Jeremiah 47:2

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

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  • Isa 15:2-5 : 2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly. 4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him. 5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
  • Jer 46:20 : 20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
  • Jer 1:14 : 14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
  • Jer 8:16 : 16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
  • Isa 8:7-8 : 7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: 8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
  • Isa 14:31 : 31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
  • Jer 46:6-8 : 6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates. 7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? 8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
  • Jer 46:13 : 13 The word that the LORD spake to emiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.
  • Jer 48:3-5 : 3 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction. 4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. 5 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
  • Jer 48:39 : 39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.
  • Dan 11:22 : 22 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
  • Amos 9:5-6 : 5 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. 6 It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his ne.
  • Nah 1:8 : 8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
  • Zeph 1:10-11 : 10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills. 11 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.
  • 1 Cor 10:26 : 26 For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
  • 1 Cor 10:28 : 28 But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:
  • Jas 5:1 : 1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
  • Rev 12:15-16 : 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. 16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
  • Rev 17:1 : 1 And the came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the gat who that sitteth upon many waters:
  • Rev 17:15 : 15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, whe the who sitteth, a peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
  • Isa 15:8 : 8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.
  • Isa 22:1 : 1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
  • Isa 22:4-5 : 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. 5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
  • Isa 28:17 : 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
  • Isa 59:19 : 19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
  • Ps 24:1 : 1 A alm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
  • Ps 50:12 : 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
  • Ps 96:11 : 11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
  • Ps 98:7 : 7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

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