Nahum 3:7
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7 Then all who see you will shrink from you and say,
“Nineveh is devastated; who will bemoan her?”
Where shall I seek comforters for you?(A)
Jeremiah 15:5
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5 Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem,
or who will bemoan you?
Who will turn aside
to ask about your welfare?
Isaiah 51:19
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19 These two things have befallen you
—who will grieve with you?—
devastation and destruction, famine and sword.
Who will comfort you?[a](A)
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- 51.19 Q ms Gk Syr Vg: MT how may I comfort you?
Revelation 18:10
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10 they will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,
“Alas, alas, the great city,
Babylon, the mighty city!
For in one hour your judgment has come.”(A)
Lamentations 2:13
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13 What can I say for you, to what compare you,
O daughter Jerusalem?
To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter Zion?
For vast as the sea is your ruin;
who can heal you?(A)
Jeremiah 51:9
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9 We tried to heal Babylon,
but she could not be healed.
Forsake her, and let each of us go
to our own country,
for her judgment has reached up to heaven
and has been lifted up even to the skies.(A)
Numbers 16:34
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34 All Israel around them fled at their outcry, for they said, “The earth will swallow us, too!”
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Nahum 2:9-10
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9 “Plunder the silver;
plunder the gold!
There is no end of treasure!
An abundance of every precious thing!”
10 Devastation, desolation, and destruction!
Hearts faint and knees tremble;
all loins quake;
all faces grow pale!(A)
Nahum 1:1
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1 An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.(A)
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Revelation 18:16-19
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16 “Alas, alas, the great city,
clothed in fine linen,
in purple and scarlet,
adorned with gold,
with jewels, and with pearls!(A)
17 For in one hour all this wealth has been laid waste!”
And all shipmasters and seafarers, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off(B) 18 and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning,
“What city was like the great city?”(C)
19 And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out,
“Alas, alas, the great city,
where all who had ships at sea
grew rich by her wealth!
For in one hour she has been laid waste.”(D)
Jeremiah 51:41-43
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41 How Sheshach[a] is taken;
the pride of the whole earth seized!
How Babylon has become
an object of horror among the nations!(A)
42 The sea has risen over Babylon;
she has been covered by its tumultuous waves.(B)
43 Her cities have become an object of horror,
a land of drought and a desert,
a land in which no one lives
and through which no mortal passes.(C)
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- 51.41 That is, Babylon
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