Lamentations 1:7
Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.
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Lamentations 1:7
Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.
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Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.
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Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?
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Genesis 18:12
And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?
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Genesis 21:9
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.
2 Kings 2:23
Then from there he went up to Beth-el; and on his way, some little boys came out from the town and made sport of him, crying, Go up, old no-hair! go up, old no-hair!
2 Kings 2:24
And turning back, he saw them, and put a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the wood and put forty-two of the children to death.
2 Chronicles 30:10
So the runners went from town to town through all the country of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun: but they were laughed at and made sport of.
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.
Nehemiah 4:1
Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.
Nehemiah 4:2
And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust?
Nehemiah 4:3
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Such is their building that if a fox goes up it, their stone wall will be broken down.
Nehemiah 4:4
Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:
Nehemiah 4:5
Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.
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.
Psalms 22:6
But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.
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Genesis 27:15
And Rebekah took the fair robes of her oldest son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son:
1 Kings 20:6
But I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, to make a search through your house and the houses of your people, and everything which is pleasing in your eyes they will take away in their hands.
Ezra 8:27
And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold.
Isaiah 44:9
Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.
Jeremiah 25:34
Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock.
Hosea 13:15
Though he gives fruit among his brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of the Lord coming up from the waste land, and his spring will become dry, his fountain will be without water: it will make waste the store of all the vessels of his desire.
Joel 3:5
For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.
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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.
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.
2 Chronicles 36:21
So that the words of the Lord, which he said by the mouth of Jeremiah, might come true, till the land had had pleasure in her Sabbaths; for as long as she was waste the land kept the Sabbath, till seventy years were complete.
Nehemiah 1:3
They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.
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.
Psalms 44:11
You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.
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 32:12
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.
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;
Lamentations 3:61
Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;
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Deuteronomy 4:7
For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God is, whenever we are turned to him in prayer?
Deuteronomy 4:8
And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?
Deuteronomy 4:34
Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?
Deuteronomy 4:35
All this he let you see, so that you might be certain that the Lord is God and there is no other.
Deuteronomy 4:36
Out of heaven itself his voice came to you, teaching you; and on earth he let you see his great fire; and his words came to your ears out of the heart of the fire.
Deuteronomy 4:37
And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;
Nehemiah 9:14
And you gave them word of your holy Sabbath, and gave them orders and rules and a law, by the hand of Moses your servant:
Psalms 147:19
He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.
Psalms 147:20
He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.
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Deuteronomy 8:7
For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;
Deuteronomy 8:8
A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;
Deuteronomy 8:9
Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.
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2 Kings 19:25
Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.
Psalms 79:4
We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.
Isaiah 23:7
Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?
Isaiah 37:26
Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.
Jeremiah 46:26
And I will give them up into the hands of those who will take their lives, and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of his servants: and later, it will be peopled as in the past, says the Lord.
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 2:15
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 2:16
All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.
Lamentations 2:17
The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.
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.
Lamentations 4:12
To the kings of the earth and to all the people of the world it did not seem possible that the attackers and the haters would go into the doors of Jerusalem.
Micah 7:20
You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.
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Job 8:21
The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.
Psalms 126:2
Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.
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Job 36:16
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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 42:10
The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, 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 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.
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 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.
Lamentations 2:6
And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.
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.
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Psalms 44:12
You let your people go for nothing; your wealth is not increased by their price.
Psalms 137:2
Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside.
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.
Lamentations 5:1
Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.
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Psalms 77:5
My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone.
Psalms 77:6
The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.
Psalms 77:7
Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer?
Psalms 77:8
Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing?
Psalms 77:9
Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)
Psalms 77:10
And I said, It is a weight on my spirit; but I will keep in mind the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Psalms 77:11
I will keep in mind the works of Jah: I will keep the memory of your wonders in the past.
Psalms 143:5
I keep in mind the early days of the past, giving thought to all your acts, even to the work of your hands.
Lamentations 5:21
Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.
Amos 9:11
In that day I will put up the tent of David which has come down, and make good its broken places; and I will put up again his damaged walls, building it up as in the past;
Micah 7:14
Keep your people safe with your rod, the flock of your heritage, living by themselves in the woods in the middle of Carmel: let them get their food in Bashan and Gilead as in the past.
Malachi 3:4
Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord, as in days gone by, and as in past years.
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Proverbs 20:11
Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.
Galatians 4:22
Because it is in the Writings, that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant-woman, and one by the free woman.
Galatians 4:29
But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Hebrews 11:36
And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons:
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Psalms 44:2
Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.
Isaiah 5:1
Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:
Isaiah 5:2
And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.
Isaiah 5:3
And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.
Isaiah 5:4
Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?
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Isaiah 5:13
For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.
Isaiah 5:14
For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.
Jeremiah 15:13
I will give your wealth and your stores to your attackers, without a price, because of all your sins, even in every part of your land.
Jeremiah 20:5
And more than this, I will give all the wealth of this town and all its profits and all its things of value, even all the stores of the kings of Judah will I give into the hands of their haters, who will put violent hands on them and take them away to Babylon.
Jeremiah 52:17
And the brass pillars which were in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took all the brass away to Babylon.
Jeremiah 52:18
And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they took away.
Jeremiah 52:19
And the cups and the fire-trays and the basins and the pots and the supports for the lights and the spoons and the wide basins; the gold of the gold vessels, and the silver of the silver vessels, the captain of the armed men took away.
Jeremiah 52:20
The two pillars, the great water-vessel, and the twelve brass oxen which were under it, and the ten wheeled bases, which King Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
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Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
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Jeremiah 17:21
This is what the Lord has said: See to yourselves, that you take up no weight on the Sabbath day, or take it in through the doors of Jerusalem;
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Jeremiah 17:23
But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.
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Ezra 9:13
And after everything which has come on us because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment which you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;
Job 11:6
And would make clear to you the secrets of wisdom, and the wonders of his purpose!
Psalms 102:10
Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.
Jeremiah 14:20
We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.
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 3:42
We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.
Lamentations 5:16
The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
Daniel 9:8
O Lord, shame is on us, on our kings and our rulers and our fathers, because of our sin against you.
Luke 15:17
But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food!
Luke 15:18
I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes:
Luke 15:19
I am no longer good enough to be named your son: make me like one of your servants.
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Ezekiel 22:8
You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.
Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them.
Ezekiel 23:38
Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made my holy place unclean and has made my Sabbaths unclean.
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Daniel 5:22
And you, his son, O Belshazzar, have not kept your heart free from pride, though you had knowledge of all this;
Daniel 5:23
But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;
Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.
Luke 16:23
And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.
Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.
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Daniel 8:24
And his power will be great, and he will be purposing strange things. And all will go well for him and he will do his pleasure; and he will send destruction on the strong ones.
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Hosea 9:5
What will you do on the day of worship, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?
Zephaniah 3:18
I will take away your troubles, lifting up your shame from off you.
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