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Isaiah 9:14

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So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.

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Revelation of John 18:8rank 4

Therefore her plagues will come in one day— death and grief and famine— and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

Isaiah 19:15rank 4

There is nothing Egypt can do— head or tail, palm or reed.

Hosea 8:8rank 2

Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.

Revelation of John 18:17rank 2

For in a single hour such fabulous wealth has been destroyed!” Every shipmaster, passenger, and sailor, and all who make their living from the sea, will stand at a distance

Hosea 4:5rank 2

You will stumble by day, and the prophet will stumble with you by night; so I will destroy your mother—

Amos 7:17rank 2

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”

Amos 6:11rank 2

For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”

Hosea 13:3rank 2

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.

Hosea 1:6rank 2

Gomer again conceived and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them.

Isaiah 30:13rank 2

this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!

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