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Jeremiah 8:19
Listen— the cry of my dear people from a faraway land,“ Is the LORD no longer in Zion, her King not within her?” Why have they angered me with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?
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Isaiah 3:1-7
Note this: The Lord GOD of Armies is about to remove from Jerusalem and from Judah every kind of security: the entire supply of bread and water,heroes and warriors, judges and prophets, fortune-tellers and elders,commanders of fifty and dignitaries, counselors, cunning magicians, and necromancers.“ I will make youths their leaders, and unstable rulers will govern them.”The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will act arrogantly toward the old, and the worthless toward the honorable.A man will even seize his brother in his father’s house, saying,“ You have a cloak— you be our leader! This heap of rubble will be under your control.”On that day he will cry out, saying,“ I’m not a healer. I don’t even have food or clothing in my house. Don’t make me the leader of the people!”
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Isaiah 13:8
They will be horrified; pain and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look at each other, their faces flushed with fear.
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Isaiah 26:17
As a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pains, so we were before you, LORD.
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Hosea 3:4
For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols.
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Lamentations 4:20
The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their traps. We had said about him,“ We will live under his protection among the nations.”
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Jeremiah 30:6-7
Ask and see whether a male can give birth. Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?How awful that day will be! There will be no other like it! It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it.
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Isaiah 21:3
Therefore I am filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor. I am too perplexed to hear, too dismayed to see.
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Hosea 10:3
In fact, they are now saying,“ We have no king! For we do not fear the LORD. What can a king do for us?”
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Hosea 13:10-11
Where now is your king, that he may save you in all your cities, and the rulers you demanded, saying,“ Give me a king and leaders”?I give you a king in my anger and take away a king in my wrath.
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Jeremiah 22:23
You residents of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when pains come on you, agony like a woman in labor.
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Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylon has heard about them; his hands have become weak. Distress has seized him— pain, like a woman in labor.
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Jeremiah 4:21
How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the ram’s horn?