Psalm 59:11
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11 Do not kill them, or my people may forget;
make them totter by your power and bring them down,
O Lord, our shield.(A)
Psalm 3:3
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3 But you, O Lord, are a shield around me,
my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.(A)
Revelation 9:6
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6 And in those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.(A)
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Luke 21:21
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21 Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those inside the city must leave it, and those out in the country must not enter it,(A)
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Psalm 52:5
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5 But God will break you down forever;
he will snatch and tear you from your tent;
he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah(A)
Job 40:12
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12 Look on all who are proud and bring them low;
tread down the wicked where they stand.(A)
Judges 1:6-7
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6 Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes. 7 Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has paid me back.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
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Deuteronomy 28:64
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64 The Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.(A)
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Deuteronomy 4:27
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27 The Lord will scatter you among the peoples; only a few of you will be left among the nations where the Lord will lead you.(A)
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Genesis 4:12-15
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12 When you till the ground, it will no longer yield to you its strength; you will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”(A) 13 Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is greater than I can bear! 14 Today you have driven me away from the soil, and I shall be hidden from your face; I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and anyone who meets me may kill me.”(B) 15 Then the Lord said to him, “Not so![a] Whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance.” And the Lord put a mark on Cain, so that no one who came upon him would kill him.(C)
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- 4.15 Gk Syr Vg: Heb Therefore
Luke 1:51-52
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51 He has shown strength with his arm;
he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.(A)
52 He has brought down the powerful from their thrones
and lifted up the lowly;(B)
Ezekiel 14:22-23
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22 Yet survivors shall be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out; they will come out to you. When you see their ways and their deeds, you will be consoled for the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, for all that I have brought upon it.(A) 23 They shall console you when you see their ways and their deeds, and you shall know that it was not without cause that I did all that I have done in it, says the Lord God.(B)
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Ezekiel 12:15-16
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15 And they shall know that I am the Lord when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries.(A) 16 But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, so that they may tell of all their abominations among the nations where they go; then they shall know that I am the Lord.(B)
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Psalm 106:27
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- 106.27 Syr: Heb cause to fall
Psalm 84:11
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11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
he bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does the Lord withhold
from those who walk uprightly.(A)
Psalm 84:9
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9 Behold our shield, O God;
look on the face of your anointed.(A)
Psalm 44:11
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11 You have made us like sheep for slaughter
and have scattered us among the nations.(A)
Deuteronomy 30:3-4
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3 then the Lord your God will return you from your captivity and have compassion on you, gathering you again from all the peoples among whom the Lord your God has scattered you.(A) 4 Even if you are exiled to the ends of the world,[a] from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you back.(B)
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- 30.4 Heb of heaven
Deuteronomy 4:9
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9 “But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children(A)—
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Leviticus 26:33
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33 And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword against you; your land shall be a desolation and your cities a waste.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 9:5
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5 The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost.(A)
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