Isaiah 24:1
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Judgment on the Whole Earth
24 Behold, (A)the Lord will empty the earth[a] and make it desolate,
and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
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- Isaiah 24:1 Or land; also throughout this chapter
Isaiah 42:15
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15 (A)I will lay waste mountains and hills,
and dry up all their vegetation;
I will turn the rivers into islands,[a]
and dry up the pools.
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- Isaiah 42:15 Or into coastlands
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
Isaiah 24:20
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20 The earth (A)staggers like a drunken man;
it sways like a hut;
(B)its transgression lies heavy upon it,
and it falls, and will not rise again.
Isaiah 6:11-12
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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,
12 and the Lord removes people far away,
and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
Isaiah 2:19
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19 (A)And people shall enter the caves of the rocks
and the holes of the ground,[a]
from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
(B)when he rises to terrify the earth.
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- Isaiah 2:19 Hebrew dust
Luke 21:24
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24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and (A)be led captive among all nations, and (B)Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, (C)until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
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Ezekiel 35:14
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14 Thus says the Lord God: (A)While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
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Ezekiel 24:11
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11 Then set it empty upon the coals, that it may become hot, and its copper may burn, (A)that its uncleanness may be melted in it, its corrosion consumed.
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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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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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Ezekiel 5:2
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2 (A)A third part you shall burn in the fire (B)in the midst of the city, (C)when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. (D)And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and (E)I will unsheathe the sword after them.
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Jeremiah 9:16
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16 (A)I will scatter them among the nations (B)whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will (C)send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”
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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 33:9
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9 (A)The land mourns and languishes;
Lebanon is confounded and withers away;
Sharon is like a desert,
and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
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;
Isaiah 29:16
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16 (A)You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,
that the thing made should say of its maker,
“He did not make me”;
or the thing formed say of him who formed it,
“He has no understanding”?
Isaiah 27:10
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10 (A)For the fortified city is solitary,
a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
there it lies down and strips its branches.
Isaiah 7:17-25
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17 (A)The Lord will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house such days as have not come since the day that (B)Ephraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria!”
18 In that day the Lord will (C)whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and (D)in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures.[a]
20 In that day (E)the Lord will (F)shave with a razor that is (G)hired beyond (H)the River[b]—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.
21 (I)In that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep, 22 and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eat (J)curds and honey.
23 In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels[c] of silver, will become (K)briers and thorns. 24 (L)With bow and arrows a man will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns. 25 (M)And as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear (N)of briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.
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- Isaiah 7:19 Or watering holes, or brambles
- Isaiah 7:20 That is, the Euphrates
- Isaiah 7:23 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
Isaiah 5:6
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6 I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and (A)briers and thorns shall grow up;
(B)I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.
Isaiah 1:7-9
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7 (A)Your country lies desolate;
your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
foreigners devour your land;
it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
8 And (B)the daughter of Zion is left
like a (C)booth in a vineyard,
like a lodge in a cucumber field,
like a besieged city.
9 (D)If the Lord of hosts
had not left us (E)a few survivors,
we should have been like (F)Sodom,
and become like (G)Gomorrah.
Psalm 146:9
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9 (A)The Lord watches over the sojourners;
(B)he upholds the widow and the fatherless,
but (C)the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
Nehemiah 1:8
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8 Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, (A)I will scatter you among the peoples,
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2 Kings 21:13
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13 (A)And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
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