Habakkuk 2:7
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7 (A)Will not your debtors suddenly arise,
and those awake who will make you tremble?
Then you will be spoil for them.
Proverbs 29:1
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29 (A)He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck,
will suddenly be (B)broken (C)beyond healing.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
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3 While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then (A)sudden destruction will come upon them (B)as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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Nahum 1:9-10
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9 What (A)do you plot against the Lord?
(B)He will make a complete end;
trouble will not rise up a second time.
10 For they are (C)like entangled thorns,
like drunkards as they drink;
(D)they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
Daniel 5:25-31
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25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin. 26 This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered[a] the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; 27 Tekel, (A)you have been weighed[b] in the balances and found wanting; 28 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to (B)the Medes and (C)Persians.”[c]
29 Then (D)Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel (E)was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
30 (F)That very night (G)Belshazzar the (H)Chaldean king was killed. 31 [d] And (I)Darius (J)the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
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- Daniel 5:26 Mene sounds like the Aramaic for numbered
- Daniel 5:27 Tekel sounds like the Aramaic for weighed
- Daniel 5:28 Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia
- Daniel 5:31 Ch 6:1 in Aramaic
Jeremiah 51:57
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57 (A)I will make drunk her officials and her wise men,
(B)her governors, her commanders, and her warriors;
they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake,
declares (C)the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
Jeremiah 51:27-28
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27 (A)“Set up a standard on the earth;
(B)blow the trumpet among the nations;
(C)prepare (D)the nations for war against her;
summon against her (E)the kingdoms,
(F)Ararat, Minni, and (G)Ashkenaz;
appoint a (H)marshal against her;
(I)bring up horses like bristling locusts.
28 (J)Prepare (K)the nations for war against her,
the kings of (L)the Medes, (M)with their governors (N)and deputies,
and every (O)land under their dominion.
Jeremiah 51:11
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Jeremiah 50:21-32
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21 “Go up against the land of Merathaim,[a]
and against the inhabitants of Pekod.[b]
Kill, (A)and devote them to destruction,[c]
declares the Lord,
and do all that I have commanded you.
22 (B)The noise of battle is in the land,
and great destruction!
23 (C)How the hammer of the whole earth
is cut down and broken!
(D)How Babylon (E)has become
a horror among the nations!
24 (F)I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon,
and (G)you did not know it;
you were found and caught,
because you opposed the Lord.
25 The Lord has opened his armory
and brought out (H)the weapons of his wrath,
for the Lord God of hosts has a work to do
in the land of the Chaldeans.
26 Come against her from every quarter;
open her granaries;
(I)pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction;
let nothing be left of her.
27 Kill all (J)her bulls;
let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them, for their day has come,
(K)the time of their punishment.
28 “A voice! They (L)flee and escape from the land of Babylon, (M)to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, vengeance for (N)his temple.
29 (O)“Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. (P)Encamp around her; let no one escape. (Q)Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has (R)proudly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. 30 (S)Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed on that day, declares the Lord.
31 “Behold, I am against you, O (T)proud one,
declares the Lord God of hosts,
(U)for your day has come,
the time when I will punish you.
32 (V)The proud one shall stumble and fall,
with none to raise him up,
(W)and I will kindle a fire in his cities,
and it will devour all that is around him.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:21 Merathaim means double rebellion
- Jeremiah 50:21 Pekod means punishment
- Jeremiah 50:21 That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
Jeremiah 8:17
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17 For behold, I am sending among you (A)serpents,
adders (B)that cannot be charmed,
(C)and they shall bite you,”
declares the Lord.
Isaiah 48:14-15
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14 “Assemble, all of you, and listen!
(A)Who among them has declared these things?
The Lord loves him;
(B)he shall perform his purpose on Babylon,
and his arm shall be against (C)the Chaldeans.
15 (D)I, even I, have spoken and called him;
I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
Isaiah 47:11
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11 But evil shall come upon you,
which you will not know how to charm away;
disaster shall fall upon you,
for which you will not be able to atone;
(A)and ruin shall come upon you suddenly,
of which you know nothing.
Isaiah 46:11
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11 (A)calling a bird of prey from the east,
the man of my counsel from a far country.
(B)I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass;
I have purposed, and I will do it.
Isaiah 45:1-3
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Cyrus, God's Instrument
45 Thus says the Lord to (A)his anointed, to Cyrus,
(B)whose right hand I have grasped,
to subdue nations before him
and (C)to loose the belts of kings,
to open doors before him
that gates may not be closed:
2 “I will go before you
and (D)level the exalted places,[a]
(E)I will break in pieces the doors of bronze
and cut through the bars of iron,
3 (F)I will give you the treasures of darkness
and the hoards in secret places,
that you may know that it is I, the Lord,
the God of Israel, (G)who call you by your name.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:2 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint level the mountains
Isaiah 41:25
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25 (A)I stirred up one from the north, and he has come,
(B)from the rising of the sun, (C)and he shall call upon my name;
he shall trample on rulers as on mortar,
as the potter treads clay.
Isaiah 21:2-9
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2 A stern vision is told to me;
(A)the traitor betrays,
and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, O (B)Elam;
lay siege, O (C)Media;
all the (D)sighing she has caused
I bring to an end.
3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
(E)pangs have seized me,
like the pangs of a woman in labor;
I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
4 My heart staggers; horror has appalled me;
(F)the twilight I longed for
has been turned for me into trembling.
5 (G)They prepare the table,
they spread the rugs,[a]
they eat, they drink.
Arise, O princes;
(H)oil the shield!
6 For thus the Lord said to me:
“Go, set a watchman;
let him announce what he sees.
7 When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs,
riders on donkeys, riders on camels,
let him listen diligently,
very diligently.”
8 Then he who saw cried out:[b]
(I)“Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord,
continually by day,
and at my post I am stationed
whole nights.
9 And behold, here come riders,
horsemen in pairs!”
(J)And he answered,
(K)“Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
(L)and all the carved images of her gods
he has shattered to the ground.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 21:5 Or they set the watchman
- Isaiah 21:8 Dead Sea Scroll, Syriac; Masoretic Text Then a lion cried out, or Then he cried out like a lion
Isaiah 13:16-18
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16 (A)Their infants will be dashed in pieces
before their eyes;
their houses will be plundered
and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, (B)I am stirring up the Medes against them,
who have no regard for silver
and do not delight in gold.
18 (C)Their bows will slaughter[a] the young men;
they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
their eyes will not pity children.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:18 Hebrew dash in pieces
Isaiah 13:1-5
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The Judgment of Babylon
13 The oracle concerning (A)Babylon which (B)Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
2 On a bare hill (C)raise a signal;
cry aloud to them;
wave the hand for (D)them to enter
the gates of the nobles.
3 I myself have commanded my consecrated ones,
and have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger,
my proudly exulting ones.[a]
4 The sound (E)of a tumult is on the mountains
as of a great multitude!
The sound of an uproar of kingdoms,
of nations gathering together!
(F)The Lord of hosts is mustering
a host for battle.
5 (G)They come from a distant land,
from the end of the heavens,
the Lord and the weapons of his indignation,
to destroy the whole land.[b]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:3 Or those who exult in my majesty
- Isaiah 13:5 Or earth; also verse 9
Ecclesiastes 10:8
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