Isaiah 42:22
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22 But this is a people plundered and looted;
they are all of them trapped in holes
(A)and hidden in prisons;
they have become plunder with none to rescue,
spoil with none to say, “Restore!”
Psalm 102:20
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Isaiah 51:23
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23 (A)and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
(B)who have said to you,
‘Bow down, that we may pass over’;
and (C)you have made your back like the ground
and like the street for them to pass over.”
Psalm 50:22
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Luke 19:41-44
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Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem
41 (A)And when he drew near and saw the city, (B)he wept over it, 42 saying, (C)“Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now (D)they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For (E)the days will come upon you, when your enemies (F)will set up a barricade around you and (G)surround you and hem you in on every side 44 (H)and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And (I)they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know (J)the time of your (K)visitation.”
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Jeremiah 51:34-35
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34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon (A)has devoured me;
he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
(B)he has swallowed me like (C)a monster;
he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
he has rinsed me out.[a]
35 The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon,”
let the inhabitant of Zion say.
“My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
let Jerusalem say.
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- Jeremiah 51:34 Or he has expelled me
Isaiah 52:4-5
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4 For thus says the Lord God: (A)“My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.[a] 5 Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and (B)continually all the day my name is despised.
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- Isaiah 52:4 Or the Assyrian has oppressed them of late
Isaiah 42:7
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7 (A)to open the eyes that are blind,
to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,
(B)from the prison those who sit in darkness.
Isaiah 24:22
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22 (A)They will be gathered together
as prisoners in a pit;
they will be shut up in a prison,
and after many days (B)they will be punished.
Isaiah 24:18
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18 (A)He who flees at the sound of the terror
shall fall into the pit,
and he who climbs out of the pit
shall be caught in the snare.
For (B)the windows of heaven are opened,
and (C)the foundations of the earth tremble.
Isaiah 18:2
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2 which (A)sends ambassadors by the sea,
in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation (B)tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
a nation (C)mighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide.
Isaiah 14:17
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17 who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
(A)who did not let his prisoners go home?’
Isaiah 1:7
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7 (A)Your country lies desolate;
your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
foreigners devour your land;
it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
Deuteronomy 28:29-33
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29 and you shall (A)grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways.[a] And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you. 30 (B)You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. (C)You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. (D)You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you. 32 (E)Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, (F)but you shall be helpless. 33 A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually,
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- Deuteronomy 28:29 Or shall not succeed in finding your ways
Luke 21:20-24
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Jesus Foretells Destruction of Jerusalem
20 “But (A)when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that (B)its desolation has come near. 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it, 22 for these are (C)days of (D)vengeance, to fulfill (E)all that is written. 23 (F)Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and (G)wrath against this people. 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and (H)be led captive among all nations, and (I)Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, (J)until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
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Jeremiah 52:31
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Jehoiachin Released from Prison
31 (A)And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed[a] (B)Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.
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- Jeremiah 52:31 Hebrew reign, lifted up the head of
Jeremiah 52:4-11
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4 (A)And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it. 5 So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 6 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah. 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. 9 Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him. 10 The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at (B)Riblah. 11 (C)He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison (D)till the day of his death.
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Isaiah 56:9
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Israel's Irresponsible Leaders
9 (A)All you beasts of the field, come to devour—
all you beasts in the forest.
Isaiah 45:13
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13 (A)I have stirred him up in righteousness,
(B)and I will make all his ways level;
(C)he shall build my city
(D)and set my exiles free,
not for price or reward,”
says the Lord of hosts.
Isaiah 36:1
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Sennacherib Invades Judah
36 (A)In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, (B)Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
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