Jeremiah 8:19

Webster's Bible (1833)

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?

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  • Isa 39:3 : 3 Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to you? Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country to me, even from Babylon.
  • Isa 13:5 : 5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
  • Isa 33:22 : 22 For Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king; he will save us.
  • Deut 32:16-21 : 16 They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]; With abominations provoked they him to anger. 17 They sacrificed to demons, [which were] no God, To gods that they didn't know, To new [gods] that came up of late, Which your fathers didn't dread. 18 Of the Rock that became your father, you are unmindful, Have forgotten God who gave you birth. 19 Yahweh saw [it], and abhorred [them], Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. 20 He said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness. 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
  • Ps 135:21 : 21 Blessed be Yahweh from Zion, Who dwells at Jerusalem. Praise Yah!
  • Ps 146:10 : 10 Yahweh will reign forever; Your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise Yah!
  • Ps 149:2 : 2 Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
  • Isa 1:4 : 4 Ah sinful nation, A people loaded with iniquity, A seed of evil-doers, Children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
  • Isa 12:6 : 6 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of you is the Holy One of Israel!"
  • Isa 52:1 : 1 Awake, awake, put on your strength, Zion; put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.
  • Jer 4:16-17 : 16 make you mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, [that] watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah. 17 As keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she has been rebellious against me, says Yahweh.
  • Jer 4:30-31 : 30 You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; [your] lovers despise you, they seek your life. 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul faints before the murderers.
  • Jer 8:5-6 : 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 6 I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
  • Jer 9:16 : 16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.
  • Jer 14:19 : 19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
  • Jer 31:6 : 6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.
  • Joel 2:32 : 32 It will happen that whoever will call on the name of Yahweh shall be saved; For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, As Yahweh has said, And among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
  • Joel 3:21 : 21 I will cleanse their blood, That I have not cleansed: For Yahweh dwells in Zion."
  • Obad 1:17 : 17 But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
  • Rev 2:1 : 1 To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: "He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lampstands says these things:

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