Isaiah 24:3
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3 The earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly despoiled,
for the Lord has spoken this word.(A)
Isaiah 24:1
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Impending Judgment on the Earth
24 Now the Lord is about to lay waste the earth and make it desolate,
and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.(A)
Isaiah 6:11
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11 Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said,
“Until cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is utterly desolate;(A)
Ezekiel 36:4
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4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted towns, which have become a source of plunder and an object of derision to the rest of the nations all around;(A)
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Micah 4:4
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4 but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees,
and no one shall make them afraid,
for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.(A)
Jeremiah 13:15
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Exile Threatened
15 Hear and give ear; do not be haughty,
for the Lord has spoken.(A)
Isaiah 22:25
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25 On that day, says the Lord of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way; it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will perish, for the Lord has spoken.”(A)
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Isaiah 21:17
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17 and the remaining bows of Kedar’s warriors will be few, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.”(A)
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2 Chronicles 36:21
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21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had made up for its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.(A)
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Deuteronomy 29:28
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28 The Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, fury, and great wrath and cast them into another land, as is now the case.’(A)
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Deuteronomy 29:23
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23 all its soil burned out by sulfur and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, unable to support any vegetation, like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his fierce anger(A)—
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Leviticus 26:30-35
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30 I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars; I will heap your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. I will abhor you.(A) 31 I will lay your cities waste, will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors.(B) 32 I will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to settle in it shall be appalled at it.(C) 33 And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword against you; your land shall be a desolation and your cities a waste.(D)
34 “Then the land shall enjoy[a] its Sabbath years as long as it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest and enjoy[b] its Sabbath years.(E) 35 As long as it lies desolate, it shall have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were living on it.
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