Micah 4:10
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10 (A)Writhe and groan,[a] O daughter of Zion,
like a woman in labor,
for (B)now you shall go out from the city
and dwell in the open country;
you (C)shall go to Babylon.
There you shall be rescued;
(D)there the Lord will redeem you
from the hand of your enemies.
Footnotes
- Micah 4:10 Or push
Isaiah 48:20
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20 (A)Go out from Babylon, flee from (B)Chaldea,
declare this (C)with a shout of joy, proclaim it,
send it out to the end of the earth;
say, (D)“The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
2 Kings 20:18
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18 (A)And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, (B)and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
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Hosea 13:13
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13 (A)The pangs of childbirth come for him,
but he is an unwise son,
for at the right time he does not present himself
(B)at the opening of the womb.
Hosea 2:14
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The Lord's Mercy on Israel
14 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
and (A)bring her into the wilderness,
and (B)speak tenderly to her.
Isaiah 52:9-12
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9 (A)Break forth together into singing,
(B)you waste places of Jerusalem,
for (C)the Lord has comforted his people;
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 (D)The Lord has bared his holy arm
before the eyes of all the nations,
(E)and all the ends of the earth shall see
the salvation of our God.
11 (F)Depart, depart, go out from there;
touch no unclean thing;
go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves,
(G)you who bear the vessels of the Lord.
12 For you shall not (H)go out in haste,
and you shall not go in flight,
(I)for the Lord will go before you,
(J)and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
Isaiah 45:13
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13 (A)I have stirred him up in righteousness,
(B)and I will make all his ways level;
(C)he shall build my city
(D)and set my exiles free,
not for price or reward,”
says the Lord of hosts.
Isaiah 43:14
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14 Thus says the Lord,
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
(A)“For your sake I send to Babylon
and (B)bring them all down as fugitives,
(C)even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.
Revelation 12:14
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14 But the woman was given the two (A)wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent (B)into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished (C)for a time, and times, and half a time.
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John 16:20-22
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20 Truly, truly, I say to you, (A)you will weep and lament, but (B)the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but (C)your sorrow will turn into joy. 21 (D)When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. 22 (E)So also you have sorrow now, but (F)I will see you again, and (G)your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
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Zechariah 2:7-9
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7 (A)Up! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon. 8 For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me[a] to the nations who plundered you, (B)for he who touches you touches (C)the apple of his eye: 9 “Behold, (D)I will shake my hand over them, (E)and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then (F)you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me.
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- Zechariah 2:8 Or he sent me after glory
Micah 7:8-13
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8 (A)Rejoice not over me, O (B)my enemy;
(C)when I fall, I shall rise;
(D)when I sit in darkness,
the Lord will be a light to me.
9 (E)I will bear the indignation of the Lord
because I have sinned against him,
until (F)he pleads my cause
and executes judgment for me.
(G)He will bring me out to the light;
I shall look upon his vindication.
10 Then (H)my enemy will see,
and shame will cover her who (I)said to me,
“Where is the Lord your God?”
(J)My eyes will look upon her;
now she will be trampled down
(K)like the mire of the streets.
11 (L)A day for the building of your walls!
In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
12 In that day they[a] will come to you,
(M)from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
and from Egypt to (N)the River,[b]
(O)from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
13 But (P)the earth will be desolate
because of its inhabitants,
for the fruit of their deeds.
Footnotes
- Micah 7:12 Hebrew he
- Micah 7:12 That is, the Euphrates
Hosea 1:10
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10 [a] Yet (A)the number of the children of Israel shall be (B)like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. (C)And (D)in the place where it was said to them, (E)“You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, (F)“Children[b] of (G)the living God.”
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- Hosea 1:10 Ch 2:1 in Hebrew
- Hosea 1:10 Or Sons
Jeremiah 15:21
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21 (A)I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked,
and redeem you from the grasp of (B)the ruthless.”
Isaiah 66:7-9
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Rejoice with Jerusalem
7 (A)“Before she was in labor
she gave birth;
before her pain came upon her
she delivered a son.
8 Who has heard such a thing?
Who has seen such things?
Shall a land be born in one day?
Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment?
For (B)as soon as Zion was in labor
she brought forth her children.
9 Shall I bring to the point of birth and not cause to bring forth?”
says the Lord;
“shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the womb?”
says your God.
Psalm 106:10
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Ezra 1:1-2
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The Proclamation of Cyrus
1 (A)In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, (B)that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so (C)that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
2 “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and (D)he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
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2 Chronicles 36:20
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20 He (A)took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, (B)and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,
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2 Chronicles 33:11
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11 (A)Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and (B)bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.
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2 Kings 25:4
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4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by (A)the king's garden, and (B)the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the (C)Arabah.
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