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.
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