1 Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you: 2 “Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
Amos 5:1–2
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Ezekiel 19:1–2
1 “As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel 2 and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.
2 Samuel 1:18–20
18 and he ordered that the sons of Judah be taught the Song of the Bow. It is written in the Book of Jashar: 19 “Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen! 20 Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the da…
Amos 3:1–2
1 Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt: 2 “Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
Jeremiah 9:18–20
18 Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water. 19 For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because… 20 …
Jeremiah 14:1–3
1 This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: 2 “Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem. 3 The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water…
Jeremiah 10:1–2
1 Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel. 2 This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.
Jeremiah 18:12–14
12 But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’” 13 Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel…
Isaiah 9:7–9
7 Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accompli…
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