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Jeremiah 8:19
Listen— the cry of my dear people from a far away land,“ Is the Lord no longer in Zion, her King not within her?” Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?
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Isaiah 3:1-7
Observe this: The Lord God of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and from Judah every kind of security: the entire supply of bread and water,the hero and warrior, the judge and prophet, the fortune-teller and elder,the commander of 50 and the dignitary, the counselor, cunning magician, and necromancer.“ I will make youths their leaders, and the unstable will govern them.”The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the youth will act arrogantly toward the elder, and the worthless toward the honorable.A man will even seize his brother in his father’s house, saying:“ You have a cloak— you be our leader! This heap of rubble will be under your control.”On that day he will cry out, saying:“ I’m not a healer. I don’t even have food or clothing in my house. Don’t make me the leader of the people!”
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Isaiah 13:8
They will be horrified; pain and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look at each other, their faces flushed with fear.
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Isaiah 26:17
As a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pains, so we were before You, Lord.
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Hosea 3:4
For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols.
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Lamentations 4:20
The Lord’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their traps. We had said about him,“ We will live under his protection among the nations.”
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Jeremiah 30:6-7
Ask and see whether a male can give birth. Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?How awful that day will be! There will be none like it! It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be delivered out of it.
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Isaiah 21:3
Therefore I am filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor. I am too perplexed to hear, too dismayed to see.
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Hosea 10:3
In fact, they are now saying,“ We have no king! For we do not fear the Lord. What can a king do for us?”
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Hosea 13:10-11
Where now is your king, that he may save you in all your cities, and the rulers you demanded, saying,“ Give me a king and leaders”?I give you a king in My anger and take away a king in My wrath.
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Jeremiah 22:23
You residents of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when labor pains come on you, agony like a woman in labor.
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Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylon has heard reports about them, and his hands fall helpless. Distress has seized him— pain, like a woman in labor.
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Jeremiah 4:21
How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the ram’s horn?