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Jeremias 6:24
We have heard reports about them, and our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor. (niv)
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Jeremias 4:30-31
What are you doing, you devastated one? Why dress yourself in scarlet and put on jewels of gold? Why highlight your eyes with makeup? You adorn yourself in vain. Your lovers despise you; they want to kill you.I hear a cry as of a woman in labor, a groan as of one bearing her first child— the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands and saying,“ Alas! I am fainting; my life is given over to murderers.” (niv)
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Jeremias 22:6
For this is what the Lord says about the palace of the king of Judah:“ Though you are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, I will surely make you like a wasteland, like towns not inhabited. (niv)
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Oseias 7:14
They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They slash themselves, appealing to their gods for grain and new wine, but they turn away from me. (niv)
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Jeremias 48:28
Abandon your towns and dwell among the rocks, you who live in Moab. Be like a dove that makes its nest at the mouth of a cave. (niv)
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Jeremias 3:21
A cry is heard on the barren heights, the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the Lord their God. (niv)
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Oseias 5:15-6:1
Then I will return to my lair until they have borne their guilt and seek my face— in their misery they will earnestly seek me.”“ Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds. (niv)
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Jeremias 49:16
The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks, who occupy the heights of the hill. Though you build your nest as high as the eagle’s, from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord. (niv)
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Jeremias 30:5-6
“ This is what the Lord says:“‘ Cries of fear are heard— terror, not peace.Ask and see: Can a man bear children? Then why do I see every strong man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor, every face turned deathly pale? (niv)
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Números 24:21
Then he saw the Kenites and spoke his message:“ Your dwelling place is secure, your nest is set in a rock; (niv)
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Habacuque 2:9
“ Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, setting his nest on high to escape the clutches of ruin! (niv)
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Zacarias 11:1-2
Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire may devour your cedars!Wail, you juniper, for the cedar has fallen; the stately trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan; the dense forest has been cut down! (niv)
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Jeremias 21:13
I am against you, Jerusalem, you who live above this valley on the rocky plateau, declares the Lord— you who say,“ Who can come against us? Who can enter our refuge?” (niv)
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Obadias 1:4
Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,” declares the Lord. (niv)
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Jeremias 50:4-5
“ In those days, at that time,” declares the Lord,“ the people of Israel and the people of Judah together will go in tears to seek the Lord their God.They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten. (niv)
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Amós 9:2
Though they dig down to the depths below, from there my hand will take them. Though they climb up to the heavens above, from there I will bring them down. (niv)