Jeremiah 49
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Against the a Ammonites.
Thus says the LORD:
"Has Israel no sons?
Has he no heir?
Why then does Milcom inherit b Gad,
And his people dwell in its cities?
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c Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD,
"That I will cause to be heard an alarm of war
In d Rabbah of the Ammonites;
It shall be a desolate mound,
And her villages shall be burned with fire.
Then Israel shall take possession of his inheritance," says the LORD.
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"Wail, O e Heshbon, for Ai is plundered!
Cry, you daughters of Rabbah,
f Gird yourselves with sackcloth!
Lament and run to and fro by the walls;
For Milcom shall go into captivity
With his g priests and his princes together.
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Why h do you boast in the valleys,
Your flowing valley, O i backsliding daughter?
Who trusted in her j treasures, k saying,
'Who will come against me?'
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Behold, I will bring fear upon you,"
Says the Lord GOD of hosts,
"From all those who are around you;
You shall be driven out, everyone headlong,
And no one will gather those who wander off.
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But l afterward I will bring back
The captives of the people of Ammon," says the LORD.
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m Against Edom.
Thus says the LORD of hosts:
n " Is wisdom no more in Teman?
o Has counsel perished from the prudent?
Has their wisdom p vanished?
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Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of q Dedan!
For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him,
The time that I will punish him.
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If grape-gatherers came to you,
Would they not leave some gleaning grapes?
If thieves by night,
Would they not destroy until they have enough?
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s But I have made Esau bare;
I have uncovered his secret places,
And he shall not be able to hide himself.
His descendants are plundered,
His brethren and his neighbors,
And t he is no more.
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Leave your fatherless children,
I will preserve them alive;
And let your widows trust in Me."
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For thus says the LORD: "Behold, u those whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunk. And are you the one who will altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink of it.
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"For v I have sworn by Myself," says the LORD, "that w Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual wastes."
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x I have heard a message from the LORD,
And an ambassador has been sent to the nations:
"Gather together, come against her,
And rise up to battle!
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"For indeed, I will make you small among nations,
Despised among men.
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Your fierceness has deceived you,
The y pride of your heart,
O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
Who hold the height of the hill!
Though you make your a nest as high as the eagle,
b I will bring you down from there," says the LORD.
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" Edom also shall be an astonishment;
c Everyone who goes by it will be astonished
And will hiss at all its plagues.
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d As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah
And their neighbors," says the LORD,
"No one shall remain there,
Nor shall a son of man dwell in it.
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"Behold, e he shall come up like a lion from f the floodplain of the Jordan
Against the dwelling place of the strong;
But I will suddenly make him run away from her.
And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her?
For g who is like Me?
Who will arraign Me?
And h who is that shepherd
Who will withstand Me?"
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i Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Edom,
And His purposes that He has proposed against the inhabitants of Teman:
Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out;
Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them.
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j The earth shakes at the noise of their fall;
At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.
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Behold, k He shall come up and fly like the eagle,
And spread His wings over Bozrah;
The heart of the mighty men of Edom in that day shall be
Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.
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l Against Damascus.
m "Hamath and Arpad are shamed,
For they have heard bad news.
They are fainthearted;
n There is trouble on the sea;
It cannot be quiet.
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Damascus has grown feeble;
She turns to flee,
And fear has seized her.
o Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in labor.
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Why is p the city of praise not deserted, the city of My joy?
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q Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets,
And all the men of war shall be cut off in that day," says the LORD of hosts.
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"I r will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,
And it shall consume the palaces of BenHadad."
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s Against Kedar and against the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall strike.
Thus says the LORD:
"Arise, go up to Kedar,
And devastate t the men of the East!
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Their u tents and their flocks they shall take away.
They shall take for themselves their curtains,
All their vessels and their camels;
And they shall cry out to them,
v 'Fear is on every side!'
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"Flee, get far away! Dwell in the depths,
O inhabitants of Hazor!" says the LORD.
"For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you,
And has conceived a plan against you.
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"Arise, go up to w the wealthy nation that dwells securely," says the LORD,
"Which has neither gates nor bars,
x Dwelling alone.
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Their camels shall be for booty,
And the multitude of their cattle for plunder.
I will y scatter to all winds those in the farthest corners,
And I will bring their calamity from all its sides," says the LORD.
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"Hazor z shall be a dwelling for jackals, a desolation forever;
No one shall reside there,
Nor son of man dwell in it."
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The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against a Elam, in the b beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
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"Thus says the LORD of hosts:
'Behold, I will break c the bow of Elam,
The foremost of their might.
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Against Elam I will bring the four winds
From the four quarters of heaven,
And scatter them toward all those winds;
There shall be no nations where the outcasts of Elam will not go.
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For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies
And before those who seek their life.
d I will bring disaster upon them,
My fierce anger,' says the LORD;
'And I will send the sword after them
Until I have consumed them.
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I will e set My throne in Elam,
And will destroy from there the king and the princes,' says the LORD.
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'But it shall come to pass f in the latter days:
I will bring back the captives of Elam,' says the LORD."
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Deuteronomy 23:3
An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter the asse...
Deuteronomy 23:4
Because they did not meet you with bread and wa...
2 Chronicles 20:1
It happened after this that the people of Moab ...
Jeremiah 25:21
Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon.
Ezekiel 21:28 - 32
And you, son of man, prophesy and say, 'Thus sa...
Ezekiel 25:1 - 7
The word of the LORD came to me, saying.
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Amos 1:13 - 15
Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of the people of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they ripped open the women with child in Gilead, That they might enlarge their territory.
Zephaniah 2:8 - 11
I have heard the reproach of Moab, And the insults of the people of Ammon, With which they have reproached My people, And made arrogant threats against their borders.
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Amos 1:13 - 15
Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of the people of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they ripped open the women with child in Gilead, That they might enlarge their territory.
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Ezekiel 25:5
"And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels and Ammon a resting place for flocks. Then you shall know that I am the LORD."
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Jeremiah 48:2
No more praise of Moab. In Heshbon they have devised evil against her: 'Come, and let us cut her off as a nation.' You also shall be cut down, O Madmen! The sword shall pursue you.
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Isaiah 32:11
Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent ones; Strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, And gird sackcloth on your waists.
Jeremiah 48:37
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped; On all the hands shall be cuts, and on the loins sackcloth -
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Jeremiah 48:7
For because you have trusted in your works and your treasures, You also shall be taken. And Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, His priests and his princes together.
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Jeremiah 9:23
Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his might, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches.
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Jeremiah 3:14
Return, O backsliding children," says the LORD; "for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
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Jeremiah 48:7
For because you have trusted in your works and your treasures, You also shall be taken. And Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, His priests and his princes together.
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Jeremiah 21:13
"Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, And rock of the plain," says the LORD, "Who say, 'Who shall come down against us? Or who shall enter our dwellings?'
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Jeremiah 48:47
Yet I will bring back the captives of Moab In the latter days," says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
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Genesis 25:30
And Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with th...
Genesis 32:3
Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau h...
Isaiah 34:5
For My sword shall be bathed in heaven; Indeed ...
Isaiah 34:6
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, It ...
Jeremiah 25:21
Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon.
Ezekiel 25:12 - 14
'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because of what Edom ...
Ezekiel 35:1 - 15
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying.
Joel 3:19
Egypt shall be a desolation, And Edom a desolat...
Amos 1:11
Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions o...
Amos 1:12
But I will send a fire upon Teman, Which shall ...
Obadiah 1:1
The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD c...
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Genesis 36:11
And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.
Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, each one came from his own place - Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment together to come and mourn with him, and to comfort him.
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Isaiah 19:11
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; Pharaoh's wise counselors give foolish counsel. How do you say to Pharaoh, "I am the son of the wise, The son of ancient kings?
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Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are ashamed, They are dismayed and taken. Behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; So what wisdom do they have?
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Isaiah 21:13
The burden against Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, O you traveling companies of Dedanites.
Jeremiah 25:23
Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who are in the farthest corners.
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Malachi 1:3
But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness.
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Isaiah 17:14
Then behold, at eventide, trouble! And before the morning, he is no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, And the lot of those who rob us.
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Jeremiah 25:29
"For behold, I begin to bring calamity on the city which is called by My name, and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished, for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth," says the LORD of hosts.'
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Genesis 22:16
And said: "By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son -
Isaiah 45:23
I have sworn by Myself; The word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, And shall not return, That to Me every knee shall bow, Every tongue shall take an oath.
Jeremiah 44:26
"Therefore hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: 'Behold, I have sworn by My great name,' says the LORD, 'that My name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, "The Lord GOD lives."
Amos 6:8
The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself, The LORD God of hosts says: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, And hate his palaces; Therefore I will deliver up the city And all that is in it.
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Genesis 36:33
And when Bela died, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 1:44
And when Bela died, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.
Isaiah 34:6
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, It is made overflowing with fatness, With the blood of lambs and goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Isaiah 63:1
Who is this who comes from Edom, With dyed garments from Bozrah, This One who is glorious in His apparel, Traveling in the greatness of His strength? - "I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Amos 1:12
But I will send a fire upon Teman, Which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
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Obadiah 1:1
The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom (We have heard a report from the LORD, And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle"):
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Jeremiah 48:29
"We have heard the pride of Moab (He is exceedingly proud), Of his loftiness and arrogance and pride, And of the haughtiness of his heart."
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Job 39:27
Does the eagle mount up at your command, And make its nest on high?
Isaiah 14:13 - 15
For you have said in your heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north.
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Amos 9:2
Though they dig into hell, From there My hand shall take them; Though they climb up to heaven, From there I will bring them down.
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Jeremiah 18:16
To make their land desolate and a perpetual hissing; Everyone who passes by it will be astonished And shake his head.
Jeremiah 49:13
"For I have sworn by Myself," says the LORD, "that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual wastes."
Jeremiah 50:13
Because of the wrath of the LORD She shall not be inhabited, But she shall be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be horrified And hiss at all her plagues.
Ezekiel 35:7
Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns.
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Genesis 19:24
Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodo...
Genesis 19:25
So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, al...
Deuteronomy 29:23
'The whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning...
Jeremiah 50:40
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah And their n...
Amos 4:11
I overthrew some of you, As God overthrew Sodom...
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as I live," Says the LORD of hosts, ...
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Jeremiah 50:44
"Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the floodplain of the Jordan Against the dwelling place of the strong; But I will make them suddenly run away from her. And who is a chosen man that I may appoint over her? For who is like Me? Who will arraign Me? And who is that shepherd Who will withstand Me?"
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Joshua 3:15
And as those who bore the ark came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks during the whole time of harvest).
Jeremiah 12:5
If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, Then how can you contend with horses? And if in the land of peace, In which you trusted, they wearied you, Then how will you do in the floodplain of the Jordan?
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Exodus 15:11
Who is like You, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders?
Isaiah 46:9
Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.
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Job 41:10
No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up. Who then is able to stand against Me?
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Isaiah 14:24
The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass, And as I have purposed, so it shall stand:
Isaiah 14:27
For the LORD of hosts has purposed, And who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, And who will turn it back?
Jeremiah 50:45
Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD that He has taken against Babylon, And His purposes that He has proposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out; Surely He will make their dwelling place desolate with them.
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Jeremiah 50:46
At the noise of the taking of Babylon The earth trembles, And the cry is heard among the nations.
Ezekiel 26:15
Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: 'Will the coastlands not shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when slaughter is made in the midst of you?
Ezekiel 26:18
Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall; Yes, the coastlands by the sea are troubled at your departure."
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Jeremiah 48:40
For thus says the LORD: "Behold, one shall fly like an eagle, And spread his wings over Moab.
Jeremiah 48:41
Kerioth is taken, And the strongholds are surprised; The mighty men's hearts in Moab on that day shall be Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.
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Isaiah 17:1 - 3
The burden against Damascus. "Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, And it will be a ruinous heap.
Amos 1:3
Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, Because they have threshed Gilead with implements of iron.
Amos 1:5
I will also break the gate bar of Damascus, And cut off the inhabitant from the Valley of Aven, And the one who holds the scepter from Beth Eden. The people of Syria shall go captive to Kir," Says the LORD.
