Jeremiah 50:17
Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.
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Jeremiah 50:17
Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.
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Genesis 2:14
And the name of the third river is Tigris, which goes to the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
Genesis 10:11
From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,
Genesis 25:18
And their country was from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt: they took their place to the east of all their brothers.
2 Kings 15:19
In his day, Pul, the king of Assyria, came up against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that he might let him keep the kingdom.
2 Kings 17:3
Against him came up Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant and sent him offerings.
2 Kings 17:4
But Hoshea's broken faith became clear to the king of Assyria because he had sent representatives to So, king of Egypt, and did not send his offering to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: so the king of Assyria had him shut up in prison and put in chains.
1 Chronicles 5:26
And the God of Israel put an impulse into the heart of Pul, king of Assyria, and of Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, who took them away as prisoners, all the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to Halah and Habor and Hara and to the river of Gozan, to this day.
Isaiah 8:7
For this cause the Lord is sending on them the waters of the River, deep and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it will come up through all its streams, overflowing all its edges:
Isaiah 8:8
And it will come on into Judah; rushing on and overflowing, till the waters are up to the neck; ***and his outstretched wings will be covering the land from side to side: for God is with us.
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
Isaiah 36:1
And it came about in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.
Micah 5:6
And they will make waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the edge of the sword: he will give us salvation from the Assyrian when he comes into our country, when his feet come inside the limit of our land.
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Genesis 49:9
Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken?
Numbers 24:8
It is God who has taken him out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox; the nations warring against him will be his food, their bones will be broken, they will be wounded with his arrows.
Numbers 24:9
He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.
Job 4:11
The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.
Ezekiel 32:2
Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty.
Ezekiel 38:13
Sheba, and Dedan and her traders, Tarshish with all her traders, will say to you, Have you come to take our goods? have you got your armies together to take away our property by force? to take away silver and gold, cattle and goods, to go off with great wealth?
Nahum 2:12
Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.
Nahum 2:13
See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your war-carriages burned in the smoke, and your young lions will be food for the sword: you will no longer get your food by force on the earth, and the voice of your she-lions will be stopped for ever.
Nahum 3:1
A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.
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Exodus 19:5
If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:
Exodus 19:6
And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.
Isaiah 41:8
But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend:
Isaiah 41:9
You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and sent for from its farthest parts, saying to you, You are my servant, whom I have taken for myself, and whom I have not given up:
Isaiah 43:3
For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and Seba for you.
Isaiah 43:4
Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life.
Isaiah 43:14
The Lord, who has taken up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, Because of you I have sent to Babylon, and made all their seers come south, and the Chaldaeans whose cry is in the ships.
Isaiah 44:1
And now, give ear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself:
Isaiah 45:4
Because of Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself, I have sent for you by name, giving you a name of honour, though you had no knowledge of me.
Zechariah 13:9
And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.
Romans 9:6
But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:
Romans 11:1
So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
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Deuteronomy 4:28
There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.
Jeremiah 16:13
For this reason I will send you away out of this land into a land which is strange to you, to you and to your fathers; there you will be the servants of other gods day and night, and you will have no mercy from me.
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1 Kings 22:34
And a certain man sent an arrow from his bow without thought of its direction, and gave the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing; so he said to the driver of his war-carriage, Go to one side and take me away out of the army, for I am badly wounded.
1 Kings 22:35
But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans, and the floor of the carriage was covered with the blood from his wound, and by evening he was dead.
1 Kings 22:36
And about sundown a cry went up from all parts of the army, saying, Let every man go back to his town and his country, for the king is dead.
2 Chronicles 18:17
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not say that he would not be a prophet of good to me, but of evil?
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2 Kings 17:1
In the twelfth year of Ahaz, king of Judah, Hoshea, the son of Elah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for nine years.
2 Kings 17:2
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, though not like the kings of Israel before him.
2 Kings 17:5
Then the king of Assyria went through all the land and came up to Samaria, shutting it in with his forces for three years.
2 Kings 18:10
And at the end of three years they took it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah's rule, which was the ninth year of Hoshea, king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
2 Kings 18:12
Because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord their God, but went against his agreement, even against everything ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and they did not give ear to it or do it.
