Bible Cross References
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Lamentations 1:2
All night long she cries; tears run down her cheeks. Of all her former friends, not one is left to comfort her. Her allies have betrayed her and are all against her now.
Lamentations 4:17
For help that never came, we looked until we could look no longer. We kept waiting for help from a nation that had none to give.
Job 19:13-19
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God has made my own family forsake me; I am a stranger to those who knew me;
14
my relatives and friends are gone.
15
Those who were guests in my house have forgotten me; my servant women treat me like a stranger and a foreigner.
16
When I call a servant, he doesn't answer--- even when I beg him to help me.
17
My wife can't stand the smell of my breath, and my own brothers won't come near me.
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Children despise me and laugh when they see me.
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My closest friends look at me with disgust; those I loved most have turned against me.
Jeremiah 2:28
"Where are the gods that you made for yourselves? When you are in trouble, let them save you---if they can! Judah, you have as many gods as you have cities.
Jeremiah 30:14
All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer care about you. I have attacked you like an enemy; your punishment has been harsh because your sins are many and your wickedness is great.
Jeremiah 37:7-9
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to say to Zedekiah, "The Egyptian army is on its way to help you, but it will return home.
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Then the Babylonians will come back, attack the city, capture it, and burn it down.
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I, the LORD, warn you not to deceive yourselves into thinking that the Babylonians will not come back, because they will.
my 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 2:20
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 !
Lamentations 4:7-9
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Our princes were undefiled and pure as snow, vigorous and strong, glowing with health.
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Now they lie unknown in the streets, their faces blackened in death; their skin, dry as wood, has shriveled on their bones.
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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 5:12
Our leaders have been taken and hanged; our elders are shown no respect.
Jeremiah 14:15-18
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I, the LORD, tell you what I am going to do to those prophets whom I did not send but who speak in my name and say war and starvation will not strike this land---I will kill them in war and by starvation.
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The people to whom they have said these things will be killed in the same way. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, and there will be no one to bury them. This will happen to all of them---including their wives, their sons, and their daughters. I will make them pay for their wickedness."
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The LORD commanded me to tell the people about my sorrow and to say: "May my eyes flow with tears day and night, may I never stop weeping, for my people are deeply wounded and are badly hurt.
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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 23:11-15
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The LORD says, "The prophets and the priests are godless; I have caught them doing evil in the Temple itself.
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The paths they follow will be slippery and dark; I will make them stumble and fall. I am going to bring disaster on them; the time of their punishment is coming. I, the LORD, have spoken.
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I have seen the sin of Samaria's prophets: they have spoken in the name of Baal and have led my people astray.
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But I have seen the prophets in Jerusalem do even worse: they commit adultery and tell lies; they help people to do wrong, so that no one stops doing what is evil. To me they are all as bad as the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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"So then, this is what I, the LORD Almighty, say about the prophets of Jerusalem: I will give them bitter plants to eat and poison to drink, because they have spread ungodliness throughout the land."
Jeremiah 27:13-15
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Why should you and your people die in war or of starvation or disease? That is what the LORD has said will happen to any nation that does not submit to the king of Babylonia.
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Do not listen to the prophets who tell you not to surrender to him. They are deceiving you.
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The LORD himself has said that he did not send them and that they are lying to you in his name. And so he will drive you out, and you will be killed, you and the prophets who are telling you these lies."