1Strengthen yourselves, ye sons of Benjamin, in the midst of Jerusalem, and sound the trumpet in Thecua, and set up the standard over Bethacarem: for evil is seen out of the north, and a great destruction.

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Nehemiah 3:14, Nehemiah 3:14, Joshua 18:21, Joshua 18:28, 2 Chronicles 11:6

2I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate woman.

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Isaiah 1:8, Jeremiah 4:31, Isaiah 1:8, Jeremiah 4:31, Lamentations 2:13

3The shepherds shall come to her with their flocks: they have pitched their tents against her round about: every one shall feed them that are under his hand.

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Luke 19:43, Luke 19:43, Jeremiah 39:1, Jeremiah 39:3, Jeremiah 39:1

4Prepare ye war against her: arise, and let us go up at midday: woe unto us, for the day is declined, for the shadows of the evening are grown longer.

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Jeremiah 15:8, Jeremiah 15:8, Joel 3:9, Zephaniah 2:4, Joel 3:9

5Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses.

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Jeremiah 52:13, Isaiah 32:14, Jeremiah 52:13, Isaiah 32:14, 2 Chronicles 36:19

6For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees, cast up a trench about Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited, all oppression is in the midst of her.

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Jeremiah 32:24, Deuteronomy 20:19, Deuteronomy 20:20, Jeremiah 32:24, Deuteronomy 20:19

7As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made her wickedness cold: violence and spoil shall be heard in her, infirmity and stripes are continually before me.

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Ezekiel 7:11, Jeremiah 20:8, Ezekiel 7:23, Ezekiel 7:11, Jeremiah 20:8

8Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee desolate, a land uninhabited.

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Ezekiel 23:18, Hosea 9:12, Ezekiel 23:18, Hosea 9:12, Jeremiah 17:23

9Thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall gather the remains of Israel, as in a vine, even to one cluster: turn back thy hand, as a grapegatherer into the basket.

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Jeremiah 16:16, Jeremiah 49:9, Obadiah 1:5, Obadiah 1:6, Jeremiah 16:16

10To whom shall I speak? and to whom shall I testify, that he may hear? behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot hear: behold the word of the Lord is become unto them a reproach: and they will not receive it.

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Acts 7:51, Acts 7:51, Jeremiah 7:26, John 7:7, Jeremiah 7:26

11Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord, I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the child abroad, and upon the council of the young men together: for man and woman shall be taken, the ancient and he that is full of days.

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Jeremiah 9:21, Jeremiah 20:9, Jeremiah 9:21, Jeremiah 20:9, Job 32:18

12And their houses shall be turned over to others, with their lands and their wives together: for I will stretch forth my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.

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Jeremiah 8:10, Jeremiah 8:10, Isaiah 5:25, Isaiah 5:25, Zephaniah 1:13

13For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit.

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Jeremiah 23:11, Jeremiah 23:11, Jeremiah 8:10, Jeremiah 8:10, Micah 3:11

14And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace.

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Ezekiel 13:10, Ezekiel 13:10, Jeremiah 23:17, Jeremiah 23:17, Jeremiah 4:10

15They were confounded, because they committed abomination: yea, rather they were not confounded with confusion, and they knew not how to blush: wherefore they shall fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall fall down, saith the Lord.

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Jeremiah 8:12, Jeremiah 8:12, Jeremiah 3:3, Matthew 15:14, Jeremiah 3:3

16Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, which is the good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall find refreshment for your souls. And they said: We will not walk.

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Isaiah 30:21, Isaiah 30:21, Jeremiah 18:15, Jeremiah 18:15, Deuteronomy 32:7

17And I appointed watchmen over you, saying: Hearken ye to the sound of the trumpet. And they said: We will not hearken.

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Jeremiah 25:4, Jeremiah 25:4, Isaiah 58:1, Isaiah 58:1, Zechariah 7:11

18Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what great things I will do to them.

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Isaiah 5:3, Jeremiah 31:10, Psalms 50:4, Psalms 50:6, Jeremiah 4:10

19Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people, the fruits of their own thoughts: because they have not heard my words, and they have cast away my law.

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Isaiah 1:2, Isaiah 1:2, Acts 8:22, Jeremiah 8:9, Jeremiah 17:10

20To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane from a far country? your holocausts are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.

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Isaiah 1:11, Isaiah 1:11, Psalms 40:6, Micah 6:6, Micah 6:8

21Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring destruction upon this people, by which fathers and sons together shall fall, neighbour and kinsman shall perish.

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Isaiah 8:14, Isaiah 8:14, Ezekiel 3:20, Jeremiah 13:16, Ezekiel 3:20

22Thus saith the Lord: Behold a people cometh from the land of the north, and a great nation shall rise up from the ends of the earth.

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Jeremiah 10:22, Jeremiah 50:41, Jeremiah 50:43, Jeremiah 10:22, Jeremiah 50:41

23They shall lay hold on arrow and shield: they are cruel, and will have no mercy. Their voice shall roar like the sea: and they shall mount upon horses, prepared as men for war, against thee, O daughter of Sion.

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Isaiah 13:18, Isaiah 13:18, Jeremiah 50:42, Jeremiah 50:42, Habakkuk 1:6

24We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labour.

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Jeremiah 49:24, Jeremiah 4:31, Jeremiah 50:43, Jeremiah 49:24, Jeremiah 4:31

25Go not out into the fields, nor walk in the highway: for the sword of the enemy, and fear is on every side.

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Jeremiah 49:29, Jeremiah 49:29, Psalms 31:13, Jeremiah 14:18, Job 18:11

26Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

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Zechariah 12:10, Jeremiah 4:8, Zechariah 12:10, Jeremiah 4:8, Micah 1:8

27I have set thee for a strong trier among my people: and thou shalt know, and prove their way.

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Jeremiah 1:18, Jeremiah 1:18, Jeremiah 15:20, Jeremiah 15:20, Jeremiah 9:7

28All these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted.

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Jeremiah 9:4, Jeremiah 9:4, Jeremiah 5:23, Jeremiah 5:23, Jeremiah 18:18

29The bellows have failed, the lead is consumed in the fire, the founder hath melted in vain: for their wicked deeds are not consumed.

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Ezekiel 24:13, Jeremiah 9:7, Isaiah 49:4, Zechariah 13:9, 1 Peter 4:12

30Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.

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Hosea 9:17, Hosea 9:17, Isaiah 1:22, Psalms 119:119, Isaiah 1:22