2 Chronicles 28:20
Then Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came to him, but was a cause of trouble and not of strength to him.
Isaiah 7:17
The Lord is about to send on you, and on your people, and on your father's house, such a time of trouble as there has not been from the days of the separating of Ephraim from Judah; even the coming of the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 7:20
In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head and of the feet, as well as the hair of the face, with a blade got for a price from the other side of the River; even with the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 10:7
But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations.
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Ezra 4:1
Now news came to the haters of Judah and Benjamin that the people who had come back were building a Temple to the Lord, the God of Israel;
Ezra 4:2
Then they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of families, and said to them, Let us take part in the building with you; for we are servants of your God, even as you are; and we have been making offerings to him from the days of Esar-haddon, king of Assyria, who put us here.
Ezra 4:4
Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;
Ezra 4:7
And in the time of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his friends, sent a letter to Artaxerxes, king of Persia, writing it in the Aramaean writing and language.
Ezra 5:3
At the same time, Tattenai, ruler of the land across the river, and Shethar-bozenai, and their men, came to them and said, Who gave you orders to go on building this house and this wall?
Daniel 12:7
Then in my hearing the man clothed in linen, who was over the river, lifting up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, took an oath by him who is living for ever that it would be a time, times, and a half; and when the power of the crusher of the holy people comes to an end, all these things will be ended.
Habakkuk 3:14
You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly.
Zechariah 1:19
And I said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these? And he said to me, These are the horns which have sent Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem in flight.
Zechariah 1:21
Then I said, What have these come to do? And he said, These are the horns which sent Judah in flight, and kept him from lifting up his head: but these men have come to send fear on them and to put down the nations who are lifting up their horns against the land of Judah to send it in flight.
Zechariah 8:14
For this is what the Lord of armies has said: As it was my purpose to do evil to you when your fathers made me angry, says the Lord of armies, and my purpose was not changed:
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Deuteronomy 30:3
Then the Lord will have pity on you, changing your fate, and taking you back again from among all the nations where you have been forced to go.
Deuteronomy 30:4
Even if those who have been forced out are living in the farthest part of heaven, the Lord your God will go in search of you, and take you back;
Esther 3:8
And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of any other nation, and they do not keep the king's laws: for this reason it is not right for the king to let them be.
Isaiah 27:12
And it will be in that day that the Lord will get together his grain, from the River to the stream of Egypt, and you will be got together with care, O children of Israel.
Isaiah 40:11
He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.
Isaiah 54:7
For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.
Ezekiel 11:17
Then say, This is what the Lord has said: I will get you together from the peoples, and make you come out of the countries where you have been sent in flight, and I will give you the land of Israel.
Micah 4:6
In that day, says the Lord, I will get together her who goes with uncertain steps, I will get together her who has been sent away, and her on whom I have sent evil;
Zephaniah 3:19
See, at that time I will put an end to all who have been troubling you: I will give salvation to her whose steps are uncertain, and get together her who has been sent in flight; and I will make them a cause of praise and an honoured name in all the earth, when I let their fate be changed.
Matthew 18:13
And if he comes across it, truly I say to you, he has more joy over it than over the ninety-nine which have not gone out of the way.
John 7:35
So the Jews said among themselves, To what place is he going where we will not see him? will he go to the Jews living among the Greeks and become the teacher of the Greeks?
1 Peter 1:1
Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the saints who are living in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
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Psalms 22:14
I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.
Psalms 51:8
Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.
Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
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Psalms 44:10
Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.
Psalms 44:12
You let your people go for nothing; your wealth is not increased by their price.
Psalms 44:13
You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.
Psalms 44:14
Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.
Psalms 89:41
All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.
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Exodus 1:13
And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:
Exodus 1:14
And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.
Exodus 1:15
And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew women who gave help at the time of childbirth (the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah),
Exodus 1:16
When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living.
Exodus 2:23
Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.
Exodus 2:24
And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.
Exodus 3:7
And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;
Psalms 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion,
Psalms 137:2
Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside.
Isaiah 51:20
Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.
Lamentations 1:21
Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.
Lamentations 5:13
The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
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Proverbs 17:12
It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.
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Deuteronomy 7:16
And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.
Judges 1:7
And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat under my table: as I have done, so has God done to me in full. And they took him to Jerusalem, and he came to his end there.
