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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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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Genesis 34:20
Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town,
Exodus 18:21
But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;
Exodus 18:22
And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you.
Exodus 21:8
If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.
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.
Deuteronomy 29:10
You have come here today, all of you, before the Lord your God; the heads of your tribes, the overseers, and those who are in authority over you, with all the men of Israel,
Deuteronomy 31:28
Get together before me all those who are in authority in your tribes, and your overseers, so that I may say these things in their hearing, and make heaven and earth my witnesses against them.
Joshua 20:4
And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe.
Ruth 4:1
And Boaz went up to the public place of the town, and took his seat there: and the near relation of whom he had been talking came by; and Boaz, crying out to him by name, said, Come and be seated here. And he came and was seated.
Ruth 4:2
Then he got ten of the responsible men of the town, and said, Be seated here. And they took their seats.
1 Kings 21:8
So she sent a letter in Ahab's name, stamped with his stamp, to the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority with Naboth.
Acts 6:12
And the people, with the rulers and the scribes, were moved against him, and they came and took him before the Sanhedrin,
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Exodus 1:13
And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:
Exodus 1:14
And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.
Exodus 1:15
And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew women who gave help at the time of childbirth (the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah),
Exodus 1:16
When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living.
Exodus 2:23
Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.
Exodus 2:24
And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.
Exodus 3:7
And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;
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.
Isaiah 51:23
And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.
Isaiah 52:5
Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.
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.
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.
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Deuteronomy 12:8
You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:
Judges 17:6
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.
Judges 21:25
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.
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1 Samuel 2:30
For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.
1 Samuel 2:31
See, the days are coming when your arm and the arm of your father's people will be cut off;
Job 5:26
You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.
Job 42:17
And Job came to his end, old and full of days.
Isaiah 65:20
No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.
Isaiah 65:21
And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.
Isaiah 65:22
They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.
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.
Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to the mountain of Zion, to the place of the living God, to the Jerusalem which is in heaven, and to an army of angels which may not be numbered,
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2 Samuel 19:11
And King David sent word to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, Say to the responsible men of Judah, Why are you the last to take steps to get the king back to his house?
2 Samuel 19:12
You are my brothers, my bone and my flesh; why are you the last to get the king back again?
2 Samuel 19:13
And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God's punishment be on me, if I do not make you chief of the army before me at all times in place of Joab!
2 Samuel 19:14
And the hearts of the men of Judah were moved like one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, Come back, with all your servants.
2 Samuel 19:15
So the king came back, and came as far as Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, meeting the king there, to take him back with them over Jordan.
2 Kings 23:1
Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem.
Ezra 10:8
And that if anyone did not come before three days were past, as ordered by the rulers and the responsible men, all his goods would be put under the curse, and he himself would be cut off from the meeting of the people who had come back.
Jeremiah 26:17
Then some of the responsible men of the land got up and said to all the meeting of the people,
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Job 2:13
And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.
Isaiah 3:26
And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.
Isaiah 47:1
Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate.
Isaiah 47:5
Be seated in the dark without a word, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will no longer be named, The Queen of Kingdoms.
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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.
Lamentations 3:63
Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.
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Psalms 74:9
We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet, or anyone among us to say how long.
Isaiah 2:13
And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan;
Isaiah 2:14
And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills which are lifted up;
Isaiah 2:15
And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;
Amos 2:3
And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.
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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.
Isaiah 38:20
O Lord, quickly be my saviour; so we will make my songs to corded instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the Lord.
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Psalms 137:2
Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside.
Psalms 137:4
How may we give the Lord's song in a strange land?
Ecclesiastes 3:4
A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;
Isaiah 22:12
And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:
Hosea 9:4
They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.
Amos 5:23
Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.
Amos 8:3
And the songs of the king's house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a word.
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Psalms 42:9
I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
Psalms 55:3
I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.
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.
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.
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 1:19
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.
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?
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 2:22
As in the day of a holy meeting you have made fears come round me on every side, and no one got away or was kept safe in the day of the Lord's wrath: those who were folded in my arms, whom I took care of, have been sent to their destruction by my hater.
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 5:1
Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.
Lamentations 5:5
Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
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Jeremiah 3:21
A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind.
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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 2:3
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.
Zephaniah 1:10
And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow;
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2 Kings 24:14
And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away.
2 Kings 24:15
He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2 Kings 24:16
And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all of them strong and able to take up arms, the king of Babylon took away as prisoners into Babylon.
2 Kings 25:18
And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers;
2 Kings 25:27
And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his rule, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison;
Lamentations 4:15
Away! unclean! they were crying out to them, Away! away! let there be no touching: when they went away in flight and wandering, men said among the nations, There is no further resting-place for them.
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Lamentations 5:9
We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
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Lamentations 5:19
You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.
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Isaiah 8:22
And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
Isaiah 9:19
The land was dark with the wrath of the Lord of armies: the people were like those who take men's flesh for food.
Jeremiah 48:33
All joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field and for the land of Moab; I have made the wine come to an end from the crushing vessels: no longer will the grapes be crushed with the sound of glad voices.
Amos 5:16
So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief.
Amos 5:17
In all the vine-gardens there will be cries of grief: for I will go through among you, says the Lord.
Amos 5:18
Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.
Amos 5:19
As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.
Amos 5:20
Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?
Matthew 22:11
But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe;
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.
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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Romans 13:3
For rulers are not a cause of fear to the good work but to the evil. If you would have no fear of the authority, do good and you will have praise;
Romans 13:4
For he is the servant of God to you for good. But if you do evil, have fear; for the sword is not in his hand for nothing: he is God's servant, making God's punishment come on the evil-doer.
Romans 13:5
So put yourselves under the authority, not for fear of wrath, but because you have the knowledge of what is right.
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Isaiah 24:10
The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.
Jeremiah 7:34
And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.
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 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.
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;
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