Psalm 94:5
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5 They crush your people, Lord,
hurting those you claim as your own.
Isaiah 3:15
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15 How dare you crush my people,
grinding the faces of the poor into the dust?”
demands the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
Revelation 17:6
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6 I could see that she was drunk—drunk with the blood of God’s holy people who were witnesses for Jesus. I stared at her in complete amazement.
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Revelation 11:3
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3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will be clothed in burlap and will prophesy during those 1,260 days.”
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Micah 3:2-3
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2 but you are the very ones
who hate good and love evil.
You skin my people alive
and tear the flesh from their bones.
3 Yes, you eat my people’s flesh,
strip off their skin,
and break their bones.
You chop them up
like meat for the cooking pot.
Jeremiah 51:34
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34 “King Nebuchadnezzar[a] of Babylon has eaten and crushed us
and drained us of strength.
He has swallowed us like a great monster
and filled his belly with our riches.
He has thrown us out of our own country.
Footnotes
- 51:34 Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar, a variant spelling of Nebuchadnezzar.
Jeremiah 51:20-23
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Babylon’s Great Punishment
20 “You[a] are my battle-ax and sword,”
says the Lord.
“With you I will shatter nations
and destroy many kingdoms.
21 With you I will shatter armies—
destroying the horse and rider,
the chariot and charioteer.
22 With you I will shatter men and women,
old people and children,
young men and young women.
23 With you I will shatter shepherds and flocks,
farmers and oxen,
captains and officers.
Jeremiah 50:11
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Babylon’s Sure Fall
11 “You rejoice and are glad,
you who plundered my chosen people.
You frisk about like a calf in a meadow
and neigh like a stallion.
Jeremiah 22:17
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17 “But you! You have eyes only for greed and dishonesty!
You murder the innocent,
oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly.”
Isaiah 52:5
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5 What is this?” asks the Lord. “Why are my people enslaved again? Those who rule them shout in exultation.[a] My name is blasphemed all day long.[b]
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Psalm 129:2-3
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2 From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me,
but they have never defeated me.
3 My back is covered with cuts,
as if a farmer had plowed long furrows.
Psalm 79:7
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7 For they have devoured your people Israel,[a]
making the land a desolate wilderness.
Psalm 79:2-3
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2 They have left the bodies of your servants
as food for the birds of heaven.
The flesh of your godly ones
has become food for the wild animals.
3 Blood has flowed like water all around Jerusalem;
no one is left to bury the dead.
Psalm 74:19-20
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19 Don’t let these wild beasts destroy your turtledoves.
Don’t forget your suffering people forever.
20 Remember your covenant promises,
for the land is full of darkness and violence!
Psalm 74:8
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8 Then they thought, “Let’s destroy everything!”
So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped.
Psalm 44:22
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22 But for your sake we are killed every day;
we are being slaughtered like sheep.
Psalm 14:4
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4 Will those who do evil never learn?
They eat up my people like bread
and wouldn’t think of praying to the Lord.
Psalm 7:2
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2 If you don’t, they will maul me like a lion,
tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
Exodus 2:23-24
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23 Years passed, and the king of Egypt died. But the Israelites continued to groan under their burden of slavery. They cried out for help, and their cry rose up to God. 24 God heard their groaning, and he remembered his covenant promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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