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.

General references

Bible References

We are

Jeremiah 2:14

“Is Israel a servant? Is he a slave by birth?
Why has he become a captive and a prey?
Jeremiah 4:13

“Behold, the enemy comes up like clouds,
His chariots like the whirlwind;
His horses are swifter than eagles.
Woe (judgment is coming) to us, for we are ruined!”
Deuteronomy 28:29
and you will be groping at noon [in broad daylight], just as the blind grope in the darkness, and nothing you do will prosper; but you will only be oppressed and exploited and robbed continually, with no one to save you.
Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
Our houses to foreigners.
Micah 2:4

“On that day they shall take up a [taunting, deriding] parable against you
And wail with a doleful and bitter song of mourning and say,
‘We are completely destroyed!
God exchanges the inheritance of my people;
How He removes it from me!
He divides our fields to the rebellious [our captors].’

Our

Leviticus 18:25
For the land has become defiled; therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.
Leviticus 20:22
‘Therefore keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out [as it did those before you].
Lamentations 4:15

People cried to them, “Go away! Unclean!
Depart! Depart! Do not touch!”
So they fled, then they wandered [as fugitives];
People among the nations said,
“They shall not stay here any longer with us.”
Micah 2:10

“Arise and depart [because the captivity is inevitable],
For this [land] is not the place of rest
Because of the defilement that brings destruction,
A painful and terrible destruction.

General references

Leviticus 18:28
[do none of these things] so that the land will not vomit you out, should you defile it, as it has vomited out the nation which has been before you.
Ezekiel 27:2
“Now you, son of man, take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for Tyre,