But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”
to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush hi
I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made you
They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.
Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison h
For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without
As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swa
Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. Fo
which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned
Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolishe
who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched ag
Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.
In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities o
and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you
But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.
On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the
I will raise up Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild My city and set My exiles