Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

Bible References

What

Isaiah 22:16
What are you doing here? Who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here, carving your tomb on the height and cutting a crypt for yourself out of rock?
Judges 18:3
While they were near Micah’s home, they recognized the speech of the young Levite. So they went over to him and asked, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is keeping you here?”

People

Isaiah 52:3
For this is what the Lord says:
“You were sold for nothing,
and you will be redeemed without silver.”
Psalm 44:12
You sell Your people for nothing;
You make no profit from selling them.

Make

Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with My people;
I profaned My possession,
and I placed them under your control.
You showed them no mercy;
you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.
Isaiah 51:20
Your children have fainted;
they lie at the head of every street
like an antelope in a net.
They are full of the Lord’s fury,
the rebuke of your God.
Exodus 1:13
They worked the Israelites ruthlessly
Exodus 2:23
After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, and they cried out; and their cry for help ascended to God because of the difficult labor.
Exodus 3:7
Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of My people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I know about their sufferings.
Psalm 137:1
By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down and wept
when we remembered Zion.
Jeremiah 50:17
Israel is a stray lamb, chased by lions.
The first who devoured him was the king of Assyria;
the last one who crushed his bones
was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
Lamentations 1:21
שׁ ShinPeople have heard me groaning,
but there is no one to comfort me.
All my enemies have heard of my misfortune;
they are glad that You have caused it.
Bring on the day You have announced,
so that they may become like me.
Lamentations 2:3
ג GimelHe has cut off every horn of Israel
in His burning anger
and withdrawn His right hand
in the presence of the enemy.
He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire
that consumes everything.
Lamentations 5:13
Young men labor at millstones;
boys stumble under loads of wood.
Zephaniah 1:10
On that day—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
there will be an outcry from the Fish Gate,
a wailing from the Second District,
and a loud crashing from the hills.

My name

Isaiah 37:6
who said to them, “Tell your master this, ‘The Lord says: Don’t be afraid because of the words you have heard, which the king of Assyria’s attendants have blasphemed Me with.
Psalm 44:16
because of the voice of the scorner and reviler,
because of the enemy and avenger.
Psalm 74:10
God, how long will the enemy mock?
Will the foe insult Your name forever?
Ezekiel 20:9
But I acted because of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations they were living among, in whose sight I had made Myself known to Israel by bringing them out of Egypt.
Ezekiel 36:20
When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said about them, ‘These are the people of Yahweh, yet they had to leave His land in exile.’
Romans 2:24
For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.

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