Ezr 6:22, Psa 74:8, Jer 46:16, 50:16, Zep 3:1 | ESV | STEP | And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy , for the Lord had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God , the God of Israel .

Ezra 6:22

22 And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread ^aseven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful ^band had turned the heart of ^cthe king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

Psalms 74:8

8 They ^dsaid to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

Jeremiah 46:16

16 He made many stumble, ^eand they fell,
and they said one to another,
‘Arise, and let us go back to our own people
and to the land of our birth,
^fbecause of the sword of the oppressor.’

Jeremiah 50:16

16 Cut off from Babylon the sower,
and the one who handles the sickle in time of harvest;
^gbecause of the sword of the oppressor,
^hevery one shall turn to his own people,
and every one shall flee to his own land.

Zephaniah 3:1

Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations

1 Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,
ⁱthe oppressing city!