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Romans 8:20
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Romans 8:20
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20 For the creation (A)was subjected to futility, not willingly, but (B)because of him who subjected it, in hope
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Romans 8:20
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Romans 8:20
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20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it,(A) in hope
Genesis 3:17-19
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Genesis 3:17-19
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17 And to Adam he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
(A)of which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
(B)cursed is the ground because of you;
(C)in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
and you shall eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
(D)for you are dust,
and (E)to dust you shall return.”
Genesis 3:17-19
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Genesis 3:17-19
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17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’(A)
“Cursed(B) is the ground(C) because of you;
through painful toil(D) you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.(E)
18 It will produce thorns and thistles(F) for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.(G)
19 By the sweat of your brow(H)
you will eat your food(I)
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”(J)
Genesis 5:29
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Genesis 5:29
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29 and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground (A)that the Lord has cursed, this one shall bring us relief[a] from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.”
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- Genesis 5:29 Noah sounds like the Hebrew for rest
Genesis 5:29
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Genesis 5:29
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29 He named him Noah[a](A) and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.(B)”
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- Genesis 5:29 Noah sounds like the Hebrew for comfort.
Romans 8:22
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Romans 8:22
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22 For we know that (A)the whole creation (B)has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
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Romans 8:22
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Romans 8:22
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22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning(A) as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
Jeremiah 12:4
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Jeremiah 12:4
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4 (A)How long will the land mourn
and the grass of every field wither?
(B)For the evil of those who dwell in it
(C)the beasts and the birds are swept away,
because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”
Jeremiah 12:4
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Jeremiah 12:4
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Hosea 4:3
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Hosea 4:3
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3 Therefore (A)the land mourns,
and all who dwell in it languish,
(B)and also the beasts of the field
and the birds of the heavens,
(C)and even the fish of the sea are taken away.
Hosea 4:3
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Hosea 4:3
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Jeremiah 14:5-6
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Jeremiah 14:5-6
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5 Even (A)the doe in the field forsakes her newborn fawn
because there is no grass.
6 (B)The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights;
they pant for air like jackals;
their eyes fail
because there is no vegetation.
Jeremiah 14:5-6
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Jeremiah 14:5-6
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Isaiah 24:5-6
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Isaiah 24:5-6
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5 The earth lies (A)defiled
under its inhabitants;
for (B)they have transgressed the laws,
violated the statutes,
broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore (C)a curse devours the earth,
and its inhabitants (D)suffer for their guilt;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched,
and few men are left.
Isaiah 24:5-6
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Isaiah 24:5-6
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Ecclesiastes 1:2
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Ecclesiastes 1:2
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- Ecclesiastes 1:2 The Hebrew term hebel, translated vanity or vain, refers concretely to a “mist,” “vapor,” or “mere breath,” and metaphorically to something that is fleeting or elusive (with different nuances depending on the context). It appears five times in this verse and in 29 other verses in Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes 1:2
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Ecclesiastes 1:2
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2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”(A)
Job 12:6-10
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Job 12:6-10
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6 (A)The tents of robbers are at peace,
and those who provoke God are secure,
who bring their god in their hand.[a]
7 “But ask the beasts, and they will teach you;
the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;
8 or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you;[b]
and the fish of the sea will declare to you.
9 Who among all these does not know
that (B)the hand of the Lord has done this?
10 In (C)his hand is the life of every living thing
and the breath of all mankind.
Job 12:6-10
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Job 12:6-10
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6 The tents of marauders are undisturbed,(A)
and those who provoke God are secure(B)—
those God has in his hand.[a]
7 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you,(C)
or the birds in the sky,(D) and they will tell you;(E)
8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,
or let the fish in the sea inform you.
9 Which of all these does not know(F)
that the hand of the Lord has done this?(G)
10 In his hand is the life(H) of every creature
and the breath of all mankind.(I)
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- Job 12:6 Or those whose god is in their own hand
Jeremiah 12:11
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Jeremiah 12:11
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11 They have made it a desolation;
desolate, (A)it mourns to me.
The whole land is made desolate,
(B)but no man lays it to heart.
Jeremiah 12:11
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Jeremiah 12:11
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Genesis 6:13
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Genesis 6:13
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13 And God said to Noah, (A)“I have determined to make an end of all flesh,[a] for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
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- Genesis 6:13 Hebrew The end of all flesh has come before me
Genesis 6:13
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Genesis 6:13
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13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy(A) both them and the earth.(B)
Joel 1:18
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Joel 1:18
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18 How (A)the beasts groan!
The herds of cattle are perplexed
because there is no pasture for them;
even the flocks of sheep suffer.[a]
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- Joel 1:18 Or are made desolate
Joel 1:18
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Joel 1:18
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