Micah 4:10
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10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth,
O daughter of Zion,
Like a woman in birth pangs.
For now you shall go forth from the city,
You shall dwell in the field,
And to (A)Babylon you shall go.
There you shall be delivered;
There the (B)Lord will (C)redeem you
From the hand of your enemies.
Isaiah 48:20
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20 (A)Go forth from Babylon!
Flee from the Chaldeans!
With a voice of singing,
Declare, proclaim this,
Utter it to the end of the earth;
Say, “The Lord has (B)redeemed
His servant Jacob!”
2 Kings 20:18
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18 ‘And (A)they shall take away some of your sons who will [a]descend from you, whom you will beget; (B)and they shall be (C)eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ”
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- 2 Kings 20:18 be born from
Hosea 13:13
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13 (A)The sorrows of a woman in childbirth shall come upon him.
He is an unwise son,
For he should not stay long where children are born.
Hosea 2:14
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God’s Mercy on His People
14 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
Will bring her into the wilderness,
And speak [a]comfort to her.
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- Hosea 2:14 Lit. to her heart
Isaiah 52:9-12
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9 Break forth into joy, sing together,
You waste places of Jerusalem!
For the Lord has comforted His people,
He has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 (A)The Lord has [a]made bare His holy arm
In the eyes of (B)all the nations;
And all the ends of the earth shall see
The salvation of our God.
11 (C)Depart! Depart! Go out from there,
Touch no unclean thing;
Go out from the midst of her,
(D)Be clean,
You who bear the vessels of the Lord.
12 For (E)you shall not go out with haste,
Nor go by flight;
(F)For the Lord will go before you,
(G)And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 52:10 Revealed His power
Isaiah 45:13
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13 (A)I have raised him up in righteousness,
And I will [a]direct all his ways;
He shall (B)build My city
And let My exiles go free,
(C)Not for price nor reward,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:13 Or make all his ways straight
Isaiah 43:14
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14 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,
The Holy One of Israel:
“For your sake I will send to Babylon,
And bring them all down as fugitives—
The Chaldeans, who rejoice in their ships.
Revelation 12:14
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14 (A)But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, (B)that she might fly (C)into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished (D)for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.
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Zechariah 2:7-9
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7 “Up, Zion! (A)Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.”
8 For thus says the Lord of hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who (B)touches you touches the [a]apple of His eye. 9 For surely I will (C)shake My hand against them, and they shall become [b]spoil for their servants. Then (D)you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me.
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- Zechariah 2:8 Lit. pupil
- Zechariah 2:9 booty or plunder
Micah 7:8-13
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Israel’s Confession and Comfort
8 (A)Do not rejoice over me, my enemy;
(B)When I fall, I will arise;
When I sit in darkness,
The Lord will be a light to me.
9 (C)I will bear the indignation of the Lord,
Because I have sinned against Him,
Until He pleads my (D)case
And executes justice for me.
He will bring me forth to the light;
I will see His righteousness.
10 Then she who is my enemy will see,
And (E)shame will cover her who said to me,
(F)“Where is the Lord your God?”
My eyes will see her;
Now she will be trampled down
Like mud in the streets.
11 In the day when your (G)walls are to be built,
In that day [a]the decree shall go far and wide.
12 In that day (H)they[b] shall come to you
From Assyria and the [c]fortified cities,
From the [d]fortress to [e]the River,
From sea to sea,
And mountain to mountain.
13 Yet the land shall be desolate
Because of those who dwell in it,
And (I)for the fruit of their deeds.
Footnotes
- Micah 7:11 Or the boundary shall be extended
- Micah 7:12 Lit. he, collective of the captives
- Micah 7:12 Heb. arey mazor, possibly cities of Egypt
- Micah 7:12 Heb. mazor, possibly Egypt
- Micah 7:12 The Euphrates
Hosea 1:10
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The Restoration of Israel
10 “Yet (A)the number of the children of Israel
Shall be as the sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or numbered.
(B)And it shall come to pass
In the place where it was said to them,
‘You are [a]not My (C)people,’
There it shall be said to them,
‘You are (D)sons of the living God.’
Footnotes
- Hosea 1:10 Heb. lo-ammi, v. 9
Jeremiah 15:21
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21 “I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked,
And I will redeem you from the grip of the terrible.”
Isaiah 66:7-9
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7 “Before she was in labor, she gave birth;
Before her pain came,
She delivered a male child.
8 Who has heard such a thing?
Who has seen such things?
Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day?
Or shall a nation be born at once?
For as soon as Zion was in labor,
She gave birth to her children.
9 Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?” says the Lord.
“Shall I who cause delivery shut up the womb?” says your God.
Psalm 106:10
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10 He (A)saved them from the hand of him who hated them,
And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
2 Chronicles 36:20
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20 And (A)those who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, (B)where they became servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,
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John 16:20-22
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20 Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and (A)lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into (B)joy. 21 (C)A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. 22 Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and (D)your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.
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Ezra 1:1-2
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End of the Babylonian Captivity(A)
1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord (B)by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, (C)so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,
2 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia:
All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord God of heaven has given me. And He has (D)commanded me to build Him a [a]house at Jerusalem which is in Judah.
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- Ezra 1:2 Temple
2 Chronicles 33:11
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11 (A)Therefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with [a]hooks, (B)bound him with [b]bronze fetters, and carried him off to Babylon.
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- 2 Chronicles 33:11 Nose hooks, 2 Kin. 19:28
- 2 Chronicles 33:11 chains
2 Kings 25:4
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4 Then (A)the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans were still encamped all around against the city. And (B)the king[a] went by way of the [b]plain.
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- 2 Kings 25:4 Lit. he
- 2 Kings 25:4 Or Arabah, the Jordan Valley
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