Zephaniah 1:2
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The Great Day of the Lord
2 “I will [a]utterly consume everything
From the face of the land,”
Says the Lord;
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 1:2 Lit. make a complete end of, Jer. 8:13
2 Kings 22:16-17
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16 “Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, (A)I will bring calamity on this place and on its inhabitants—all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read— 17 (B)because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. Therefore My wrath shall be aroused against this place and shall not be quenched.’ ” ’
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Micah 7:13
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13 Yet the land shall be desolate
Because of those who dwell in it,
And (A)for the fruit of their deeds.
Ezekiel 33:27-29
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27 “Say thus to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “As I live, surely (A)those who are in the ruins shall fall by the sword, and the one who is in the open field (B)I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and (C)caves shall die of the pestilence. 28 (D)For I will make the land most desolate, [a]her (E)arrogant strength shall cease, and (F)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 36:29
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29 And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, ‘Thus says the Lord: “You have burned this scroll, saying, (A)‘Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and cause man and beast to (B)cease from here?’ ”
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Jeremiah 34:22
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22 (A)Behold, I will command,’ says the Lord, ‘and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it (B)and take it and burn it with fire; and (C)I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.’ ”
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Jeremiah 24:8-10
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8 ‘And as the bad (A)figs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad’—surely thus says the Lord—‘so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the (B)residue of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and (C)those who dwell in the land of Egypt. 9 I will deliver them to (D)trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, (E)to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them. 10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they are [a]consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’ ”
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- Jeremiah 24:10 destroyed
Jeremiah 6:8-9
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8 Be instructed, O Jerusalem,
Lest (A)My soul depart from you;
Lest I make you desolate,
A land not inhabited.”
9 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel;
As a grape-gatherer, put your hand back into the branches.”
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,
2 Chronicles 36:21
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21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of (A)Jeremiah, until the land (B)had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate (C)she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
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Genesis 6:7
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7 So the Lord said, “I will (A)destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
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