Psalms 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
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Psalms 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
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Genesis 2:10
A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers.
Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
Genesis 2:12
and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there.
Genesis 2:13
The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.
Genesis 2:14
The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
Daniel 8:16
I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called and said, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.”
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Genesis 21:16
She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, “Don’t let me see the death of the child.” She sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
Genesis 27:38
Esau said to his father, “Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
1 Samuel 1:7
So year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.
1 Samuel 11:4
Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up their voice and wept.
2 Samuel 3:16
Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go! Return!” and he returned.
2 Samuel 15:30
David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
2 Kings 8:11
He settled his gaze steadfastly on him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of God wept.
2 Kings 20:3
“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Job 2:12
When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
Acts 20:37
They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,
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Genesis 50:10
They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.
Psalms 42:9
I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
Psalms 43:2
For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 13:17
But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.
Jeremiah 13:18
Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory.
Jeremiah 23:9
Concerning the prophets: My heart within me is broken. All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.
Lamentations 1:21
“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.
Habakkuk 3:16
I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.
Luke 19:41
When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
Romans 9:2
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
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Leviticus 26:40
“ ‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me,
Leviticus 26:41
I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
Deuteronomy 4:29
But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 4:30
When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.
Deuteronomy 4:31
For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
Deuteronomy 30:1
It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven you,
Deuteronomy 30:2
and return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 30:3
that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
Ezekiel 6:9
Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
Daniel 9:2
in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
Zechariah 10:9
I will sow them among the peoples. They will remember me in far countries. They will live with their children and will return.
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Ruth 1:6
Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how Yahweh had visited his people in giving them bread.
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1 Samuel 4:17
He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”
1 Samuel 4:18
When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
1 Samuel 4:19
His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to giving birth. When she heard the news that God’s ark was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her.
1 Samuel 4:20
About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have given birth to a son.” But she didn’t answer, neither did she regard it.
1 Samuel 4:21
She named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
1 Samuel 4:22
She said, “The glory has departed from Israel; for God’s ark has been taken.”
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1 Kings 4:24
For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River; and he had peace on all sides around him.
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Ezra 6:16
The children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.
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Ezra 8:21
Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, for our little ones, and for all our possessions.
Ezra 8:31
Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the bandits by the way.
Ezra 9:5
At the evening offering I rose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;
Ezra 10:1
Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.
Jeremiah 3:24
But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Jeremiah 3:25
Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”
Jeremiah 31:19
Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’
Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.
Ezekiel 16:61
Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
Joel 2:23
“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.
James 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Revelation 11:3
I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
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Job 20:15
He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
Psalms 74:18
Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
Psalms 74:20
Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.
Psalms 79:1
God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
Psalms 79:4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
Psalms 79:12
Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
Psalms 125:2
As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.
Psalms 133:3
like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion; for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.
Ezekiel 36:30
I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.
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Psalms 1:3
He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
Isaiah 44:4
and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
Ezekiel 17:5
“ ‘ “He also took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree.
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Psalms 24:7
Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
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Psalms 24:8
Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle.
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Psalms 52:1
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
Psalms 107:1
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
1 John 4:7
Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:8
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
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Psalms 74:15
You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
Jeremiah 50:38
A drought is on her waters, and they will be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.
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Psalms 80:1
Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.
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Psalms 80:2
Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!
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Judges 20:26
Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
Psalms 69:9
For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
Psalms 69:10
When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
Psalms 103:17
But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,
Psalms 126:1
When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.
Psalms 126:5
Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
Isaiah 22:12
In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;
Isaiah 48:20
Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing announce this, tell it even to the end of the earth; say, “Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
Jeremiah 31:9
They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.
Jeremiah 31:10
“Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations, and declare it in the distant islands. Say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’
Romans 12:15
Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
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Song of Solomon 5:9
How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us? Beloved
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Isaiah 12:1
In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
Isaiah 12:2
Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
Isaiah 30:19
For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.
Jeremiah 3:22
Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding. “Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
Jeremiah 3:23
Truly help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, is in vain. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.
Jeremiah 31:13
Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
John 16:20
Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
John 16:22
Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
2 Corinthians 7:8
For though I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you grieve, though just for a while.
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Ezra 1:4
Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, in addition to the free will offering for God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’ ”
Isaiah 14:1
For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.
Isaiah 14:2
The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
Isaiah 14:3
It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,
Jeremiah 31:25
For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”
Jeremiah 45:3
‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’
Jeremiah 51:3
Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow, also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. Don’t spare her young men! Utterly destroy all her army!
Jeremiah 51:4
They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
Micah 7:8
Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
Micah 7:9
I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.
Micah 7:10
Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is Yahweh your God?” My eyes will see her. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
Zechariah 1:15
I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
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Isaiah 16:1
Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
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Isaiah 24:9
They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.
Daniel 6:18
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting. No musical instruments were brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.
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Nehemiah 9:36
“Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.
Nehemiah 9:37
It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Job 30:31
Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
Isaiah 7:18
It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Isaiah 24:7
The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.
Isaiah 24:8
The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
Isaiah 32:9
Rise up, you women who are at ease! Hear my voice! You careless daughters, give ear to my speech!
Isaiah 32:10
For days beyond a year you will be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage will fail. The harvest won’t come.
Isaiah 32:11
Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.
Isaiah 32:12
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Isaiah 32:13
Thorns and briers will come up on my people’s land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Isaiah 32:14
For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,
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Job 21:6
When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
Psalms 63:6
when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
Psalms 77:3
I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
Psalms 102:10
because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.
Psalms 102:11
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
Psalms 102:12
But you, Yahweh, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.
Jeremiah 15:17
I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.
Lamentations 1:2
She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.
Lamentations 1:16
“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”
Lamentations 1:22
“Let all their wickedness come before you. Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My bile is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 3:28
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
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Exodus 1:13
The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Israel serve,
Exodus 1:14
and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
Exodus 1:15
The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,
Exodus 1:16
and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool, if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”
Exodus 2:23
In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
Exodus 2:24
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exodus 3:7
Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
Psalms 12:5
“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
Isaiah 51:20
Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.
Isaiah 51:23
I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”
Isaiah 52:5
“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.
Jeremiah 50:17
“Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”
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Jeremiah 51:63
It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates.
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Jeremiah 51:64
Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’ ” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
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Psalms 79:11
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
Lamentations 2:3
He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.
Lamentations 5:13
The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
Zephaniah 1:10
In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.
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Psalms 44:11
You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
Psalms 44:12
You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.
Psalms 44:13
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
Psalms 44:14
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
Psalms 74:19
Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
Psalms 74:21
Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
Psalms 123:3
Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
Psalms 123:4
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.
Lamentations 2:15
All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”
Lamentations 2:16
All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
Lamentations 2:17
Yahweh has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
Lamentations 3:61
You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,
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Lamentations 3:51
My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
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Ezekiel 1:2
In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,
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Isaiah 21:1
The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.
Isaiah 21:2
A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
Isaiah 21:4
My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
Ezekiel 11:24
The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the captives. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
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Haggai 2:3
‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn’t it in your eyes as nothing?
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Zechariah 1:16
Therefore Yahweh says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.” ’
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Job 2:8
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
Isaiah 12:3
Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Isaiah 35:10
Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
Isaiah 47:1
“Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.
Daniel 10:3
I ate no pleasant food. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 9:15
Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
Luke 1:78
because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,
John 16:21
A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
2 Corinthians 7:9
I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
2 Corinthians 7:11
For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vindication! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
Revelation 11:5
If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way.
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Acts 16:16
As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.
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Romans 13:1
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
Romans 13:2
Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.
Romans 13:3
For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the authority,
Romans 13:4
for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
Romans 13:5
Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.
Romans 13:6
For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing.
Romans 13:7
Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
Romans 13:8
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:9
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Romans 13:10
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
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Romans 13:11
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
Romans 13:12
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.
Romans 13:13
Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
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