Jeremiah 46:16
... are stopped in their going, they are falling; and they say one to another, Let us get up and go back to our people, to the land of our birth, away from the cruel sword.
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Referenced Verses
- Lev 26:36-37 : 36 And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them; 37 Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.
- Jer 51:9 : 9 We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies.
- Jer 46:6 : 6 Let not the quick-footed go in flight, or the man of war get away; on the north, by the river Euphrates, they are slipping and falling.
- Jer 46:21 : 21 And those who were her fighters for payment are like fat oxen; for they are turned back, they have gone in flight together, they do not keep their place: for the day of their fate has come on them, the time of their punishment.
- Jer 50:16 : 16 Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land.
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15 Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength.
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36 And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;
37 Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.
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12 Your shame has come to the ears of the nations, and the earth is full of your cry: for the strong man is falling against the strong, they have come down together.
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16 Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land.
17 Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.
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8 They are bent down and made low; but we have been lifted up.
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14 And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.
15 Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.
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15 For they are in flight from the sharp sword, and the bent bow, and from the trouble of war.
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5 What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.
6 Let not the quick-footed go in flight, or the man of war get away; on the north, by the river Euphrates, they are slipping and falling.
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20 Among those who have been put to the sword: they will give a resting-place with them to all their people.
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40 And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.
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38 I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.
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49 As Babylon had the dead of Israel put to the sword, so in Babylon the dead of all the land will be stretched out.
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20 When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people;
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21 For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will put stones in the way of this people: and the fathers and the sons together will go falling over them; the neighbour and his friend will come to destruction.
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2 And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away.
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15 And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken, and will be taken in the net.
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7 And you will put to flight those who are against you, and they will be put to death by your swords.
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12 This is what the Lord has said: The days of my cause against you are ended; they are cut off and past. Though I have sent trouble on you, you will no longer be troubled.
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8 No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.
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21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.
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9 For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.
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16 Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.
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2 They are bent down, they are falling together: they were not able to keep their images safe, but they themselves have been taken prisoner.
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19 The glory, O Israel, is dead on your high places! How have the great ones been made low!
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8 As for you, you have become haters of those who were at peace with you: you take the clothing of those who go by without fear, and make them prisoners of war.
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4 And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.
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15 Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them.
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33 This is what the Lord of armies has said: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are crushed down together: all those who took them prisoner keep them in a tight grip; they will not let them go.
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39 I have sent destruction on them and given them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.
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4 Further, you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Will those who are falling not be lifted up again? will he who has gone away not come back?
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16 Then it will come about that the sword, which is the cause of your fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and need of food, which you are fearing, will go after you there in Egypt; and there death will come to you.
17 Such will be the fate of all the men whose minds are fixed on going into Egypt and stopping there; they will come to their end by the sword, by being short of food, and by disease: not one of them will keep his life or get away from the evil which I will send on them.
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16 And the children of Israel went in flight before Judah, and God gave them up into their hands.
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19 O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.
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10 Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.
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22 And a very great number went to their death, because the war was God's purpose. And they went on living in their place till they were taken away as prisoners.
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6 And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.
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25 Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.
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6 And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.
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23 And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.
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11 And he will come and overcome the land of Egypt; those who are for death will be put to death, those who are to be prisoners will be made prisoners, and those who are for the sword will be given to the sword.
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6 And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs.
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1 And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.
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12 And it came about that when the Jews who were living near them came, they said to us ten times, From all directions they are coming against us.