Hosea 9:12
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12 Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them to the last man.
Yes, (A)woe to them when I depart from them!
Hosea 7:13
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13 “Woe to them, for they have fled from Me!
Destruction to them,
Because they have transgressed against Me!
Though (A)I redeemed them,
Yet they have spoken lies against Me.
Hosea 9:16
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16 Ephraim is (A)stricken,
Their root is dried up;
They shall bear no fruit.
Yes, were they to bear children,
I would kill the darlings of their womb.”
Deuteronomy 32:25
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25 The sword shall destroy outside;
There shall be terror within
For the young man and virgin,
The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
Deuteronomy 31:17
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17 Then My anger shall be (A)aroused against them in that day, and (B)I will forsake them, and I will (C)hide My face from them, and they shall be [a]devoured. And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, (D)‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is (E)not among us?’
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- Deuteronomy 31:17 consumed
Hosea 9:13
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13 Just (A)as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place,
So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.”
Hosea 9:5-6
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5 What will you do in the appointed day,
And in the day of the feast of the Lord?
6 For indeed they are gone because of destruction.
Egypt shall gather them up;
Memphis shall bury them.
(A)Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver;
Thorns shall be in their tents.
Lamentations 2:20
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20 “See, O Lord, and consider!
To whom have You done this?
(A)Should the women eat their offspring,
The children [a]they have cuddled?
Should the priest and prophet be slain
In the sanctuary of the Lord?
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- Lamentations 2:20 Vg. a span long
Jeremiah 16:3-4
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3 For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them and their fathers who begot them in this land: 4 “They shall die (A)gruesome deaths; they shall not be (B)lamented nor shall they be (C)buried, but they shall be (D)like refuse on the face of the earth. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their (E)corpses shall be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.”
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Jeremiah 15:7
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7 And I will winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land;
I will (A)bereave them of children;
I will destroy My people,
Since they (B)do not return from their ways.
Job 27:14
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14 (A)If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword;
And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
2 Kings 17:23
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23 until the Lord removed Israel out of His sight, (A)as He had said by all His servants the prophets. (B)So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is to this day.
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2 Kings 17:18
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18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left (A)but the tribe of Judah alone.
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