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 slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey?
Jeremiah 4:13
Behold, he comes up like clouds; his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles-- woe to us, for we are ruined!
Deuteronomy 28:29
and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
Micah 2:4
In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, "We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields."
Our
Leviticus 18:25
and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
Leviticus 20:22
"You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
Lamentations 4:15
"Away! Unclean!" people cried at them. "Away! Away! Do not touch!" So they became fugitives and wanderers; people said among the nations, "They shall stay with us no longer."
Micah 2:10
Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.
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Leviticus 18:28
lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Ezekiel 27:2
"Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre,