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, or was he born a servant? Why then has he become plunder?
Jeremiah 4:13
Look, he comes up like clouds, and his chariots are like a whirlwind. His horses are as swift as eagles. Woe to us we're destroyed!
Deuteronomy 28:29
As a result, you'll wander aimlessly in broad daylight just as a blind person wanders in darkness. You won't prosper in life. Instead, you'll be oppressed and plundered all day long, with no deliverer.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, and our homes to foreigners.
Micah 2:4
"When this happens, someone will compose a proverb about you, lamenting sorrowfully, "We are completely ruined! He has given my people's heritage to others. How he has removed it from me, dividing up our fields!'

Our

Leviticus 18:25
The land has been defiled, so I brought the punishment of its iniquity to it. As a result, the land is vomiting out its inhabitants.
Leviticus 20:22
"Be sure to keep all my statutes and observe all my ordinances, so that the land where I'm about to bring you to live won't vomit you out.
Lamentations 4:15
"Go away! Unclean!" they shouted at them. "Go away! Go away! Don't touch!" When they fled away and wandered, those among the nations decreed, "They cannot live here!"
Micah 2:10
"Get up and go, because there's no rest for you here! Since everything is polluted, it can only cause destruction, even heavy destruction.

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Leviticus 18:28
So you are not to let the land vomit you up because of your uncleanness as it is vomiting the nations that were here before you.
Ezekiel 27:2
"Son of Man, compose a mourning song for Tyre.

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