Bible Cross References
Thy shepherds
Nahum 2:6
The gates by the river burst open; the palace is filled with terror.
Exodus 15:16
Terror and dread fall upon them. They see your strength, O LORD, and stand helpless with fear until your people have marched past--- the people you set free from slavery.
Psalm 76:5
Their brave soldiers have been stripped of all they had and now are sleeping the sleep of death; all their strength and skill was useless.
Psalm 76:6
When you threatened them, O God of Jacob, the horses and their riders fell dead.
Isaiah 56:9
The LORD has told the foreign nations to come like wild animals and devour his people.
Isaiah 56:10
He says, "All the leaders, who are supposed to warn my people, are blind! They know nothing. They are like watch dogs that don't bark---they only lie around and dream. How they love to sleep!
Jeremiah 51:39
Are they greedy? I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk and happy. They will go to sleep and never wake up.
Jeremiah 51:57
I will make its rulers drunk--- men of wisdom, leaders, and soldiers. They will go to sleep and never wake up. I, the king, have spoken; I am the LORD Almighty.
Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
Jeremiah 50:18
Because of this, I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, will punish King Nebuchadnezzar and his country, just as I punished the emperor of Assyria.
Ezekiel 31:3-18
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You are like a cedar in Lebanon, With beautiful, shady branches, A tree so tall it reaches the clouds.
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There was water to make it grow, And underground rivers to feed it. They watered the place where the tree was growing And sent streams to all the trees of the forest.
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Because it was well-watered, It grew taller than other trees. Its branches grew thick and long.
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Every kind of bird built nests in its branches; The wild animals bore their young in its shelter; The nations of the world rested in its shade.
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How beautiful the tree was--- So tall, with such long branches. Its roots reached down to the deep-flowing streams.
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No cedar in God's garden could compare with it. No fir tree ever had such branches, And no plane tree such limbs. No tree in God's own garden was so beautiful.
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I made it beautiful, with spreading branches. It was the envy of every tree in Eden, the garden of God.
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"Now then, I, the Sovereign LORD, will tell you what is going to happen to that tree that grew until it reached the clouds. As it grew taller it grew proud;
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so I have rejected it and will let a foreign ruler have it. He will give that tree what it deserves for its wickedness.
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Ruthless foreigners will cut it down and leave it. Its branches and broken limbs will fall on every mountain and valley in the country. All the nations that have been living in its shade will go away.
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The birds will come and perch on the fallen tree, and the wild animals will walk over its branches.
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And so from now on, no tree, no matter how well-watered it is, will grow that tall again or push its top through the clouds and reach such a height. All of them are doomed to die like mortals, doomed to join those who go down to the world of the dead."
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This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "On the day when the tree goes to the world of the dead, I will make the underground waters cover it as a sign of mourning. I will hold back the rivers and not let the many streams flow out. Because the tree has died, I will bring darkness over the Lebanon Mountains and make all the trees of the forest wither.
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When I send it down to the world of the dead, the noise of its downfall will shake the nations. All the trees of Eden and all the choice, well-watered trees of Lebanon who have gone to the world below will be pleased at its downfall.
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They will go with it to the world of the dead to join those that have already fallen. And all who live under its shadow will be scattered among the nations.
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"The tree is the king of Egypt and all his people. Not even the trees in Eden were so tall and impressive. But now, like the trees of Eden, it will go down to the world of the dead and join the ungodly and those killed in battle. I have spoken," says the Sovereign LORD.
Ezekiel 32:22
"Assyria is there, with the graves of her soldiers all around. They were all killed in battle,
Ezekiel 32:23
and their graves are in the deepest parts of the world of the dead. All her soldiers fell in battle, and their graves surround her tomb. Yet once they terrified the land of the living.
nobles
Isaiah 47:1
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!
Revelation 6:15
Then the kings of the earth, the rulers and the military chiefs, the rich and the powerful, and all other people, slave and free, hid themselves in caves and under rocks on the mountains.
thy people
1 Kings 22:17
Micaiah answered, "I can see the army of Israel scattered over the hills like sheep without a shepherd. And the LORD said, 'These men have no leader; let them go home in peace.' "
Isaiah 13:14
"The foreigners living in Babylon will run away to their homelands, scattering like deer escaping from hunters, like sheep without a shepherd.