Jeremiah 51:9
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9 We tried to heal Babylon,
but she could not be healed.
Forsake her, and let each of us go
to our own country,
for her judgment has reached up to heaven
and has been lifted up even to the skies.(A)
Revelation 18:5
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5 for her sins are heaped high as heaven,
and God has remembered her iniquities.(A)
Jeremiah 50:16
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16 Cut off from Babylon the sower
and the wielder of the sickle in time of harvest;
because of the destroying sword,
all of them shall return to their own people,
and all of them shall flee to their own land.(A)
Isaiah 13:14
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14 Like a gazelle on the run
or like sheep with no one to gather them,
all will turn back to their own people,
and all will flee to their own lands.(A)
Jeremiah 46:16
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16 Your multitude stumbled[a] and fell,
and one said to another,
“Come, let us go back to our own people
and to the land of our birth,
because of the destroying sword.”(A)
Footnotes
- 46.16 Gk: Heb the stumblers multiplied
Daniel 4:20-22
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20 The tree that you saw, which grew great and strong so that its top reached to heaven and was visible to the whole earth,(A) 21 whose foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, and which provided food for all, under which animals of the field lived and in whose branches the birds of the air had nests— 22 it is you, O king! You have grown great and strong. Your greatness has increased and reaches to heaven, and your sovereignty to the ends of the earth.(B)
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Ezra 9:6
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6 and said,
“O my God, I am too ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.(A)
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Matthew 25:10-13
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10 And while they went to buy it, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went with him into the wedding banquet, and the door was shut.(A) 11 Later the other young women[a] came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’(B) 12 But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I do not know you.’ 13 Keep awake, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.[b](C)
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Jeremiah 46:21
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21 Even her mercenaries in her midst
are like fatted calves;
they, too, have turned and fled together;
they did not stand,
for the day of their calamity has come upon them,
the time of their punishment.(A)
Jeremiah 8:20
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20 “The harvest is past, the summer is ended,
and we are not saved.”
Isaiah 47:15
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15 Such to you are those with whom you have labored,
who have trafficked with you from your youth;
they all wander about in their own paths;
there is no one to save you.(A)
2 Chronicles 28:9
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9 But a prophet of the Lord was there whose name was Oded; he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Because the Lord, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them in a rage that has reached up to heaven.(A)
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