Isaiah 24:1
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Impending Judgment on the Earth
24 Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste,
Distorts its surface
And scatters abroad its inhabitants.
Nahum 2:10
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10 She is empty, desolate, and waste!
The heart melts, and the knees shake;
Much pain is in every side,
And all their faces [a]are drained of color.
Footnotes
- Nahum 2:10 LXX, Tg., Vg. gather blackness; Joel 2:6
Isaiah 42:15
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15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills,
And dry up all their vegetation;
I will make the rivers coastlands,
And I will dry up the pools.
Ezekiel 35:14
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14 ‘Thus says the Lord God: (A)“The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate.
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Ezekiel 6:6
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6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the [a]high places shall be desolate, so that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, your idols may be broken and made to cease, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
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- Ezekiel 6:6 Places for pagan worship
Isaiah 24:20
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20 The earth shall (A)reel[a] to and fro like a drunkard,
And shall totter like a hut;
Its transgression shall be heavy upon it,
And it will fall, and not rise again.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 24:20 stagger
Isaiah 6:11-12
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11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?”
And He answered:
(A)“Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant,
The houses are without a man,
The land is utterly desolate,
12 (B)The Lord has removed men far away,
And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
Isaiah 2:19
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19 They shall go into the (A)holes of the rocks,
And into the caves of the [a]earth,
(B)From the terror of the Lord
And the glory of His majesty,
When He arises (C)to shake the earth mightily.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 2:19 Lit. dust
Luke 21:24
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24 And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles (A)until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
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Ezekiel 24:11
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11 “Then set the pot empty on the coals,
That it may become hot and its bronze may burn,
That (A)its filthiness may be melted in it,
That its scum may be consumed.
Ezekiel 12:20
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20 Then the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall become desolate; and you shall know that I am the Lord.” ’ ”
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Ezekiel 5:14
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14 Moreover (A)I will make you a waste and a reproach among the nations that are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
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Ezekiel 5:2
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2 (A)You shall burn with fire one-third in the midst of (B)the city, when (C)the days of the siege are finished; then you shall take one-third and strike around it with the sword, and one-third you shall scatter in the wind: I will draw out a sword after (D)them.
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Jeremiah 9:16
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16 I will (A)scatter them also among the Gentiles, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. (B)And I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.”
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Jeremiah 4:7
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7 (A)The lion has come up from his thicket,
And (B)the destroyer of nations is on his way.
He has gone forth from his place
(C)To make your land desolate.
Your cities will be laid waste,
Without inhabitant.
Isaiah 33:9
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9 (A)The earth mourns and languishes,
Lebanon is shamed and shriveled;
Sharon is like a wilderness,
And Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
Isaiah 32:13-14
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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—
Isaiah 29:16
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16 Surely you have things turned around!
Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay;
For shall the (A)thing made say of him who made it,
“He did not make me”?
Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has no understanding”?
Isaiah 27:10
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10 Yet the fortified city will be (A)desolate,
The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness;
There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down
And consume its branches.
Isaiah 7:17-25
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17 (A)The Lord will bring the king of Assyria upon you and your people and your father’s house—days that have not come since the day that (B)Ephraim departed from Judah.”
18 And it shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord (C)will whistle for the fly
That is in the farthest part of the rivers of Egypt,
And for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19 They will come, and all of them will rest
In the desolate valleys and in (D)the clefts of the rocks,
And on all thorns and in all pastures.
20 In the same day the Lord will shave with a (E)hired (F)razor,
With those from beyond [a]the River, with the king of Assyria,
The head and the hair of the legs,
And will also remove the beard.
21 It shall be in that day
That a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep;
22 So it shall be, from the abundance of milk they give,
That he will eat curds;
For curds and honey everyone will eat who is left in the land.
23 It shall happen in that day,
That wherever there could be a thousand vines
Worth a thousand shekels of silver,
(G)It will be for briers and thorns.
24 With arrows and bows men will come there,
Because all the land will become briers and thorns.
25 And to any hill which could be dug with the hoe,
You will not go there for fear of briers and thorns;
But it will become a range for oxen
And a place for sheep to roam.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 7:20 The Euphrates
Isaiah 5:6
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6 I will lay it (A)waste;
It shall not be pruned or [a]dug,
But there shall come up briers and (B)thorns.
I will also command the clouds
That they rain no rain on it.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:6 hoed
Isaiah 1:7-9
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7 (A)Your country is desolate,
Your cities are burned with fire;
Strangers devour your land in your presence;
And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8 So the daughter of Zion is left (B)as a [a]booth in a vineyard,
As a hut in a garden of cucumbers,
(C)As a besieged city.
9 (D)Unless the Lord of hosts
Had left to us a very small remnant,
We would have become like (E)Sodom,
We would have been made like Gomorrah.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:8 shelter
Psalm 146:9
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9 (A)The Lord watches over the strangers;
He relieves the fatherless and widow;
(B)But the way of the wicked He [a]turns upside down.
Footnotes
- Psalm 146:9 Lit. makes crooked
Nehemiah 1:8
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8 Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, (A)‘If you [a]are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations;
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- Nehemiah 1:8 act treacherously
2 Kings 21:13
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13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem (A)the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab; (B)I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
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