Micah 2:4
In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’ ”
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Micah 2:4
In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’ ”
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Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them, and houses, then take them away. They oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Micah 2:3
Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.
Micah 2:4
In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’ ”
Micah 2:5
Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in Yahweh’s assembly.
Micah 2:6
“Don’t prophesy!”—they prophesy— “Don’t prophesy about these things. Disgrace won’t overtake us.”
Micah 2:9
You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.
Micah 2:10
Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.
2 Kings 17:24
The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, from Cuthah, from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.
Micah 1:9
For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
Micah 1:15
I will yet bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.
Micah 1:16
Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture, for they have gone into captivity from you!
Micah 3:3
who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
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Habakkuk 2:6
Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
Isaiah 14:4
that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”
Numbers 23:7
He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.
Psalms 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
Ezekiel 17:2
“Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
Numbers 23:18
He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.
Job 27:1
Job again took up his parable, and said,
Job 29:1
Job again took up his parable, and said,
Mark 12:12
They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him and went away.
Numbers 24:3
He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;
Numbers 24:15
He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;
Ezekiel 20:49
Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’ ”
Numbers 24:23
He took up his parable, and said, “Alas, who shall live when God does this?
Isaiah 14:12
How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
Matthew 13:35
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”
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Jeremiah 9:17
Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.
Jeremiah 9:18
Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Jeremiah 9:19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ”
Jeremiah 9:20
Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.
Joel 1:8
Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
Amos 5:1
Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:
Jeremiah 9:10
I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.
Ezekiel 32:18
“Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.
Deuteronomy 28:29
You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.
1 Samuel 7:2
From the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, the time was long—for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after Yahweh.
2 Samuel 1:17
David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
Ezekiel 26:17
They will take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, “How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!”
Ezekiel 32:2
‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, “You were likened to a young lion of the nations; yet you are as a monster in the seas. You broke out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.”
Ezekiel 32:16
“ ‘ “This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with this. They will lament with it over Egypt, and over all her multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
Amos 5:18
“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.
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Ezekiel 24:3
Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says, “Put the cauldron on the fire. Put it on, and also pour water into it.
Deuteronomy 28:37
You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
Lamentations 1:1
How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave!
Luke 8:10
He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest it is given in parables, that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
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Jeremiah 7:29
Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
Ezekiel 19:1
“Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
Jeremiah 6:26
Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.
Ezekiel 19:14
Fire has gone out of its branches. It has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong branch to be a scepter to rule.’ This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.”
Amos 5:16
Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: “Wailing will be in all the wide ways. They will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
Jeremiah 4:8
For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh hasn’t turned back from us.
Ezekiel 27:2
“You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
Ezekiel 27:32
In their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, ‘Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the middle of the sea?’
Ezekiel 28:12
“Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You were the seal of full measure, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Amos 7:4
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
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Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.
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