Zechariah 9:1
The burden of the word of the LORD Against the land of Hadrach, And Damascus its resting place (For the eyes of men And all the tribes of Israel Are on the LORD).
Zechariah 9:2
Also against Hamath, which borders on it, And against Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.
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Jeremiah 39:5
But the Chaldean army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had captured him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.
Zechariah 9:2
Also against Hamath, which borders on it, And against Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.
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Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, When it cannot rest, Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
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Isaiah 13:8
And they will be afraid. Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them; They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth; They will be amazed at one another; Their faces will be like flames.
Jeremiah 4:31
"For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, The anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, The voice of the daughter of Zion bewailing herself; She spreads her hands, saying, 'Woe is me now, for my soul is weary Because of murderers!'
Jeremiah 6:24
We have heard the report of it; Our hands grow feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, Pain as of a woman in labor.
Jeremiah 48:21
And judgment has come on the plain country: On Holon and Jahzah and Mephaath.
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Jeremiah 33:9
'Then it shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them; they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and all the prosperity that I provide for it.'
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Jeremiah 50:30
Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets, And all her men of war shall be cut off in that day," says the LORD.
Amos 4:10
I sent among you a plague after the manner of Egypt; Your young men I killed with a sword, Along with your captive horses; I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD.
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Amos 1:4
But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, Which shall devour the palaces of BenHadad.
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Genesis 25:13
And these were the names of the sons of Ishmael...
Psalms 120:5
Woe is me, that I dwell in Meshech, That I dwel...
Isaiah 21:16
For thus the LORD has said to me: "Within a yea...
Isaiah 21:17
"and the remainder of the number of archers, th...
Jeremiah 2:10
For pass beyond the coasts of Cyprus and see, S...
Ezekiel 27:21
Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your r...
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Judges 6:3
So it was, whenever Israel had sown, Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
Job 1:3
Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.
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Psalms 120:5
Woe is me, that I dwell in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
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Jeremiah 46:5
Why have I seen them dismayed and turned back? Their mighty ones are beaten down; They have speedily fled, And did not look back, For fear was all around," says the LORD.
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Ezekiel 38:11
You will say, 'I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates' -
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Numbers 23:9
For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him; There! A people dwelling alone, Not reckoning itself among the nations.
Deuteronomy 33:28
Then Israel shall dwell in safety, The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine; His heavens shall also drop dew.
Micah 7:16
The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; They shall put their hand over their mouth; Their ears shall be deaf.
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Ezekiel 5:10
Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will scatter to all the winds.
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Jeremiah 9:11
"I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a den of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant."
Jeremiah 10:22
Behold, the noise of the report has come, And a great commotion out of the north country, To make the cities of Judah desolate, a den of jackals.
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore, as I live," Says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Surely Moab shall be like Sodom, And the people of Ammon like Gomorrah - Overrun with weeds and saltpits, And a perpetual desolation. The residue of My people shall plunder them, And the remnant of My people shall possess them.
Zephaniah 2:12 - 15
"You Ethiopians also, You shall be slain by My sword."
Malachi 1:3
But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness.
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Genesis 10:22
The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
Jeremiah 25:25
All the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes.
Ezekiel 32:24
There is Elam and all her multitude, All around her grave, All of them slain, fallen by the sword, Who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, Who caused their terror in the land of the living; Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.
Daniel 8:2
I saw in the vision, and it so happened while I was looking, that I was in Shushan, the citadel, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision that I was by the River Ulai.
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2 Kings 24:17
Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
2 Kings 24:18
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Jeremiah 28:1
And it happened in the same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying.
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Psalms 46:9
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two; He burns the chariot in the fire.
Isaiah 22:6
Elam bore the quiver With chariots of men and horsemen, And Kir uncovered the shield.
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Jeremiah 9:16
"I will scatter them also among the Gentiles, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them."
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Jeremiah 43:10
And say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will send and bring Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden. And he will spread his royal pavilion over them.
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Jeremiah 48:47
Yet I will bring back the captives of Moab In the latter days," says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
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