Jeremiah 20:16
May that man be like the cities that the LORD destroyed without showing any mercy. May he hear a cry of distress in the morning and a battle cry at noon.
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- Jer 18:22 : 22 Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into.
- Deut 29:23 : 23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger.
- Jer 48:3-4 : 3 Cries of anguish will arise in Horonaim,‘Oh, the ruin and great destruction!’ 4 “Moab will be crushed. Her children will cry out in distress.
- Ezek 21:22 : 22 Into his right hand comes the portent for Jerusalem– to set up battering rams, to give the signal for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry, to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.
- Hos 10:14 : 14 Bethel Will Be Destroyed Like Beth Arbel The roar of battle will rise against your people; all your fortresses will be devastated, just as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.
- Hos 11:8 : 8 The Divine Dilemma: Judgment or Mercy? How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? I have had a change of heart! All my tender compassions are aroused!
- Amos 1:14 : 14 So I will set fire to Rabbah’s city wall; fire will consume her fortresses. War cries will be heard on the day of battle; a strong gale will blow on the day of the windstorm.
- Amos 2:2 : 2 So I will set Moab on fire, and it will consume Kerioth’s fortresses. Moab will perish in the heat of battle amid war cries and the blaring of the ram’s horn.
- Amos 4:11 : 11 “I overthrew some of you the way God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the flames. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking!
- Jonah 3:4 : 4 When Jonah began to enter the city one day’s walk, he announced,“At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
- Jonah 3:9-9 : 9 Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.” 10 When God saw their actions– that they turned from their evil way of living!– God relented concerning the judgment he had threatened them with and he did not destroy them.
- Jonah 4:2 : 2 He prayed to the LORD and said,“Oh, LORD, this is just what I thought would happen when I was in my own country. This is what I tried to prevent by attempting to escape to Tarshish!– because I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.
- Zeph 1:16 : 16 a day of trumpet blasts and battle cries. Judgment will fall on the fortified cities and the high corner towers.
- Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore, as surely as I live,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel,“be certain that Moab will become like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah. They will be overrun by weeds, filled with salt pits, and permanently desolate. Those of my people who are left will plunder their belongings; those who are left in Judah will take possession of their land.”
- Luke 17:29 : 29 but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
- 2 Pet 2:6 : 6 and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, having appointed them to serve as an example to future generations of the ungodly,
- Jude 1:7 : 7 So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
- Jer 4:19 : 19 I said,“Oh, the feeling in the pit of my stomach! I writhe in anguish. Oh, the pain in my heart! My heart pounds within me. I cannot keep silent. For I hear the sound of the trumpet; the sound of the battle cry pierces my soul!
- Jer 18:8 : 8 But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, I will cancel the destruction I intended to do to it.
- Jer 26:13 : 13 But correct the way you have been living and do what is right. Obey the LORD your God. If you do, the LORD will forgo destroying you as he threatened he would.
- Gen 19:24-25 : 24 Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the LORD. 25 So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.
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- Jer 20:14-152 verses80%
14 Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.
15 Cursed be the man who made my father very glad when he brought him the news that a baby boy had been born to him!
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17 For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.
- Job 3:3-42 verses74%
3 “Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said,‘A man has been conceived!’
4 That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!
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21 Prepare to execute his sons for the sins their ancestors have committed. They must not rise up and take possession of the earth, or fill the surface of the world with cities.”
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40 I will destroy Babylonia just like I did Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it,” says the LORD.
- Jer 18:21-222 verses71%
21 So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.
22 Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into.
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18 Edom will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns that were around them. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it,” says the LORD.
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7 Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it!
8 Let those who curse the day curse it– those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
9 Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,
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20 So the LORD said,“The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant
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18 lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.
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13 The labor pains of a woman will overtake him, but the baby will lack wisdom; when the time arrives, he will not come out of the womb!
- Job 24:20-212 verses70%
20 The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.
21 He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.
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12 May no one show him kindness! May no one have compassion on his fatherless children!
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19 Babylon, the most admired of kingdoms, the Chaldeans’ source of honor and pride, will be destroyed by God just as Sodom and Gomorrah were.
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18 Discipline your child, for there is hope, but do not set your heart on causing his death.
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8 I will make this city an object of horror, a thing to be hissed at. All who pass by it will be filled with horror and will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.
- Hos 10:14-152 verses69%
14 Bethel Will Be Destroyed Like Beth Arbel The roar of battle will rise against your people; all your fortresses will be devastated, just as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.
15 So will it happen to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness! When that day dawns, the king of Israel will be destroyed.
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12 Woe to the one who builds a city by bloodshed– he who starts a town by unjust deeds.
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20 I said,“So now, you wailing women, listen to the LORD’s message. Open your ears to the message from his mouth. Teach your daughters this mournful song, and let every woman teach her neighbor this lament.
- Lam 2:20-212 verses69%
20 ר(Resh)Jerusalem Speaks: Look, O LORD! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
21 ש(Sin/Shin) The young boys and old men lie dead on the ground in the streets. My young women and my young men have fallen by the sword. You killed them when you were angry; you slaughtered them without mercy.
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12 From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.
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3 Cries of anguish will arise in Horonaim,‘Oh, the ruin and great destruction!’
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20 Woes on Unrepentant Cities Then Jesus began to criticize openly the cities in which he had done many of his miracles, because they did not repent.
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8 O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! How blessed will be the one who repays you for what you dished out to us!
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28 he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.
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27 The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.
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10 May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!
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16 a day of trumpet blasts and battle cries. Judgment will fall on the fortified cities and the high corner towers.
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17 He loved to curse others, so those curses have come upon him. He had no desire to bless anyone, so he has experienced no blessings.
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6 The LORD decided not to do this. The Sovereign LORD said,“This will not happen either.”
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3 For I, the LORD, tell you what will happen to the children who are born here in this land and to the men and women who are their mothers and fathers.
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15 Shout the battle cry from all around the city. She will throw up her hands in surrender. Her towers will fall. Her walls will be torn down. Because I, the LORD, am wreaking revenge, take out your vengeance on her! Do to her as she has done!
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14 If someone blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted as a curse to him.
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25 So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.
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3 Otherwise, I will strip her naked, and expose her like she was when she was born. I will turn her land into a wilderness and make her country a parched land, so that I might kill her with thirst.
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14 May his ancestors’ sins be remembered by the LORD! May his mother’s sin not be forgotten!
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19 These double disasters confronted you. But who feels sorry for you? Destruction and devastation, famine and sword. But who consoles you?
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6 The Lord’s Judgment will Purify“I destroyed nations; their walled cities are in ruins. I turned their streets into ruins; no one passes through them. Their cities are desolate; no one lives there.
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20 Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.
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17 His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.
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20 People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,