Bible Cross References
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Isaiah 8:7
I, the Lord, will bring the emperor of Assyria and all his forces to attack Judah. They will advance like the flood waters of the Euphrates River, overflowing all its banks.
Isaiah 8:8
They will sweep through Judah in a flood, rising shoulder high and covering everything." God is with us! His outspread wings protect the land.
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Isaiah 9:20
Everywhere in the country people snatch and eat any bit of food they can find, but their hunger is never satisfied. They even eat their own children!
Deuteronomy 28:33
A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow, while you receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.
Deuteronomy 28:34
Your sufferings will make you lose your mind.
Deuteronomy 28:53-57
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"When your enemies are besieging your towns, you will become so desperate for food that you will even eat the children that the LORD your God has given you.
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Even the most refined man of noble birth will become so desperate during the siege that he will eat some of his own children because he has no other food. He will not even give any to his brother or to the wife he loves or to any of his children who are left.
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Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.
2 Kings 25:3
On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,
Jeremiah 14:18
When I go out in the fields, I see the bodies of men killed in war; when I go into the towns, I see people starving to death. Prophets and priests carry on their work, but they don't know what they are doing."
Jeremiah 52:6
On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,
Lamentations 4:4
They let their babies die of hunger and thirst; children are begging for food that no one will give them.
Lamentations 4:5
People who once ate the finest foods die starving in the streets; those raised in luxury are pawing through garbage for food.
Lamentations 4:9
Those who died in the war were better off than those who died later, who starved slowly to death, with no food to keep them alive.
Lamentations 4:10
The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.
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Proverbs 19:3
Some people ruin themselves by their own stupid actions and then blame the LORD.
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Exodus 22:28
"Do not speak evil of God, and do not curse a leader of your people.
2 Kings 6:33
He had hardly finished saying this, when the king arrived and said, "It's the LORD who has brought this trouble on us! Why should I wait any longer for him to do something?"
Job 1:11
But now suppose you take away everything he has---he will curse you to your face!"
Job 2:5
But now suppose you hurt his body---he will curse you to your face!"
Job 2:9
His wife said to him, "You are still as faithful as ever, aren't you? Why don't you curse God and die?"
Revelation 9:20
The rest of the human race, all those who had not been killed by these plagues, did not turn away from what they themselves had made. They did not stop worshiping demons, nor the idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see, hear, or walk.
Revelation 9:21
Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic, their sexual immorality, or their stealing.
Revelation 16:9-11
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They were burned by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God, who has authority over these plagues. But they would not turn from their sins and praise his greatness.
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Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast. Darkness fell over the beast's kingdom, and people bit their tongues because of their pain,
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and they cursed the God of heaven for their pains and sores. But they did not turn from their evil ways.