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Lamentations 1:4
The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.

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Leviticus 18:25
And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it.

Psalms 74:8
They have said in their hearts, Let us put an end to them all together; they have given over to the fire all God's places of worship in the land.

Isaiah 6:12
And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.

Isaiah 24:4
The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

Isaiah 24:5
The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.

Jeremiah 19:8
And I will make this town a thing of wonder and a cause of surprise; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder and make sounds of surprise, because of all its troubles.

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.

Ezekiel 14:15
Or if I send evil beasts through the land causing destruction and making it waste, so that no man may go through because of the beasts:

Micah 2:10
Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.

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.

Luke 21:23
It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people.

Luke 21:24
And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.

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Leviticus 23:2
Say to the children of Israel, These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, which you will keep for holy meetings: these are my feasts.

Hosea 12:9
But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will give you tents for your living-places again as in the days of the holy meeting.

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Deuteronomy 16:18
You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.

Job 29:7
When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

Job 29:8
The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;

Job 29:9
The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths;

Job 29:10
The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.

Job 29:11
For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;

Job 29:12
For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.

Job 29:13
The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

Job 29:14
I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.

Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.

Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.

Job 29:17
By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

Job 30:1
But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

Isaiah 3:2
The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years;

Isaiah 3:3
The captain of fifty, and the man of high position, and the wise guide, and the wonder-worker, and he who makes use of secret powers.

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Deuteronomy 28:7
By the power of the Lord, those who take arms against you will be overcome before you: they will come out against you one way, and will go in flight from you seven ways.

Deuteronomy 28:25
The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.

Judges 5:8
They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?

Judges 6:3
And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

Judges 6:6
And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord.

1 Samuel 13:17
And three bands of men came out from the Philistines to make an attack; one band went by the road which goes to Ophrah, into the land of Shual:

1 Samuel 13:18
And another went in the direction of Beth-horon: and another went by the hill looking down on the valley of Zeboiim, in the direction of the waste land.

1 Samuel 13:19
Now there was no iron-worker in all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, For fear the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears:

1 Samuel 13:20
But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp;

1 Samuel 13:21
For they had instruments for putting an edge on their ploughs and blades and forks and axes, and for putting iron points on their ox-driving rods.

1 Samuel 13:22
So on the day of the fight at Michmash, not a sword or a spear was to be seen in the hands of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan: only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.

1 Samuel 13:23
And the armed force of the Philistines went out to the narrow way of Michmash.

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Judges 21:20
And they said to the men of Benjamin, Go into the vine-gardens, waiting there secretly,

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Ruth 1:20
And she said to them, Do not let my name be Naomi, but Mara, for the Ruler of all has given me a bitter fate.

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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1 Samuel 20:2
And he said to him, Far be the thought: you will not be put to death: see, my father does nothing, great or small, without giving me word of it: would he keep this secret from me? It is not so.

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1 Samuel 31:7
And when the men of Israel across the valley and on the other side of Jordan saw that the army of Israel was in flight and that Saul and his sons were dead, they came out of their towns and went in flight; and the Philistines came and took them for themselves.

Psalms 144:14
Our oxen are well weighted down; our cows give birth safely; there is no going out, and there is no cry of sorrow in our open places.

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.

Zechariah 8:3
This is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Zion, and will make my living-place in Jerusalem: and Jerusalem will be named The town of good faith; and the mountain of the Lord of armies The holy mountain.

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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2 Samuel 13:20
And her brother Absalom said to her, Has your brother Amnon been with you? but now, let there be an end to your crying, my sister: he is your brother, do not take this thing to heart. So Tamar went on living uncomforted in her brother's house.

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Psalms 63:1
A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah. O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

Psalms 63:2
To see your power and your glory, as I have seen you in the holy place.

Amos 8:13
In that day the fair virgins and the young men will be feeble from need of water.

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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 42:2
My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?

Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

Psalms 43:3
O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.

Psalms 84:1
To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies!

Psalms 84:2
The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

Psalms 102:13
You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.

Psalms 137:3
For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion.