Psalms 2:9
They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.
Psalms 56:2
My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.
Psalms 137:9
Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.
Isaiah 9:11
For this cause the Lord has made strong the haters of Israel, driving them on to make war against him;
Isaiah 9:20
On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.
Jeremiah 30:15
Why are you crying for help because of your wound? for your pain may never be taken away: because your evil-doing was so great and because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.
Lamentations 2:3
In his burning wrath every horn of Israel has been cut off; his right hand has been turned back before the attacker: he has put a fire in Jacob, causing destruction round about.
Daniel 6:24
And at the king's order, they took those men who had said evil against Daniel, and put them in the lions' hole, with their wives and their children; and they had not got to the floor of the hole before the lions overcame them and all their bones were broken.
Hosea 7:7
They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.
Revelation 18:5
For her sins have gone up even to heaven, and God has taken note of her evil-doing.
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Psalms 102:13
You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
Psalms 102:17
When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.
Psalms 102:20
Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered;
Isaiah 10:27
And in that day the weight which he put on your back will be taken away, and his yoke broken from off your neck.
Isaiah 14:17
Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.
Isaiah 49:24
Will the goods of war be taken from the strong man, or the prisoners of the cruel one be let go?
Isaiah 49:26
And the flesh of your attackers will be taken by themselves for food; and they will take their blood for drink, as if it was sweet wine: and all men will see that I the Lord am your saviour, even he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.
Isaiah 51:22
This is the word of the Lord your master, even your God who takes up the cause of his people: See, I have taken out of your hand the cup which overcomes, even the cup of my wrath; it will not again be given to you:
Isaiah 52:3
For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.
Jeremiah 29:10
For this is what the Lord has said: When seventy years are ended for Babylon, I will have pity on you and give effect to my good purpose for you, causing you to come back to this place.
Jeremiah 31:11
For the Lord has given a price for Jacob, and made him free from the hands of him who was stronger than he.
Zechariah 9:11
And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.
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Judges 14:5
Then Samson went down to Timnah (and his father and his mother,) and came to the vine-gardens of Timnah; and a young lion came rushing out at him.
Isaiah 31:4
For the Lord has said to me, As a lion, or a young lion, makes an angry noise over his food, and if a band of herdsmen come out against him, he will not be in fear of their voices, or give up his food for their noise: so the Lord of armies will come down to make war against Mount Zion and its hill.
Jeremiah 25:30
So, as a prophet, give out these words among them, and say to them, The voice of the Lord will be sounding like a lion from on high; he will send out his voice from his holy place, like the loud voice of a lion, against his flock; he will give a cry, like those who are crushing the grapes, against all the people of the earth.
Jeremiah 25:38
The lion has come out of his secret place, for the land has become a waste because of the cruel sword, and because of the heat of his wrath.
Lamentations 4:19
Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.
Ezekiel 17:3
And say, This is what the Lord has said: A great eagle with great wings, full of long feathers of different colours, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:
Ezekiel 17:12
Say now to this uncontrolled people, Are these things not clear to you? Say to them, See, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took its king and its rulers away with him to Babylon;
Ezekiel 19:7
And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.
Ezekiel 19:8
Then the nations came against him from the kingdoms round about: their net was stretched over him and he was taken in the hole they had made.
Hosea 13:7
So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;
Amos 3:4
Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?
Habakkuk 1:8
And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.
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Numbers 27:17
To go out and come in before them and be their guide; so that the people of the Lord may not be like sheep without a keeper.
Psalms 79:7
For they have taken Jacob for their meat, and made waste his house.
Isaiah 24:1
See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.
Jeremiah 10:21
For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight.
Jeremiah 12:10
The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;
Jeremiah 12:11
They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.
Jeremiah 40:15
Then Johanan, the son of Kareah, said to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, Let me now go and put Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, to death without anyone's knowledge: why let him take your life so that all the Jews who have come together to you may be sent in flight, and the rest of the men of Judah come to an end?
Ezekiel 33:28
And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through.
Ezekiel 34:2
Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep?
Ezekiel 34:3
You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.
Ezekiel 34:8
By my life, says the Lord, truly, because my sheep have been taken away, and my sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, because there was no keeper, and my keepers did not go in search of the sheep, but the keepers took food for themselves and gave my sheep no food;
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Jeremiah 13:17
But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.
