Psalm 46:8
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8 (A)Come, behold the works of the Lord,
how he has brought desolations on the earth.
Psalm 66:5
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Isaiah 61:4
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4 (A)They shall build up the ancient ruins;
they shall raise up the former devastations;
they shall repair the ruined cities,
the devastations of many generations.
Isaiah 34:2-17
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2 For the Lord is enraged against all the nations,
and furious against all their host;
he has (A)devoted them to destruction,[a] has given them over for slaughter.
3 Their slain shall be cast out,
and (B)the stench of their corpses shall rise;
(C)the mountains shall flow with their blood.
4 (D)All the host of heaven shall rot away,
and the skies roll up like a scroll.
All their host shall fall,
as leaves fall from the vine,
like leaves falling from the fig tree.
5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
behold, it descends for judgment upon (E)Edom,
upon the people (F)I have devoted to destruction.
6 The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
it is gorged with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
(G)For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 (H)Wild oxen shall (I)fall with them,
and (J)young steers with (K)the mighty bulls.
Their land shall drink its fill of blood,
and their soil shall be gorged with fat.
8 (L)For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 (M)And the streams of Edom[b] shall be turned into pitch,
and her soil into sulfur;
her land shall become burning pitch.
10 Night and day (N)it shall not be quenched;
(O)its smoke shall go up forever.
(P)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 (Q)But the hawk and the porcupine[c] shall possess it,
the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
(R)He shall stretch the line of (S)confusion[d] over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.
12 Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom,
and all its princes shall be nothing.
13 (T)Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,
nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of (U)jackals,
an abode for ostriches.[e]
14 (V)And wild animals shall meet with hyenas;
the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
indeed, there the night bird[f] settles
and finds for herself a resting place.
15 There the owl nests and lays
and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow;
indeed, there (W)the hawks are gathered,
each one with her mate.
16 Seek and read from the book of the Lord:
Not one of these shall be missing;
none shall be without her mate.
For the mouth of the Lord has commanded,
and his Spirit has gathered them.
17 (X)He has cast the lot for them;
his hand has portioned it out to them with the line;
they shall possess it forever;
from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:2 That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verse 5
- Isaiah 34:9 Hebrew her streams
- Isaiah 34:11 The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain
- Isaiah 34:11 Hebrew formlessness
- Isaiah 34:13 Or owls
- Isaiah 34:14 Identity uncertain
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.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 24:1 Or land; also throughout this chapter
2 Chronicles 20:23-24
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23 For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, (A)they all helped to destroy one another.
The Lord Delivers Judah
24 When Judah came to the watchtower of the wilderness, they looked toward the horde, and behold, there[a] were dead bodies lying on the ground; none had escaped.
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- 2 Chronicles 20:24 Hebrew they
Psalm 111:2-3
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2 Great are the (A)works of the Lord,
(B)studied by all who delight in them.
3 (C)Full of splendor and majesty is his work,
and his (D)righteousness endures forever.
Joshua 11:20
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20 For it was the Lord's doing (A)to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, (B)just as the Lord commanded Moses.
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Numbers 23:23
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23 For there is no enchantment against Jacob,
no (A)divination against Israel;
now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel,
(B)‘What has God wrought!’
Exodus 14:30-31
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30 Thus the Lord (A)saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 31 (B)Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they (C)believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses.
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Exodus 12:30
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30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was (A)a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead.
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Exodus 10:7
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7 Then Pharaoh's servants said to him, “How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined?”
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