Nahum 2:7
Nineveh is taken into exile and is led away; her slave girls moan like doves while they beat their breasts.
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- Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a swallow or a thrush I chirp, I coo like a dove; my eyes grow tired from looking up to the sky. O Lord, I am oppressed; help me!
- Isa 59:11 : 11 We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
- Luke 23:27 : 27 A great number of the people followed him, among them women who were mourning and wailing for him.
- Luke 23:48 : 48 And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.
- Isa 32:12 : 12 Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine!
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8Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, but now her people are running away; she cries out:“Stop! Stop!”– but no one turns back.
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6The sluice gates are opened; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves.
- Zeph 2:13-153 verses72%
13The LORD will attack the north and destroy Assyria. He will make Nineveh a heap of ruins; it will be as barren as the desert.
14Flocks and herds will lie down in the middle of it, as well as every kind of wild animal. Owls will sleep in the tops of its support pillars; they will hoot through the windows. Rubble will cover the thresholds; even the cedar work will be exposed to the elements.
15This is how the once-proud city will end up– the city that was so secure. She thought to herself,“I am unique! No one can compare to me!” What a heap of ruins she has become, a place where wild animals live! Everyone who passes by her taunts her and shakes his fist.
- Nah 3:6-83 verses70%
6I will pelt you with filth; I will treat you with contempt; I will make you a public spectacle.
7Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust; they will say,‘Nineveh has been devastated! Who will lament for her?’ There will be no one to comfort you!”
8Nineveh Will Suffer the Same Fate as Thebes You are no more secure than Thebes– she was located on the banks of the Nile; the waters surrounded her, her rampart was the sea, the water was her wall.
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10Yet she went into captivity as an exile; even her infants were smashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her nobility; all her dignitaries were bound with chains.
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26Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground.
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8For this reason I will mourn and wail; I will walk around barefoot and without my outer garments. I will howl like a wild dog, and screech like an owl.
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9Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.
- Lam 1:1-55 verses67%
1¶ The Prophet Speaks:א(Alef) Alas! The city once full of people now sits all alone! The prominent lady among the nations has become a widow! The princess who once ruled the provinces has become a forced laborer!
2ב(Bet) She weeps bitterly at night; tears stream down her cheeks. She has no one to comfort her among all her lovers. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
3ג(Gimel) Judah has departed into exile under affliction and harsh oppression. She lives among the nations; she has found no resting place. All who pursued her overtook her in narrow straits.
4ד(Dalet) The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels to the festivals. All her city gates are deserted; her priests groan. Her virgins grieve; she is in bitter anguish!
5ה(He) Her foes subjugated her; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD afflicted her because of her many acts of rebellion. Her children went away captive before the enemy.
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3She has sent out her female servants; she calls out on the highest places of the city.
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42The sound of a carefree crowd accompanied her, including all kinds of men; even Sabeans were brought from the desert. The sisters put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.
- Jer 9:18-192 verses66%
18I said,“Indeed, let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water.
19For the sound of wailing is soon to be heard in Zion,‘We are utterly ruined! We are completely disgraced! For we have left our land! For our houses have been torn down!’”
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30They will lament loudly over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;
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3Wail, you people in Heshbon, because Ai in Ammon is destroyed. Cry out in anguish, you people in the villages surrounding Rabbah. Put on sackcloth and cry out in mourning. Run about covered with gashes. For your god Milcom will go into exile along with his priests and officials.
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2At the fords of the Arnon the Moabite women are like a bird that flies about when forced from its nest.
- Isa 47:1-22 verses65%
1Babylon Will Fall“Fall down! Sit in the dirt, O virgin daughter Babylon! Sit on the ground, not on a throne, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called delicate and pampered.
2Pick up millstones and grind flour! Remove your veil, strip off your skirt, expose your legs, cross the streams!
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16Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan– each one for his iniquity.
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7For this reason what they have made and stored up, they carry over the Stream of the Poplars.
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19A whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings; they will be brought to shame because of their idolatrous worship.
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17Look, the LORD will throw you far away, you mere man! He will wrap you up tightly.
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7Therefore they will now be the first to go into exile, and the religious banquets where they sprawl on couches will end.
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10Soon I will expose her lewd nakedness in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to rescue her from me!
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9You wrongly evict widows among my people from their cherished homes. You defraud their children of their prized inheritance.
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39I will give you into their hands and they will destroy your chambers and tear down your pavilions. They will strip you of your clothing and take your beautiful jewelry and leave you naked and bare.
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16“Take the harp, go through the city, forgotten prostitute! Play it well, play lots of songs, so you’ll be noticed!”
- Lam 2:9-102 verses64%
9ט(Tet) Her city gates have fallen to the ground; he smashed to bits the bars that lock her gates. Her king and princes were taken into exile; there is no more guidance available. As for her prophets, they no longer receive a vision from the LORD.
10י(Yod) The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dirt on their heads; They have dressed in sackcloth. Jerusalem’s young women stare down at the ground.
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11They will return in fear and trembling like birds from Egypt, like doves from Assyria, and I will settle them in their homes,” declares the LORD.
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20Warning to Jerusalem People of Jerusalem, go up to Lebanon and cry out in mourning. Go to the land of Bashan and cry out loudly. Cry out in mourning from the mountains of Moab. For your allies have all been defeated.
- Mic 4:9-102 verses64%
9Jerusalem, why are you now shouting so loudly? Has your king disappeared? Has your wise leader been destroyed? Is this why pain grips you as if you were a woman in labor?
10Twist and strain, Daughter Zion, as if you were in labor! For you will leave the city and live in the open field. You will go to Babylon, but there you will be rescued. There the LORD will deliver you from the power of your enemies.
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10On that day,” says the LORD,“a loud cry will go up from the Fish Gate, wailing from the city’s newer district, and a loud crash from the hills.
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14In embroidered robes she is escorted to the king. Her attendants, the maidens of honor who follow her, are led before you.
- Jer 22:22-232 verses64%
22My judgment will carry off all your leaders like a storm wind! Your allies will go into captivity. Then you will certainly be disgraced and put to shame because of all the wickedness you have done.
23You may feel as secure as a bird nesting in the cedars of Lebanon. But oh how you will groan when the pains of judgment come on you. They will be like those of a woman giving birth to a baby.
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27“Raise up battle flags throughout the lands. Sound the trumpets calling the nations to do battle. Prepare the nations to do battle against Babylonia. Call for these kingdoms to attack her: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander to lead the attack. Send horses against her like a swarm of locusts.
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6Travel to Tarshish! Wail, you residents of the coast!
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8Who are these who float along like a cloud, who fly like doves to their shelters?
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18Concluding Dirge Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria! Your officers are slumbering! Your people are scattered like sheep on the mountains and there is no one to regather them!
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14Future Repentance and Restoration of Israel However, in the future I will allure her; I will lead her back into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.