Jeremiah 13:18
Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.
Jeremiah 13:19
The towns of the south are shut up, and there is no one to make them open: Judah is taken away as prisoners; all Judah is taken away as prisoners.
Jeremiah 13:20
Let your eyes be lifted up (O Jerusalem), and see those who are coming from the north. Where is the flock which was given to you, your beautiful flock?
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Jeremiah 5:17
They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.
Jeremiah 30:16
For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your goods by force will undergo the same themselves.
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Isaiah 52:2
Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.
Isaiah 52:6
For this cause I will make my name clear to my people; in that day they will be certain that it is my word which comes to them; see, here am I.
Jeremiah 25:26
And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
Jeremiah 31:5
Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit.
Jeremiah 31:6
For there will be a day when those who get in the grapes on the hills of Ephraim will be crying, Up! let us go up to Zion to the Lord our God.
Jeremiah 31:24
And Judah and all its towns will be living there together; the farmers and those who go about with flocks.
Jeremiah 31:35
These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.
Jeremiah 31:39
And the measuring-line will go out in front of it as far as the hill Gareb, going round to Goah.
Lamentations 3:34
In a man's crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
Zechariah 1:16
So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 24:1
The Lord gave me a vision, and I saw two baskets full of figs put in front of the Temple of the Lord, after Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, had taken prisoner Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the chiefs of Judah, and the expert workmen and metal-workers from Jerusalem, and had taken them to Babylon.
Jeremiah 39:2
In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the town was broken into:)
Jeremiah 39:3
All the captains of the king of Babylon came in and took their places in the middle doorway of the town, Nergal-shar-ezer, ruler of Sin-magir, the Rabmag, and Nebushazban, the Rab-saris, and all the captains of the king of Babylon.
Jeremiah 39:6
Then the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes in Riblah: and the king of Babylon put to death all the great men of Judah.
Jeremiah 39:7
And more than this, he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and had him put in chains to take him away to Babylon.
Jeremiah 44:30
The Lord has said, See, I will give up Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, into the hands of those who are fighting against him and desiring to take his life, as I gave Zedekiah, king of Judah, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, his hater, who had designs against his life.
Lamentations 1:14
A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.
Lamentations 1:15
The Lord has made sport of all my men of war in me, he has got men together against me to send destruction on my young men: the virgin daughter of Judah has been crushed like grapes under the feet of the Lord.
Ezekiel 33:21
Now in the twelfth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, one who had got away in flight from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The town has been taken.
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2 Kings 24:1
In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him.
2 Kings 25:1
Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round the town.
Jeremiah 32:1
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
Jeremiah 35:11
But when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came up into the land, we said, Come, let us go to Jerusalem, away from the army of the Chaldaeans and from the army of the Aramaeans: and so we are living in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 39:1
And it came about, that when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, with all his army, came against Jerusalem, shutting it in on every side;
Jeremiah 39:4
And when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men of war saw it, they went in flight from the town by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the doorway between the two walls: and they went out by the Arabah.
Jeremiah 39:5
But the Chaldaean army went after them and overtook Zedekiah in the lowlands of Jericho: and they made him a prisoner and took him up to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, to be judged by him.
Jeremiah 39:8
And the Chaldaeans put the king's house on fire, as well as the houses of the people, and had the walls of Jerusalem broken down.
Jeremiah 39:11
Now Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, gave orders about Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, saying,
Jeremiah 43:10
And say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and he will put the seat of his kingdom on these stones which have been put in a safe place here by you; and his tent will be stretched over them.
Jeremiah 46:2
Of Egypt: about the army of Pharaoh-neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah.
Lamentations 1:1
See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!
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Jeremiah 50:16
Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land.
Jeremiah 50:22
There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction.
Jeremiah 50:23
How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!
Jeremiah 50:24
I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord.
Jeremiah 50:25
From his store-house the Lord has taken the instruments of his wrath: for the Lord, the Lord of armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldaeans.
Jeremiah 50:26
Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen.
Jeremiah 50:27
Put all her oxen to the sword; let them go down to death: sorrow is theirs, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.
