These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you? Cross References Isaiah 8:21 They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God. Isaiah 9:20 They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring. Isaiah 14:30 Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain. Isaiah 54:11 "O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires. Isaiah 60:18 No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise. Jeremiah 15:5 Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare? Jeremiah 24:10 And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.'" Nahum 3:7 Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, 'Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?' Where can I find comforters for you?" Treasury of Scripture These two things are come to you; who shall be sorry for you? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you? two things Isaiah 47:9 Ezekiel 14:21 are come. Job 2:11 Psalm 69:20 Jeremiah 9:17-21 destruction. Isaiah 22:4 Isaiah 61:2 Job 42:11 |