Nahum 3:7
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7 And all who look at you (A)will shrink from you and say,
“Wasted is (B)Nineveh; (C)who will grieve for her?”
(D)Where shall I seek comforters for you?
Jeremiah 15:5
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5 (A)“Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem,
(B)or who will grieve for you?
Who will turn aside
to ask about your welfare?
Isaiah 51:19
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19 (A)These two things have happened to you—
who will console you?—
devastation and destruction, famine and sword;
who will comfort you?[a]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 51:19 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Masoretic Text how shall I comfort you
Revelation 18:10
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10 (A)They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,
“Alas! Alas! (B)You great city,
you mighty city, Babylon!
For (C)in a single hour your judgment has come.”
Lamentations 2:13
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13 What can I say for you, (A)to what compare you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
(B)What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
(C)For your ruin is vast as the sea;
who can heal you?
Jeremiah 51:9
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9 We would have healed Babylon,
but she was not healed.
(A)Forsake her, and (B)let us go
each to his own country,
for (C)her judgment has reached up to heaven
and has been lifted up even to the skies.
Numbers 16:34
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34 And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
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Nahum 1:1
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1 (A)An oracle concerning (B)Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.
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Revelation 18:16-19
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16 “Alas, alas, for the great city
(A)that was clothed in fine linen,
in purple and scarlet,
adorned with gold,
with jewels, and with pearls!
17 For (B)in a single hour all this wealth (C)has been laid waste.”
And (D)all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off 18 and (E)cried out (F)as they saw the smoke of her burning,
(G)“What city was like the great city?”
19 And they threw (H)dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out,
“Alas, alas, for the great city
(I)where all who had ships at sea
grew rich by her wealth!
For (J)in a single hour she has been laid waste.
Jeremiah 51:41-43
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41 “How (A)Babylon[a] is taken,
(B)the praise of the whole earth (C)seized!
How Babylon has become
a horror among the nations!
42 (D)The sea has come up on Babylon;
she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
43 Her cities have become a horror,
(E)a land of drought and a desert,
(F)a land in which no one dwells,
and through which no son of man passes.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 51:41 Hebrew Sheshach, a code name for Babylon
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