Jeremiah 50:33
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33 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: (A)The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them. All who took them captive have held them fast; (B)they refuse to let them go.
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Isaiah 14:17
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17 who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
(A)who did not let his prisoners go home?’
Exodus 9:2-3
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2 For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them, 3 behold, (A)the hand of the Lord will fall with a very severe plague upon your livestock that are in the field, the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.
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Isaiah 58:6
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6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:
(A)to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps (B)of the yoke,
to let the oppressed[a] go free,
and to break every yoke?
Footnotes
- Isaiah 58:6 Or bruised
Jeremiah 50:17-18
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17 (A)“Israel is a hunted sheep (B)driven away by lions. (C)First the king of Assyria (D)devoured him, and now at last (E)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon (F)has gnawed his bones. 18 Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, (G)I am bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land, (H)as I punished the king of Assyria.
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Isaiah 47:6
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6 (A)I was angry with my people;
I profaned my heritage;
I gave them into your hand;
(B)you showed them no mercy;
on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.
Exodus 9:17-18
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17 (A)You are still exalting yourself against my people and will not let them go. 18 Behold, about this time tomorrow I will cause very heavy hail to fall, such as never has been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
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Isaiah 51:23
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23 (A)and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
(B)who have said to you,
‘Bow down, that we may pass over’;
and (C)you have made your back like the ground
and like the street for them to pass over.”
Isaiah 49:24-26
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24 Can the prey be taken from the mighty,
or the captives of a tyrant[a] be rescued?
25 For thus says the Lord:
(A)“Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken,
and the prey of the tyrant be rescued,
for I will contend with those who contend with you,
and I will save your children.
26 (B)I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh,
and they shall be drunk (C)with their own blood as with wine.
Then all flesh shall know
that (D)I am the Lord your Savior,
and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 49:24 Dead Sea Scroll, Syriac, Vulgate (see also verse 25); Masoretic Text of a righteous man
Exodus 8:2
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2 But if you (A)refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with (B)frogs.
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Exodus 5:2
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2 But Pharaoh said, (A)“Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, (B)I will not let Israel go.”
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Zechariah 1:15-16
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15 (A)And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are (B)at ease; (C)for while I was angry but a little, (D)they furthered the disaster. 16 Therefore, thus says the Lord, (E)I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; (F)my house shall be built in it, declares the Lord of hosts, and (G)the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 51:34-36
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34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon (A)has devoured me;
he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
(B)he has swallowed me like (C)a monster;
he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
he has rinsed me out.[a]
35 The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon,”
let the inhabitant of Zion say.
“My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
let Jerusalem say.
36 Therefore thus says the Lord:
“Behold, (D)I will plead your cause
and take vengeance for you.
(E)I will dry up her sea
and (F)make her fountain dry,
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:34 Or he has expelled me
Jeremiah 50:7
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7 All who found them have devoured them, (A)and their enemies have said, ‘We are not guilty, for (B)they have sinned against the Lord, (C)their habitation of righteousness, the Lord, (D)the hope of their fathers.’
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Jeremiah 34:15-18
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15 You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes (A)by proclaiming liberty, each to his neighbor, and (B)you made a covenant before me in the (C)house that is called by my name, 16 but then you turned around (D)and profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, (E)whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your slaves.
17 “Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me (F)by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; (G)behold, I proclaim to you liberty (H)to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the Lord. (I)I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 18 And the men who transgressed my covenant and did not keep the terms of (J)the covenant that they made before me, I will make them like[a] (K)the calf that they cut in two and passed between its parts—
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- Jeremiah 34:18 Hebrew lacks them like
Isaiah 52:4-6
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4 For thus says the Lord God: (A)“My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.[a] 5 Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and (B)continually all the day my name is despised. 6 Therefore my people shall know my name. (C)Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I am.”
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- Isaiah 52:4 Or the Assyrian has oppressed them of late
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