Jeremiah 51:34
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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]
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:34 Or he has expelled me
Matthew 23:13
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13 “But woe (A)to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you (B)shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you (C)neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.[a]
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- Matthew 23:13 Some manuscripts add here (or after verse 12) verse 14: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation
Isaiah 24:1-3
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Judgment on the Whole Earth
24 Behold, (A)the Lord will empty the earth[a] and make it desolate,
and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
2 (B)And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;
as with the slave, so with his master;
as with the maid, so with her mistress;
(C)as with the buyer, so with the seller;
as with the lender, so with the borrower;
(D)as with the creditor, so with the debtor.
3 (E)The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered;
(F)for the Lord has spoken this word.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 24:1 Or land; also throughout this chapter
Job 20:15
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15 He swallows down riches and vomits them up again;
God casts them out of his belly.
Nahum 2:2
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2 For (A)the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob
as the majesty of Israel,
for plunderers have plundered them
and (B)ruined their branches.
Amos 8:4
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4 Hear this, (A)you who trample on the needy
and bring the poor of the land to an end,
Ezekiel 36:3
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3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: Precisely because (A)they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and (B)you became the talk and evil gossip of the people,
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Lamentations 2:16
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16 (A)All your enemies
rail against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
they cry: “We (B)have swallowed her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
now we have it; (C)we see it!”
Lamentations 1:14-15
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14 “My transgressions were bound[a] into (A)a yoke;
by his hand they were fastened together;
they were set upon my neck;
he caused my strength to fail;
the Lord gave me into the hands
of those whom I cannot withstand.
15 “The Lord rejected
all my mighty men in my midst;
he summoned an assembly against me
to crush my young men;
(B)the Lord has trodden as in a winepress
the virgin daughter of Judah.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 1:14 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Lamentations 1:1
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How Lonely Sits the City
1 (A)How lonely sits the city
that was full of people!
How like (B)a widow has she become,
she who was great among the nations!
She who was (C)a princess among the provinces
has become (D)a slave.
Jeremiah 51:49
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49 Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel,
(A)just as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth.
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 48:11-12
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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.
12 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I shall send to him pourers who will pour him, and empty his vessels and break his[a] jars in pieces.
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- Jeremiah 48:12 Septuagint, Aquila; Hebrew their
Jeremiah 39:1-8
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The Fall of Jerusalem
39 (A)In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city. 3 Then all (B)the officials of the king of Babylon came (C)and sat in the middle gate: Nergal-sar-ezer of Samgar, Nebu-sar-sekim (D)the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, with all the rest of the officers of the king of Babylon. 4 When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, going out of the city at night by way of the king's garden through the gate between the two walls; and they went toward (E)the Arabah. 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in (F)the plains of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, at (G)Riblah, in the land of Hamath; (H)and he passed sentence on him. 6 The king of Babylon (I)slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah at (J)Riblah before his eyes, and the king of Babylon (K)slaughtered all the nobles of Judah. 7 (L)He put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon. 8 (M)The Chaldeans burned the king's house and the house of the people, (N)and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
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Isaiah 34:11
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11 (A)But the hawk and the porcupine[a] shall possess it,
the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
(B)He shall stretch the line of (C)confusion[b] over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:11 The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain
- Isaiah 34:11 Hebrew formlessness
Proverbs 1:12
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