Isaiah 8:21
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21 They will pass through the land,[a] greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against[b] their king and their God, and turn their faces upward.
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- Isaiah 8:21 Hebrew it
- Isaiah 8:21 Or speak contemptuously by
Isaiah 9:20
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20 (A)They slice meat on the right, but are still hungry,
and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied;
(B)each devours the flesh of his own arm,
Proverbs 19:3
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Revelation 16:9-11
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9 They were scorched by the fierce heat, and (A)they cursed[a] the name of God who had power over these plagues. (B)They did not repent (C)and give him glory.
10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on (D)the throne of the beast, and (E)its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish 11 and cursed (F)the God of heaven for their pain and (G)sores. (H)They did not repent of their deeds.
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- Revelation 16:9 Greek blasphemed; also verses 11, 21
Revelation 9:20-21
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20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, (A)did not repent of (B)the works of their hands nor give up worshiping (C)demons (D)and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, 21 nor did they repent of their murders or their (E)sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
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Lamentations 4:9-10
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9 Happier were the victims of the sword
than the victims of hunger,
who wasted away, pierced
by lack of the fruits of the field.
10 (A)The hands of (B)compassionate women
(C)have boiled their own children;
(D)they became their food
during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4:4-5
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4 The tongue of the nursing infant (A)sticks
to the roof of its mouth for thirst;
(B)the children beg for food,
but no one gives to them.
5 Those who once feasted on delicacies
perish in the streets;
(C)those who were brought up in purple
embrace ash heaps.
Jeremiah 52:6
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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.
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Jeremiah 14:18
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18 (A)If I go out into the field,
behold, those pierced by the sword!
(B)And if I enter the city,
behold, the diseases of famine!
(C)For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land
and have no knowledge.’”
Isaiah 8:7-8
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7 therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them (A)the waters of (B)the River,[a] mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it (C)will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks, 8 and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, (D)reaching even to the neck, and its (E)outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, (F)O Immanuel.”
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- Isaiah 8:7 That is, the Euphrates
Job 2:9
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9 Then his wife said to him, “Do you still (A)hold fast your integrity? (B)Curse God and die.”
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Job 2:5
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5 But (A)stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will (B)curse you to your face.”
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Job 1:11
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11 But (A)stretch out your hand and (B)touch all that he has, and he will (C)curse you (D)to your face.”
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2 Kings 25:3
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3 On the ninth day of the fourth month (A)the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
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Deuteronomy 28:53-57
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53 And (A)you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, (B)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 54 The man who is the most tender and refined among you will (C)begrudge food to his brother, to (D)the wife he embraces,[a] and to the last of the children whom he has left, 55 so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, (E)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 (F)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,[b] to her son and to her daughter, 57 her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, (G)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
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- Deuteronomy 28:54 Hebrew the wife of his bosom
- Deuteronomy 28:56 Hebrew the husband of her bosom
Deuteronomy 28:33-34
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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, 34 so that you are driven mad (A)by the sights that your eyes see.
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Exodus 22:28
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28 (A)“You shall not revile God, nor (B)curse a ruler of your people.
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2 Kings 6:33
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33 And while he was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him and said, “This trouble is from the Lord! (A)Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”
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