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 servant? Or is he a servant of the house? Why has he become a prey?
Jeremiah 4:13
Behold, he shall come up like clouds, and his chariots like a tempest. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are plundered!
Deuteronomy 28:29
And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall always be pressed down and spoiled forever, and no man shall save you.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has turned to aliens, our houses to foreigners.
Micah 2:4
In that day one shall take up a parable against you and mourn a mourning of mournings, saying, We shall be completely laid waste. He has exchanged the share of my people. How He has removed it from me! To the apostate He has divided our fields.
Our
Leviticus 18:25
And the land is defiled. Therefore I visit its wickedness on it, and the land itself vomits out those who live in it.
Leviticus 20:22
You shall therefore keep all My statutes and all My judgments, and do them, so that the land where I bring you to live shall not spit you out.
Lamentations 4:15
They cried to them, Depart! Unclean! Depart, depart! Touch not! Indeed they fled and reeled; they said among the nations, They will not continue to live there.
Micah 2:10
Arise and depart! For this is not your rest, because of destroying uncleanness, even a grievous destruction.
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Leviticus 18:28
You shall not do these so that the land may not spew you out also when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you.
Ezekiel 27:2
And you, son of man, take up a mourning for Tyre.