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Lamentations 1:19
I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.

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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 28:52
Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 28:53
And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters.

Deuteronomy 28:54
That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;

Deuteronomy 28:55
And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

Deuteronomy 28:56
The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

Deuteronomy 28:57
And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

2 Kings 6:25
And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

Jeremiah 19:9
I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.

Jeremiah 38:9
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have put into the water-hole; and he will come to his death in the place where he is through need of food: for there is no more bread in the town.

Jeremiah 52:6
In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.

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.

Lamentations 4:6
For the punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overturned suddenly without any hand falling on her.

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Ruth 4:15
He will be a giver of new life to you, and your comforter when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who, in her love for you, is better than seven sons, has given birth to him.

Psalms 19:8
The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.

Proverbs 25:13
As the cold of snow in the time of grain-cutting, so is a true servant to those who send him; for he gives new life to the soul of his master.

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Job 6:15
My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:

Job 6:16
Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them;

Job 6:17
Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

Job 6:18
The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.

Job 6:19
The camel-trains of Tema were searching with care, the bands of Sheba were waiting for them:

Job 6:20
They were put to shame because of their hope; they came and their hope was gone.

Job 6:21
So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.

Job 6:22
Did I say, Give me something? or, Make a payment for me out of your wealth?

Job 19:17
My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.

Job 19:19
All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

Psalms 38:11
My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.

Psalms 55:12
For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

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Job 19:18
Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

Psalms 55:13
But it was you, my equal, my guide, my well-loved friend.

Psalms 69:20
My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

Psalms 88:18
You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

Jeremiah 38:22
See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon's captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep into the wet earth, and they are turned away back from you.

Ezekiel 34:5
And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field.

Ezekiel 34:6
And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.

Obadiah 1:7
All the men who were united with you have been false to you, driving you out to the edge of the land: the men who were at peace with you have overcome you; they have taken their heritage in your place.

Matthew 26:31
Then said Jesus to them, All of you will be turned away from me this night: for it is said in the Writings, I will put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep of the flock will be put to flight.

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Psalms 78:64
Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them.

Isaiah 9:14
For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.

Isaiah 9:15
The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail.

Isaiah 9:16
For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction.

Isaiah 9:17
For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

Lamentations 4:13
It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.

Lamentations 4:16
The face of the Lord has sent them in all directions; he will no longer take care of them: they had no respect for the priests, they gave no honour to the old men.

Ezekiel 9:5
And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity:

Ezekiel 9:6
Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.

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Proverbs 31:3
Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.

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Isaiah 31:1
Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;

Isaiah 31:2
Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help.

Isaiah 31:3
For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.

Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

Jeremiah 2:37
Truly, you will go out from him with your hands on your head: for the Lord has given up those in whom you have put your faith, and they will be of no help to you.

Jeremiah 8:20
The grain-cutting is past, the summer is ended, and no salvation has come to us.

Jeremiah 37:10
For even if you had overcome all the army of the Chaldaeans fighting against you, and there were only wounded men among them, still they would get up, every man in his tent, and put this town on fire.

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

Ezekiel 29:6
And it will be clear to all the people of Egypt that I am the Lord, because you have been a false support to the children of Israel.

Ezekiel 29:7
When they took a grip of you in their hands, you were crushed so that their arms were broken: and when they put their weight on you for support, you were broken and all their muscles gave way.

Ezekiel 29:16
And Egypt will no longer be the hope of the children of Israel, causing sin to come to mind when their eyes are turned to them: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

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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.

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;

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

Joel 1:9
The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.

Joel 1:10
The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.

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.

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Jeremiah 13:26
So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen.

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.

Ezekiel 16:38
And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have taken life; and I will let loose against you passion and bitter feeling.

Ezekiel 16:39
I will give you into their hands, and your arched room will be overturned and your high places broken down; they will take your clothing off you and take away your fair jewels: and when they have done, you will be uncovered and shamed.

Ezekiel 16:40
And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.

Ezekiel 16:41
And they will have you burned with fire, sending punishments on you before the eyes of great numbers of women; and I will put an end to your loose ways, and you will no longer give payment.

Ezekiel 23:26
And they will take all your clothing off you and take away your ornaments.

Ezekiel 23:27
So I will put an end to your evil ways and your loose behaviour which came from the land of Egypt: and your eyes will never be lifted up to them again, and you will have no more memory of Egypt.

