2 Put on sackcloth and garments of goats’ hair, wail for your children and lament; for your destruction is at hand. (WEB) 3 A sword has been sent upon you, and who is there to turn it back? (WEB) 4 A fire has been sent upon you, and who is there to quench it? (WEB)
2 Esdras 16:2–4
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2 Esdras 16:8–10
8 The Lord God sends the calamities, and who will drive them away? (WEB) 9 A fire will go out from his wrath, and who may quench it? (WEB) 10 He will flash lightning, and who will not fear? He will thunder, and who wouldn’t tremble? (WEB)
Ezekiel 7:5–7
5 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Disaster! An unprecedented disaster — behold, it is coming! 6 The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come! 7 Doom has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day i…
Jeremiah 4:7–9
7 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. 8 So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not tu…
Ezekiel 7:24–26
24 So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned. 25 Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but find none. 26 Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after…
Exodus 22:23–25
23 If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry. 24 My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless. 25 If you lend money to one of My peop…
Jeremiah 6:25–27
25 Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side. 26 O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer…
Isaiah 13:5–7
5 They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens— the LORD and the weapons of His wrath— to destroy the whole country. 6 Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore all hands will fall limp, and…
Ezekiel 11:7–9
7 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. 8 You fear the sword, so I will bring the sword against you, declares the Lord GOD. 9 I will bring you out of th…
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