 (A)Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
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Exodus 1:22
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22 So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, (A)“Every son who is [a]born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
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- Exodus 1:22 Sam., LXX, Tg. add to the Hebrews
Genesis 21:10
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10 Therefore she said to Abraham, (A)“Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, namely with Isaac.”
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Ezekiel 2:6
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6 “And you, son of man, (A)do not be afraid of them nor be afraid of their words, though (B)briers and thorns are with you and you dwell among scorpions; (C)do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their looks, (D)though they are a rebellious house.
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Lamentations 4:10
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10 The hands of the (A)compassionate women
Have [a]cooked their (B)own children;
They became (C)food for them
In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:10 boiled
Lamentations 2:19
New King James Version
19 “Arise, (A)cry out in the night,
At the beginning of the watches;
(B)Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
Lift your hands toward Him
For the life of your young children,
Who faint from hunger (C)at the head of every street.”
Lamentations 2:11
New King James Version
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.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:11 Lit. inward parts
- Lamentations 2:11 Lit. liver
Jeremiah 22:19
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19 (A)He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey,
Dragged and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 9:21-22
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21 For death has come through our windows,
Has entered our palaces,
To kill off (A)the children—[a]no longer to be outside!
And the young men—[b]no longer on the streets!
22 Speak, “Thus says the Lord:
‘Even the carcasses of men shall fall (B)as refuse on the open field,
Like cuttings after the harvester,
And no one shall gather them.’ ”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:21 Lit. from outside
- Jeremiah 9:21 Lit. from the square
Isaiah 49:15
New King James Version
15 “Can(A) a woman forget her nursing child,
[a]And not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Surely they may forget,
(B)Yet I will not forget you.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:15 Lit. From having compassion
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