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Psalms 79:4
We have become an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.
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Psalms 42:4
I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God, with joyful and thankful shouts.
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Psalms 77:5-9
I consider days of old, years long past.At night I remember my music; I meditate in my heart, and my spirit ponders.“ Will the Lord reject forever and never again show favor?Has his faithful love ceased forever? Is his promise at an end for all generations?Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?” Selah
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Isaiah 5:1-4
I will sing about the one I love, a song about my loved one’s vineyard: The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.He broke up the soil, cleared it of stones, and planted it with the finest vines. He built a tower in the middle of it and even dug out a winepress there. He expected it to yield good grapes, but it yielded worthless grapes.So now, residents of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.What more could I have done for my vineyard than I did? Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes?
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Psalms 77:3
I think of God; I groan; I meditate; my spirit becomes weak. Selah
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Micah 4:11
Many nations have now assembled against you; they say,“ Let her be defiled, and let us feast our eyes on Zion.”
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Deuteronomy 4:7-8
For what great nation is there that has a god near to it as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call to him?And what great nation has righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I set before you today?
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Hosea 2:7
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will think,“ I will go back to my former husband, for then it was better for me than now.”
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Deuteronomy 8:7-9
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills;a land of wheat, barley, vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;a land where you will eat food without shortage, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you will mine copper.
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Psalms 147:19-20
He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and judgments to Israel.He has not done this for every nation; they do not know his judgments. Hallelujah!
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Jeremiah 37:7
“ This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: This is what you will say to Judah’s king, who is sending you to inquire of me:‘ Watch: Pharaoh’s army, which has come out to help you, is going to return to its own land of Egypt.
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Luke 16:25
“‘ Son,’ Abraham said,‘ remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
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Psalms 137:3-4
for our captors there asked us for songs, and our tormentors, for rejoicing:“ Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”How can we sing the LORD’s song on foreign soil?
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Lamentations 4:17
All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help; we watched from our towers for a nation that would not save us.
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Deuteronomy 4:34-37
Or has a god attempted to go and take a nation as his own out of another nation, by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him.He let you hear his voice from heaven to instruct you. He showed you his great fire on earth, and you heard his words from the fire.Because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by his presence and great power,
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Lamentations 2:15-16
All who pass by scornfully clap their hands at you. They hiss and shake their heads at Daughter Jerusalem: Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying,“ We have swallowed her up. This is the day we have waited for! We have lived to see it.”
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Job 29:2-30:1
If only I could be as in months gone by, in the days when God watched over me,when his lamp shone above my head, and I walked through darkness by his light!I would be as I was in the days of my youth when God’s friendship rested on my tent,when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,when my feet were bathed in curds and the rock poured out streams of oil for me!When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the town square,the young men saw me and withdrew, while older men stood to their feet.City officials stopped talking and covered their mouths with their hands.The noblemen’s voices were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.When they heard me, they blessed me, and when they saw me, they spoke well of me.For I rescued the poor who cried out for help, and the fatherless child who had no one to support him.The dying blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice.I clothed myself in righteousness, and it enveloped me; my just decisions were like a robe and a turban.I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.I was a father to the needy, and I examined the case of the stranger.I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.So I thought,“ I will die in my own nest and multiply my days as the sand.My roots will have access to water, and the dew will rest on my branches all night.My whole being will be refreshed within me, and my bow will be renewed in my hand.”Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my advice.After a word from me they did not speak again; my speech settled on them like dew.They waited for me as for the rain and opened their mouths as for spring showers.If I smiled at them, they couldn’t believe it; they were thrilled at the light of my countenance.I directed their course and presided as chief. I lived as a king among his troops, like one who comforts those who mourn.But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.
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Luke 15:17
When he came to his senses, he said,‘ How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food, and here I am dying of hunger!