Lamentations 2:9
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9 Her gates have sunk into the ground;
He has destroyed and (A)broken her bars.
(B)Her king and her princes are among the [a]nations;
(C)The Law is no more,
And her (D)prophets find no [b]vision from the Lord.
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- Lamentations 2:9 Gentiles
- Lamentations 2:9 Prophetic revelation
Ezekiel 7:26
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26 (A)Disaster will come upon disaster,
And rumor will be upon rumor.
(B)Then they will seek a vision from a prophet;
But the law will perish from the priest,
And counsel from the elders.
Hosea 3:4
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4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days (A)without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without (B)ephod or (C)teraphim.
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Micah 3:6-7
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6 “Therefore(A) you shall have night without [a]vision,
And you shall have darkness without divination;
The sun shall go down on the prophets,
And the day shall be dark for (B)them.
7 So the seers shall be ashamed,
And the diviners abashed;
Indeed they shall all cover their lips;
(C)For there is no answer from God.”
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- Micah 3:6 Prophetic revelation
Nehemiah 1:3
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3 And they said to me, “The survivors who are left from the captivity in the (A)province are there in great distress and (B)reproach. (C)The wall of Jerusalem (D)is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
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2 Chronicles 15:3
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3 (A)For a long time Israel has been without the true God, without a (B)teaching priest, and without (C)law;
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Amos 8:11-12
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11 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,
“That I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine of bread,
Nor a thirst for water,
But (A)of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 They shall wander from sea to sea,
And from north to east;
They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,
But shall (B)not find it.
Jeremiah 51:30
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30 The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting,
They have remained in their strongholds;
Their might has failed,
(A)They became like women;
They have burned her dwelling places,
(B)The bars of her gate are broken.
Psalm 74:9
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9 We do not see our signs;
(A)There is no longer any prophet;
Nor is there any among us who knows how long.
Deuteronomy 28:36
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36 “The Lord will (A)bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and (B)there you shall serve other gods—wood and stone.
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Ezekiel 17:20
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20 I will (A)spread My net over him, and he shall be taken in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and (B)try him there for the [a]treason which he committed against Me.
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- Ezekiel 17:20 Lit. unfaithful act
Ezekiel 12:13
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13 I will also spread My (A)net over him, and he shall be caught in My snare. (B)I will bring him to Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there.
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Lamentations 4:20
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20 The (A)breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord,
(B)Was caught in their pits,
Of whom we said, “Under his shadow
We shall live among the nations.”
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 1:3
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3 (A)Judah has gone into captivity,
Under affliction and hard servitude;
(B)She dwells among the [a]nations,
She finds no (C)rest;
All her persecutors overtake her in dire straits.
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- Lamentations 1:3 Gentiles
Jeremiah 52:14
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14 And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.
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Jeremiah 52:8-9
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8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. All his army was scattered from him. 9 (A)So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced judgment on him.
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Jeremiah 39:8
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8 (A)And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the houses of the people with (B)fire, and broke down the (C)walls of Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 39:2
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2 In the (A)eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the [a]city was penetrated.
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- Jeremiah 39:2 city wall was breached
Jeremiah 14:14
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14 And the Lord said to me, (A)“The prophets prophesy lies in My name. (B)I have not sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them; they prophesy to you a false vision, [a]divination, a worthless thing, and the (C)deceit of their heart.
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- Jeremiah 14:14 Telling the future by signs and omens
2 Kings 25:7
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7 Then they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, (A)put[a] out the eyes of Zedekiah, bound him with bronze fetters, and took him to Babylon.
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- 2 Kings 25:7 blinded
2 Kings 24:12-16
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12 (A)Then Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his princes, and his officers went out to the king of Babylon; and the king of Babylon, (B)in the eighth year of his reign, took him prisoner.
The Captivity of Jerusalem
13 (C)And he carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house, and he (D)cut in pieces all the articles of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, (E)as the Lord had said. 14 Also (F)he carried into captivity all Jerusalem: all the captains and all the mighty men of valor, (G)ten thousand captives, and (H)all the craftsmen and smiths. None remained except (I)the poorest people of the land. 15 And (J)he carried Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. The king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the mighty of the land he carried into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 (K)All the valiant men, seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths, one thousand, all who were strong and fit for war, these the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
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