Jeremiah 18:16
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16 To make their land (A)desolate and a perpetual (B)hissing;
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And shake his head.
Psalm 22:7
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- Psalm 22:7 Show contempt with their mouth
Jeremiah 25:9
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9 behold, I will send and take (A)all the families of the north,’ says the Lord, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (B)My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and (C)make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
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Jeremiah 19:8
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8 I will make this city (A)desolate and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
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Matthew 27:39
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39 And (A)those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads
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Micah 6:16
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16 For the statutes of (A)Omri are (B)kept;
All the works of Ahab’s house are done;
And you walk in their counsels,
That I may make you a [a]desolation,
And your inhabitants a hissing.
Therefore you shall bear the (C)reproach of [b]My people.”
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- Micah 6:16 Or object of horror
- Micah 6:16 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX nations
Ezekiel 33:28-29
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28 (A)For I will make the land most desolate, [a]her (B)arrogant strength shall cease, and (C)the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through. 29 Then they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.” ’
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- Ezekiel 33:28 Lit. pride of her strength
Jeremiah 50:13
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13 Because of the wrath of the Lord
She shall not be inhabited,
(A)But she shall be wholly desolate.
(B)Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be horrified
And hiss at all her plagues.
Jeremiah 49:13
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13 For (A)I have sworn by Myself,” says the Lord, “that (B)Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a [a]waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual [b]wastes.”
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- Jeremiah 49:13 ruin
- Jeremiah 49:13 ruins
1 Kings 9:8
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8 And as for (A)this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, (B)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’
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Mark 15:29
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29 And (A)those who passed by blasphemed Him, (B)wagging their heads and saying, “Aha! (C)You who destroy the temple and build it in three days,
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Lamentations 2:15-16
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15 All who [a]pass by (A)clap their hands at you;
They hiss (B)and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that is called
(C)‘The perfection of beauty,
The joy of the whole earth’?”
16 (D)All your enemies have opened their mouth against you;
They hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, (E)“We have swallowed her up!
Surely this is the (F)day we have waited for;
We have found it, (G)we have seen it!”
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- Lamentations 2:15 Lit. pass by this way
Isaiah 37:22
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22 this is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning him:
“The virgin, the daughter of Zion,
Has despised you, laughed you to scorn;
The daughter of Jerusalem
Has shaken her head behind your back!
2 Chronicles 7:20-21
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20 (A)then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have [a]sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a (B)byword among all peoples.
21 “And as for (C)this [b]house, which [c]is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be (D)astonished and say, (E)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and this house?’
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- 2 Chronicles 7:20 set apart
- 2 Chronicles 7:21 Temple
- 2 Chronicles 7:21 Or was
Ezekiel 12:19
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19 And say to the people of the land, ‘Thus says the Lord God to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the land of Israel: “They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with dread, so that her land may (A)be emptied of all who are in it, (B)because of the violence of all those who dwell in it.
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Ezekiel 6:14
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14 So I will (A)stretch out My hand against them and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward (B)Diblah, in all their dwelling places. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.’ ” ’ ”
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Jeremiah 9:11
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11 “I will make Jerusalem (A)a heap of ruins, (B)a den of jackals.
I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.”
Isaiah 6:11
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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,
Psalm 44:14
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Deuteronomy 29:23
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23 ‘The whole land is brimstone, (A)salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, (B)like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and His wrath.’
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Deuteronomy 28:59
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59 then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants (A)extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses.
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Leviticus 26:43
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43 (A)The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;
they will accept their guilt, because they (B)despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.
Leviticus 26:33-34
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33 (A)I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;
your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
34 (B)Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land;
then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
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