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 slave? Or {a slave born in a house}? Why has he become plunder?
Jeremiah 4:13
Look, he comes up like the clouds, and his chariots [are] like the whirlwind, his horses are swifter than eagles, woe to us, for we are devastated.
Deuteronomy 28:29
And you shall be groping at noon just as the blind person gropes in the dark, and you shall not succeed [in finding] your way, and you shall only be abused and robbed {all the time}, and there will not be {anyone who will rescue you}.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses, to foreigners.
Micah 2:4
In that day they will raise a proverb against you, and will wail a bitter wailing, saying, "We are utterly ruined; he exchanges [the] portion of my people. How he removes [it] from me; he apportions our field to an apostate."

Our

Leviticus 18:25
So the land became unclean, and {I have brought the punishment of} its guilt upon it, and the land has vomited out its inhabitants.
Leviticus 20:22
" 'And you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations, and you shall do them, so that the land, to which I am bringing you to inhabit it, shall not vomit you out.
Lamentations 4:15
"Go away! Defiled!" they shout to them. "Go away! Go away! Do not touch!" so they left, they left; it was said among the nations, "{They will no longer dwell with us}."
Micah 2:10
Arise and go, for this [is] no resting place, on account of uncleanness [that] destroys with painful destruction.

General references

Leviticus 18:28
so that the land will not vomit you out when you make it unclean [just] as it vomited out the nation that [was] {before you}.
Ezekiel 27:2
"And you, son of man, raise a lament against Tyre.