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Lamentations 3:34
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Lamentations 3:34
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34 If people crush underfoot
all the prisoners of the land,
Lamentations 3:34
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Lamentations 3:34
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34 To crush underfoot
all prisoners in the land,
Zechariah 9:11-12
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Zechariah 9:11-12
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11 Because of the covenant I made with you,
sealed with blood,
I will free your prisoners
from death in a waterless dungeon.
12 Come back to the place of safety,
all you prisoners who still have hope!
I promise this very day
that I will repay two blessings for each of your troubles.
Zechariah 9:11-12
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Zechariah 9:11-12
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Isaiah 51:22-23
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Isaiah 51:22-23
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22 This is what the Sovereign Lord,
your God and Defender, says:
“See, I have taken the terrible cup from your hands.
You will drink no more of my fury.
23 Instead, I will hand that cup to your tormentors,
those who said, ‘We will trample you into the dust
and walk on your backs.’”
Isaiah 51:22-23
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Isaiah 51:22-23
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22 This is what your Sovereign Lord says,
your God, who defends(A) his people:
“See, I have taken out of your hand
the cup(B) that made you stagger;
from that cup, the goblet of my wrath,
you will never drink again.
23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,(C)
who said to you,
‘Fall prostrate(D) that we may walk(E) on you.’
And you made your back like the ground,
like a street to be walked on.”(F)
Jeremiah 51:33-36
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Jeremiah 51:33-36
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33 This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies,
the God of Israel, says:
“Babylon is like wheat on a threshing floor,
about to be trampled.
In just a little while
her harvest will begin.”
34 “King Nebuchadnezzar[a] of Babylon has eaten and crushed us
and drained us of strength.
He has swallowed us like a great monster
and filled his belly with our riches.
He has thrown us out of our own country.
35 Make Babylon suffer as she made us suffer,”
say the people of Zion.
“Make the people of Babylonia pay for spilling our blood,”
says Jerusalem.
The Lord’s Vengeance on Babylon
36 This is what the Lord says to Jerusalem:
“I will be your lawyer to plead your case,
and I will avenge you.
I will dry up her river,
as well as her springs,
Footnotes
- 51:34 Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar, a variant spelling of Nebuchadnezzar.
Jeremiah 51:33-36
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Jeremiah 51:33-36
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33 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says:
“Daughter Babylon(A) is like a threshing floor(B)
at the time it is trampled;
the time to harvest(C) her will soon come.(D)”
34 “Nebuchadnezzar(E) king of Babylon has devoured(F) us,(G)
he has thrown us into confusion,
he has made us an empty jar.
Like a serpent he has swallowed us
and filled his stomach with our delicacies,
and then has spewed(H) us out.
35 May the violence(I) done to our flesh[a] be on Babylon,”
say the inhabitants of Zion.
“May our blood be on those who live in Babylonia,”
says Jerusalem.(J)
36 Therefore this is what the Lord says:
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:35 Or done to us and to our children
Isaiah 49:9
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Isaiah 49:9
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9 I will say to the prisoners, ‘Come out in freedom,’
and to those in darkness, ‘Come into the light.’
They will be my sheep, grazing in green pastures
and on hills that were previously bare.
Isaiah 49:9
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Isaiah 49:9
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“They will feed beside the roads
and find pasture on every barren hill.(C)
Psalm 102:20
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Psalm 102:20
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20 to hear the groans of the prisoners,
to release those condemned to die.
Psalm 102:20
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Psalm 102:20
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20 to hear the groans of the prisoners(A)
and release those condemned to death.”
Psalm 69:33
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Psalm 69:33
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33 For the Lord hears the cries of the needy;
he does not despise his imprisoned people.
Psalm 69:33
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Psalm 69:33
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33 The Lord hears the needy(A)
and does not despise his captive people.
Isaiah 14:17
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Isaiah 14:17
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17 Is this the one who destroyed the world
and made it into a wasteland?
Is this the king who demolished the world’s greatest cities
and had no mercy on his prisoners?’
Isaiah 14:17
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Isaiah 14:17
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Psalm 79:11
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Psalm 79:11
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11 Listen to the moaning of the prisoners.
Demonstrate your great power by saving those condemned to die.
Psalm 79:11
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Psalm 79:11
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11 May the groans of the prisoners come before you;
with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die.
Jeremiah 50:33-34
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Jeremiah 50:33-34
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33 This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says:
“The people of Israel and Judah have been wronged.
Their captors hold them and refuse to let them go.
34 But the one who redeems them is strong.
His name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
He will defend them
and give them rest again in Israel.
But for the people of Babylon
there will be no rest!
Jeremiah 50:33-34
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Jeremiah 50:33-34
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33 This is what the Lord Almighty says:
“The people of Israel are oppressed,(A)
and the people of Judah as well.
All their captors hold them fast,
refusing to let them go.(B)
34 Yet their Redeemer(C) is strong;
the Lord Almighty(D) is his name.
He will vigorously defend their cause(E)
so that he may bring rest(F) to their land,
but unrest to those who live in Babylon.
Jeremiah 50:17
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Jeremiah 50:17
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Hope for God’s People
17 “The Israelites are like sheep
that have been scattered by lions.
First the king of Assyria ate them up.
Then King Nebuchadnezzar[a] of Babylon cracked their bones.”
Footnotes
- 50:17 Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar, a variant spelling of Nebuchadnezzar.
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