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Psalms 79:4
We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.
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Psalms 42:4
These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.
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Psalms 77:5-9
I have considered the days of old, The years of ancient times.I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart; And my spirit maketh diligent search.Will the Lord cast off for ever? And will he be favorable no more?Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore?Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?[ Selah
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Isaiah 5:1-4
Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:and he digged it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
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Psalms 77:3
I remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.[ Selah
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Micah 4:11
And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see our desire upon Zion.
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Deuteronomy 4:7-8
For what great nation is there, that hath a god so nigh unto them, as Jehovah our God is whensoever we call upon him?And what great nation is there, that hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
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Hosea 2:7
And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
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Deuteronomy 8:7-9
For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig- trees and pomegranates; a land of olive- trees and honey;a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig copper.
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Psalms 147:19-20
He showeth his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his ordinances unto Israel.He hath not dealt so with any nation; And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye Jehovah.
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Jeremiah 37:7
Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.
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Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things: but now here he is comforted, and thou art in anguish.
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Psalms 137:3-4
For there they that led us captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.How shall we sing Jehovah’s song In a foreign land?
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Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
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Deuteronomy 4:34-37
Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that Jehovah he is God; there is none else besides him.Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he made thee to see his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
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Lamentations 2:15-16
All that pass by clap their hands at thee; 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?All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
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Job 29:2-30:1
Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it gave witness unto me:Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him.The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem.I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch:My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand.Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for my counsel.After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them.And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.I chose out their way, and sat as chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
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Luke 15:17
But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!