Bible Cross References
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Lamentations 2:6
He smashed to pieces the Temple where we worshiped him; He has put an end to holy days and Sabbaths. King and priest alike have felt the force of his anger.
Lamentations 2:7
The Lord rejected his altar and deserted his holy Temple; He allowed the enemy to tear down its walls. They shouted in victory where once we had worshiped in joy.
Lamentations 5:13
Our young men are forced to grind grain like slaves; boys go staggering under heavy loads of wood.
Isaiah 24:4-6
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The earth dries up and withers; the whole world grows weak; both earth and sky decay.
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The people have defiled the earth by breaking God's laws and by violating the covenant he made to last forever.
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So God has pronounced a curse on the earth. Its people are paying for what they have done. Fewer and fewer remain alive.
Jeremiah 14:2
"Judah is in mourning; its cities are dying, its people lie on the ground in sorrow, and Jerusalem cries out for help.
Micah 3:12
And so, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a pile of ruins, and the Temple hill will become a forest.
all her gates
Lamentations 2:9
The gates lie buried in rubble, their bars smashed to pieces. The king and the noblemen now are in exile. The Law is no longer taught, and the prophets have no visions from the LORD.
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."
Jeremiah 10:22
Listen! News has come! There is a great commotion in a nation to the north; its army will turn the cities of Judah into a desert, a place where jackals live."
Jeremiah 33:10-12
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The LORD said, "People are saying that this place is like a desert, that it has no people or animals living in it. And they are right; the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem are empty; no people or animals live there. But in these places you will hear again
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the shouts of gladness and joy and the happy sounds of wedding feasts. You will hear people sing as they bring thank offerings to my Temple; they will say, 'Give thanks to the LORD Almighty, because he is good and his love is eternal.' I will make this land as prosperous as it was before. I, the LORD, have spoken."
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The LORD Almighty said, "In this land that is like a desert and where no people or animals live, there will once again be pastures where shepherds can take their sheep.
her priests
Lamentations 1:11
Her people groan as they look for something to eat; They exchange their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. "Look at me, LORD," the city cries; "see me in my misery."
Lamentations 1:12
"Look at me!" she cries to everyone who passes by. "No one has ever had pain like mine, Pain that the LORD brought on me in the time of his anger.
Lamentations 1:18-20
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"But the LORD is just, for I have disobeyed him. Listen to me, people everywhere; look at me in my pain. My young men and women have been taken away captive.
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"I called to my allies, but they refused to help me. The priests and the leaders died in the city streets, Looking for food to keep themselves alive.
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"Look, O LORD, at my agony, at the anguish of my soul! My heart is broken in sorrow for my sins. There is murder in the streets; even indoors there is death.
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.
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes are worn out with weeping; my soul is in anguish. I am exhausted with grief at the destruction of my people. Children and babies are fainting in the streets of the city.
Lamentations 2:19-21
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All through the night get up again and again to cry out to the Lord; Pour out your heart and beg him for mercy on your children--- Children starving to death on every street corner!
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Look, O LORD! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are being killed in the Temple itself !
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Young and old alike lie dead in the streets, Young men and women, killed by enemy swords. You slaughtered them without mercy on the day of your anger.
Isaiah 32:9-14
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You women who live an easy life, free from worries, listen to what I am saying.
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You may be satisfied now, but this time next year you will be in despair because there will be no grapes for you to gather.
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You have been living an easy life, free from worries; but now, tremble with fear! Strip off your clothes and tie rags around your waist.
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Beat your breasts in grief because the fertile fields and the vineyards have been destroyed,
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and thorn bushes and briers are growing on my people's land. Weep for all the houses where people were happy and for the city that was full of life.
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Even the palace will be abandoned and the capital city totally deserted. Homes and the forts that guarded them will be in ruins forever. Wild donkeys will roam there, and sheep will find pasture there.
Joel 1:8-13
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Cry, you people, like a young woman who mourns the death of the man she was going to marry.
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There is no grain or wine to offer in the Temple; the priests mourn because they have no offerings for the LORD.
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The fields are bare; the ground mourns because the grain is destroyed, the grapes are dried up, and the olive trees are withered.
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Grieve, you farmers; cry, you that take care of the vineyards, because the wheat, the barley, yes all the crops are destroyed.
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The grapevines and fig trees have withered; all the fruit trees have wilted and died. The joy of the people is gone.
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Put on sackcloth and weep, you priests who serve at the altar! Go into the Temple and mourn all night! There is no grain or wine to offer your God.