Jeremiah 9:20

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'For death has climbed in through our windows and entered our fortresses, cutting off children from the streets and young men from the public squares.'

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  • Job 22:22 : 22 Accept instruction from His mouth and place His words in your heart.
  • Isa 32:9-9 : 9 Rise up, you women who are at ease; listen to my voice! You daughters who feel secure, pay attention to what I say! 10 In little more than a year, you who feel secure will tremble, for the grape harvest will fail, and the gathering will not come. 11 Tremble, you who are at ease; shudder, you who feel secure! Strip yourselves bare and put on sackcloth around your waists. 12 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines. 13 The land of my people will be covered with thorns and briers, indeed over all the joyful houses in the jubilant city.
  • Luke 23:27-30 : 27 A large crowd of people followed Him, including women who were mourning and lamenting Him. 28 But Jesus turned to them and said, 'Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 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 3:16 : 16 The LORD says, 'Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, walking with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, taking short, mincing steps, and jingling ornaments on their feet,
  • Jer 9:17-18 : 17 'Let them come quickly and lift up a lament over us so that our eyes may overflow with tears and our eyelids stream with water.' 18 'For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: “How devastated we are! We are utterly ashamed, for we have left the land and our dwellings have been cast off.”'
  • Isa 3:4 : 4 I will make boys their leaders, and immature children will rule over them.

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  • Jer 9:17-19
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    80%

    17'Let them come quickly and lift up a lament over us so that our eyes may overflow with tears and our eyelids stream with water.'

    18'For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: “How devastated we are! We are utterly ashamed, for we have left the land and our dwellings have been cast off.”'

    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 9:21
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    21Speak, this is what the Lord declares: The dead bodies of people will fall like dung on the open field, like bundles left behind by the reaper, with no one to gather them.

  • Jer 6:26
    77%

    26O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; mourn as for an only son, with bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

  • Amos 5:16
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    16Therefore, 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.

  • Jer 16:3
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    3For this is what the LORD says about the sons and daughters born in this place, as well as their mothers who bear them and their fathers who father them in this land:

  • Jer 4:31
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    31I 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.'

  • Isa 32:9-12
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    75%

    9Rise up, you women who are at ease; listen to my voice! You daughters who feel secure, pay attention to what I say!

    10In little more than a year, you who feel secure will tremble, for the grape harvest will fail, and the gathering will not come.

    11Tremble, you who are at ease; shudder, you who feel secure! Strip yourselves bare and put on sackcloth around your waists.

    12Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines.

  • Isa 51:19
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    19These double calamities have come upon you—destruction and devastation, famine and sword. Who will console you?

  • Jer 14:16-17
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    16And the people to whom they are prophesying will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters. I will pour out their wickedness upon them.

    17You are to speak this word to them: 'Let my eyes flow with tears night and day without ceasing, for the virgin daughter of my people has suffered a great shattering—a crushing blow, a grievous wound.'

  • Lam 2:20-21
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    20Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their own children, the little ones they have cherished? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

    21Young and old lie together in the dust of the streets; my young women and young men have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered them without pity.

  • Mic 2:9
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    9You drive the women of my people out of their pleasant homes. You take away my splendor from their children forever.

  • Joel 1:8
    74%

    8Mourn like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
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    9This is why our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons, daughters, and wives are in captivity today.

  • Lam 2:10-12
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    10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and dressed themselves in sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground in despair.

    11My eyes are worn out from weeping, my inner being is in turmoil; my heart is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people, as children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

    12They cry out to their mothers, 'Where is the bread and the wine?' as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, and as they breathe their last in their mothers’ arms.

  • Jer 15:9
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    9The mother of seven has grown weak and faint; she has breathed her last. Her sun has set while it was still day; she has been disgraced and humiliated. And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword in the presence of their enemies,' declares the LORD.

  • Mic 4:9-10
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    9Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seizes you like a woman in labor?

    10Writhe in pain and groan, Daughter Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you must leave the city and camp in the open field. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued. There the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

  • Isa 22:4
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    4Therefore I said, 'Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly. Do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of my people.'

  • Lam 4:10
    73%

    10The compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Isa 3:26
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    26The city gates will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

  • Deut 28:56
    73%

    56The most tender and delicate woman among you, so refined that she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she loves, her son, and her daughter.

  • Isa 3:16
    73%

    16The LORD says, 'Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, walking with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, taking short, mincing steps, and jingling ornaments on their feet,

  • Hos 9:12
    73%

    12Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them!

  • Jer 13:21
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    21What will you say when He appoints leaders over you, those you taught to be rulers? Will not pain seize you like a woman in labor?

  • Amos 5:1
    72%

    1Listen to this word that I am raising against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel.

  • Ezek 26:6
    72%

    6Also, her villages in the countryside will be slaughtered by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

  • Jer 4:8
    72%

    8For this, put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.

  • Ezek 16:35
    72%

    35Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD.

  • Zech 12:12
    72%

    12The land will mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves.

  • Lam 1:17
    72%

    17Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

  • Jer 18:21
    72%

    21So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, and let their men die by deadly disease; let their young men be struck down in battle.

  • Ezek 14:22
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    22Yet, behold, there will be survivors, some sons and daughters brought out. They will come to you, and you will see their ways and their deeds. You will be comforted concerning the disaster I have brought upon Jerusalem, all I have brought upon it.

  • Ezek 32:16
    72%

    16This is a lamentation, and the daughters of the nations will chant it. They will chant it for Egypt and all her multitude, declares the Lord GOD.

  • Amos 7:17
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    17Therefore, this is what the Lord says: 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be divided up with a measuring line, and you yourself will die in a polluted land. Israel will surely go into exile away from their homeland.'

  • Mic 1:8
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    8Because of this, I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like jackals and mourn like ostriches.

  • Jer 8:19
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    19Listen 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?

  • Luke 23:28
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    28But Jesus turned to them and said, 'Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

  • Jer 22:23
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    23You 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!

  • Isa 22:12
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    12In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth.

  • Isa 15:3
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    3In its streets, they wear sackcloth. On its rooftops and public squares, everyone wails, falling down in tears.

  • Jer 9:10
    71%

    10I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants.