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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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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Genesis 12:2
And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:
Genesis 15:18
In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
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.
Amos 6:1
Sorrow to those who are resting in comfort in Zion, and to those who have no fear of danger in the mountain of Samaria, the noted men of the chief of the nations, to whom the people of Israel come!
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Exodus 22:22
Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.
Exodus 22:23
If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;
Exodus 22:24
And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.
Psalms 68:5
A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.
Luke 18:3
And there was a widow in that town, and she kept on coming to him and saying, Give me my right against the man who has done me wrong.
James 1:27
The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.
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Ruth 1:21
I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me?
1 Samuel 2:5
Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.
Jeremiah 15:5
For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? and who will have sorrow for you? or who will go out of his way to see how you are?
Jeremiah 15:9
The mother of seven is without strength; her spirit is gone from her, her sun has gone down while it is still day: she has been shamed and overcome: and the rest of them I will give up to the sword before their haters, says the Lord.
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1 Samuel 2:9
He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.
Psalms 31:17
Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.
Psalms 40:15
Let those who say to me, Aha, aha! be surprised because of their shame.
Psalms 46:10
Be at peace in the knowledge that I am God: I will be lifted up among the nations, I will be honoured through all the earth.
Lamentations 3:28
Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.
Habakkuk 2:20
But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth be quiet before him.
Zechariah 2:13
Let all flesh be quiet and make no sound before the Lord: for he is awake and has come from his holy resting-place.
Matthew 22:12
And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say.
Matthew 22:13
Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.
Jude 1:13
Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.
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2 Samuel 1:17
Then David made this song of grief for Saul and Jonathan, his son:
2 Samuel 1:26
I am full of grief for you, my brother Jonathan: very dear have you been to me: your love for me was a wonder, greater than the love of women.
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2 Kings 23:35
And Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, taxing the land by his orders to get the money; the people of the land had to give silver and gold, everyone as he was taxed, to make the payment to Pharaoh-necoh.
Isaiah 3:8
For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.
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 39:2
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 39:4
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 39:7
And more than this, he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and had him put in chains to take him away to Babylon.
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 50:7
They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.
Jeremiah 51:34
Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.
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.
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2 Kings 25:10
And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.
2 Chronicles 36:19
And the house of God was burned and the wall of Jerusalem broken down; all its great houses were burned with fire and all its beautiful vessels given up to destruction.
Nehemiah 2:3
And said to the king, May the king be living for ever: is it not natural for my face to be sad, when the town, the place where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, has been made waste and its doorways burned with fire?
Nehemiah 2:17
Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.
Psalms 74:3
Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;
Psalms 74:4
Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen.
Psalms 74:5
They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.
Psalms 74:6
Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.
Psalms 74:7
They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.
Isaiah 64:11
Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers gave praise to you, is burned with fire; and all the things of our desire have come to destruction.
Jeremiah 25:10
And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.
Jeremiah 25:11
All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years.
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2 Chronicles 17:10
And the fear of the Lord was on all the kingdoms of the lands round Judah, so that they made no wars against Jehoshaphat.
2 Chronicles 17:11
And some of the Philistines took offerings to Jehoshaphat, and made him payments of silver; and the Arabians gave him flocks, seven thousand, seven hundred sheep, and seven thousand, seven hundred he-goats.
2 Chronicles 26:6
He went out and made war against the Philistines, pulling down the walls of Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod, and building towns in the country round Ashdod and among the Philistines.
2 Chronicles 26:7
And God gave him help against the Philistines, and against the Arabians living in Gur-baal, and against the Meunim.
2 Chronicles 26:8
The Ammonites gave offerings to Uzziah: and news of him went out as far as the limit of Egypt; for he became very great in power.
Esther 10:1
And King Ahasuerus put a tax on the land and on the islands of the sea.
Proverbs 14:34
By righteousness a nation is lifted up, but sin is a cause of shame to the peoples.
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Nehemiah 7:6
These are the people of the divisions of the kingdom, among those who had been made prisoners by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and taken away by him, who went back to Jerusalem and Judah, every one to his town;
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Job 3:7
As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;
Isaiah 14:4
That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off;
Isaiah 14:5
The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord;
Isaiah 23:4
Be shamed, O Zidon: for the sea, the strong place of the sea has said, I have not been with child, or given birth; I have not taken care of young men, or kept watch over the growth of virgins.
Jeremiah 48:17
All you who are round about him, give signs of grief for him, and all you who have knowledge of his name, say, How is the strong rod broken, even the beautiful branch!
Ezekiel 2:10
And he put it open before me, and it had writing on the front and on the back; words of grief and sorrow and trouble were recorded in it.
