Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
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We are
Jeremiah 2:14
Is Israel a bondman? Is he a home-born slave? Why is he become a spoil?
Jeremiah 4:13
Behold, he cometh up as clouds, and his chariots are as a whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:29
and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled continually, and there shall be none to save.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Micah 2:4
In that day shall they take up a proverb concerning you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! He hath distributed our fields to the rebellious.
Our
Leviticus 18:25
And the land hath become unclean; and I visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants.
Leviticus 20:22
And ye shall observe all my statutes, and all mine ordinances, and do them, that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein vomit you not out.
Lamentations 4:15
They cried unto them, Depart! Unclean! Depart! depart, touch not! When they fled away, and wandered about, it was said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn there.
Micah 2:10
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not the resting-place, because of defilement that bringeth destruction, even a grievous destruction.
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Leviticus 18:28
that the land vomit you not out, when ye make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Ezekiel 27:2
And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre,