Ezekiel 19:14
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14 And fire has gone out from its stem,
has consumed its branches and fruit,
so that there remains in it no strong stem,
no scepter for ruling.
This is a lamentation, and it is used as a lamentation.(A)
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Ezekiel 19:11
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11 Its strongest stem became
a ruler’s scepter;[a]
it towered aloft
among the clouds;
it stood out in its height
with its mass of branches.(A)
Footnotes
- 19.11 Heb Its strongest stems became rulers’ scepters
Ezekiel 19:1
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Israel Degraded
19 As for you, raise up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,(A)
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Isaiah 9:18-19
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18 For wickedness burned like a fire,
consuming briers and thorns;
it kindled the thickets of the forest,
and they swirled upward in a column of smoke.(A)
19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts
the land was burned,
and the people became like fuel for the fire;
no one spared another.(B)
Psalm 80:15-16
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15 the stock that your right hand planted.[a]
16 It has been burned with fire; it has been cut down;
may they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.(A)
2 Kings 24:20
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20 Indeed, Jerusalem and Judah so angered the Lord that he expelled them from his presence.
The Fall and Captivity of Judah
Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.(A)
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Romans 9:2-4
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2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my own brothers and sisters, my own flesh and blood.(A) 4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;(B)
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John 19:15
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15 They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate asked them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”
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Luke 19:41
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Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem
41 As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it,(A)
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Amos 9:11
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The Restoration of David’s Kingdom
11 On that day I will raise up
the booth of David that is fallen
and repair its[a] breaches
and raise up its[b] ruins
and rebuild it as in the days of old,(A)
Hosea 10:3
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3 For now they will say:
“We have no king,
for we do not fear the Lord,
and a king—what could he do for us?”
Hosea 3:4
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4 For the Israelites shall remain many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or teraphim.(A)
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Ezekiel 21:25-27
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25 As for you, vile, wicked prince of Israel,
you whose day has come,
the time of final punishment,(A)
26 thus says the Lord God:
Remove the turban, take off the crown;
things shall not remain as they are.
Exalt that which is low;
humble that which is high.(B)
27 A ruin, a ruin, a ruin—
I will make it!
(Such has never occurred.)
Until he comes whose right it is;
to him I will give it.(C)
Ezekiel 20:47
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47 say to the forest of the Negeb: Hear the word of the Lord: Thus says the Lord God: I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you and every dry tree; the blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it.(A)
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Ezekiel 17:18-20
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18 Because he despised the oath and broke the covenant, because he gave his hand and yet did all these things, he shall not escape.(A) 19 Therefore thus says the Lord God: As I live, I will surely return upon his head my oath that he despised and my covenant that he broke. 20 I will spread my net over him, and he shall be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treason he has committed against me.(B)
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Ezekiel 15:4
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4 It is put in the fire for fuel;
when the fire has consumed both ends of it
and the middle of it is charred,
is it useful for anything?(A)
Lamentations 4:20
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20 The Lord’s anointed, the breath of our life,
was taken in their pits—
the one of whom we said, “Under his shadow
we shall live among the nations.”(A)
Jeremiah 52:3
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3 Indeed, Jerusalem and Judah so angered the Lord that he expelled them from his presence.
Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.(A)
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Jeremiah 38:23
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23 “All your wives and your children shall be led out to the Chaldeans, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand but shall be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burned with fire.”(A)
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Psalm 79:7
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7 For they have devoured Jacob
and laid waste his habitation.
Nehemiah 9:37
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37 Its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins; they have power also over our bodies and over our livestock at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.”(A)
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2 Chronicles 36:13
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13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel.(A)
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Judges 9:15
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15 And the bramble said to the trees,
‘If in good faith you are anointing me king over you,
then come and take refuge in my shade,
but if not, let fire come out of the bramble
and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’(A)
Genesis 49:10
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10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah,
nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
until tribute comes to him,[a]
and the obedience of the peoples is his.(A)
Footnotes
- 49.10 Or until Shiloh comes or until he comes to Shiloh or (with Syr) until he comes to whom it belongs
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