Lamentations 1:17
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17 (A)Zion [a]spreads out her hands,
But no one comforts her;
The Lord has commanded concerning Jacob
That those (B)around him become his adversaries;
Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 1:17 Prays
Jeremiah 4:31
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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 (A)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
Isaiah 1:15
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15 (A)When you [a]spread out your hands,
I will hide My eyes from you;
(B)Even though you make many prayers,
I will not hear.
Your hands are full of [b]blood.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:15 Pray
- Isaiah 1:15 bloodshed
Lamentations 1:9
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9 Her uncleanness is in her skirts;
She (A)did not consider her destiny;
Therefore her collapse was awesome;
She had no comforter.
“O Lord, behold my affliction,
For the enemy is exalted!”
Lamentations 1:16
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16 “For these things I weep;
My eye, (A)my eye overflows with water;
Because the comforter, who should restore my life,
Is far from me.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy prevailed.”
2 Kings 25:1
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The Fall and Captivity of Judah(A)
25 Now it came to pass (B)in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around.
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2 Kings 24:2-4
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2 (A)And the Lord sent against him raiding [a]bands of Chaldeans, bands of Syrians, bands of Moabites, and bands of the people of Ammon; He sent them against Judah to destroy it, (B)according to the word of the Lord which He had spoken by His servants the prophets. 3 Surely at the commandment of the Lord this came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight (C)because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, 4 (D)and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord would not pardon.
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- 2 Kings 24:2 troops
Luke 19:43-44
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43 For days will come upon you when your enemies will (A)build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, 44 (B)and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and (C)they will not leave in you one stone upon another, (D)because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
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Hosea 8:8
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8 (A)Israel is swallowed up;
Now they are among the Gentiles
(B)Like a vessel in which is no pleasure.
Ezekiel 36:17
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17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, (A)they defiled it by their own ways and deeds; to Me their way was like (B)the uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity.
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Ezekiel 7:23-24
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23 ‘Make a chain,
For (A)the land is filled with crimes of blood,
And the city is full of violence.
24 Therefore I will bring the (B)worst of the Gentiles,
And they will possess their houses;
I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease,
And their holy places shall be (C)defiled.
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.”
Lamentations 2:17-22
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17 The Lord has done what He (A)purposed;
He has fulfilled His word
Which He commanded in days of old.
He has thrown down and has not pitied,
And He has caused an enemy to (B)rejoice over you;
He has exalted the [a]horn of your adversaries.
18 Their heart cried out to the Lord,
“O wall of the daughter of Zion,
(C)Let tears run down like a river day and night;
Give yourself no relief;
Give [b]your eyes no rest.
19 “Arise, (D)cry out in the night,
At the beginning of the watches;
(E)Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
Lift your hands toward Him
For the life of your young children,
Who faint from hunger (F)at the head of every street.”
20 “See, O Lord, and consider!
To whom have You done this?
(G)Should the women eat their offspring,
The children [c]they have cuddled?
Should the priest and prophet be slain
In the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 “Young(H) and old lie
On the ground in the streets;
My virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the (I)sword;
You have slain them in the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered and not pitied.
22 “You have invited as to a feast day
(J)The terrors that surround me.
In the day of the Lord’s anger
There was no refugee or survivor.
(K)Those whom I have borne and brought up
My enemies have (L)destroyed.”
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:17 Strength
- Lamentations 2:18 Lit. the daughter of your eye
- Lamentations 2:20 Vg. a span long
Lamentations 2:1-8
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God’s Anger with Jerusalem
2 How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
With a (A)cloud in His anger!
(B)He cast down from heaven to the earth
(C)The beauty of Israel,
And did not remember (D)His footstool
In the day of His anger.
2 The Lord has swallowed up and has (E)not pitied
All the dwelling places of Jacob.
He has thrown down in His wrath
The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
He has brought them down to the ground;
(F)He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
3 He has cut off in fierce anger
Every [a]horn of Israel;
(G)He has drawn back His right hand
From before the enemy.
(H)He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire
Devouring all around.
4 (I)Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow;
With His right hand, like an adversary,
He has slain (J)all who were pleasing to His eye;
On the tent of the daughter of Zion,
He has poured out His fury like fire.
5 (K)The Lord was like an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel,
He has swallowed up all her palaces;
(L)He has destroyed her strongholds,
And has increased mourning and lamentation
In the daughter of Judah.
6 He has done violence (M)to His [b]tabernacle,
(N)As if it were a garden;
He has destroyed His place of assembly;
The Lord has caused
The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion.
In His burning indignation He has (O)spurned the king and the priest.
7 The Lord has spurned His altar,
He has (P)abandoned His sanctuary;
He has [c]given up the walls of her palaces
Into the hand of the enemy.
(Q)They have made a noise in the house of the Lord
As on the day of a set feast.
8 The Lord has [d]purposed to destroy
The (R)wall of the daughter of Zion.
(S)He has stretched out a line;
He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying;
Therefore He has caused the rampart and wall to lament;
They languished together.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:3 Strength
- Lamentations 2:6 Lit. booth
- Lamentations 2:7 delivered
- Lamentations 2:8 determined
Lamentations 1:21
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21 “They have heard that I sigh,
But no one comforts me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
They are (A)glad that You have done it.
Bring on (B)the day You have [a]announced,
That they may become like me.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 1:21 proclaimed
Lamentations 1:19
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19 “I called for my lovers,
But they deceived me;
My priests and my elders
Breathed their last in the city,
While they sought food
To restore their life.
Lamentations 1:2
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2 She (A)weeps bitterly in the (B)night,
Her tears are on her cheeks;
Among all her lovers
She has none to comfort her.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies.
Jeremiah 34:22
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22 (A)Behold, I will command,’ says the Lord, ‘and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it (B)and take it and burn it with fire; and (C)I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.’ ”
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Jeremiah 21:4-5
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4 ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel: “Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon and the [a]Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls; and (A)I will assemble them in the midst of this city. 5 I (B)Myself will fight against you with an (C)outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger and fury and great wrath.
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- Jeremiah 21:4 Or Babylonians, and so elsewhere in the book
Jeremiah 16:6
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6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried; (A)neither shall men lament for them, (B)cut themselves, nor (C)make themselves bald for them.
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Jeremiah 6:3
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3 The (A)shepherds with their flocks shall come to her.
They shall pitch their tents against her all around.
Each one shall pasture in his own place.”
1 Kings 8:38
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38 whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows the plague of his own heart, and spreads out his hands toward this temple:
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1 Kings 8:22
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Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication(A)
22 Then Solomon stood before (B)the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and (C)spread out his hands toward heaven;
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Leviticus 15:19-27
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19 (A)‘If a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her body is blood, she shall be [a]set apart seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening. 20 Everything that she lies on during her impurity shall be unclean; also everything that she sits on shall be unclean. 21 Whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 22 And whoever touches anything that she sat on shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. 23 If anything is on her bed or on anything on which she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening. 24 And (B)if any man lies with her at all, so that her impurity is on him, he shall be [b]unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.
25 ‘If (C)a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, other than at the time of her customary impurity, or if it runs beyond her usual time of impurity, all the days of her unclean discharge shall be as the days of her customary impurity. She shall be unclean. 26 Every bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her impurity; and whatever she sits on shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her impurity. 27 Whoever touches those things shall be unclean; he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.
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- Leviticus 15:19 Lit. in her impurity
- Leviticus 15:24 defiled
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