Jeremiah 4:30
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30 And you, O desolate one,
what do you mean that you dress in scarlet,
(A)that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold,
(B)that you enlarge your eyes with paint?
In vain you beautify yourself.
(C)Your lovers despise you;
they seek your life.
2 Kings 9:30
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Jehu Executes Jezebel
30 When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And (A)she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window.
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Lamentations 1:19
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19 “I called to (A)my lovers,
but they deceived me;
my priests and elders
perished in the city,
while (B)they sought food
to revive their strength.
Lamentations 1:2
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2 (A)She weeps bitterly in the night,
with tears on her cheeks;
(B)among all her lovers
she has (C)none to comfort her;
(D)all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
they have become her enemies.
Ezekiel 23:9-10
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9 Therefore (A)I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. 10 (B)These uncovered her nakedness; (C)they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became (D)a byword among women, (E)when judgment had been executed on her.
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Isaiah 10:3
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3 What will you do on (A)the day of punishment,
in the ruin that will come (B)from afar?
To whom will you flee for help,
and where will you leave your wealth?
Ezekiel 28:13
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13 You were in (A)Eden, the garden of God;
(B)every precious stone was your covering,
(C)sardius, topaz, and diamond,
beryl, onyx, and jasper,
sapphire,[a] (D)emerald, and carbuncle;
and crafted in gold were your settings
and your engravings.[b]
(E)On the day that you were created
they were prepared.
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 28:13 Or lapis lazuli
- Ezekiel 28:13 The meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain
Jeremiah 13:21
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21 What will you say when they set as head over you
those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you?
(A)Will not pangs take hold of you
like those of a woman in labor?
Isaiah 20:6
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6 And the inhabitants of (A)this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and (B)to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?’”
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Revelation 17:13
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13 These are of one mind, and they hand over their power and authority to the beast.
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Revelation 17:4
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4 The woman (A)was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned (B)with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand (C)a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.
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Revelation 17:2
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2 (A)with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and (B)with the wine of whose sexual immorality (C)the dwellers on earth have become drunk.”
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Ezekiel 28:9
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9 (A)Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’
in the presence of those who kill you,
though (B)you are but a man, and no god,
in the hands of those who slay you?
Ezekiel 23:40-41
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40 They even sent for men to come from afar, (A)to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, (B)painted your eyes, (C)and adorned yourself with ornaments. 41 You sat on (D)a stately couch, with a table spread before it (E)on which you had placed my incense and (F)my oil.
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Ezekiel 23:28-29
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28 “For thus says the Lord God: (A)Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, (B)into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust, 29 and (C)they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor (D)and leave you naked and bare, and (E)the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring
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Ezekiel 23:22-24
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22 Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers (A)from whom you turned in disgust, (B)and I will bring them against you from every side: 23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, (C)Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, (D)desirable young men, (E)governors and commanders all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. 24 And they shall come against you from the north[a] with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. (F)They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and (G)I will commit the judgment to them, and (H)they shall judge you according to their judgments.
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- Ezekiel 23:24 Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew word is unknown
Ezekiel 16:36-41
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36 Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, (A)and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them, 37 therefore, behold, (B)I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and (C)all those you hated. (D)I will gather them against you from every side (E)and will uncover your nakedness to them, that (F)they may see all your nakedness. 38 (G)And I will judge you (H)as women who commit adultery and (I)shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy. 39 And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your (J)vaulted chamber and break down (K)your lofty places. (L)They shall strip you of your clothes and take (M)your beautiful jewels and leave you (N)naked and bare. 40 (O)They shall bring up a crowd against you, (P)and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. 41 (Q)And they shall (R)burn your houses and (S)execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. (T)I will make you stop playing the whore, and (U)you shall also give payment no more.
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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.
Jeremiah 22:20-22
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20 “Go up to Lebanon, and cry out,
and lift up your voice in Bashan;
cry out from (A)Abarim,
for all (B)your lovers are destroyed.
21 I spoke to you in your prosperity,
but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
(C)This has been your way from (D)your youth,
that you have not obeyed my voice.
22 (E)The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds,
and (F)your lovers shall go into captivity;
(G)then you will be ashamed and confounded
because of all your evil.
Jeremiah 5:31
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31 (A)the prophets prophesy falsely,
and the priests rule at their direction;
(B)my people love to have it so,
but what will you do when the end comes?
Isaiah 33:14
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14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling has seized the godless:
(A)“Who among us can dwell (B)with the consuming fire?
Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”
Revelation 17:16-18
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16 And (A)the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast (B)will hate the prostitute. They will make her (C)desolate and (D)naked, and (E)devour her flesh and (F)burn her up with fire, 17 for (G)God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by being of one mind and (H)handing over their royal power to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. 18 And the woman that you saw is (I)the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth.”
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