Jeremiah 22:23

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You who live in Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when pains come upon you, anguish like that of a woman in labor!

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  • Jer 6:24 : 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.
  • Jer 4:30-31 : 30 And you, devastated one, what will you do? Though you dress in scarlet, adorn yourself with gold jewelry, and enlarge your eyes with makeup, you beautify yourself in vain. Your lovers reject you; they seek your life. 31 I hear a cry like that of a woman in labor, anguish like a woman giving birth to her first child—the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands: 'Woe is me! My life is fainting before the killers.'
  • Jer 22:6 : 6 For this is what the LORD says about the house of the king of Judah: Though you are like Gilead to me, like the peak of Lebanon, yet I will surely make you into a wilderness, uninhabited cities.
  • Jer 30:5-6 : 5 This is what the LORD says: We have heard a sound of terror—a cry of fear, not peace. 6 Ask now and see: Can a man give birth? Why then do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor, and every face turned pale?
  • Jer 48:28 : 28 Abandon your cities and dwell among the rocks, O inhabitants of Moab. Be like a dove that makes its nest in the sides of the cave's opening.
  • Jer 49:16 : 16 The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, holding the heights of the hill. Though you build your nest as high as the eagle, from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.
  • Jer 50:4-5 : 4 In those days and at that time,' declares the LORD, 'the people of Israel and the people of Judah will come together, weeping as they go, seeking the LORD their God. 5 They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
  • Hos 5:15-6:1 : 15 I will return to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will earnestly seek me. 1 Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has struck us down, but He will bind us up.
  • Hos 7:14 : 14 They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They gather together for grain and new wine but turn away from me.
  • Amos 9:2 : 2 'If they dig down to the depths of Sheol, from there My hand will take them. If they climb up to the heavens, from there I will bring them down.'
  • Obad 1:4 : 4 Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.
  • Hab 2:9 : 9 Woe to the one who gains unjust wealth for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of calamity!
  • Zech 11:1-2 : 1 Open your gates, O Lebanon, so that fire may consume your cedars. 2 Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the majestic trees are destroyed! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has come down!
  • Jer 21:13 : 13 Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O rock of the plain, declares the LORD. You who say, 'Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?'
  • Num 24:21 : 21 Then he saw the Kenites and spoke his oracle: 'Your dwelling is secure, your nest is set in the rock.'
  • Jer 3:21 : 21 A voice is heard on the barren heights: the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the LORD their God.

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    20Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you—the sheep of your glorious care?

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    17As a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her labor pains, so were we in Your presence, LORD.

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    1Open your gates, O Lebanon, so that fire may consume your cedars.

    2Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the majestic trees are destroyed! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has come down!

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