Ezekiel 12:20
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20 (A)And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
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Jeremiah 4:7
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7 (A)A lion has gone up from his thicket,
a destroyer of nations has set out;
he has gone out from his place
to make your land a waste;
your cities will be ruins
(B)without inhabitant.
Isaiah 7:23-24
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23 In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels[a] of silver, will become (A)briers and thorns. 24 (B)With bow and arrows a man will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns.
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- Isaiah 7:23 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
Jeremiah 25:9
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9 (A)behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (B)my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, (C)and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
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Isaiah 3:26
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Daniel 9:17
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17 Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord,[a] (A)make your face to shine upon (B)your sanctuary, which is desolate.
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- Daniel 9:17 Hebrew for the Lord's sake
Ezekiel 15:8
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8 (A)And I will make the land desolate, because (B)they have acted faithlessly, declares the Lord God.”
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Ezekiel 15:6
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6 Therefore thus says the Lord God: (A)Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, (B)which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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Lamentations 5:18
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18 for Mount Zion which lies desolate;
(A)jackals prowl over it.
Jeremiah 24:8-10
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8 “But thus says the Lord: Like (A)the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat (B)Zedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who (C)dwell in the land of Egypt. 9 I will make them (D)a horror[a] to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be (E)a reproach, (F)a byword, (G)a taunt, and (H)a curse in all the places where I shall drive them. 10 And I will send (I)sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.”
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- Jeremiah 24:9 Compare Septuagint; Hebrew horror for evil
Jeremiah 19:11
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11 and shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, (A)as one breaks a potter's vessel, (B)so that it can never be mended. (C)Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.
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Jeremiah 16:9
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9 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: (A)Behold, I will silence in this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
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Jeremiah 12:10-12
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10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard;
(A)they have trampled down my portion;
they have made my pleasant portion
a desolate wilderness.
11 They have made it a desolation;
desolate, (B)it mourns to me.
The whole land is made desolate,
(C)but no man lays it to heart.
12 Upon all the bare heights in the desert
destroyers have come,
for the sword of the Lord devours
from one end of the land to the other;
no flesh has peace.
Jeremiah 4:23-29
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23 I looked on the earth, and behold, it was (A)without form and void;
(B)and to the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I looked on (C)the mountains, and behold, they were quaking,
and all the hills moved to and fro.
25 (D)I looked, and behold, there was no man,
and all the birds of the air had fled.
26 I looked, and behold, the (E)fruitful land was a desert,
and all its cities were laid in ruins
before the Lord, before (F)his fierce anger.
27 For thus says the Lord, “The whole land shall be a desolation; (G)yet I will not make a full end.
28 (H)“For this the earth shall mourn,
(I)and the heavens above be dark;
for I have spoken; I have purposed;
(J)I have not relented, nor will I turn back.”
29 At the noise of horseman and archer
every city takes to flight;
they enter thickets; they climb among rocks;
all the cities are forsaken,
and (K)no man dwells in them.
Isaiah 64:10-11
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10 (A)Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 (B)Our holy and beautiful[a] house,
where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
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- Isaiah 64:11 Or holy and glorious
Isaiah 24:12
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12 Desolation is left in the city;
the gates are battered into ruins.
Isaiah 24:3
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