Jeremiah 4:21
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21 How long must I see the standard
and hear the sound of the trumpet?
Jeremiah 6:1
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The Imminence and Horror of the Invasion
6 Flee for safety, O children of Benjamin,
from the midst of Jerusalem!
Blow the trumpet in Tekoa,
and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem,
for evil looms out of the north
and great destruction.(A)
Jeremiah 4:19
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Sorrow for a Doomed Nation
19 My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain!
Oh, the walls of my heart!
My heart is beating wildly;
I cannot keep silent,
for I[a] hear the sound of the trumpet,
the alarm of war.(A)
Footnotes
- 4.19 Or for you, O my soul,
Jeremiah 4:5-6
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Invasion and Desolation of Judah Threatened
5 Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say:
Blow the trumpet through the land;
shout aloud[a] and say,
“Gather together, and let us go
into the fortified cities!”(A)
6 Raise a standard toward Zion;
flee for safety; do not delay,
for I am bringing evil from the north
and a great destruction.(B)
Footnotes
- 4.5 Or shout, take your weapons: Heb shout, fill (your hand)
2 Chronicles 36:17
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17 Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their youths with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or young woman, the aged or the feeble; he gave them all into his hand.(A)
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2 Chronicles 36:10
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10 In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, along with the precious vessels of the house of the Lord, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.(A)
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2 Chronicles 36:6-7
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6 Against him King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came up and bound him with fetters to take him to Babylon.(A) 7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried some of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon.(B)
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2 Chronicles 36:3
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3 Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid on the land a tribute of one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
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2 Chronicles 35:25
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25 Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a custom in Israel; they are recorded in the Laments.(A)
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