1Flee, O ye sons of Benjamin, from Jerusalem, And blow ye the trumpet in Tekoa, And lift up the banner in Beth-haccerem! For evil threateneth from the North; Yea, great destruction.

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

2O daughter of Zion, the comely and delicate, Thee have I doomed to destruction!

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

3The shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; They shall pitch their tents against her round about; They shall feed each one in his place.

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

4"Prepare ye war against her, [shall they say;] Arise, and let us go up at noonday; Alas for us! for the day goeth away, For the shadows of evening are lengthened.

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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 by night, And let us destroy her palaces!"

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

6For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Hew ye down trees, And raise a mound against Jerusalem! She is a city to be punished; She is full of oppression.

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

7As a fountain sendeth forth its waters, So she sendeth forth her wickedness. Violence and rapine are heard within her; Before me continually are bruises and wounds.

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

8Receive correction, O Jerusalem, Lest my soul be alienated from thee, Lest I make thee a desolation, A land not inhabited!

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

9Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine; Turn thy hand like a grape-gatherer again to the baskets!

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

10To whom shall I speak? To whom give warning, so that they shall hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, so that they cannot hearken; Behold, the word of Jehovah is to them a derision; They have no delight in it.

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

11Therefore I am full of the fury of Jehovah; I am weary of holding it; I will pour it out alike upon the children in the street, And upon the assembly of the young men. Yea, also the husband with the wife shall be taken, The old man, 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

12Their houses also shall be transferred to others, Their fields and their wives together, For I will stretch out my hand over the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah.

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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, Every one is greedy of gain; Prophet and priest alike, Every one of them practiseth deceit.

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

14They heal the wound of my people slightly, Saying, Peace! peace! when there is no peace.

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

15Are they ashamed that they have done abominable things? Nay, they are not at all ashamed; They know not how to blush; Therefore shall they fall with them that fall; At the time when I punish them, They shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.

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

16Thus saith Jehovah: Stand ye upon the ways and look; And ask for the old paths, "Where is the good way?" Walk ye in it, and ye shall find for yourselves rest. But they say, We will not walk in it.

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

17I have also set watchmen over you, [saying,] Hearken to the sound of the trumpet! But they say, 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, O ye nations, And know, ye assembled multitude, What shall come upon them!

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

19Hear thou, O earth! Behold, I bring evil upon this people, The fruit of their devices; Because they have not hearkened to my words, And have even rejected my law.

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

20To what purpose is incense brought to me from Sheba, And the sweet-smelling reed from a far country? Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, Nor are your sacrifices sweet to me.

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

21Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I lay stumbling-blocks before this people, Upon which fathers and sons shall stumble together, The neighbor and his friend, and shall perish.

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

22Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, a people cometh from the land of the North; A great nation riseth up from the extremities of the earth.

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

23They bear the bow and the spear; They are cruel and show no mercy; Their voice roareth like the sea; And upon horses do they ride, Arrayed as a warrior against thee, O daughter of Zion.

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

24We have heard the report thereof; Our hands lose their strength; Anguish hath taken hold of us, Pain, as of a woman in travail.

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

25Go not forth into the field, Nor walk ye in the highway! For the sword of the enemy And terror are on every side.

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

26O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, And roll thyself in ashes! Make thee mourning as for an only son, Most bitter lamentation! For suddenly shall the spoiler 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, like a tower, for an assayer among my people, That thou mayst know and try their way.

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

28They are all stubborn revolters, Slanderers are they, brass and iron; They are all corrupt.

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

29The bellows burn; The lead is consumed by the fire; The refiner hath melted in vain, For the bad are not separated.

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

30Rejected silver shall men call them, Because Jehovah hath rejected them.

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