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Jeremiah 8:19
I hear my dear people crying out throughout the length and breadth of the land. They are crying,‘ Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her divine King no longer there?’” The LORD answers,“ Why then do they provoke me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
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Isaiah 3:1-7
Look, the sovereign LORD who commands armies is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah every source of security, including all the food and water,the mighty men and warriors, judges and prophets, omen readers and leaders,captains of groups of fifty, the respected citizens, advisers and those skilled in magical arts, and those who know incantations.The LORD says,“ I will make youths their officials; malicious young men will rule over them.The people will treat each other harshly; men will oppose each other; neighbors will fight. Youths will proudly defy the elderly and riffraff will challenge those who were once respected.Indeed, a man will grab his brother right in his father’s house and say,‘ You own a coat– you be our leader! This heap of ruins will be under your control.’At that time the brother will shout,‘ I am no doctor, I have no food or coat in my house; don’t make me a leader of the people!’”
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Isaiah 13:8
They panic– cramps and pain seize hold of them like those of a woman who is straining to give birth. They look at one another in astonishment; their faces are flushed red.
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Isaiah 26:17
As when a pregnant woman gets ready to deliver and strains and cries out because of her labor pains, so were we because of you, O LORD.
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Hosea 3:4
For the Israelites must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols.
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Lamentations 4:20
Our very life breath– the Lord’ s anointed king– was caught in their traps, of whom we thought,“ Under his protection we will survive among the nations.”ש( Sin/ Shin)
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Jeremiah 30:6-7
Ask yourselves this and consider it carefully: Have you ever seen a man give birth to a baby? Why then do I see all these strong men grabbing their stomachs in pain like a woman giving birth? And why do their faces turn so deathly pale?Alas, what a terrible time of trouble it is! There has never been any like it. It is a time of trouble for the descendants of Jacob, but some of them will be rescued out of it.
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Isaiah 21:3
For this reason my stomach churns; cramps overwhelm me like the contractions of a woman in labor. I am disturbed by what I hear, horrified by what I see.
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Hosea 10:3
Very soon they will say,“ We have no king since we did not fear the LORD. But what can a king do for us anyway?”
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Hosea 13:10-11
Where then is your king, that he may save you in all your cities? Where are your rulers for whom you asked, saying,“ Give me a king and princes”?I granted you a king in my anger, and I will take him away in my wrath!
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Jeremiah 22:23
You may feel as secure as a bird nesting in the cedars of Lebanon. But oh how you will groan when the pains of judgment come on you. They will be like those of a woman giving birth to a baby.
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Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylon will become paralyzed with fear when he hears news of their coming. Anguish will grip him, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby.
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Jeremiah 4:21
“ How long must I see the enemy’s battle flags and hear the military signals of their bugles?”