Jeremiah 9:11
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11 (A)I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
(B)a lair of jackals,
(C)and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.”
Isaiah 25:2
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2 For you have made the city (A)a heap,
the fortified city a ruin;
the foreigners' palace is a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.
Jeremiah 51:37
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37 and Babylon shall become (A)a heap of ruins,
(B)the haunt of jackals,
(C)a horror (D)and a hissing,
without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 10:22
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22 A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!—
(A)a great commotion out of the north country
to make (B)the cities of Judah a desolation,
(C)a lair of jackals.
Isaiah 34:13
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13 (A)Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,
nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of (B)jackals,
an abode for ostriches.[a]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:13 Or owls
Isaiah 13:22
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22 Hyenas[a] will cry in its towers,
and (A)jackals in (B)the pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
and its days will not be prolonged.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:22 Or foxes
Micah 3:12
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12 Therefore because of you
(A)Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem (B)shall become a heap of ruins,
and (C)the mountain of the house (D)a wooded height.
Lamentations 3:47
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Lamentations 2:7-8
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7 (A)The Lord has scorned his altar,
(B)disowned his sanctuary;
(C)he has delivered into the hand of the enemy
the walls of her palaces;
(D)they raised a clamor in the house of the Lord
as on the day of festival.
8 (E)The Lord determined to lay in ruins
(F)the wall of the daughter of Zion;
(G)he stretched out the measuring line;
he did not restrain his hand from destroying;
(H)he caused rampart and wall to lament;
(I)they languished together.
Jeremiah 26:18
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18 “Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts,
(A)“‘Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,
and the mountain of the house a wooded height.’
Jeremiah 25:11
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11 (A)This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and (B)these nations shall serve the king of Babylon (C)seventy years.
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Revelation 18:2
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2 And he called out with a mighty voice,
(A)“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
She has become (B)a dwelling place for demons,
a haunt (C)for every unclean spirit,
a haunt (D)for every unclean bird,
a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.
Micah 6:16
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16 For you have kept the statutes of (A)Omri,[a]
and all the works of the house of (B)Ahab;
and you have walked in their counsels,
that I may make you (C)a desolation, and your[b] inhabitants (D)a hissing;
so you shall bear (E)the scorn of my people.”
Footnotes
- Micah 6:16 Hebrew For the statutes of Omri are kept
- Micah 6:16 Hebrew its
Micah 1:6
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6 Therefore I will make (A)Samaria (B)a heap in the open country,
a place for planting vineyards,
and I will pour down her stones (C)into the valley
and (D)uncover her foundations.
Jeremiah 26:9
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9 Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be (A)like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, (B)without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
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Jeremiah 25:18
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18 (A)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, (B)to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;
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Isaiah 44:26
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26 (A)who confirms the word of his servant
and fulfills the counsel of his messengers,
who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited,’
(B)and of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built,
and I will raise up their ruins’;
Nehemiah 4:2
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2 And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of (A)Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves?[a] Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”
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- Nehemiah 4:2 Or Will they commit themselves to God?
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