Jeremiah 47:2
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2 Thus says the Lord:
See, waters are rising out of the north
and shall become an overflowing torrent;
they shall overflow the land and all that fills it,
the city and those who live in it.
People shall cry out,
and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.(A)
Jeremiah 46:20
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20 A beautiful heifer is Egypt—
a gadfly from the north lights upon her.(A)
Jeremiah 8:16
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16 The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan;
at the sound of the neighing of their stallions
the whole land quakes.
They come and devour the land and all that fills it,
the city and those who live in it.(A)
Jeremiah 1:14
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14 Then the Lord said to me: “Out of the north disaster shall break out on all the inhabitants of the land.(A)
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Isaiah 15:2-5
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2 Daughter Dibon[a] has gone up
to the high places to weep;
over Nebo and over Medeba
Moab wails.
Every head is shaved;
every beard is shorn;(A)
3 in the streets they bind on sackcloth;
on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.(B)
4 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out;
their voices are heard as far as Jahaz;
therefore the loins of Moab quiver;[b]
his soul trembles.
5 My heart cries out for Moab;
his fugitives flee to Zoar,
to Eglath-shelishiyah.
For at the ascent of Luhith
they go up weeping;
on the road to Horonaim
they raise a cry of destruction;(C)
Isaiah 8:7-8
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7 therefore the Lord is bringing up against it the mighty flood waters of the River, the king of Assyria and all his glory; it will rise above all its channels and overflow all its banks; 8 it will sweep on into Judah as a flood and, pouring over, will reach up to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.(A)
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Revelation 17:15
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15 And he said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the whore[a] is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.(A)
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- 17.15 Or prostitute
Revelation 17:1
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The Great Whore and the Beast
17 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great whore[a] who is seated on many waters,(A)
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- 17.1 Or prostitute
Revelation 12:15-16
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15 Then from his mouth the serpent poured water like a river after the woman, to sweep her away with the flood.(A) 16 But the earth came to the help of the woman; it opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.
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James 5:1
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Warning to Rich Oppressors
5 Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to you.
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1 Corinthians 10:28
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28 But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, out of consideration for the one who informed you and for the sake of conscience—
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1 Corinthians 10:26
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26 for “the earth and its fullness are the Lord’s.”(A)
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Zephaniah 1:10-11
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10 On that day, says the Lord,
a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate,
a wail from the Second Quarter,
a loud crash from the hills.(A)
11 The inhabitants of the Mortar wail,
for all the traders have perished;
all who weigh out silver are cut off.
Nahum 1:8
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8 even in a rushing flood.
He will make a full end of his adversaries[a]
and will pursue his enemies into darkness.(A)
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- 1.8 Gk: Heb of her place
Amos 9:5-6
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5 The Lord, God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and it melts,
and all who live in it mourn,
and all of it rises like the Nile
and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt,(A)
6 who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
and founds his vault upon the earth,
who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
the Lord is his name.(B)
Daniel 11:22
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22 Armies shall be utterly swept away and broken before him, and the prince of the covenant as well.(A)
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Jeremiah 48:39
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39 How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all his neighbors.(A)
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Jeremiah 48:3-5
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3 Listen! A cry goes up from Horonaim:
“Desolation and great destruction!”(A)
4 “Moab is destroyed!”
her little ones cry out.
5 For at the ascent of Luhith
they go[a] up weeping bitterly;
for at the descent of Horonaim
they have heard the distressing cry of anguish.(B)
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- 48.5 Syr Tg: Heb he goes
Jeremiah 46:13
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Babylonia Will Strike Egypt
13 The word that the Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about the coming of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon to attack the land of Egypt:(A)
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Jeremiah 46:6-8
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6 The swift cannot flee away,
nor can the warrior escape;
in the north by the River Euphrates
they have stumbled and fallen.(A)
7 Who is this, rising like the Nile,
like rivers whose waters surge?(B)
8 Egypt rises like the Nile,
like rivers whose waters surge.
It said, “Let me rise; let me cover the earth;
let me destroy cities and their inhabitants.”(C)
Isaiah 59:19
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19 So those in the west shall fear the name of the Lord,
and those in the east, his glory,
for he will come like a pent-up stream
that the wind of the Lord drives on.(A)
Isaiah 28:17
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17 And I will make justice the line
and righteousness the plummet;
hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
and waters will overwhelm the shelter.(A)
Isaiah 22:4-5
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4 Therefore I said:
“Look away from me;
let me weep bitter tears;
do not try to comfort me
for the destruction of my beloved people.”(A)
5 For the Lord God of hosts has a day
of tumult and trampling and confusion
in the valley of vision,
a battering down of walls
and a cry for help to the mountains.(B)
Isaiah 22:1
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A Warning of Destruction of Jerusalem
22 The oracle concerning the valley of vision.
What has happened that you have gone up,
all of you, to the housetops,(A)
Isaiah 15:8
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8 For a cry has gone
around the land of Moab;
the wailing reaches to Eglaim;
the wailing reaches to Beer-elim.
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