Jeremiah 16:16
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16 “Behold, I will send for many (A)fishermen,” says the Lord, “and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
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Habakkuk 1:14-15
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14 Why do You make men like fish of the sea,
Like creeping things that have no ruler over them?
15 They take up all of them with a hook,
They catch them in their net,
And gather them in their dragnet.
Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
Amos 4:2
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2 (A)The Lord God has sworn by His holiness:
“Behold, the days shall come upon you
When He will take you away (B)with fishhooks,
And your posterity with fishhooks.
Micah 7:2
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2 The (A)faithful[a] man has perished from the earth,
And there is no one upright among men.
They all lie in wait for blood;
(B)Every man hunts his brother with a net.
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- Micah 7:2 Or loyal
Revelation 6:15-17
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15 And the (A)kings of the earth, the great men, [a]the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, (B)hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, 16 (C)and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who (D)sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of His wrath has come, (E)and who is able to stand?”
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- Revelation 6:15 NU, M the commanders, the rich men,
Amos 9:1-3
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The Destruction of Israel
9 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said:
“Strike the [a]doorposts, that the thresholds may shake,
And (A)break them on the heads of them all.
I will slay the last of them with the sword.
(B)He who flees from them shall not get away,
And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.
2 “Though(C) they dig into [b]hell,
From there My hand shall take them;
(D)Though they climb up to heaven,
From there I will bring them down;
3 And though they (E)hide themselves on top of Carmel,
From there I will search and take them;
Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea,
From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;
1 Samuel 26:20
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20 So now, do not let my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lord. For the king of Israel has come out to seek (A)a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”
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Genesis 10:9
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9 He was a mighty (A)hunter (B)before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.”
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Jeremiah 25:9
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9 behold, I will send and take (A)all the families of the north,’ says the Lord, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (B)My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and (C)make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
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Isaiah 24:17-18
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17 (A)Fear and the pit and the snare
Are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall be
That he who flees from the noise of the fear
Shall fall into the pit,
And he who comes up from the midst of the pit
Shall be [a]caught in the snare;
For (B)the windows from on high are open,
And (C)the foundations of the earth are shaken.
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- Isaiah 24:18 Lit. taken
Amos 5:19
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19 It will be (A)as though a man fled from a lion,
And a bear met him!
Or as though he went into the house,
Leaned his hand on the wall,
And a serpent bit him!
1 Samuel 24:11
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11 Moreover, my father, see! Yes, see the corner of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the corner of your robe, and did not kill you, know and see that there is (A)neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you. Yet you (B)hunt my life to take it.
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Luke 17:34-37
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34 (A)I tell you, in that night there will be two [a]men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. 35 (B)Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. 36 [b]Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.”
37 And they answered and said to Him, (C)“Where, Lord?”
So He said to them, “Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.”
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- Luke 17:34 Or people
- Luke 17:36 NU, M omit v. 36.
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