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Psalms 79:4
We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.
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Psalms 42:4
These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.
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Psalms 77:5-9
I consider the days of old, the years long ago.I said,“ Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart.” Then my spirit made a diligent search:“ Will the Lord spurn forever, and never again be favorable?Has his steadfast love forever ceased? Are his promises at an end for all time?Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah
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Isaiah 5:1-4
Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?
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Psalms 77:3
When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah
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Micah 4:11
Now many nations are assembled against you, saying,“ Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”
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Deuteronomy 4:7-8
For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?
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Hosea 2:7
She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them. Then she shall say,‘ I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.’
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Deuteronomy 8:7-9
For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills,a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
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Psalms 147:19-20
He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and rules to Israel.He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the Lord!
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Jeremiah 37:7
“ Thus says the Lord, God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Judah who sent you to me to inquire of me,‘ Behold, Pharaoh’s army that came to help you is about to return to Egypt, to its own land.
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Luke 16:25
But Abraham said,‘ Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
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Psalms 137:3-4
For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying,“ Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?
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Lamentations 4:17
Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.
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Deuteronomy 4:34-37
Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.And because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,
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Lamentations 2:15-16
All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem:“ Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry:“ We have swallowed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see 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 shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me,when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood;the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth;the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved,because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.The blessing of him who was about 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 like a robe and a turban.I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop his prey from his teeth.Then I thought,‘ I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches,my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.’“ Men listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel.After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them.They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my face they did not cast down.I chose their way and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.“ But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have 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 of my father’s hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!