Jeremiah 37:7
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7 “Thus says the Lord, God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Judah who (A)sent you to me to inquire of me, ‘Behold, (B)Pharaoh's army that came to help you is about to (C)return to Egypt, to its own land.
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Lamentations 4:17
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17 (A)Our eyes failed, ever watching
(B)vainly for help;
in our watching we watched
for (C)a nation which could not save.
Ezekiel 17:17
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17 (A)Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in war, (B)when mounds are cast up and siege walls built to cut off many lives.
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Jeremiah 21:2
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2 (A)“Inquire of the Lord for us, (B)for Nebuchadnezzar[a] king of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps the Lord will deal with us according to (C)all his wonderful deeds and will make him withdraw from us.”
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- Jeremiah 21:2 Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar, an alternate spelling of Nebuchadnezzar (king of Babylon) occurring frequently from Jeremiah 21–52; this latter spelling is used throughout Jeremiah for consistency
Isaiah 31:1-3
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Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt
31 Woe[a] to (A)those who go down to Egypt for help
and rely on horses,
who (B)trust in chariots because they are many
and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but (C)do not look to the Holy One of Israel
or consult the Lord!
2 And (D)yet he is wise and brings disaster;
(E)he does not call back his words,
but (F)will arise against the house of the evildoers
and against the helpers of (G)those who work iniquity.
3 The Egyptians are man, and not God,
and their horses (H)are flesh, and not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out his hand,
the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall,
and they will all perish together.
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- Isaiah 31:1 Or Ah,
2 Kings 22:18
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18 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard,
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Ezekiel 29:16
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16 And it shall never again be (A)the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. (B)Then they will know that I am the Lord God.”
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Ezekiel 29:6-7
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6 Then all the inhabitants of Egypt (A)shall know that I am the Lord.
“Because you[a] have been (B)a staff of reed to the house of Israel, 7 (C)when they grasped you with the hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke and made all their loins to shake.[b]
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- Ezekiel 29:6 Hebrew they
- Ezekiel 29:7 Syriac (compare Psalm 69:23); Hebrew to stand
Jeremiah 17:5-6
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5 Thus says the Lord:
“Cursed is the man (A)who trusts in man
and makes flesh his strength,[a]
whose heart turns away from the Lord.
6 (B)He is like a shrub in the desert,
(C)and shall not see any good come.
He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,
in (D)an uninhabited salt land.
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- Jeremiah 17:5 Hebrew arm
Jeremiah 2:36
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36 (A)How much you go about,
changing your way!
You shall be (B)put to shame by Egypt
as you were put to shame by Assyria.
Isaiah 30:1-6
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Do Not Go Down to Egypt
30 “Ah, (A)stubborn children,” declares the Lord,
(B)“who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make (C)an alliance,[a] but not of my Spirit,
that they may add sin to sin;
2 (D)who set out to go down to Egypt,
without asking for my direction,
to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh
and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
3 (E)Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame,
and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
4 For though his officials are at (F)Zoan
and (G)his envoys reach (H)Hanes,
5 everyone comes to shame
through (I)a people that cannot profit them,
that brings neither help nor profit,
but shame and disgrace.”
6 An (J)oracle on (K)the beasts of (L)the Negeb.
Through a land of trouble and anguish,
from where come the lioness and the lion,
the adder and the (M)flying fiery serpent,
they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys,
and their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people that cannot profit them.
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- Isaiah 30:1 Hebrew who weave a web
Proverbs 21:30
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30 (A)No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel
can avail against the Lord.
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