Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

A doleful lamentation

Bible References

Shall

Numbers 23:7
He took up his discourse and said,
“From Aram Balak has brought me,
Moab’s king from the mountains of the East,
Come curse Jacob for me,
And come, denounce Israel!’
Numbers 24:3
He took up his discourse and said,
The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor,
And the oracle of the man whose eye is opened;
Job 27:1
Then Job continued his discourse and said,
Isaiah 14:4
that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say,
“How the oppressor has ceased,
And how fury has ceased!
Ezekiel 16:44
“Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
Habakkuk 2:6
“Will not all of these take up a taunt-song against him,
Even mockery and insinuations against him
And say, ‘Woe to him who increases what is not his—
For how long—
And makes himself rich with loans?’
Mark 12:12
And they were seeking to seize Him, and yet they feared the people, for they understood that He spoke the parable against them. And so they left Him and went away.

And lament

2 Samuel 1:17
Then David chanted with this lament over Saul and Jonathan his son,
2 Chronicles 35:25
Then Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah. And all the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their lamentations to this day. And they made them an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are also written in the Lamentations.
Jeremiah 9:10
“For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing,
And for the pastures of the wilderness a dirge,
Because they are laid waste so that no one passes through,
And the lowing of the cattle is not heard;
Both the birds of the sky and the beasts have fled; they are gone.
Jeremiah 14:18
‘If I go out to the country,
Behold, those slain with the sword!
Or if I enter the city,
Behold, diseases of famine!
For both prophet and priest
Have gone roving about in the land that they do not know.’”
Joel 1:8
Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth
For the bridegroom of her youth.
Amos 5:1
Hear this word which I take up for you as a dirge, O house of Israel:

A doleful lamentation

Ezekiel 2:10
When He spread it out before me, it was written on the front and back, and written on it were lamentations, mourning and woe.

We

Deuteronomy 28:29
and you will grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you.
Isaiah 6:11
Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered,
“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,
Houses are without people
And the land is utterly desolate,
Isaiah 24:3
The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for the Lord has spoken this word.
Jeremiah 9:19
“For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion,
How are we ruined!
We are put to great shame,
For we have left the land,
Because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
Zephaniah 1:2
“I will completely remove all things
From the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.

He hath changed

Micah 2:10
“Arise and go,
For this is no place of rest
Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction,
A painful destruction.
Micah 1:15
Moreover, I will bring on you
The one who takes possession,
O inhabitant of Mareshah.
The glory of Israel will enter Adullam.
2 Kings 17:23
until the Lord removed Israel from His sight, as He spoke through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away into exile from their own land to Assyria until this day.
2 Chronicles 36:20
Those who had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia,
Isaiah 63:17
Why, O Lord, do You cause us to stray from Your ways
And harden our heart from fearing You?
Return for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

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