Jeremiah 15:8
Its widows have been more to Me than the sand of the seas, I brought in to them -- against the mother -- A young man -- a spoiler -- at noon. I caused to fall upon her suddenly, wrath and trouble.
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- Isa 3:25-4:1 : 25 For instead of glory, thy men by sword do fall, And thy might in battle. 26 And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath been emptied, on the earth she sitteth! 1 And taken hold have seven women on one man, In that day, saying, `Our own bread we do eat, And our own raiment we put on, Only, let thy name be called over us, Remove thou our reproach.'
- Jer 4:16 : 16 Make ye mention to the nations, Lo, sound ye to Jerusalem: `Besiegers are coming from the land afar off, And they give forth against cities of Judah their voice.
- Jer 5:6 : 6 Therefore smitten them hath a lion out of the forest, A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, A leopard is watching over their cities, Every one who is going out of them is torn, For many have been their transgressions, Mighty have been their backslidings.
- Jer 6:4-5 : 4 Sanctify ye against her the battle, Rise, and we go up at noon. Wo to us, for turned hath the day, For stretched out are the shades of evening, 5 `Rise, and we go up by night, And we destroy her palaces.'
- Luke 21:35 : 35 for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land,
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7And I scatter them with a fan, in the gates the land, I bereaved, I have destroyed My people, From their ways they turned not back.
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11And with the fury of Jehovah I have been filled, (I have been weary of containing,) To pour `it' on the suckling in the street, And on the assembly of youths together, For even husband with wife are captured, An elder with one full of days,
12And their houses have been turned to others, Fields and wives together, For I stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah.
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11Leave thine orphans -- I do keep alive, And thy widows -- on Me trust ye,
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9Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.
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17And I have sent distress to men, And they have walked as the blind, For against Jehovah they have sinned, And poured out is their blood as dust, And their flesh `is' as dung.
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16And I have scattered them among nations Which they knew not, they and their fathers, And have sent after them the sword, Till I have consumed them.
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46For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Bring up against them an assembly, And give them to trembling and to spoiling.
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19These two are meeting thee, who is moved for thee? Spoiling and destruction -- Famine and sword, who -- I comfort thee?
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7And I have made void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and have caused them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those seeking their life, and I have given their carcase for food to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth,
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64His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.
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16Its quiver `is' as an open sepulchre, All of them -- mighty ones.
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9The women of My people ye cast out from its delightful house, From its sucklings ye take away My honour to the age.
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16And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with.
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17Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And its orphans, and its widows He pitieth not, For every one `is' profane, and an evil doer, And every mouth is speaking folly. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.
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3For thus said Jehovah, Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, And of their mothers -- those bearing them, And of their fathers -- those begetting them in this land:
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1Lo, a day hath come to Jehovah, And divided hath been thy spoil in thy midst.
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14And rise doth a tumult among thy people, And all thy fortresses are spoiled, As the spoiling of Shalman of Beth-Arbel, In a day of battle, Mother against sons dashed in pieces.
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8Wail, as a virgin girdeth with sackcloth, For the husband of her youth.
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