The inhabited cities will be destroyed, and the land will become dreadful. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

有居民的城邑必变为荒场，地也必变为荒废；你们就知道我是耶和华。”

有人居住的城镇必变为废墟，地必荒凉；你们就知道我是耶和华。”

有人居住的城镇必变为废墟，地必荒凉；你们就知道我是耶和华。”

他们居住的城邑必沦为废墟，土地必一片荒凉，他们就知道我是耶和华。’”

有人居住的城市必成为荒场，这地必然荒凉，你们就知道我是耶和华。’”

有居民的城邑必變為荒場，地也必變為荒廢；你們就知道我是耶和華。」

有人居住的城鎮必變為廢墟，地必荒涼；你們就知道我是耶和華。」

有人居住的城鎮必變為廢墟，地必荒涼；你們就知道我是耶和華。」

他們居住的城邑必淪為廢墟，土地必一片荒涼，他們就知道我是耶和華。』」

有人居住的城市必成為荒場，這地必然荒涼，你們就知道我是耶和華。’”

有居民的城市必變為荒廢，這地必成為荒涼；你們就知道我乃是永恆主。』

居民之邑必邱墟、斯土必荒蕪、爾則知我乃耶和華、○

邑將傾圮、地將荒蕪、使知我乃耶和華。

今有民居之邑將傾圮、地將荒蕪、爾則知我乃主、○

The inhabited towns will be laid waste and the land will be desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

The towns where people live will be completely destroyed. The land will become a dry and empty desert. Then you will know that I am the Lord.” ’ ”

And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

The cities will be destroyed and the farmland made desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

The inhabited cities will be in ruins, and the land will be a desolation. So you will know that I am the Lord.” ’ ”

Then the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall become desolate; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”’”

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

The inhabited cities will be destroyed, and the land will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I[ am] the LORD.

The inhabited towns will be left in ruins and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

The cities that are inhabited will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”

And on that day every place where there were a thousand vines, worth a thousand pieces of silver, will become thorns and briers.A man will go there with bow and arrows because the whole land will be thorns and briers.

A lion has gone up from his thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to make your land a waste. Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.

Then her gates will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.

I am going to send for all the families of the north’— this is the LORD’s declaration—‘ and send for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them an example of horror and scorn, and ruins forever.

The earth will be stripped completely bare and will be totally plundered, for the LORD has spoken this message.

Only desolation remains in the city; its gate has collapsed in ruins.

I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully.” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.

Therefore, our God, hear the prayer and the petitions of your servant. Make your face shine on your desolate sanctuary for the Lord’s sake.

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate and has jackals prowling in it.

Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says,“ Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire as fuel, so I will give up the residents of Jerusalem.

I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty. I looked to the heavens, and their light was gone.I looked at the mountains, and they were quaking; all the hills shook.I looked, and there was no human being, and all the birds of the sky had fled.I looked, and the fertile field was a wilderness. All its cities were torn down because of the LORD and his burning anger.For this is what the LORD says:“ The whole land will be a desolation, but I will not finish it off.Because of this, the earth will mourn; the skies above will grow dark. I have spoken; I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back from it.”Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and the archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.

I am about to give the command— this is the LORD’s declaration— and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it. I will make Judah’s cities a desolation, without inhabitant.”

“ But as for the bad figs, so bad they are inedible, this is what the LORD says: In this way I will deal with King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem— those remaining in this land or living in the land of Egypt.I will make them an object of horror and a disaster to all the kingdoms of the earth, an example for disgrace, scorn, ridicule, and cursing, wherever I have banished them.I will send the sword, famine, and plague against them until they have perished from the land I gave to them and their ancestors.”

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled my plot of land. They have turned my desirable plot into a desolate wasteland.They have made it a desolation. It mourns, desolate, before me. All the land is desolate, but no one takes it to heart.Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the LORD has a sword that devours from one end of the earth to the other. No one has peace.

and you are to proclaim to them,‘ This is what the LORD of Armies says: I will shatter these people and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be mended. They will bury the dead in Topheth because there is no other place for burials.

Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.Our holy and beautiful temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned down, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

For this is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am about to eliminate from this place, before your very eyes and in your time, the sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride.