Jeremiah 49:3
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3 Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste!
Cry out, O daughters[a] of Rabbah!
Put on sackcloth,
lament, and slash yourselves with whips![b]
For Milcom[c] shall go into exile,
with his priests and his attendants.(A)
Jeremiah 48:7
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7 Surely, because you trusted in your strongholds[a] and your treasures,
you also shall be taken;
Chemosh shall go out into exile,
with his priests and his attendants.(A)
Footnotes
- 48.7 Gk: Heb works
Jeremiah 48:37
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37 For every head is shaved and every beard cut off; on all the hands there are gashes and on the loins sackcloth.(A)
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Isaiah 15:2
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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)
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- 15.2 Cn: Heb the house and Dibon
Jeremiah 46:25
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25 The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, said: See, I am bringing punishment upon Amon of Thebes and Pharaoh and Egypt and her gods and her kings, upon Pharaoh and those who trust in him.(A)
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Jeremiah 4:8
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8 Because of this put on sackcloth,
lament and wail:
“The fierce anger of the Lord
has not turned away from us.”(A)
2 Kings 23:13
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13 The king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.(A)
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1 Kings 11:33
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33 This is because he has[a] forsaken me, worshiped Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and has[b] not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my ordinances, as his father David did.(A)
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1 Kings 11:5
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5 For Solomon followed Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.(A)
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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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Zephaniah 1:5
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5 those who bow down on the roofs
to the host of the heavens,
those who bow down and swear to the Lord
but also swear by Milcom,[a](A)
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- 1.5 Gk mss Syr Vg: Heb their king
Amos 1:15
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15 then their king shall go into exile,
he and his officials together,
says the Lord.(A)
Jeremiah 51:8
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8 Suddenly Babylon has fallen and is shattered;
wail for her!
Bring balm for her wound;
perhaps she may be healed.(A)
Jeremiah 49:1
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Judgment on the Ammonites
49 Concerning the Ammonites.
Thus says the Lord:
Has Israel no sons?
Has he no heir?
Why then has Milcom[a] dispossessed Gad
and his people settled in its towns?(A)
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- 49.1 Gk Vg Syr: Heb their king
Jeremiah 48:20
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20 Moab is put to shame, for it is broken down;
wail and cry!
Tell it by the Arnon
that Moab is laid waste.(A)
Jeremiah 48:2
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2 the renown of Moab is no more.
In Heshbon they planned evil against her:
“Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!”
You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence;[a]
the sword shall pursue you.(A)
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- 48.2 The place name Madmen sounds like the Hebrew verb to be silent
Jeremiah 6:26
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26 O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth
and roll in ashes;
make mourning as for an only child,
most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
will come upon us.(A)
Isaiah 32:11-12
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11 Tremble, you women who are at ease;
shudder, you complacent ones;
strip and make yourselves bare,
and put sackcloth on your loins.(A)
12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,[a]
for the fruitful vine,(B)
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- 32.12 Gk: Heb on the lamenting breasts
Isaiah 23:6
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6 Cross over to Tarshish—
wail, O inhabitants of the coast!
Isaiah 23:1
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An Oracle concerning Tyre
23 The oracle concerning Tyre.
Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
for your fortress is destroyed.[a]
When they came in from Cyprus
they learned of it.(A)
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- 23.1 Cn: Heb for it is destroyed, without houses
Isaiah 16:7
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7 Therefore let Moab wail;
let everyone wail for Moab.
Mourn, utterly stricken,
for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.(A)
Isaiah 14:31
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31 Wail, O gate; cry, O city;
melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you!
For smoke comes out of the north,
and there is no straggler in its ranks.(A)
Isaiah 13:6
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- 13.6 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
Job 30:3-7
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3 Through want and hard hunger
they gnaw the dry and desolate ground;
4 they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes
and to warm themselves the roots of broom.
5 They are driven out from society;
people shout after them as after a thief.
6 In the gullies of wadis they must live,
in holes in the ground and in the rocks.
7 Among the bushes they bray;
under the nettles they huddle together.
Joshua 8:28
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28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it forever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.(A)
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