Isaiah 14:17
English Standard Version
17 who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
(A)who did not let his prisoners go home?’
Joel 2:3
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3 (A)Fire devours before them,
and behind them a flame burns.
The land is like (B)the garden of Eden before them,
but (C)behind them a desolate wilderness,
and nothing escapes them.
Isaiah 45:13
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13 (A)I have stirred him up in righteousness,
(B)and I will make all his ways level;
(C)he shall build my city
(D)and set my exiles free,
not for price or reward,”
says the Lord of hosts.
Zephaniah 2:13-14
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13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north
(A)and destroy Assyria,
and he (B)will make Nineveh a desolation,
a dry waste like the desert.
14 (C)Herds shall lie down in her midst,
all kinds of beasts;[a]
(D)even the owl and the hedgehog[b]
shall lodge in her capitals;
a voice shall hoot in the window;
devastation will be on the threshold;
for (E)her cedar work will be laid bare.
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 2:14 Hebrew beasts of every nation
- Zephaniah 2:14 The identity of the animals rendered owl and hedgehog is uncertain
Ezekiel 6:14
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14 And (A)I will stretch out my hand against them and (B)make the land desolate and waste, (C)in all their dwelling places, from the wilderness to (D)Riblah.[a] Then (E)they will know that I am the Lord.”
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- Ezekiel 6:14 Some Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts Diblah
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 58:6
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6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:
(A)to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps (B)of the yoke,
to let the oppressed[a] go free,
and to break every yoke?
Footnotes
- Isaiah 58:6 Or bruised
Isaiah 13:19-22
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19 And Babylon, (A)the glory of kingdoms,
the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans,
will be (B)like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.
20 (C)It will never be inhabited
or lived in for all generations;
no (D)Arab will pitch his tent there;
no (E)shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
21 But (F)wild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there (G)ostriches[a] will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.
22 Hyenas[b] will cry in its towers,
and (H)jackals in (I)the pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
and its days will not be prolonged.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:21 Or owls
- Isaiah 13:22 Or foxes
Ezra 1:2-4
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2 “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and (A)he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel—(B)he is the God who is in Jerusalem. 4 And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.”
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2 Chronicles 28:8-15
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8 The men of Israel took captive 200,000 (A)of their relatives, women, sons, and daughters. They also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria. 9 But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded, and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Behold, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, (B)was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them in a rage (C)that has reached up to heaven. 10 And now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. Have you not sins of your own against the Lord your God? 11 Now hear me, and send back the captives (D)from your relatives whom you have taken, for the fierce wrath of the Lord is upon you.”
12 Certain chiefs also of the men of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who were coming from the war 13 and said to them, “You shall not bring the captives in here, for you propose to bring upon us guilt against the Lord in addition to our present sins and guilt. For our guilt is already great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.” 14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly. 15 And (E)the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all who were naked among them. They clothed them, gave them sandals, (F)provided them with food and drink, and anointed them, and carrying all the feeble among them on donkeys, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, (G)the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.
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