Hosea 2:12
New King James Version
12 “And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,
Of which she has said,
‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me.’
So I will make them a forest,
And the beasts of the field shall eat them.
Isaiah 7:23
New King James Version
23 It shall happen in that day,
That wherever there could be a thousand vines
Worth a thousand shekels of silver,
(A)It will be for briers and thorns.
Isaiah 5:5
New King James Version
5 And now, please let Me tell you what I will do to My vineyard:
(A)I will take away its hedge, and it shall be burned;
And break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.
Hosea 13:8
New King James Version
8 I will meet them (A)like a bear deprived of her cubs;
I will tear open their rib cage,
And there I will devour them like a lion.
The [a]wild beast shall tear them.
Footnotes
- Hosea 13:8 Lit. beast of the field
Hosea 2:5
New King James Version
5 For their mother has played the harlot;
She who conceived them has behaved shamefully.
For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
(A)Who give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my linen,
My oil and my drink.’
Micah 3:12
New King James Version
12 Therefore because of you
Zion shall be (A)plowed like a field,
(B)Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
And (C)the mountain of the [a]temple
Like the bare hills of the forest.
Footnotes
- Micah 3:12 Lit. house
Hosea 9:1
New King James Version
Judgment of Israel’s Sin
9 Do(A) not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples,
For you have played the harlot against your God.
You have made love for (B)hire on every threshing floor.
Jeremiah 26:18
New King James Version
18 (A)“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts:
(B)“Zion shall be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem shall become (C)heaps of ruins,
And the mountain of the [a]temple
Like the [b]bare hills of the forest.” ’
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 26:18 Lit. house
- Jeremiah 26:18 Lit. high places
Jeremiah 8:13
New King James Version
13 “I will surely [a]consume them,” says the Lord.
“No grapes shall be (A)on the vine,
Nor figs on the (B)fig tree,
And the leaf shall fade;
And the things I have given them shall (C)pass away from them.” ’ ”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 8:13 Or take them away
Isaiah 32:13-15
New King James Version
13 (A)On the land of my people will come up thorns and briers,
Yes, on all the happy homes in (B)the joyous city;
14 (C)Because the palaces will be forsaken,
The bustling city will be deserted.
The forts and towers will become lairs forever,
A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks—
15 Until (D)the Spirit is poured upon us from on high,
And (E)the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
And the fruitful field is counted as a forest.
Isaiah 29:17
New King James Version
Future Recovery of Wisdom
17 Is it not yet a very little while
Till (A)Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,
And the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest?
Psalm 80:12
New King James Version
Footnotes
- Psalm 80:12 walls or fences
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