Hosea 2:16
And in that day, says the Lord, you will say to me, Ishi; and you will never again give me the name of Baali;

Nahum 3:6
I will make you completely disgusting and full of shame, and will put you up to be looked at by all.

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Isaiah 51:17
Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.

Isaiah 51:18
She has no one among all her children to be her guide; not one of the sons she has taken care of takes her by the hand.

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.

Jeremiah 25:9
See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever.

Jeremiah 25:17
Then I took the cup from the Lord's hand, and gave a drink from it to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me;

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 25:19
Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants and his princes and all his people;

Jeremiah 25:20
And all the mixed people and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the rest of Ashdod;

Jeremiah 25:21
Edom and Moab and the children of Ammon,

Jeremiah 25:22
And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the lands across the sea;

Jeremiah 25:23
Dedan and Tema and Buz, and all who have the ends of their hair cut;

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.

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Jeremiah 25:24
And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people living in the waste land;

Jeremiah 25:25
And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;

Jeremiah 25:27
And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.

Revelation 17:2
With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires.

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Jeremiah 2:27
Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.

Jeremiah 2:28
But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah.

Jeremiah 30:12
For the Lord has said, Your disease may not be made well and your wound is bitter.

Jeremiah 30:13
There is no help for your wound, there is nothing to make you well.

Hosea 6:2
After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him.

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.

Amos 7:2
And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.

Amos 7:3
The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.

Amos 7:4
This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.

Amos 7:5
Then said I, O Lord God, let there be an end: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.

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;

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Jeremiah 27:13
Why are you desiring death, you and your people, by the sword, and because food is gone, and by disease, as the Lord has said of the nation which does not become the servant of the king of Babylon?

Jeremiah 27:14
And you are not to give ear to the prophets who say to you, You will not become servants of the king of Babylon: for what they say is not true.

Jeremiah 27:15
For I have not sent them, says the Lord, but they are saying what is false in my name, so that I might send you out by force, causing destruction to come on you and on your prophets.

Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

Ezekiel 4:10
And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.

Ezekiel 4:15
Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's waste in place of man's waste, and you will make your bread ready on it.

Ezekiel 4:16
And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:

Ezekiel 4:17
So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.

Ezekiel 5:16
When I send on you the evil arrows of disease, causing destruction, which I will send to put an end to you; and, further, I will take away your necessary food.

Ezekiel 5:17
And I will send on you need of food and evil beasts, and they will be a cause of loss to you; and disease and violent death will go through you; and I will send the sword on you: I the Lord have said it.

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Isaiah 40:30
Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;

Jeremiah 2:33
With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so...your ways.

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!

Lamentations 5:6
We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

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

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2 Kings 24:7
And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all his country, from the stream of Egypt to the river Euphrates.

Isaiah 20:5
And they will be full of fear, and will no longer have faith in Ethiopia which was their hope, or in Egypt which was their glory.

Isaiah 30:1
Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:

Isaiah 30:2
Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.

Isaiah 30:3
And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.

Isaiah 30:4
For his chiefs are at Zoan, and his representatives have come to Hanes.

Isaiah 30:5
For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name.

Isaiah 30:6
The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.

Isaiah 30:7
For there is no use or purpose in the help of Egypt: so I have said about her, She is Rahab, who has come to an end.

Lamentations 2:21
The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.

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.

Amos 8:11
See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.

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Jeremiah 13:22
And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.

Lamentations 1:9
In her skirts were her unclean ways; she gave no thought to her end; and her fall has been a wonder; she has no comforter: see her sorrow, O Lord; for the attacker is lifted up.

Ezekiel 23:30
They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images.

Hosea 2:3
For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

Hosea 2:5
For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.

Hosea 2:11
And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.

Hosea 2:12
And I will make waste her vines and her fig-trees, of which she has said, These are the payments which my lovers have made to me; and I will make them a waste of trees, and the beasts of the field will take them for food.

Hosea 2:13
And I will give her punishment for the days of the Baals, to whom she has been burning perfumes, when she made herself fair with her nose-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, giving no thought to me, says the Lord.

Hosea 2:14
For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.

Hosea 2:15
And I will give her vine-gardens from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will give her answer there as in the days when she was young, and as in the time when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Hosea 8:10
But though they give money to the nations for help, still I will send them in all directions; and in a short time they will be without a king and rulers.

Nahum 3:5
See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your skirts pulled over your face, and let the nations see you unclothed, and the kingdoms your shame.

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