Jeremiah 51:11
Make bright the arrows; take up the body-covers: the Lord has been moving the spirit of the king of the Medes; because his design against Babylon is its destruction: for it is the punishment from the Lord, the payment for his Temple.
Jeremiah 51:23
With you the keeper of sheep with his flock will be broken, and with you the farmer and his oxen will be broken, and with you captains and rulers will be broken.
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Lamentations 5:14
The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
Zephaniah 1:10
And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow;
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Jeremiah 44:12
And I will take the last of Judah, whose minds are fixed on going into the land of Egypt and stopping there, and they will all come to their end, falling in the land of Egypt by the sword and by being short of food and by disease; death will overtake them, from the least to the greatest, death by the sword and by need of food: they will become an oath and a cause of wonder and a curse and a name of shame.
Jeremiah 49:32
And their camels will be taken from them by force, and their great herds will come into the hands of their attackers: those who have the ends of their hair cut I will send in flight to all the winds; and I will send their fate on them from every side, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 5:12
A third of you will come to death from disease, wasting away among you through need of food; a third will be put to the sword round about you; and a third I will send away to every wind, letting loose a sword after them.
Ezekiel 12:14
And all his helpers round about him and all his armies I will send in flight to every wind; and I will let loose a sword after them.
Ezekiel 20:23
Further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land that I would send them wandering among the nations, driving them out among the countries;
Ezekiel 22:15
And I will send you in flight among the nations and wandering among the countries; and I will completely take away out of you everything which is unclean.
Ezekiel 36:19
And I sent them in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries: I was their judge, rewarding them for their way and their acts.
Amos 9:9
For see, I will give orders, and I will have Israel moved about among all the nations, as grain is moved about by the shaking of the tray, but not the smallest seed will be dropped on the earth.
Zechariah 2:6
Ho, ho! go in flight from the land of the north, says the Lord: for I have sent you far and wide to the four winds of heaven, says the Lord.
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Ezekiel 20:34
And I will take you out from the peoples and get you together out of the countries where you are wandering, with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with burning wrath let loose:
Luke 15:3
And he made a story for them, saying,
John 10:10
The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure.
John 10:11
I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep.
John 11:52
And not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the children of God all over the world.
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Ezekiel 26:4
And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock
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Ezekiel 25:15
This is what the Lord has said: Because the Philistines have taken payment, with the purpose of causing shame and destruction with unending hate;
Ezekiel 26:3
For this cause the Lord has said, See, I am against you, O Tyre, and will send up a number of nations against you as the sea sends up its waves.
Ezekiel 35:6
For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you.
Ezekiel 35:7
And I will make Mount Seir a cause for wonder and a waste, cutting off from it all comings and goings.
Ezekiel 35:8
I will make his mountains full of those who have been put to death; in your valleys and in all your water-streams men will be falling by the sword.
Ezekiel 35:9
I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
Obadiah 1:11
Because you were there watching when men from other lands took away his goods, and strange men came into his doors, and put the fate of Jerusalem to the decision of chance; you were like one of them.
Obadiah 1:12
Do not see with pleasure your brother's evil day, the day of his fate, and do not be glad over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction, or make wide your mouth on the day of trouble.
Obadiah 1:13
Do not go into the doors of my people on the day of their downfall; do not be looking on their trouble with pleasure on the day of their downfall, or put your hands on their goods on the day of their downfall.
Obadiah 1:14
And do not take your place at the cross-roads, cutting off those of his people who get away; and do not give up to their haters those who are still there in the day of trouble.
Obadiah 1:16
For as you have been drinking on my holy mountain, so will all the nations go on drinking without end; they will go on drinking and the wine will go down their throats, and they will be as if they had never been.
Zephaniah 2:10
This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.
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Jeremiah 8:16
The loud breathing of the horses comes to our ears from Dan: at the sound of the outcry of his war-horses, all the land is shaking with fear; for they have come, and have made a meal of the land and everything in it; the town and the people living in it.
Lamentations 2:22
As in the day of a holy meeting you have made fears come round me on every side, and no one got away or was kept safe in the day of the Lord's wrath: those who were folded in my arms, whom I took care of, have been sent to their destruction by my hater.
