For (A)I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and (B)the city shall be taken (C)and the houses plundered (D)and the women raped. (E)Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

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27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: (A)“Though the number of the sons of Israel[a] be as the sand of the sea, (B)only a remnant of them will be saved, 28 for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.” 29 And as Isaiah predicted,

(C)(D)“If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring,
    (E)we would have been like Sodom
    and become like Gomorrah.”

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 9:27 Or children of Israel

Jesus Foretells Destruction of Jerusalem

20 “But (A)when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that (B)its desolation has come near. 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it, 22 for these are (C)days of (D)vengeance, to fulfill (E)all that is written. 23 (F)Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and (G)wrath against this people. 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and (H)be led captive among all nations, and (I)Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, (J)until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

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16 (A)Their infants will be dashed in pieces
    before their eyes;
their houses will be plundered
    and their wives ravished.

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The Abomination of Desolation

14 “But when you see (A)the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be ((B)let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

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19 And (A)alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! 20 Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. 21 For then there will be (B)great tribulation, (C)such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. 22 And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for (D)the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

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43 For (A)the days will come upon you, when your enemies (B)will set up a barricade around you and (C)surround you and hem you in on every side 44 (D)and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And (E)they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know (F)the time of your (G)visitation.”

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The Abomination of Desolation

15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation (A)spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in (B)the holy place ((C)let the reader understand), 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

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(A)I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And (B)I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,

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26 But (A)the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. 27 For it is written,

(B)“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
    break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
    than those of the one who has a husband.”

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The Birth of Jesus Christ

In those days (A)a decree went out from (B)Caesar Augustus that all the world should be (C)registered.

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19 For in those days there will be (A)such (B)tribulation as has not been (C)from the beginning of the creation that (D)God created until now, and never will be.

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Lament over Jerusalem

37 (A)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that (B)kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have (C)gathered (D)your children together (E)as a hen gathers her brood (F)under her wings, and (G)you were not willing! 38 See, (H)your house is left to you desolate.

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The king was angry, and he sent his troops and (A)destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

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In the whole land, declares the Lord,
    two thirds shall be cut off and perish,
    (A)and one third shall be left alive.
And (B)I will put this third into the fire,
    and refine them as one refines silver,
    and test them as gold is tested.
(C)They will call upon my name,
    and (D)I will answer them.
(E)I will say, ‘They are my people’;
    and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

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17 (A)Therefore thus says the Lord:

“‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city,
    and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
    and your land (B)shall be divided up with a measuring line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
    and (C)Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”

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40 And (A)there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron (B)breaks to pieces and shatters all things. And like iron that crushes, it shall (C)break and crush all these. 41 And as you saw (D)the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom, but some of the (E)firmness of iron shall be in it, just as you saw iron mixed with the soft clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle. 43 As you saw the iron mixed with soft clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage,[a] but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 2:43 Aramaic by the seed of men

11 Women are raped in Zion,
    young women in the towns of Judah.
12 (A)Princes are hung up by their hands;
    (B)no respect is shown to the elders.

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10 The enemy has stretched out his hands
    over all her (A)precious things;
for she has seen (B)the nations
    enter her sanctuary,
those whom you (C)forbade
    to enter your congregation.

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Zedekiah to Die in Babylon

34 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when (A)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army (B)and all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and all of its cities:

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18 But be glad and rejoice forever
    in that which I create;
for behold, (A)I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
    and her people to be a gladness.

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Behold, (A)it is written before me:
    (B)“I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
(C)I will indeed repay into their lap
    both your iniquities (D)and your fathers' iniquities together,
says the Lord;
(E)because they made offerings on the mountains
    (F)and insulted me on the hills,
I will measure into their lap
    payment for their former deeds.”[a]

Thus says the Lord:
(G)“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
    and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,
    for there is a blessing in it,’
so I will do for my servants' sake,
    (H)and not destroy them all.
(I)I will bring forth offspring from Jacob,
    and from Judah possessors of my mountains;
my chosen shall possess it,
    and my servants shall dwell there.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:7 Or I will first measure their payment into their lap

26 He will (A)raise a signal for nations far away,
    and (B)whistle for them (C)from the ends of the earth;
and behold, quickly, speedily they come!

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(A)The Lord will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways. 10 And (B)all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are (C)called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be (D)afraid of you. 11 And (E)the Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in (F)the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. 12 The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, (G)to give the rain to your land in its season and (H)to bless all the work of your hands. And (I)you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. 13 And the Lord will make you (J)the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them, 14 (K)and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

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