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Jeremiah 8:19
Listen! The voice, The cry of the daughter of my people From a far country:“ Is not the Lord in Zion? Is not her King in her?”“ Why have they provoked Me to anger With their carved images— With foreign idols?”
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Isaiah 3:1-7
For behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, Takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah The stock and the store, The whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water;The mighty man and the man of war, The judge and the prophet, And the diviner and the elder;The captain of fifty and the honorable man, The counselor and the skillful artisan, And the expert enchanter.“ I will give children to be their princes, And babes shall rule over them.The people will be oppressed, Every one by another and every one by his neighbor; The child will be insolent toward the elder, And the base toward the honorable.”When a man takes hold of his brother In the house of his father, saying,“ You have clothing; You be our ruler, And let these ruins be under your power,”In that day he will protest, saying,“ I cannot cure your ills, For in my house is neither food nor clothing; Do not make me a ruler of the people.”
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Isaiah 13:8
And they will be afraid. Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them; They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth; They will be amazed at one another; Their faces will be like flames.
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Isaiah 26:17
As a woman with child Is in pain and cries out in her pangs, When she draws near the time of her delivery, So have we been in Your sight, O Lord.
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Hosea 3:4
For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or teraphim.
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Lamentations 4:20
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, Was caught in their pits, Of whom we said,“ Under his shadow We shall live among the nations.”
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Jeremiah 30:6-7
Ask now, and see, Whether a man is ever in labor with child? So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins Like a woman in labor, And all faces turned pale?Alas! For that day is great, So that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob’s trouble, But he shall be saved out of it.
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Isaiah 21:3
Therefore my loins are filled with pain; Pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I was distressed when I heard it; I was dismayed when I saw it.
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Hosea 10:3
For now they say,“ We have no king, Because we did not fear the Lord. And as for a king, what would he do for us?”
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Hosea 13:10-11
I will be your King; Where is any other, That he may save you in all your cities? And your judges to whom you said,‘ Give me a king and princes’?I gave you a king in My anger, And took him away in My wrath.
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Jeremiah 22:23
O inhabitant of Lebanon, Making your nest in the cedars, How gracious will you be when pangs come upon you, Like the pain of a woman in labor?
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Jeremiah 50:43
“ The king of Babylon has heard the report about them, And his hands grow feeble; Anguish has taken hold of him, Pangs as of a woman in childbirth.
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Jeremiah 4:21
How long will I see the standard, And hear the sound of the trumpet?