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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Deuteronomy 28:49–57

The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand, / a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young. / They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments 2 Kings 20:17, 18

The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD. / And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments 2 Kings 21:12–15

this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it. / I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down. / So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments 2 Kings 22:16, 17

that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read, / because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place and will not be quenched.’

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments 2 Kings 23:26, 27

Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the fury of His burning anger, which was kindled against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke Him to anger. / For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Isaiah 1:1–24

This is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. / Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me. / The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Isaiah 3:1

For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Isaiah 4:1

In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Isaiah 5:1

I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Isaiah 6:9–13

And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ / Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.” / Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Isaiah 7:17–25

The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.” / On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria. / And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and clefts of the rocks, in all the thornbushes and watering holes.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Isaiah 8:14–22

And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare. / Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.” / Bind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Isaiah 9:1

Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Isaiah 10:12

So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Isaiah 22:1–14

This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops, / O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle. / All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Isaiah 28:14–22

Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem. / For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.” / So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Isaiah 29:1–10

Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur. / And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me. / I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Isaiah 30:1–17

“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin. / They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade. / But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Isaiah 31:1–3

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD. / Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers. / But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Isaiah 32:9–14

Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters. / In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive. / Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 1:11–16

And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied. / “You have observed correctly,” said the LORD, “for I am watching over My word to accomplish it.” / Again the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “What do you see?” “I see a boiling pot,” I replied, “and it is tilting toward us from the north.”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 4:5–31

Announce in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: “Blow the ram’s horn throughout the land. Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves and let us flee to the fortified cities.’ / Raise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction. / A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 6:1

“Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 7:8–34

But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail. / Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, / and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 8:1

“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 9:9–26

Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?” / I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away. / “And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 10:17–22

Gather up your belongings from this land, you who live under siege. / For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, at this time I will sling out the inhabitants of the land and bring distress upon them so that they may be captured.” / Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 11:9–23

And the LORD told me, “There is a conspiracy among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem. / They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers. / Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 13:9–27

“This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. / These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all. / For just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 14:14–18

“The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds. / Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end! / And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 15:1–14

Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go. / If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’ / I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 16:1

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 17:1–4

“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars. / Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills. / O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 18:15–17

Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway. / They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads. / I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 19:1

This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 20:5

I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 21:4–7

this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city. / And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath. / I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.’

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 22:24–30

“As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off. / In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans. / I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 25:8–38

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words, / behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation. / Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 28:1

In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 34:1

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, all his army, all the earthly kingdoms under his control, and all the other nations were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding cities.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 37:1

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 38:1–3

Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchijah heard that Jeremiah had been telling all the people: / “This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war, and he will live. / This is what the LORD says: This city will surely be delivered into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 42:13–22

But if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’ and you thus disobey the voice of the LORD your God, / and if you say, ‘No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn or hunger for bread,’ / then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah! This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and reside there,

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 43:1

When Jeremiah had finished telling all the people all the words of the LORD their God—everything that the LORD had sent him to say—

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 44:1

This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in the land of Egypt—in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis—and in the land of Pathros:

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Jeremiah 45:1

This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he wrote these words on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Lamentations 5:6

We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Ezekiel 4:1

“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Ezekiel 5:1

“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Ezekiel 11:7–12

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: The slain you have laid within this city are the meat, and the city is the pot; but I will remove you from it. / You fear the sword, so I will bring the sword against you, declares the Lord GOD. / I will bring you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners, and I will execute judgments against you.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Ezekiel 12:1

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Ezekiel 15:1

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Ezekiel 16:1

Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Ezekiel 17:1

Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Ezekiel 19:1

“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Ezekiel 22:13–22

Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst. / Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will act. / I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Ezekiel 23:22–35

Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will incite your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust. And I will bring them against you from every side— / the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, the men of Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them—all desirable young men, governors and commanders, officers and men of renown, mounted on horses. / They will come against you with a host of peoples, with weapons, chariots, and wagons. They will array themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet. I will delegate judgment to them, and they will punish you according to their own standards.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Ezekiel 24:1

In the ninth year, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Ezekiel 33:21–29

In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!” / Now the evening before the fugitive arrived, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer mute. / Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Daniel 9:26, 27

Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed. / And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Joel 2:1–17

Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near— / a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come. / Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Amos 2:4, 5

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked. / So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Micah 2:10

Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Micah 3:1

Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Micah 4:8–10

And you, O watchtower of the flock, O stronghold of the Daughter of Zion—the former dominion will be restored to you; sovereignty will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem.” / Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor? / Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Habakkuk 1:6–11

For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own. / They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty. / Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead, and their cavalry comes from afar. They fly like a vulture, swooping down to devour.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Zephaniah 1:1

This is the word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah:

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Zechariah 11:1

Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Zechariah 14:1–3

Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence. / For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city. / Then the LORD will go out to fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Malachi 4:1

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Matthew 21:33, 34

Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey. / When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Matthew 23:35–38

And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. / Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. / O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Matthew 24:2, 14–42

“Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” / And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. / Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Mark 13:1–13

As Jesus was leaving the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, “Teacher, look at the magnificent stones and buildings!” / “Do you see all these great buildings?” Jesus replied. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” / While Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked Him privately,

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Luke 13:34, 35

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! / Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Luke 19:43, 44

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. / They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Luke 21:5–25

As some of the disciples were remarking how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and consecrated gifts, Jesus said, / “As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” / “Teacher,” they asked, “when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to take place?”

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Luke 23:28–31

But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. / Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’ / At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’

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Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Revelation 1:7

Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him—even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. So shall it be! Amen.

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