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Ezekiel 7:24
So I will bring the most evil of nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their sacred places will be profaned.
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Jeremiah 44:2
“ This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought against Jerusalem and all Judah’s cities. Look, they are a ruin today without an inhabitant in them
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Micah 7:13
Then the earth will become a wasteland because of its inhabitants and as a result of their actions.
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Jeremiah 44:6
So my fierce wrath poured out and burned in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets so that they became the desolate ruin they are today.
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Ezekiel 24:21
Say to the house of Israel,‘ This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your heart. Also, the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.
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Ezekiel 6:14
I will stretch out my hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
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Jeremiah 44:22
The LORD can no longer bear your evil deeds and the detestable acts you have committed, so your land has become a waste, a desolation, and an example for cursing, without inhabitant, as you see today.
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Ezekiel 30:6-7
This is what the LORD says: Those who support Egypt will fall, and its proud strength will collapse. From Migdol to Syene they will fall within it by the sword. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.
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Jeremiah 25:11
This whole land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
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Isaiah 6:11
Then I said,“ Until when, Lord?” And he replied: Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants, houses are without people, the land is ruined and desolate,
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Jeremiah 9:11
I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.
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Ezekiel 6:2-6
“ Son of man, face the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.You are to say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.Your altars will be desolated and your shrines smashed. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.I will lay the corpses of the Israelites in front of their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.Wherever you live the cities will be in ruins and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will lie in ruins and be desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your shrines cut down, and what you have made wiped out.
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2 Chronicles 36 21
This fulfilled the word of the LORD through Jeremiah, and the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation until seventy years were fulfilled.
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Zechariah 7:13-14
Just as he had called, and they would not listen, so when they called, I would not listen, says the LORD of Armies.I scattered them with a windstorm over all the nations that had not known them, and the land was left desolate behind them, with no one coming or going. They turned a pleasant land into a desolation.”
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Ezekiel 36:34-35
The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.They will say,“ This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and demolished are now fortified and inhabited.”
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Ezekiel 12:20
The inhabited cities will be destroyed, and the land will become dreadful. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
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Ezekiel 15:8
I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully.” This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.
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Jeremiah 16:16
“ I am about to send for many fishermen”— this is the LORD’s declaration—“ and they will fish for them. Then I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and out of the clefts of the rocks,
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Ezekiel 36:4
therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become plunder and a mockery to the rest of the nations all around.