Isaiah 32:9
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Complacent Women Warned of Disaster
9 (A)Rise up, you women (B)who are at ease, hear my voice;
you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.
Matthew 13:9
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9 (A)He who has ears,[a] let him hear.”
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- Matthew 13:9 Some manuscripts add here and in verse 43 to hear
Isaiah 28:23
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23 Give ear, and hear my voice;
give attention, and hear my speech.
Isaiah 3:16
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16 The Lord said:
(A)Because (B)the daughters of Zion are haughty
and walk with outstretched necks,
glancing wantonly with their eyes,
mincing along as they go,
(C)tinkling with their feet,
Zephaniah 2:15
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15 This is the exultant city
(A)that lived securely,
that said in her heart,
“I am, and there is no one else.”
What a desolation she has become,
(B)a lair for wild beasts!
(C)Everyone who passes by her
hisses and (D)shakes his fist.
Amos 6:1-6
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Woe to Those at Ease in Zion
6 (A)“Woe to those who are at ease in Zion,
and to those who feel secure on (B)the mountain of Samaria,
(C)the notable men of (D)the first of the nations,
to whom the house of Israel comes!
2 Pass over to (E)Calneh, and see,
and from there go to (F)Hamath the great;
then go down to (G)Gath of the Philistines.
(H)Are you better than these kingdoms?
Or is their territory greater than your territory,
3 (I)O you who put far away the day of disaster
(J)and bring near the seat of violence?
4 “Woe to those (K)who lie on (L)beds of ivory
(M)and stretch themselves out on their couches,
and eat lambs from the flock
(N)and calves from the midst of the stall,
5 (O)who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp
and like David (P)invent for themselves instruments of music,
6 (Q)who drink wine in bowls
and (R)anoint themselves with the finest oils,
but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!
Lamentations 4:5
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5 Those who once feasted on delicacies
perish in the streets;
(A)those who were brought up in purple
embrace ash heaps.
Jeremiah 48:11-12
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11 “Moab has been at ease from his youth
and has (A)settled on his dregs;
he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
nor has he gone into exile;
so his taste remains in him,
and his scent is not changed.
12 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I shall send to him pourers who will pour him, and empty his vessels and break his[a] jars in pieces.
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- Jeremiah 48:12 Septuagint, Aquila; Hebrew their
Jeremiah 6:2-6
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2 The lovely and delicately bred I will destroy,
(A)the daughter of Zion.[a]
3 (B)Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her;
(C)they shall pitch their tents around her;
they shall pasture, each in his place.
4 (D)“Prepare war against her;
arise, and let us attack (E)at noon!
Woe to us, for the day declines,
for the shadows of evening lengthen!
5 Arise, and let us attack by night
and destroy her palaces!”
6 For thus says the Lord of hosts:
(F)“Cut down her trees;
(G)cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem.
This is the city that must be (H)punished;
there is nothing but oppression within her.
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- Jeremiah 6:2 Or I have likened the daughter of Zion to the loveliest pasture
Isaiah 47:7-8
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7 You said, “I shall be (A)mistress forever,”
so that you did not lay these things to heart
or remember their end.
8 Now therefore hear this, (B)you lover of pleasures,
(C)who sit securely,
who say in your heart,
(D)“I am, and there is no one besides me;
(E)I shall not sit as a widow
or know the loss of children”:
Psalm 49:1-2
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Why Should I Fear in Times of Trouble?
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of (A)the Sons of Korah.
49 (B)Hear this, all peoples!
Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,
2 (C)both low and high,
rich and poor together!
Judges 9:7
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7 When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on top of (A)Mount Gerizim and cried aloud and said to them, “Listen to me, you leaders of Shechem, that God may listen to you.
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Deuteronomy 28:56
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56 (A)The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces,[a] to her son and to her daughter,
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- Deuteronomy 28:56 Hebrew the husband of her bosom
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