Isaiah 51:19
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19 These two things have befallen you
—who will grieve with you?—
devastation and destruction, famine and sword.
Who will comfort you?[a](A)
Footnotes
- 51.19 Q ms Gk Syr Vg: MT how may I comfort you?
Jeremiah 15:5
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5 Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem,
or who will bemoan you?
Who will turn aside
to ask about your welfare?
Jeremiah 51:9
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9 We tried to heal Babylon,
but she could not be healed.
Forsake her, and let each of us go
to our own country,
for her judgment has reached up to heaven
and has been lifted up even to the skies.(A)
Nahum 2:9
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9 “Plunder the silver;
plunder the gold!
There is no end of treasure!
An abundance of every precious thing!”
Zephaniah 2:13
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13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north
and destroy Assyria,
and he will make Nineveh a desolation,
a dry waste like the desert.(A)
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