Habakkuk 2:8
Because you have taken their goods from great nations, all the rest of the peoples will take your goods from you; because of men's blood and violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.
Revelation 18:11
And the traders of the earth are weeping and crying over her, because no man has any more desire for their goods,
Revelation 18:12
Gold, and silver, and stones of great price, and jewels, and delicate linen, and robes of purple and silk and red; and perfumed wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of fair wood, and of brass, and iron, and stone;
Revelation 18:14
And the fruit of your soul's desire has gone from you, and all things delicate and shining have come to an end and will never again be seen.
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Psalms 4:8
I will take my rest on my bed in peace, because you only, Lord, keep me safe.
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Psalms 122:4
To which the tribes went up, even the tribes of the Lord, for a witness to Israel, to give praise to the name of the Lord.
Isaiah 22:2
You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.
Zechariah 8:4
This is what the Lord of armies has said: There will again be old men and old women seated in the open spaces of Jerusalem, every man with his stick in his hand because he is so old.
Zechariah 8:5
And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces.
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Isaiah 1:1
The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw about Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
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Nehemiah 1:4
Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,
Psalms 79:2
They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.
Isaiah 6:12
And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.
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.
Lamentations 1:18
The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.
Lamentations 1:20
See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.
Lamentations 2:9
Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.
Lamentations 4:10
The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Micah 7:13
But the land will become a waste because of its people, as the fruit of their works.
Zechariah 1:12
Then the angel of the Lord, answering, said, O Lord of armies, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem and on the towns of Judah against which your wrath has been burning for seventy years?
Zechariah 7:5
Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?
Matthew 22:7
But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.
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2 Kings 23:33
And Pharaoh-necoh put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he might not be king in Jerusalem; and took from the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
2 Kings 25:4
So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
2 Kings 25:5
But the Chaldaean army went after the king, and overtook him in the lowlands of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.
2 Kings 25:6
And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged.
2 Kings 25:7
And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon.
Nehemiah 5:4
And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.
Nehemiah 9:36
Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:
Nehemiah 9:37
And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.
Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;
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 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.
Lamentations 1:6
And all her glory has gone from the daughter of Zion: her rulers have become like harts with no place for food, and they have gone in flight without strength before the attacker.
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Isaiah 47:13
But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you.
Isaiah 47:14
Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.
Isaiah 47:15
Small profit have you had from those who, from your earliest days, got great profit out of you; they have gone in flight, every one straight before him, and you have no saviour.
Isaiah 50:5
And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him.
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Psalms 132:14
This is my rest for ever: here will I ever be; for this is my desire.
Isaiah 47:2
Take the crushing-stones and get the meal crushed: take off your veil, put away your robe, let your legs be uncovered, go through the rivers.
Isaiah 47:3
The shame of your unclothed condition will be seen by all: I will give punishment without mercy,
Isaiah 47:4
Says the Lord who takes up our cause; the Lord of armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 47:10
For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.
Isaiah 47:11
Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.
Isaiah 47:12
Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers.
Isaiah 50:1
This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.
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 52:7
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!
Isaiah 62:3
And you will be a fair crown in the hand of the Lord, and a king's head-dress in the hand of your God.
Matthew 5:35
Or by the earth, because it is the resting-place for his foot; or by Jerusalem, because it is the town of the great King.
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Jeremiah 12:4
How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.
Jeremiah 12:5
If running with the fighting-men has made you tired, how will you be able to keep up with horses? and if in a land of peace you go in flight, what will become of you in the thick growth of Jordan?
Jeremiah 12:6
For even your brothers, your father's family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.
Jeremiah 12:7
I have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.
Jeremiah 12:8
My heritage has become like a lion in the woodland to me; her voice has been loud against me; so I have hate for her.
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 14:2
Judah is weeping and its doors are dark with sorrow, and people are seated on the earth clothed in black; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
Jeremiah 23:10
For the land is full of men who are untrue to their wives; because of the curse the land is full of grief; the green fields of the waste land have become dry; and they are quick to do evil, their strength is for what is not right.
Joel 1:18
What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.
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Leviticus 26:37
Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.
Leviticus 26:43
And the land, while she is without them, will keep her Sabbaths; and they will undergo the punishment of their sins, because they were turned away from my decisions and in their souls was hate for my laws.
Deuteronomy 28:36
And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone.
2 Kings 21:13
And over Jerusalem will be stretched the line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab; Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face.
Isaiah 32:14
For the fair houses will have no man living in them; the town which was full of noise will become a waste; the hill and the watchtower will be unpeopled for ever, a joy for the asses of the woods, a place of food for the flocks;
Jeremiah 25:18
Jerusalem and the towns of Judah and their kings and their princes, to make them a waste place, a cause of fear and surprise and a curse, as it is this day;
Jeremiah 26:6
Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this town a curse to all the nations of the earth.
