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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Jeremiah 2:14
Is Israel a servant? Is he a home-born [slave]? Why has he become a prey?
Deuteronomy 28:29
and thou shall grope at noonday, as the blind man gropes in darkness. And thou shall not prosper in thy ways. And thou shall only be oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save thee.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Micah 2:4
In that day they shall take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation. [And] say, We are utterly ruined. He changes the portion of my people. How he removes [it] from me! He divides our fields to the rebelliou
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Leviticus 18:25
and the land is defiled. Therefore I visit the iniquity of it upon it, and the land vomits out her inhabitants.
Leviticus 20:22
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land, where I bring you to dwell in it, not vomit you out.
Lamentations 4:15
Depart ye, they cried to them. Unclean! Depart, depart, do not touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [here].
Micah 2:10
Arise ye, and depart, for this is not your resting-place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.
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Leviticus 18:28
that the land not vomit you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Ezekiel 27:2
And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre,