Jeremiah 4:5
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An Imminent Invasion
5 Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say:
(A)“Blow the trumpet in the land;
Cry, ‘Gather together,’
And say, (B)‘Assemble yourselves,
And let us go into the fortified cities.’
Jeremiah 8:14
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14 “Why do we sit still?
(A)Assemble yourselves,
And let us enter the fortified cities,
And let us be silent there.
For the Lord our God has put us to silence
And given us (B)water[a] of gall to drink,
Because we have sinned against the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 8:14 Bitter or poisonous water
Jeremiah 6:1
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Impending Destruction from the North
6 “O you children of Benjamin,
Gather yourselves to flee from the midst of Jerusalem!
Blow the trumpet in Tekoa,
And set up a signal-fire in (A)Beth Haccerem;
(B)For disaster appears out of the north,
And great destruction.
Joshua 10:20
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20 Then it happened, while Joshua and the children of Israel made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they had finished, that those who escaped entered fortified cities.
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Hosea 8:1
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The Apostasy of Israel
8 “Set the [a]trumpet to your mouth!
He shall come (A)like an eagle against the house of the Lord,
Because they have transgressed My covenant
And rebelled against My law.
Footnotes
- Hosea 8:1 ram’s horn, Heb. shophar
Amos 3:8
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8 A lion has roared!
Who will not fear?
The Lord God has spoken!
(A)Who can but prophesy?
Amos 3:6
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6 If a [a]trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid?
(A)If there is calamity in a city, will not the Lord have done it?
Footnotes
- Amos 3:6 ram’s horn
Ezekiel 33:2-6
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2 “Son of man, speak to (A)the children of your people, and say to them: (B)‘When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from their territory and make him their (C)watchman, 3 when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the trumpet and warns the people, 4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does (D)not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, (E)his blood shall be on his own head. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning will [a]save his life. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, (F)he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’
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- Ezekiel 33:5 Or deliver his soul
Jeremiah 35:11
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11 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, ‘Come, let us (A)go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and for fear of the army of the Syrians.’ So we dwell at Jerusalem.”
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Jeremiah 11:2
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2 “Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
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Jeremiah 9:12
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12 (A)Who is the wise man who may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken, that he may declare it? Why does the land perish and burn up like a wilderness, so that no one can pass through?
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Jeremiah 5:20
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20 “Declare this in the house of Jacob
And proclaim it in Judah, saying,
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