Exile Threatened
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Hear and give ear:
Do not be proud,
For the LORD has spoken.
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k Give glory to the LORD your God
Before He causes l darkness,
And before your feet stumble
On the dark mountains,
And while you are m looking for light,
He turns it into n the shadow of death
And makes it dense darkness.
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But if you will not hear it,
My soul will o weep in secret for your pride;
My eyes will weep bitterly
And run down with tears,
Because the LORD's flock has been taken captive.
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Say to p the king and to the queen mother,
"Humble yourselves;
Sit down,
For your rule shall collapse, the crown of your glory."
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The cities of the South shall be shut up,
And no one shall open them;
Judah shall be carried away captive, all of it;
It shall be wholly carried away captive.
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Lift up your eyes and see
Those who come from the q north.
Where is the flock that was given to you,
Your beautiful sheep?
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What will you say when He punishes you?
For you have taught them
To be chieftains, to be head over you.
Will not r pangs seize you,
Like a woman in labor?
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And if you say in your heart,
s "Why have these things come upon me?"
For the greatness of your iniquity
t Your skirts have been uncovered,
Your heels made bare.
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Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?
Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil.
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"Therefore I will u scatter them v like stubble
That passes away by the wind of the wilderness.
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w This is your lot,
The portion of your measures from Me," says the LORD,
"Because you have forgotten Me
And trusted in x falsehood.
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Therefore y I will uncover your skirts over your face,
That your shame may appear.
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I have seen your adulteries
And your lustful z neighings,
The lewdness of your harlotry,
Your abominations a on the hills in the fields.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
Will you still not be made clean?"
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Cross References
Joshua 7:19
Now Joshua said to Achan, "My son, I beg you, give glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession to Him, and tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.
Psalms 96:8
Give to the LORD the glory due His name; Bring an offering, and come into His courts.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not hear, And if you will not take it to heart, To give glory to My name," Says the LORD of hosts, "I will send a curse upon you, And I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, Because you do not take it to heart.
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Isaiah 5:30
In that day they will roar against them Like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks to the land, Behold, darkness and sorrow; And the light is darkened by the clouds.
Isaiah 8:22
Then they will look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they will be driven into darkness.
Amos 8:9
And it shall come to pass in that day," says the Lord GOD, "That I will make the sun go down at noon, And I will darken the earth in broad daylight.
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Isaiah 59:9
Therefore justice is far from us, Nor does righteousness overtake us; We look for light, but there is darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness!
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Psalms 44:19
But You have severely broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
Jeremiah 2:6
Neither did they say, 'Where is the LORD, Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and pits, Through a land of drought and the shadow of death, Through a land that no one crossed And where no one dwelt?
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Psalms 119:136
Rivers of water run down from my eyes, Because men do not keep Your law.
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh, that my head were waters, And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 14:17
Therefore you shall say this word to them: 'Let my eyes flow with tears night and day, And let them not cease; For the virgin daughter of my people Has been broken with a mighty stroke, with a very severe blow.
Luke 19:41
Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it.
Luke 19:42
Saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
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Cross References
2 Kings 24:12
Then Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his princes, and his officers went out to the king of Babylon; and the king of Babylon, in the eighth year of his reign, took him prisoner.
Jeremiah 22:26
So I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country where you were not born; and there you shall die.
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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.
Jeremiah 46:20
Egypt is a very pretty heifer, But destruction comes, it comes from the north.
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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.
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Jeremiah 16:10
"And it shall be, when you show this people all these words, and they say to you, 'Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? Or what is our iniquity? Or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?'
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Cross References
Isaiah 47:2
Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, Take off the skirt, Uncover the thigh, Pass through the rivers.
Ezekiel 16:37
Surely, therefore, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gather them from all around against you and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
Nahum 3:5
Behold, I am against you," says the LORD of hosts; "I will lift your skirts over your face, I will show the nations your nakedness, And the kingdoms your shame.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:33
I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
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."
Ezekiel 5:2
You shall burn with fire one-third in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are finished; then you shall take one-third and strike around it with the sword, and one-third you shall scatter in the wind: I will draw out a sword after them.
Ezekiel 5:12
One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
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Cross References
Psalms 1:4
The ungodly are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
Hosea 13:3
Therefore they shall be like the morning cloud And like the early dew that passes away, Like chaff blown off from a threshing floor And like smoke from a chimney.
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Cross References
Job 20:29
This is the portion from God for a wicked man, The heritage appointed to him by God.
Psalms 11:6
Upon the wicked He will rain coals; Fire and brimstone and a burning wind Shall be the portion of their cup.
Matthew 24:51
And will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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Jeremiah 10:14
Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge; Every metalsmith is put to shame by an image; For his molded image is falsehood, And there is no breath in them.
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Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem has sinned gravely, Therefore she has become vile. All who honored her despise her Because they have seen her nakedness; Yes, she sighs and turns away.
Ezekiel 16:37
Surely, therefore, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gather them from all around against you and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
Hosea 2:10
Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, And no one shall deliver her from My hand.
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Jeremiah 5:7
How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken Me And sworn by those that are not gods. When I had fed them to the full, Then they committed adultery And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
Jeremiah 5:8
They were like well-fed lusty stallions; Every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.
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Isaiah 65:7
Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together," Says the LORD, "Who have burned incense on the mountains And blasphemed Me on the hills; Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom.
Jeremiah 2:20
For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds; And you said, 'I will not transgress,' When on every high hill and under every green tree You lay down, playing the harlot.
Ezekiel 6:13
Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols.
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