Jeremiah 26:18
Micah the Morashtite, who was a prophet in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, said to all the people of Judah, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Zion will become like a ploughed field, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the woodland.
Lamentations 2:7
The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.
Ezekiel 6:6
In all your living-places the towns will become broken walls, and the high places made waste; so that your altars may be broken down and made waste, and your images broken and ended, and so that your sun-images may be cut down and your works rubbed out.
Ezekiel 21:15
In order that hearts may become soft, and the number of those who are falling may be increased, I have sent death by the sword against all their doors: you are made like a flame, you are polished for death.
Daniel 9:2
In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, saw clearly from the books the number of years given by the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, in which the making waste of Jerusalem was to be complete, that is, seventy years.
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Jeremiah 44:3
Because of the evil which they have done, moving me to wrath by burning perfumes in worship to other gods, who were not their gods or yours or the gods of their fathers.
Jeremiah 44:4
And I sent all my servants the prophets to you, getting up early and sending them, saying, Do not do this disgusting thing which is hated by me.
Jeremiah 44:5
But they gave no attention, and their ears were not open so that they might be turned from their evil-doing and from burning perfume to other gods.
Jeremiah 44:6
Because of this, my passion and my wrath were let loose, burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are waste and unpeopled as at this day.
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Jeremiah 51:5
For Israel has not been given up, or Judah, by his God, by the Lord of armies; for their land is full of sin against the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 51:49
As Babylon had the dead of Israel put to the sword, so in Babylon the dead of all the land will be stretched out.
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.
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.
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Song of Solomon 6:4
You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.
Isaiah 54:11
O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires.
Jeremiah 33:10
This is what the Lord has said: There will again be sounding in this place, of which you say, It is a waste, without man and without beast; even in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem which are waste and unpeopled, without man and without beast,
Lamentations 1:11
Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.
Lamentations 2:13
What example am I to give you? what comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your destruction is great like the sea: who is able to make you well?
Lamentations 2:20
Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?
Daniel 8:9
And out of one of them came another horn, a little one, which became very great, stretching to the south and to the east and to the beautiful land.
Amos 5:2
The virgin of Israel has been made low, never again to be lifted up: she is stretched out by herself on her land; there is no one to put her on her feet again.
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Leviticus 26:31
And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;
Leviticus 26:32
And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.
Leviticus 26:33
And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.
Deuteronomy 4:27
And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.
1 Kings 21:24
Any man of the family of Ahab who comes to his death in the town will become food for the dogs; and he who comes to his death in the open country will be food for the birds of the air.
2 Kings 25:8
Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem;
2 Kings 25:9
And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire;
Lamentations 2:15
All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?
Lamentations 4:2
The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter!
Ezekiel 33:27
This is what you are to say to them: The Lord has said, By my life, truly, those who are in the waste places will be put to the sword, and him who is in the open field I will give to the beasts for their food, and those who are in the strong places and in holes in the rocks will come to their death by disease.
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.
Zechariah 7:14
But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.
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Ezekiel 3:12
Then I was lifted up by the wind, and at my back the sound of a great rushing came to my ears when the glory of the Lord was lifted up from his place.
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Job 19:9
He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
Psalms 89:39
You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.
Ezekiel 21:26
This is what the Lord has said: Take away the holy head-dress, take off the crown: this will not be again: let that which is low be lifted up, and that which is high be made low.
Revelation 2:10
Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Revelation 3:11
I come quickly: keep that which you have, so that no one may take your crown.
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Isaiah 13:20
People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks.
Isaiah 14:23
And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water: and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of armies.
Jeremiah 7:29
Let your hair be cut off, O Jerusalem, and let it go, and let a song of grief go up on the open hilltops; for the Lord is turned away from the generation of his wrath and has given them up.
Jeremiah 48:39
How is it broken down! how is Moab's back turned in shame! so Moab will be a cause of sport and of fear to everyone round about him.
Ezekiel 26:16
Then all the rulers of the sea will come down from their high seats, and put away their robes and take off their clothing of needlework: they will put on the clothing of grief, they will take their seats on the earth, shaking with fear every minute and overcome with wonder at you.
Ezekiel 26:17
And they will send up a song of grief for you, and say to you, What destruction has come on you, how are you cut off from the sea, the noted town, which was strong in the sea, she and her people, causing the fear of them to come on all the dry land!
Joel 1:8
Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.
Revelation 18:13
And sweet-smelling plants, and perfumes, and wine, and oil, and well crushed grain, and cattle and sheep; and horses and carriages and servants; and souls of men.
