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All the way from Dan the noise of horses reaches us, gallant chargers neighing in their pride, till earth trembles with the echoes of it; on they come, bearing ruin to field and crop, to city and citizen! (Jeremiah 8, 16)
Nothing the country-side shews but massacre, nothing the city but faces pinched with famine; prophet and priest are gone, in a land of strangers they must ply their trade✻ now. (Jeremiah 14, 18)
and your kings and princes, David’s own heirs, shall still go riding through them, with horses and chariots, with their retinue of nobles, with the men of Juda and Jerusalem’s citizens in their train. Evermore your city shall be populous; (Jeremiah 17, 25)
A thing of horror and scorn this city shall be; no passer-by but will shudder at it, or hiss derision at the memory of its sufferings. (Jeremiah 19, 8)
and give them this message from the Lord of hosts: Broken to pieces you shall be, nation and city, like yonder thing of clay that is past all repairing; men will be finding room for their dead in Topheth, because other burying-ground is none. (Jeremiah 19, 11)
Such, the Lord says, is the doom I have pronounced on city and citizens; Jerusalem itself shall be a Topheth, (Jeremiah 19, 12)
All the wealth of this city, all the fruits of its toil, all that is of price, all the treasury of Juda’s kings, those enemies shall have in their power, to plunder and carry off and take back to Babylon with them. (Jeremiah 20, 5)
For that good news, be he rewarded with the noise of battle-cry at morn, dirge at noon, like some city the Lord overthrows in anger unrelenting! (Jeremiah 20, 16)
with this message from the Lord, the God of Israel: All the strength you have put into the field,✻ to meet the king of Babylon and your Chaldaean besiegers at a distance from the walls, I mean to force back into the city and coop it up within. (Jeremiah 21, 4)
smiting the inhabitants of this city with a great pestilence that shall slay both man and beast. (Jeremiah 21, 6)
To remain in this city means death by sword, famine, or pestilence; leave it, and go over to the investing army of Chaldaeans, and you shall be spared, glad enough to escape with your lives. (Jeremiah 21, 9)
For woe, not weal, I keep this city ever in regard; the king of Babylon shall be master of it, and burn it to the ground. (Jeremiah 21, 10)
