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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Bible References

We are

Jeremiah 2:14
Is Israel a slave?
Was he born into slavery?
Why else has he become a prey?
Jeremiah 4:13
Look, he advances like clouds;
his chariots are like a storm.
His horses are swifter than eagles.
Woe to us, for we are ruined!
Deuteronomy 28:29
so that at noon you will grope as a blind man gropes in the dark. You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our houses to foreigners.
Micah 2:4
In that day one will take up a taunt against you,
and lament mournfully, saying,
“We are totally ruined!
He measures out the allotted land of my people.
How He removes it from me!
He allots our fields to traitors.”

Our

Leviticus 18:25
The land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
Leviticus 20:22
“You are to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
Lamentations 4:15
ס Samek“Stay away! Unclean!” people shouted at them.
“Away, away! Don’t touch us!”
So they wandered aimlessly.
It was said among the nations,
“They can stay here no longer.”
Micah 2:10
Get up and leave,
for this is not your place of rest,
because defilement brings destruction—
a grievous destruction!

General references

Leviticus 18:28
If you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.
Ezekiel 27:2
“Now, son of man, lament for Tyre.

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