Ezekiel 6:6
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6 Wherever you dwell, (A)the cities shall be waste and (B)the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined,[a] your idols broken and destroyed, your (C)incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.
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- Ezekiel 6:6 Or and punished
Zechariah 13:2
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Idolatry Cut Off
2 “And (A)on that day, declares the Lord of hosts, (B)I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that (C)they shall be remembered no more. And also (D)I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.
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Micah 1:7
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7 All (A)her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
(B)all her wages shall be burned with fire,
and all her idols I will lay waste,
for from (C)the fee of a prostitute she gathered them,
and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.
Ezekiel 5:14
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14 Moreover, I will make you (A)a desolation and (B)an object of reproach among (C)the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.
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Isaiah 6:11
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11 Then I said, (A)“How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until (B)cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,
Ezekiel 6:4
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4 (A)Your altars shall become desolate, and your (B)incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols.
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Leviticus 26:30
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30 And (A)I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and (B)cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.
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Zephaniah 3:6-7
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6 (A)“I have cut off nations;
their battlements are in ruins;
I have laid waste their streets
(B)so that no one walks in them;
their cities have been made desolate,
without a man, without an inhabitant.
7 (C)I said, ‘Surely you will fear me;
(D)you will accept correction.
Then your[a] dwelling would not be cut off
according to all that I have appointed against you.’[b]
But (E)all the more they were eager
to make all their deeds corrupt.
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- Zephaniah 3:7 Hebrew her
- Zephaniah 3:7 Hebrew her
Zephaniah 1:18
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18 (A)Neither their silver nor their gold
shall be able to deliver them
on the day of the wrath of the Lord.
(B)In the fire of his jealousy,
(C)all the earth shall be consumed;
(D)for a full and sudden end
he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.
Zephaniah 1:2-6
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The Coming Judgment on Judah
2 (A)“I will utterly sweep away everything
from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.
3 “I will sweep away (B)man and beast;
I will sweep away the birds of the heavens
and (C)the fish of the sea,
and (D)the rubble[a] with the wicked.
I will (E)cut off mankind
from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.
4 “I will stretch out my hand against Judah
and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
(F)and I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal
and the name of the idolatrous priests along with the priests,
5 (G)those who bow down on the roofs
to the host of the heavens,
(H)those who bow down and swear to the Lord
and yet swear by (I)Milcom,[b]
6 (J)those who have turned back from following the Lord,
(K)who do not seek the Lord or inquire of him.”
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- Zephaniah 1:3 Or stumbling blocks (that is, idols)
- Zephaniah 1:5 Or their king
Habakkuk 2:18
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18 (A)“What profit is an idol
when its maker has shaped it,
a metal image, (B)a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
when he makes (C)speechless idols!
Micah 5:13
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13 and (A)I will cut off your carved images
and (B)your pillars from among you,
(C)and you shall bow down no more
to the work of your hands;
Micah 3:12
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12 Therefore because of you
(A)Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem (B)shall become a heap of ruins,
and (C)the mountain of the house (D)a wooded height.
Hosea 10:8
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8 The high places of (A)Aven, (B)the sin of Israel,
shall be destroyed.
(C)Thorn and thistle shall grow up
on their altars,
and (D)they shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,”
and to the hills, “Fall on us.”
Hosea 10:2
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2 Their heart is false;
now they must bear their guilt.
The Lord[a] will break down their altars
and destroy their pillars.
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- Hosea 10:2 Hebrew He
Ezekiel 30:13
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13 “Thus says the Lord God:
(A)“I will destroy the idols
and put an end to the images in (B)Memphis;
(C)there shall no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt;
so (D)I will put fear in the land of Egypt.
Jeremiah 17:3
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3 (A)on the mountains in the open country. (B)Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your high places for sin throughout all your territory.
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Jeremiah 10:22
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22 A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!—
(A)a great commotion out of the north country
to make (B)the cities of Judah a desolation,
(C)a lair of jackals.
Jeremiah 9:19
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19 For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
(A)‘How we are ruined!
We are utterly shamed,
because we have left the land,
because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
Jeremiah 9:11
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11 (A)I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
(B)a lair of jackals,
(C)and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.”
Jeremiah 2:15
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15 (A)The lions have roared against him;
they have roared loudly.
They have made his land a waste;
his cities are in ruins, (B)without inhabitant.
Isaiah 64:10
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10 (A)Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
Isaiah 32:13-14
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13 (A)for the soil of my people
growing up in thorns and briers,
(B)yes, for all the joyous houses
in the exultant city.
14 For the palace is forsaken,
the populous city deserted;
the hill and the watchtower
will become dens forever,
(C)a joy of wild donkeys,
a pasture of flocks;
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