Lamentations 3:34
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34 To crush underfoot
all (A)the prisoners of the earth,
Isaiah 51:22-23
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22 Thus says your Lord, the Lord,
your God (A)who pleads the cause of his people:
“Behold, I have taken from your hand (B)the cup of staggering;
the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;
23 (C)and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
(D)who have said to you,
‘Bow down, that we may pass over’;
and (E)you have made your back like the ground
and like the street for them to pass over.”
Jeremiah 51:33-36
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33 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
(A)The daughter of Babylon is like (B)a threshing floor
at the time when it is trodden;
yet a little while
and (C)the time of her harvest will come.”
34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon (D)has devoured me;
he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
(E)he has swallowed me like (F)a monster;
he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
he has rinsed me out.[a]
35 The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon,”
let the inhabitant of Zion say.
“My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
let Jerusalem say.
36 Therefore thus says the Lord:
“Behold, (G)I will plead your cause
and take vengeance for you.
(H)I will dry up her sea
and (I)make her fountain dry,
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:34 Or he has expelled me
Isaiah 49:9
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9 (A)saying to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’
to those who are in darkness, ‘Appear.’
(B)They shall feed along the ways;
on all bare heights shall be their pasture;
Psalm 102:20
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Psalm 69:33
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33 For the Lord hears the needy
and (A)does not despise his own people who are prisoners.
Isaiah 14:17
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17 who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
(A)who did not let his prisoners go home?’
Psalm 79:11
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11 Let (A)the groans of the prisoners come before you;
according to your great power, preserve those (B)doomed to die!
Jeremiah 50:33-34
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33 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: (A)The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them. All who took them captive have held them fast; (B)they refuse to let them go. 34 (C)Their Redeemer is strong; (D)the Lord of hosts is his name. (E)He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.
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