Ezekiel 16:5
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5 No eye pitied you to do any of these things for you out of compassion for you, but you were thrown out in the open field, for you were abhorred on the day you were born.(A)
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Deuteronomy 32:10
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10 He sustained[a] him in a desert land,
in a howling wilderness waste;
he shielded him, cared for him,
guarded him as the apple of his eye.(A)
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- 32.10 Sam Gk Compare Tg: MT found
Lamentations 4:3
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3 Even the jackals offer the breast
and nurse their young,
but my people has become cruel,
like the ostriches in the wilderness.(A)
Numbers 19:16
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16 Whoever in the open field touches one who has been killed by a sword or who has died naturally,[a] or a human bone, or a grave shall be unclean seven days.(A)
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- 19.16 Heb lacks naturally
Exodus 1:22
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22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews[a] you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”(A)
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- 1.22 Sam Gk Tg: Heb lacks to the Hebrews
Genesis 21:10
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10 So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit along with my son Isaac.”(A)
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Ezekiel 2:6
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6 And you, O mortal, do not be afraid of them, and do not be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns surround you and you live among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words, and do not be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.(A)
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Lamentations 4:10
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10 The hands of compassionate women
have boiled their own children;
they became their food
in the destruction of my people.(A)
Lamentations 2:19
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19 Arise, cry out in the night,
at the beginning of the watches!
Pour out your heart like water
before the presence of the Lord!
Lift your hands to him
for the lives of your children,
who faint for hunger
at the head of every street.(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 22:19
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19 With the burial of a donkey he shall be buried:
dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.(A)
Jeremiah 9:21-22
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21 “Death has come up into our windows;
it has entered our palaces
to cut off the children from the streets
and the young men from the squares.”(A)
22 Speak! Thus says the Lord:
“Human corpses shall fall
like dung upon the open field,
like sheaves behind the reaper,
and no one shall gather them.”(B)
Isaiah 49:15
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15 Can a woman forget her nursing child
or show no compassion for the child of her womb?
Even these might forget,
yet I will not forget you.(A)
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