Jeremiah 49:4
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4 Why do you boast in your strength?
Your strength is ebbing,
O faithless daughter.
Who trusted in her treasures, saying,[a]
“Who will attack me?”(A)
Footnotes
- 49.4 Gk: Heb lacks saying
1 Timothy 6:17
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17 As for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches but rather on God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.(A)
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Jeremiah 21:13
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13 See, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley,
O rock of the plain,
says the Lord;
you who say, “Who can come down against us,
or who can enter our places of refuge?”(A)
Jeremiah 9:23
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23 Thus says the Lord: Do not let the wise boast in their wisdom; do not let the mighty boast in their might; do not let the wealthy boast in their wealth;(A)
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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 3:14
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14 Return, O faithless children,
says the Lord,
for I am your husband;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
and I will bring you to Zion.(A)
Psalm 62:10
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10 Put no confidence in extortion,
and set no vain hopes on robbery;
if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.(A)
Psalm 52:7
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7 “See the one who would not take
refuge in God
but trusted in abundant riches
and sought refuge in wealth!”[a](A)
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- 52.7 Syr Tg: Heb in his destruction
Psalm 49:6
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6 those who trust in their wealth
and boast of the abundance of their riches?(A)
Revelation 18:7
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7 As she glorified herself and lived luxuriously,
so give her a like measure of torment and grief.
Since in her heart she says,
‘I rule as a queen;
I am no widow,
and I will never see grief,’(A)
Obadiah 4-5
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4 Though you soar aloft like the eagle,
though your nest is set among the stars,
from there I will bring you down,
says the Lord.(A)
Pillage and Slaughter Will Repay Edom’s Cruelty
5 If thieves came to you,
if plunderers by night
—how you have been destroyed!—
would they not steal only what they wanted?
If grape gatherers came to you,
would they not leave gleanings?(B)
Hosea 4:16
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16 Like a stubborn heifer,
Israel is stubborn;
can the Lord now feed them
like a lamb in a broad pasture?(A)
Ezekiel 28:4-7
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4 by your wisdom and your understanding
you have amassed wealth for yourself
and have gathered gold and silver
into your treasuries.(A)
5 By your great wisdom in trade
you have increased your wealth,
and your heart has become proud in your wealth.(B)
6 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
Because you compare your mind
with the mind of a god,(C)
7 therefore, I will bring strangers against you,
the most terrible of the nations;
they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom
and defile your splendor.(D)
Jeremiah 49:16
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16 The terror you inspire
and the pride of your heart have deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rock,[a]
who hold the height of the hill.
Although you make your nest as high as the eagle’s,
from there I will bring you down,
says the Lord.(A)
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- 49.16 Or of Sela
Jeremiah 7:24
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24 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but, in the stubbornness of their evil will, they walked in their own counsels and looked backward rather than forward.(A)
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Isaiah 47:7-8
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7 You said, “I shall be mistress forever,”
so that you did not lay these things to heart
or remember their end.(A)
8 Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures,
who sit securely,
who say in your heart,
“I am, and there is no one besides me;
I shall not sit as a widow
or know the loss of children”—(B)
Isaiah 28:1-4
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Judgment on Corrupt Rulers, Priests, and Prophets
28 Woe to the proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim
and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
at the head of the fertile valley,
those overcome with wine!(A)
2 See, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong,
like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest,
like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters;
with force he will hurl them down to the earth.(B)
3 Trampled under foot will be
the proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim.(C)
4 And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
at the head of the fertile valley,
will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer;
whoever sees it eats it up
as soon as it comes to hand.(D)
Proverbs 10:15
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15 The wealth of the rich is their fortress;
the poverty of the poor is their ruin.(A)
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