Jeremiah 51:34
New King James Version
34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
Has (A)devoured me, he has crushed me;
He has made me an (B)empty vessel,
He has swallowed me up like a monster;
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies,
He has spit me out.
Jeremiah 50:17
New King James Version
17 “Israel is like (A)scattered sheep;
(B)The lions have driven him away.
First (C)the king of Assyria devoured him;
Now at last this (D)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”
Jeremiah 51:44
New King James Version
44 I will punish (A)Bel[a] in Babylon,
And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed;
And the nations shall not stream to him anymore.
Yes, (B)the wall of Babylon shall fall.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:44 A Babylonian god
Matthew 23:13
New King James Version
13 “But (A)woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
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Isaiah 24:1-3
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Impending Judgment on the Earth
24 Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste,
Distorts its surface
And scatters abroad its inhabitants.
2 And it shall be:
As with the people, so with the (A)priest;
As with the servant, so with his master;
As with the maid, so with her mistress;
(B)As with the buyer, so with the seller;
As with the lender, so with the borrower;
As with the creditor, so with the debtor.
3 The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered,
For the Lord has spoken this word.
Job 20:15
New King James Version
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 the Lord will restore the excellence of Jacob
Like the excellence of Israel,
For the emptiers have emptied them out
And ruined their vine branches.
Amos 8:4
New King James Version
4 Hear this, you who [a]swallow up the needy,
And make the poor of the land fail,
Ezekiel 36:3
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3 therefore prophesy, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, (A)and you are taken up by the lips of (B)talkers and slandered by the people”—
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Lamentations 2:16
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16 (A)All your enemies have opened their mouth against you;
They hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, (B)“We have swallowed her up!
Surely this is the (C)day we have waited for;
We have found it, (D)we have seen it!”
Nahum 2:9-10
New King James Version
9 [a]Take spoil of silver!
Take spoil of (A)gold!
There is no end of treasure,
Or wealth of every desirable prize.
10 She is empty, desolate, and waste!
The heart melts, and the knees shake;
Much pain is in every side,
And all their faces [b]are drained of color.
Footnotes
- Nahum 2:9 Plunder
- Nahum 2:10 LXX, Tg., Vg. gather blackness; Joel 2:6
Lamentations 1:14-15
New King James Version
14 “The(A) yoke of my transgressions was [a]bound;
They were woven together by His hands,
And thrust upon my neck.
He made my strength fail;
The Lord delivered me into the hands of those whom I am not able to withstand.
15 “The Lord has trampled underfoot all my mighty men in my midst;
He has called an assembly against me
To crush my young men;
(B)The Lord trampled as in a winepress
The virgin daughter of Judah.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 1:14 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. watched over
Lamentations 1:1
New King James Version
Jerusalem in Affliction
1 How lonely sits the city
That was full of people!
(A)How like a widow is she,
Who was great among the nations!
The (B)princess among the provinces
Has become a [a]slave!
Footnotes
- Lamentations 1:1 Lit. forced laborer
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