Lamentations 5:16
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16 The crown has fallen from our head;
woe to us, for we have sinned!
Psalm 89:39
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39 You have renounced the covenant with your servant;
you have defiled his crown in the dust.(A)
Jeremiah 13:18
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18 Say to the king and the queen mother:
“Take a lowly seat,
for your beautiful crown
has come down from your head.”[a](A)
Footnotes
- 13.18 Gk Syr Vg: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Isaiah 3:9-11
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9 The look on their faces bears witness against them;
they proclaim their sin like Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them,
for they have brought evil on themselves.(A)
10 Tell the innocent how fortunate they are,
for they shall eat the fruit of their labors.(B)
11 Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are,
for what their hands have done shall be done to them.(C)
Job 19:9
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9 He has stripped my glory from me
and taken the crown from my head.(A)
Lamentations 1:1
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The Deserted City
1 How lonely sits the city
that once was full of people!
How like a widow she has become,
she that was great among the nations!
She that was a princess among the provinces
has become subject to forced labor.(A)
Revelation 3:11
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11 I am coming soon; hold fast to what you have, so that no one takes away your crown.
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Ezekiel 22:12-16
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12 In you, they take bribes to shed blood; you take both advance interest and accrued interest and make gain of your neighbors by extortion, and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.(A)
13 See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest gain you have made and at the blood that has been shed within you. 14 Can your courage endure, or can your hands remain strong in the days when I shall deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.(B) 15 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will purge your filthiness out of you.(C) 16 And you shall be profaned within yourself in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
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Ezekiel 21:26
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26 thus says the Lord God:
Remove the turban, take off the crown;
things shall not remain as they are.
Exalt that which is low;
humble that which is high.(A)
Ezekiel 7:17-22
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17 All hands shall grow feeble,
all knees turn to water.(A)
18 They shall put on sackcloth;
horror shall cover them.
Shame shall be on all faces,
baldness on all their heads.(B)
19 They shall fling their silver into the streets;
their gold shall be treated as unclean.
Their silver and gold cannot save them on the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.(C) 20 From their[a] beautiful ornament, in which they took pride, they made their abominable images, their detestable things; therefore I will make of it an unclean thing to them.(D)
21 I will hand it over to strangers as plunder,
to the wicked of the earth as spoil;
they shall profane it.(E)
22 I will avert my face from them
so that they may profane my treasured[b] place;
the violent shall enter it;
they shall profane it.(F)
Lamentations 4:13
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13 It was for the sins of her prophets
and the iniquities of her priests,
who shed the blood of the righteous
in her midst.(A)
Lamentations 2:1
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God’s Warnings Fulfilled
2 How the Lord in his anger
has humiliated[a] daughter Zion!
He has thrown down from heaven to earth
the splendor of Israel;
he has not remembered his footstool
in the day of his anger.(A)
Footnotes
- 2.1 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Lamentations 1:18
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18 The Lord is in the right,
for I have rebelled against his word;
but hear, all you peoples,
and behold my suffering;
my young women and young men
have gone into captivity.(A)
Lamentations 1:8
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8 Jerusalem sinned grievously,
so she has become a filthy thing;
all who honored her despise her,
for they have seen her nakedness;
she herself groans
and turns her face away.(A)
Jeremiah 4:18
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18 Your ways and your doings
have brought this upon you.
This is your doom; how bitter it is!
It has reached your very heart.”(A)
Jeremiah 2:19
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19 Your wickedness will punish you,
and your faithlessness will convict you.
Know and see that it is evil and bitter
for you to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,
says the Lord God of hosts.(A)
Jeremiah 2:17
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17 Have you not brought this upon yourself
by forsaking the Lord your God,
while he led you in the way?(A)
Proverbs 14:34
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34 Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin is a reproach to any people.(A)
Revelation 2:10
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10 Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Beware, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have affliction. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.(A)
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2 Peter 2:4-6
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4 For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell and committed them to chains[a] of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment;(A) 5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, even though he saved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;(B) 6 and if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to destruction[b] and made them an example of what is coming to the ungodly;[c]
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