Jeremiah 9:19
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19 For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion:
‘How we are plundered!
We are greatly ashamed,
Because we have forsaken the land,
Because we have been cast out of (A)our dwellings.’ ”
Jeremiah 4:13
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13 “Behold, he shall come up like clouds,
And (A)his chariots like a whirlwind.
(B)His horses are swifter than eagles.
Woe to us, for we are plundered!”
Ezekiel 7:16-18
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16 ‘Those who (A)survive will escape and be on the mountains
Like doves of the valleys,
All of them mourning,
Each for his iniquity.
17 Every (B)hand will be feeble,
And every knee will be as weak as water.
18 They will also (C)be girded with sackcloth;
Horror will cover them;
Shame will be on every face,
Baldness on all their heads.
Deuteronomy 28:29
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29 And you shall (A)grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you.
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Micah 2:10
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10 “Arise and depart,
For this is not your (A)rest;
Because it is (B)defiled, it shall destroy,
Yes, with utter destruction.
Micah 2:4
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4 In that day one shall take up a proverb against you,
And (A)lament with a bitter lamentation, saying:
‘We are utterly destroyed!
He has changed the [a]heritage of my people;
How He has removed it from me!
To [b]a turncoat He has divided our fields.’ ”
Micah 1:8-9
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Mourning for Israel and Judah
8 Therefore I will wail and howl,
I will go stripped and naked;
(A)I will make a wailing like the jackals
And a mourning like the ostriches,
9 For her wounds are incurable.
For (B)it has come to Judah;
It has come to the gate of My people—
To Jerusalem.
Lamentations 5:2
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2 (A)Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens,
And our houses to foreigners.
Lamentations 4:15
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15 They cried out to them,
“Go away, (A)unclean!
Go away, go away,
Do not touch us!”
When they fled and wandered,
Those among the nations said,
“They shall no longer dwell here.”
Jeremiah 4:30-31
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30 “And when you are plundered,
What will you do?
Though you clothe yourself with crimson,
Though you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold,
(A)Though you enlarge your eyes with paint,
In vain you will make yourself fair;
(B)Your lovers will despise you;
They will seek your life.
31 “For I have heard a voice as of a woman in [a]labor,
The anguish as of her who brings forth her first child,
The voice of the daughter of Zion bewailing herself;
She (C)spreads her hands, saying,
‘Woe is me now, for my soul is [b]weary
Because of murderers!’
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 4:31 childbirth
- Jeremiah 4:31 faint
Jeremiah 4:20
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20 (A)Destruction upon destruction is cried,
For the whole land is plundered.
Suddenly (B)my tents are plundered,
And my curtains in a moment.
Jeremiah 2:14
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14 “Is Israel (A)a servant?
Is he a homeborn slave?
Why is he plundered?
Leviticus 20:22
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22 ‘You shall therefore keep all My (A)statutes and all My judgments, and perform them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell (B)may not vomit you out.
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Leviticus 18:28
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28 lest (A)the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
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Leviticus 18:25
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25 For (A)the land is defiled; therefore I (B)visit[a] the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land (C)vomits out its inhabitants.
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- Leviticus 18:25 bring judgment for
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