Verse 4
In that day they will take up a parable against you, And lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"
Referenced Verses
- Hab 2:6 : 6 Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'
- Mic 1:15 : 15 I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah, He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.
- Isa 6:11 : 11 Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities are waste without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the land becomes utterly waste,
- Isa 24:3 : 3 The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.
- Num 23:7 : 7 He took up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Jacob, Come, defy Israel.
- Deut 28:29 : 29 and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.
- Jer 9:10 : 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.
- Jer 9:17-21 : 17 Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come: 18 and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings. 20 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation. 21 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.
- Jer 14:18 : 18 If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
- Jer 25:9-9 : 9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. 11 This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- Lam 1:1-5 : 1 How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces is become tributary! 2 She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies. 3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; She dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: All her persecutors overtook her within the straits. 4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness. 5 Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; For Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: Her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.
- Ezek 2:10 : 10 He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
- Ezek 16:44 : 44 Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
- Joel 1:8 : 8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
- Joel 1:13 : 13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, For the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.
- Amos 5:1 : 1 Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
- Amos 5:17 : 17 In all vineyards there will be wailing; For I will pass through the midst of you," says Yahweh.
- 2 Sam 1:17 : 17 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
- 2 Kgs 17:23-24 : 23 until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he spoke by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day. 24 The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in the cities of it.
- 2 Chr 35:25 : 25 Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
- 2 Chr 36:20-21 : 20 Those who had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: 21 to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths: [for] as long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
- Job 27:1 : 1 Job again took up his parable, and said,
- Num 23:18 : 18 He took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, you son of Zippor:
- Num 24:3 : 3 He took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, The man whose eye was closed says;
- Num 24:15 : 15 He took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, The man whose eye was closed says;
- Isa 63:17-18 : 17 O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance. 18 Your holy people possessed [it] but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
- Jer 4:13 : 13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are ruined.
- Isa 14:4 : 4 that you shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
- Mic 2:10 : 10 Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, Because of uncleanness that destroys, Even with a grievous destruction.
- Zeph 1:2 : 2 I will utterly sweep away everything off of the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.
- Mark 12:12 : 12 They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.