Verse 7

So the wealth they have earned and their stored possessions will be carried away over the Wadi of the Willows.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 48:36 : 36 Therefore, my heart moans for Moab like the sound of flutes; it moans like flutes for the men of Kir-heres, because their accumulated wealth has perished.
  • Nah 2:12-13 : 12 Where is the lion’s den, the lair of the young lions, where the lion went, the lioness went, and the lion’s cubs, with no one to disturb them? 13 The lion tears apart prey to feed its cubs and strangles it for its lionesses. He fills his dens with prey and his lairs with torn flesh.
  • Ps 137:1-2 : 1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion. 2 Upon the willows in its midst, we hung our harps.
  • Isa 5:29 : 29 Their roar is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey and carry it off, with no one to rescue it.
  • Isa 10:6 : 6 I send him against a godless nation; I dispatch him against a people at My wrath, to seize plunder, to take spoil, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.
  • Isa 10:14 : 14 My hand seized the wealth of nations like one finds a nest. As one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth; no wing fluttered, no beak opened to chirp.
  • Isa 30:6 : 6 An oracle concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of trouble and distress, of lions, lionesses, adders, and flying serpents, they carry their wealth on donkeys’ backs and their treasures on the humps of camels to a people who will not help them.