Bible Cross References
How doth
Lamentations 2:1
The Lord in his anger has covered Zion with darkness. Its heavenly splendor he has turned into ruins. On the day of his anger he abandoned even his Temple.
Lamentations 4:1
Our glittering gold has grown dull; the stones of the Temple lie scattered in the streets.
Isaiah 14:12
King of Babylon, bright morning star, you have fallen from heaven! In the past you conquered nations, but now you have been thrown to the ground.
Jeremiah 50:23
Babylonia hammered the whole world to pieces, and now that hammer is shattered! All the nations are shocked at what has happened to that country.
Zephaniah 2:15
That is what will happen to the city that is so proud of its own power and thinks it is safe. Its people think that their city is the greatest in the world. What a desolate place it will become, a place where wild animals will rest! Everyone who passes by will shrink back in horror.
Revelation 18:16
and say, "How terrible! How awful for the great city! She used to dress herself in linen, purple, and scarlet, and cover herself with gold ornaments, precious stones, and pearls!
Revelation 18:17
And in one hour she has lost all this wealth!" All the ships' captains and passengers, the sailors and all others who earn their living on the sea, stood a long way off,
sit
Lamentations 2:10
Jerusalem's old men sit on the ground in silence, With dust on their heads and sackcloth on their bodies. Young women bow their heads to the ground.
Isaiah 3:26
The city gates will mourn and cry, and the city itself will be like a woman sitting on the ground, stripped naked.
Isaiah 47:1-15
1
The LORD says, "Babylon, come down from your throne, and sit in the dust on the ground. You were once like a virgin, a city unconquered, but you are soft and delicate no longer! You are now a slave!
2
Turn the millstone! Grind the flour! Off with your veil! Strip off your fine clothes! Lift up your skirts to cross the streams!
3
People will see you naked; they will see you humbled and shamed. I will take vengeance, and no one will stop me."
4
The holy God of Israel sets us free--- his name is the LORD Almighty.
5
The LORD says to Babylon, "Sit in silence and darkness; no more will they call you the queen of nations!
6
I was angry with my people; I treated them as no longer mine: I put them in your power, and you showed them no mercy; even the aged you treated harshly.
7
You thought you would always be a queen, and did not take these things to heart or think how it all would end.
8
"Listen to this, you lover of pleasure, you that think you are safe and secure. You claim you are as great as God--- that there is no one else like you. You thought that you would never be a widow or suffer the loss of your children.
9
But in a moment, in a single day, both of these things will happen. In spite of all the magic you use, you will lose your husband and children.
10
"You felt sure of yourself in your evil; you thought that no one could see you. Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray, and you said to yourself, 'I am God--- there is no one else like me.'
11
Disaster will come upon you, and none of your magic can stop it. Ruin will come on you suddenly--- ruin you never dreamed of !
12
Keep all your magic spells and charms; you have used them since you were young. Perhaps they will be of some help to you; perhaps you can frighten your enemies.
13
You are powerless in spite of the advice you get. Let your astrologers come forward and save you--- those people who study the stars, who map out the zones of the heavens and tell you from month to month what is going to happen to you.
14
"They will be like bits of straw, and a fire will burn them up! They will not even be able to save themselves--- the flames will be too hot for them, not a cozy fire to warm themselves by.
15
That is all the good they will do you--- those astrologers you've consulted all your life. They all will leave you and go their own way, and none will be left to save you."
Isaiah 50:5
The LORD has given me understanding, and I have not rebelled or turned away from him.
Isaiah 52:2
Shake yourself free, Jerusalem! Rise from the dust and sit on your throne! Undo the chains that bind you, captive people of Zion!
Isaiah 52:7
How wonderful it is to see a messenger coming across the mountains, bringing good news, the news of peace! He announces victory and says to Zion, "Your God is king!"
Jeremiah 9:11
The LORD says, "I will make Jerusalem a pile of ruins, a place where jackals live; the cities of Judah will become a desert, a place where no one lives."
Ezekiel 26:16
All the kings of the seafaring nations will come down from their thrones. They will take off their robes and their embroidered clothes and sit trembling on the ground. They will be so terrified at your fate that they will not be able to stop trembling.
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Psalm 122:4
This is where the tribes come, the tribes of Israel, to give thanks to the LORD according to his command.
Isaiah 22:2
The whole city is in an uproar, filled with noise and excitement. Your people who died in this war did not die fighting.
Zechariah 8:4
Once again old men and women, so old that they use canes when they walk, will be sitting in the city squares.
Zechariah 8:5
And the streets will again be full of boys and girls playing.
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Isaiah 47:8
"Listen to this, you lover of pleasure, you that think you are safe and secure. You claim you are as great as God--- that there is no one else like you. You thought that you would never be a widow or suffer the loss of your children.
Isaiah 47:9
But in a moment, in a single day, both of these things will happen. In spite of all the magic you use, you will lose your husband and children.
Isaiah 54:4
Do not be afraid---you will not be disgraced again; you will not be humiliated. You will forget your unfaithfulness as a young wife, and your desperate loneliness as a widow.
Revelation 18:7
Give her as much suffering and grief as the glory and luxury she gave herself. For she keeps telling herself: 'Here I sit, a queen! I am no widow, I will never know grief !'
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1 Kings 4:21
Solomon's kingdom included all the nations from the Euphrates River to Philistia and the Egyptian border. They paid him taxes and were subject to him all his life.
2 Chronicles 9:26
He was supreme ruler of all the kings in the territory from the Euphrates River to Philistia and the Egyptian border.
Ezra 4:20
Powerful kings have reigned there and have ruled over the entire province of West-of-Euphrates, collecting taxes and revenue.
how is
Lamentations 5:16
Nothing is left of all we were proud of. We sinned, and now we are doomed.
2 Kings 23:33
His reign ended when King Neco of Egypt took him prisoner in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and made Judah pay 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold as tribute.
2 Kings 23:35
King Jehoiakim collected a tax from the people in proportion to their wealth, in order to raise the amount needed to pay the tribute demanded by the king of Egypt.
Nehemiah 5:4
Still others said, "We had to borrow money to pay the royal tax on our fields and vineyards.
Nehemiah 9:37
What the land produces goes to the kings that you put over us because we sinned. They do as they please with us and our livestock, and we are in deep distress!"