Deuteronomy 4:26
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26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to occupy; you will not live long on it but will be utterly destroyed.(A)
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Deuteronomy 32:1
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32 “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak;
let the earth hear the words of my mouth.(A)
Micah 6:2
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2 Hear, you mountains, the case of the Lord,
and you enduring foundations of the earth,
for the Lord has a case against his people,
and he will contend with Israel.(A)
Jeremiah 2:12
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12 Be appalled, O heavens, at this;
be shocked; be utterly desolate,
says the Lord,
Isaiah 1:2
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The Wickedness of Judah
2 Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth,
for the Lord has spoken:
I reared children and brought them up,
but they have rebelled against me.(A)
Joshua 23:16
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16 If you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he enjoined on you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land that he has given to you.”
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Jeremiah 22:29
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29 O land, land, land,
hear the word of the Lord!(A)
Jeremiah 6:19
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19 Hear, O earth; I am going to bring disaster on this people,
the fruit of their schemes,
because they have not given heed to my words,
and as for my teaching, they have rejected it.(A)
Deuteronomy 31:28
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28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officials, so that I may recite these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.(A)
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Deuteronomy 30:18-19
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18 I declare to you today that you shall certainly perish; you shall not live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.(A) 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,(B)
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Luke 21:24
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24 they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captives among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the times of the nations are fulfilled.(A)
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Ezekiel 36:4
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4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted towns, which have become a source of plunder and an object of derision to the rest of the nations all around;(A)
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Leviticus 26:31-35
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31 I will lay your cities waste, will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors.(A) 32 I will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to settle in it shall be appalled at it.(B) 33 And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword against you; your land shall be a desolation and your cities a waste.(C)
34 “Then the land shall enjoy[a] its Sabbath years as long as it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest and enjoy[b] its Sabbath years.(D) 35 As long as it lies desolate, it shall have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were living on it.
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Leviticus 18:28
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28 otherwise the land will vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
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Ezekiel 33:28
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28 I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and its proud might shall come to an end, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through.(A)
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Jeremiah 44:22
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22 The Lord could no longer bear the sight of your evil doings, the abominations that you committed; therefore your land became a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is to this day.(A)
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Isaiah 24:1-3
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Impending Judgment on the Earth
24 Now the Lord is about to lay waste the earth and make it desolate,
and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.(A)
2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;
as with the male slave, so with his master;
as with the female slave, so with her mistress;
as with the buyer, so with the seller;
as with the lender, so with the borrower;
as with the creditor, so with the debtor.(B)
3 The earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly despoiled,
for the Lord has spoken this word.(C)
Isaiah 6:11
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11 Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said,
“Until cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is utterly desolate;(A)
Deuteronomy 29:28
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28 The Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, fury, and great wrath and cast them into another land, as is now the case.’(A)
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Micah 1:2
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Judgment Pronounced against Samaria
2 Hear, you peoples, all of you;
listen, O earth, and all that is in it,
and let the Lord God be a witness against you,
the Lord from his holy temple.(A)
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