Lamentations 5:13
The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
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Lamentations 5:13
The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
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Exodus 1:11
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
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 2:11
In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
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 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Psalms 137:2
On the willows in that land, we hung up our harps.
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.”
Jeremiah 51:34
“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.
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Exodus 12:29
At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.
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Exodus 23:5
If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.
Nehemiah 5:1
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
Nehemiah 5:2
For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”
Nehemiah 5:3
There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”
Nehemiah 5:4
There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
Isaiah 58:6
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
Matthew 23:4
For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.
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Deuteronomy 28:50
a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.
Jeremiah 6:23
They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion.”
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1 Samuel 2:30
“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.
1 Samuel 2:31
Behold, the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.
Job 5:26
You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
Job 42:17
So Job died, being old and full of days.
Isaiah 60:14
The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you Yahweh’s City, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 65:20
“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
Isaiah 65:21
They will build houses and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Isaiah 65:22
They will not build and another inhabit. They will not plant and another eat; for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.
Zechariah 8:4
Yahweh of Armies says: “Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand because of their old age.
Hebrews 12:22
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
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Psalms 74:9
We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
Isaiah 2:13
for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of Bashan,
Isaiah 2:14
for all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up,
Isaiah 2:15
for every lofty tower, for every fortified wall,
Isaiah 3:2
the mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the diviner, the elder,
Amos 2:3
and I will cut off the judge from among them, and will kill all its princes with him,” says Yahweh.
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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 55:3
because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
Lamentations 5:4
We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
Lamentations 5:5
Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
Lamentations 5:6
We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
Lamentations 5:8
Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
Lamentations 5:9
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
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Isaiah 24:4
The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
Isaiah 24:5
The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 24:6
Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.
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Jeremiah 27:7
All the nations will serve him, his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant.
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Jeremiah 14:2
“Judah mourns, and its gates languish. They sit in black on the ground. The cry of Jerusalem goes up.
Jeremiah 52:11
He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.
Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem has grievously sinned. Therefore she has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. Yes, she sighs and turns backward.
Lamentations 1:15
“The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me. He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men. The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.
Lamentations 1:19
“I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.
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.
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 2:6
He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.
Lamentations 2:7
The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
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 2:12
They ask their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
Lamentations 2:20
“Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations 2:21
“The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger. You have slaughtered, and not pitied.
Lamentations 2:22
“You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.
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2 Kings 24:14
He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. No one remained except the poorest people of the land.
2 Kings 24:15
He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the chief men of the land. He carried them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
2 Kings 24:16
All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and fit for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
2 Kings 25:27
In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, released Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison,
Lamentations 4:15
“Go away!” they cried to them. “Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, “They can’t live here any more.”
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Isaiah 40:30
Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go out into the field, then behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’ ”
Lamentations 4:2
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Micah 3:12
Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
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Joshua 9:23
Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”
Psalms 137:9
Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.
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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Luke 17:35
There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken and the other will be left.”
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