³⁸ By his blessing they multiply greatly, and he does not let their livestock diminish. ³⁹ When they are diminished and bowed down
Through oppression, misery and sorrow,
⁴⁰ he pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes;

Cross References

2 Kings 10:32

In those days the LORDbegan to cut off parts of Israel. Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:

Genesis 45:11

There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.'

Exodus 1:13-14

So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves

Exodus 2:23-24

During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.

Judges 6:3-6

For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.

Ruth 1:20-21

She said to them, "Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

1 Samuel 2:5-7

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.

2 Kings 4:8

One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food.

2 Kings 8:3

And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land.

2 Kings 13:7

For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

2 Kings 13:22

Now Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

2 Kings 14:26

For the LORDsaw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel.

2 Chronicles 15:5-6

In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.

Job 1:10-17

Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

Psalm 30:6-7

As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."

Jeremiah 51:33-34

For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come."

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