Revelation 18:21
And a strong angel took up a stone like the great stone with which grain is crushed, and sent it into the sea, saying, So, with a great fall, will Babylon, the great town, come to destruction, and will not be seen any more at all.
Revelation 18:22
And the voice of players and makers of music will never again be sounding in you: and no worker, expert in art, will ever again be living in you; and there will be no sound of the crushing of grain any more at all in you;
Revelation 18:23
And never again will the shining of lights be seen in you; and the voice of the newly-married man and the bride will never again be sounding in you: for your traders were the lords of the earth, and by your evil powers were all the nations turned out of the right way.
Revelation 18:24
And in her was seen the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been put to death on the earth.
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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.
Micah 1:9
For her wounds may not be made well: for it has come even to Judah, stretching up to the doorway of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Micah 1:12
For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.
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Joel 2:9
They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.
Micah 6:9
The voice of the Lord is crying out to the town: Give ear, you tribes and the meeting of the town.
Zechariah 10:6
And I will make the children of Judah strong, and I will be the saviour of the children of Joseph, and I will make them come back again, for I have had mercy on them: they will be as if I had not given them up: for I am the Lord their God and I will give them an answer.
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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.
Deuteronomy 28:62
And you will become a very small band, though your numbers were like the stars of heaven; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.
Isaiah 1:7
Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.
Isaiah 1:8
And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.
Isaiah 1:9
If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.
Jeremiah 42:2
And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:
Ezekiel 5:3
And take from them a small number of hairs, folding them in your skirts.
Ezekiel 5:4
And again take some of these and put them in the fire, burning them up in the fire; and say to all the children of Israel,
Ezekiel 12:16
But a small number of them I will keep from the sword, from the need of food, and from disease, so that they may make clear all their disgusting ways among the nations where they come; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.
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.
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.
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.
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Luke 7:10
And when those who were sent came back to the house they saw that the servant was well.
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Esther 1:22
And sent letters to all the divisions of the kingdom, to every division in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs, saying that every man was to be the ruler in his house, and that this order was to be given out in the language of his people.
Acts 2:5
Now there were living at Jerusalem, Jews, God-fearing men, from every nation under heaven.
Acts 2:6
And when this sound came to their ears, they all came together, and were greatly surprised because every man was hearing the words of the disciples in his special language.
Acts 2:7
And they were full of wonder and said, Are not all these men Galilaeans?
Acts 2:8
And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth?
Acts 2:9
Men of Parthia, Media, and Elam, and those living in Mesopotamia, in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia,
Acts 2:10
In Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and those who have come from Rome, Jews by birth and others who have become Jews,
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1 Corinthians 5:13
As for those who are outside, God is their judge. So put away the evil man from among you.
2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we give you orders, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from all those whose behaviour is not well ordered and in harmony with the teaching which they had from us.
2 Thessalonians 3:14
And if any man does not give attention to what we have said in this letter, take note of that man, and keep away from him, so that he may be shamed.
1 Timothy 6:5
Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.
Hebrews 12:15
Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;
Hebrews 12:16
And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food.
Revelation 22:15
Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.
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1 Corinthians 12:26
And if there is pain in one part of the body, all the parts will be feeling it; or if one part is honoured, all the parts will be glad.
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1 Corinthians 12:25
So that there might be no division in the body; but all the parts might have the same care for one another.
2 Corinthians 11:29
Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?
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Numbers 5:2
Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead;
Numbers 12:14
And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had put a mark of shame on her, would she not be shamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days, and after that she may come in again.
Numbers 12:15
So Miriam was shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days: and the people did not go forward on their journey till Miriam had come in again.
2 Kings 7:3
Now there were four lepers seated at the doorway into the town: and they said to one another, Why are we waiting here for death?
2 Kings 15:5
And the Lord sent disease on the king and he became a leper, and to the day of his death he was living separately in his private house. And Jotham his son was over his house, judging the people of the land.
2 Chronicles 26:21
So King Uzziah was a leper till the day of his death, living separately in his private house; for he was cut off from the house of God; and Jotham his son was ruling over his house, judging the people of the land.
1 Corinthians 5:5
That this man is to be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may have forgiveness in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1 Corinthians 5:9
In my letter I said to you that you were not to keep company with those who go after the desires of the flesh;
1 Corinthians 5:10
But I had not in mind the sinners who are outside the church, or those who have a desire for and take the property of others, or those who give worship to images; for it is not possible to keep away from such people without going out of the world completely:
1 Corinthians 5:11
But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.
1 Corinthians 5:12
For it is no business of mine to be judging those who are outside; but it is yours to be judging those who are among you;
Revelation 21:27
And nothing unclean may come into it, or anyone whose works are cursed or false; but only those whose names are in the Lamb's book of life.
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