Ezekiel 25:3
And say to the children of Ammon, Give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said: Because you said, Aha! against my holy place when it was made unclean, and against the land of Israel when it was made waste, and against the people of Judah when they were taken away as prisoners;
Ezekiel 25:7
For this cause my hand has been stretched out against you, and I will give up your goods to be taken by the nations; I will have you cut off from the peoples and will put an end to you among the countries: I will give you up to destruction; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 25:8
This is what the Lord has said: Because Moab and Seir are saying, See, the people of Judah are like all the nations;
Ezekiel 26:2
Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she who was the doorway of the peoples is broken; she is turned over to them; she who was full is made waste;
Ezekiel 35:5
Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have given up the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their trouble, in the time of the punishment of the end:
Ezekiel 35:10
Because you have said, The two nations and the two countries are to be mine, and we will take them for our heritage; though the Lord was there:
Obadiah 1:10
Because you were the cause of violent death and because of your cruel behaviour to your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and will be cut off for ever.
Obadiah 1:15
For the day of the Lord is coming quickly on all nations: as you have done it will be done to you; the reward of your acts will come on your head.
Zephaniah 2:8
My ears have been open to the bitter words of Moab and the words of shame of the children of Ammon, which they have said against my people, lifting themselves up against the limit of their land.
Zephaniah 2:9
For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.
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Psalms 27:2
When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.
Psalms 57:3
He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.
Psalms 124:3
They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:
Isaiah 49:19
For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.
Jeremiah 12:17
But if they will not give ear, then I will have that nation uprooted, and given to destruction, says the Lord.
Lamentations 2:2
The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.
Lamentations 2:5
The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.
Micah 3:2
You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;
Micah 3:3
Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.
Matthew 7:2
For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you.
James 2:13
For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.
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Matthew 9:37
Then he said to his disciples, There is much grain but not enough men to get it in.
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Matthew 9:38
Make prayer, then, to the Lord of the grain-fields, that he may send out workers to get in his grain.
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Leviticus 26:22
I will let loose the beasts of the field among you, and they will take away your children and send destruction on your cattle, so that your numbers will become small and your roads become waste.
Jeremiah 46:28
Have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; for I am with you: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.
Zechariah 13:8
And it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts of it will be cut off and come to an end; but the third will be still living there.
Matthew 24:22
And if those days had not been made short there would have been no salvation for any, but because of the saints those days will be made short.
Mark 13:20
And if the Lord had not made the time short, no flesh would have been kept from destruction; but because of the saints he has made the time short.
Romans 11:7
What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.
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Luke 15:8
Or what woman, having ten bits of silver, if one bit has gone from her hands, will not get a light, and go through her house, searching with care till she sees it?
Luke 15:9
And when she has it again, she gets her friends and neighbours together, saying, Be glad with me, for I have got back the bit of silver which had gone from me.
Luke 15:10
Even so, I say to you, There is joy among the angels of God, when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing.
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Luke 11:23
He who is not with me is against me, and he who will not give me help in getting people together is driving them away.
Hebrews 2:14
And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;
Hebrews 2:15
And let those who all their lives were in chains because of their fear of death, go free.
1 John 3:8
The sinner is a child of the Evil One; for the Evil One has been a sinner from the first. And the Son of God was seen on earth so that he might put an end to the works of the Evil One.
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1 Samuel 24:15
So let the Lord be judge, and give a decision between me and you, and see and give support to my cause, and keep me from falling into your hands.
1 Samuel 25:39
And David, hearing that Nabal was dead, said, May the Lord be praised, who has taken up my cause against Nabal for the shame which he put on me, and has kept back his servant from evil, and has sent on Nabal's head the reward of his evil-doing. And David sent word to Abigail, desiring to take her as his wife.
1 Samuel 26:10
And David said, By the living Lord, the Lord will send destruction on him; the natural day of his death will come, or he will go into the fight and come to his end.
Psalms 7:6
Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.
Psalms 43:1
Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.
Micah 7:9
I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;
Revelation 6:10
And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth?
Revelation 6:11
And there was given to every one a white robe, and they were ordered to take their rest for a little time, till the number was complete of the other servants, their brothers, who would be put to death, even as they had been.
Revelation 18:20
Be glad over her, heaven, and you saints, and Apostles, and prophets; because she has been judged by God on your account.
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