Verse 39

Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

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  • 2 Kgs 10:32 : 32 In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel: and Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel;
  • 2 Kgs 13:7 : 7 He left to Jehoahaz of the people only fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust by threshing.
  • 2 Kgs 13:22 : 22 Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
  • 2 Kgs 14:26 : 26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter, for there was no one left free, no help at all for Israel.
  • 2 Chr 15:5-6 : 5 And in those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in, but great troubles were upon all the inhabitants of the countries. 6 And nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city; for God troubled them with all adversity.
  • Job 1:10-17 : 10 Have you not made a hedge around him, around his house, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. 11 But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face." 12 And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not put forth your hand on himself." So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD. 13 And there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house. 14 And a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them, 15 when the Sabeans raided them and took them away; and they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you." 16 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, "The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell you." 17 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels, and carried them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
  • Ps 30:6-7 : 6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. 7 LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain stand strong: you hid your face, and I was troubled.
  • Jer 51:33-34 : 33 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor; it is time to thresh her; yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. 34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me up like a monster, he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has thrown me out.
  • Gen 45:11 : 11 And there I will provide for you; for there are still five years of famine, lest you and your household and all that you have come to poverty.
  • Exod 1:13-14 : 13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor: 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, which they made them serve, was with rigor.
  • Exod 2:23-24 : 23 Now it happened, in the process of time, that the king of Egypt died. The children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
  • Judg 6:3-6 : 3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; 4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the produce of the earth till you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey. 5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as locusts in multitude; for both they and their camels were without number, and they entered into the land to destroy it. 6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites, and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.
  • Ruth 1:20-21 : 20 And she said to them, Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and the LORD has brought me back empty: why then call me Naomi, seeing the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?
  • 1 Sam 2:5-7 : 5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread; and those who were hungry have ceased to hunger: so that the barren has borne seven; and she who has many children has become feeble. 6 The LORD kills and makes alive: he brings down to the grave and brings up. 7 The LORD makes poor and makes rich: he brings low and lifts up.
  • 2 Kgs 4:8 : 8 And it happened one day, that Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
  • 2 Kgs 8:3 : 3 And it happened at the end of seven years, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went to plead to the king for her house and for her land.