Jeremiah 49:31
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31 (A)“Rise up, advance against a nation (B)at ease,
(C)that dwells securely,
declares the Lord,
(D)that has no gates or bars,
that dwells alone.
Ezekiel 38:11
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11 and say, ‘I will go up against (A)the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon (B)the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,’
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Micah 7:14
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14 (A)Shepherd your people (B)with your staff,
the flock of your inheritance,
who dwell alone in a forest
(C)in the midst of (D)a garden land;[a]
let them graze in Bashan and Gilead
as in the days of old.
Footnotes
- Micah 7:14 Hebrew of Carmel
Isaiah 47:8
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8 Now therefore hear this, (A)you lover of pleasures,
(B)who sit securely,
who say in your heart,
(C)“I am, and there is no one besides me;
(D)I shall not sit as a widow
or know the loss of children”:
Deuteronomy 33:28
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28 So Israel lived in safety,
(A)Jacob lived (B)alone,[a]
in a land of grain and wine,
whose heavens drop down dew.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 33:28 Hebrew the abode of Jacob was alone
Numbers 23:9
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9 For from the top of the crags (A)I see him,
from the hills I behold him;
behold, (B)a people dwelling alone,
and (C)not counting itself among the nations!
Zephaniah 2:15
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15 This is the exultant city
(A)that lived securely,
that said in her heart,
“I am, and there is no one else.”
What a desolation she has become,
(B)a lair for wild beasts!
(C)Everyone who passes by her
hisses and (D)shakes his fist.
Nahum 1:12
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12 Thus says the Lord,
“Though they are at full strength and many,
(A)they will be cut down and pass away.
(B)Though I have afflicted you,
I will afflict you no more.
Ezekiel 30:9
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9 “On that day (A)messengers shall go out from me in ships to terrify the unsuspecting (B)people of Cush, and (C)anguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt's doom;[a] for, behold, it comes!
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- Ezekiel 30:9 Hebrew the day of Egypt
Jeremiah 48:11
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11 “Moab has been at ease from his youth
and has (A)settled on his dregs;
he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
nor has he gone into exile;
so his taste remains in him,
and his scent is not changed.
Isaiah 32:11
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11 Tremble, you women (A)who are at ease,
shudder, you complacent ones;
(B)strip, and make yourselves bare,
(C)and tie sackcloth around your waist.
Isaiah 32:9
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Complacent Women Warned of Disaster
9 (A)Rise up, you women (B)who are at ease, hear my voice;
you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.
Psalm 123:4
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4 Our soul has had more than enough
of (A)the scorn of (B)those who are at ease,
of the contempt of (C)the proud.
Judges 18:27-28
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27 But the people of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, and they came to Laish, to a people (A)quiet and unsuspecting, and (B)struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire. 28 And there was no deliverer because it was (C)far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to (D)Beth-rehob. Then they rebuilt the city and lived in it.
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Judges 18:7-10
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7 Then the five men departed and came to (A)Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, (B)quiet and unsuspecting, lacking[a] nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how (C)they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. 8 And when they came to their brothers at (D)Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers said to them, “What do you report?” 9 They said, (E)“Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. (F)And will you do nothing? (G)Do not be slow to go, to enter in and possess the land. 10 As soon as you go, you will come to an (H)unsuspecting people. The land is spacious, for God has given it into your hands, (I)a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”
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- Judges 18:7 Compare 18:10; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
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