Verse 5

This is what the LORD says: We have heard a sound of terror—a cry of fear, not peace.

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  • Isa 5:30 : 30 On that day, they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress; even the light is darkened by the clouds.
  • Amos 5:16-18 : 16 Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the Lord says: There will be wailing in all the open squares, and in all the streets they will say, 'Woe, woe!' They will summon the farmer to mourning and professional mourners to lamentation. 17 In all the vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through your midst—this is what the Lord has declared. 18 Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you desire it? The day of the Lord will be darkness and not light.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 'I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cover everyone's waists with sackcloth and shave every head bald. I will make it like mourning for an only son and its end like a bitter day.'
  • Zeph 1:10-11 : 10 On that day—this is the Lord’s declaration—there will be an outcry from the Fish Gate, wailing from the Second District, and a loud crash from the hills. 11 Wail, you residents of the Mortar, for all the merchants are silenced; all who handle silver are cut off.
  • Luke 19:41-44 : 41 As he approached and saw the city, he wept over it. 42 He said, 'If you had known on this day, even you, the things that would bring you peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.' 43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a barricade against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side. 44 They will crush you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave one stone on another in you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.
  • Luke 21:25-26 : 25 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth, distress among nations, confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves. 26 People will faint from fear and the expectation of what is coming upon the world, because the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
  • Luke 23:29-30 : 29 For look, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.' 30 Then they will say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!'
  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but it is nowhere, and for salvation, but it is far from us.
  • Jer 4:15-20 : 15 A voice declares from Dan, proclaiming disaster from the hills of Ephraim. 16 Warn the nations, proclaim it against Jerusalem: 'Watchers are coming from a distant land; they raise their voices against the cities of Judah.' 17 They surround her like men guarding a field because she has rebelled against me, declares the LORD. 18 Your own way and your deeds have caused this to you; this is your calamity. How bitter it is! It has reached your very heart. 19 My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! My heart pounds within me; I cannot remain silent, for I have heard the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 20 Disaster upon disaster is announced, for the whole land is devastated. Suddenly, my tents are ruined, my curtains in a moment.
  • Jer 6:23-25 : 23 They grasp bow and spear; they are cruel and show no mercy. Their sound roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, arrayed as men for battle against you, Daughter Zion.' 24 We have heard the report about them, and our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor. 25 Do not go out into the fields or walk on the roads, for the enemy has a sword; there is terror on every side.
  • Jer 8:19 : 19 Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: 'Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?' Why have they provoked me to anger with their idols, with their worthless foreign gods?
  • Jer 9:19 : 19 'Hear the word of the Lord, you women; let your ears receive the words of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail and one another to mourn.'
  • Jer 25:36 : 36 Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the LORD is destroying their pasture.
  • Jer 31:15-16 : 15 This is what the LORD says: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping—Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted because they are no more. 16 This is what the LORD says: Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded, declares the LORD. They will return from the land of the enemy.
  • Jer 46:5 : 5 Why do I see them terrified, retreating? Their warriors are beaten down; they flee in haste without looking back—terror is all around! declares the Lord.