Psalms 137:4
How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?

Psalms 137:5
If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.

Psalms 137:6
If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.

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Isaiah 10:29
They have gone across the mountain; Geba will be our resting-place tonight, they say: Ramah is shaking with fear; Gibeah of Saul has gone in flight.

Isaiah 10:30
Give a loud cry, daughter of Gallim; let Laishah give ear; let Anathoth give answer to her.

Isaiah 10:31
Madmenah has gone; the men of Gebim are putting their goods in a safe place.

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Isaiah 29:1
Ho! Ariel, Ariel, the town against which David made war; put year to year, let the feasts come round:

Lamentations 1:12
Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.

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 4:5
Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

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.

Amos 8:10
Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

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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 5:9
The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.

Isaiah 6:11
Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,

Isaiah 64:10
Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.

Jeremiah 2:15
The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

Jeremiah 7:4
Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.

Jeremiah 7:14
For this reason I will do to the house which is named by my name, and in which you have put your faith, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

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.

Jeremiah 33:12
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Again there will be in this place, which is a waste, without man and without beast, and in all its towns, a resting-place where the keepers of sheep will make their flocks take rest.

Ezekiel 20:26
I made them unclean in the offerings they gave, causing them to make every first child go through the fire, so that I might put an end to them.

Ezekiel 36:4
For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about:

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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.

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?

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Isaiah 32:9
Give ear to my voice, you women who are living in comfort; give attention to my words, you daughters who have no fear of danger.

Isaiah 32:10
In not much more than a year, you, who are not looking for evil, will be troubled: for the produce of the vine-gardens will be cut off, and there will be no getting in of the grapes.

Isaiah 32:11
Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief.

Isaiah 32:12
Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine;

Isaiah 32:13
And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.

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 14:18
If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.

Lamentations 1:8
Great is the sin of Jerusalem; for this cause she has become an unclean thing: all those who gave her honour are looking down on her, because they have seen her shame: now truly, breathing out grief, she is turned back.

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 2:11
My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

Lamentations 2:18
Let your cry go up to the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let your weeping be flowing down like a stream day and night; give yourself no rest, let not your eyes keep back the drops of sorrow.

Lamentations 2:19
Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.

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Lamentations 2:1
How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.

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 2:3
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.

Lamentations 2:4
His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.

Lamentations 3:47
Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.

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Lamentations 5:11
They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.

Lamentations 5:12
Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.

Lamentations 5:13
The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.

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.

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Isaiah 5:10
For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.

Isaiah 17:9
In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.

Isaiah 25:2
For you have made a town a waste place: a strong town a mass of broken walls; the tower of the men of pride has come to an end; it will never be put up again.

Isaiah 27:10
For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.

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,

Amos 7:9
And the high places of Isaac will be unpeopled, and the holy places of Israel will be made waste; and I will come up against the family of Jeroboam with the sword.

Matthew 23:38
See, your house is made waste.

Luke 19:43
For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

Luke 19:44
And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

Luke 21:20
But when you see armies all round about Jerusalem, then be certain that her destruction is near.

Luke 21:21
Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains; and those who are in the middle of the town go out; and let not those who are in the country come in.

Luke 21:22
For these are the days of punishment, in which all the things in the Writings will be put into effect.

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Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 14:31
Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line.

Isaiah 20:4
So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old, unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isaiah 47:7
And you said, I will be a queen for ever: you did not give attention to these things, and did not keep in mind what would come after.

Jeremiah 4:31
A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.

Joel 1:8
Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.

Joel 1:11
The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.

Joel 1:12
The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.

Joel 1:13
Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.

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 2:4
In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.

Zephaniah 2:13
And his hand will be stretched out against the north, for the destruction of Assyria; and he will make Nineveh unpeopled and dry like the waste land.

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Matthew 7:14
For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.

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Jeremiah 10:22
News is going about, see, it is coming, a great shaking is coming from the north country, so that the towns of Judah may be made waste and become the living-place of jackals.

Jeremiah 12:3
But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.

Jeremiah 16:9
For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.

Jeremiah 26:4
And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,

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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