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Zechariah 7:14
“ I scattered them with a windstorm over all the nations that had not known them, and the land was left desolate behind them, with no one coming or going. They turned a pleasant land into a desolation.”
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Micah 7:13
Then the earth will become a wasteland because of its inhabitants and as a result of their actions.
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Ezekiel 6:6-7
Wherever you live the cities will be in ruins and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will lie in ruins and be desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.
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Ezekiel 6:14
I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”
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Ezekiel 7:23
Forge the chain, for the land is filled with crimes of bloodshed, and the city is filled with violence.
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Jeremiah 10:22
Listen! A noise— it is coming— a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made desolate, a jackals’ den.
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Psalms 24:1
The earth and everything in it, the world and its inhabitants, belong to the Lord;
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1 Corinthians 10 28
But if someone says to you,“ This is food offered to an idol,” do not eat it, out of consideration for the one who told you, and for conscience’ sake.
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Jeremiah 33:10
“ This is what the Lord says: In this place, which you say is a ruin, without man or beast— that is, in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets that are a desolation without man, without inhabitant, and without beast— there will be heard again
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Psalms 107:34
and fruitful land into salty wasteland, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
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Micah 3:10-12
who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with injustice.Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,“ Isn’t the Lord among us? No disaster will overtake us.”Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the hill of the temple mount will be a thicket.
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Jeremiah 4:27
For this is what the Lord says: The whole land will be a desolation, but I will not finish it off.
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Jeremiah 32:28
Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am about to hand this city over to the Chaldeans, to Babylon’s king Nebuchadnezzar, and he will capture it.
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Ezekiel 36:3
therefore, prophesy and say: This is what the Lord God says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you from every side, so that you became a possession for the rest of the nations and an object of people’s gossip and slander,
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Isaiah 6:11
Then I said,“ Until when, Lord?” And He replied: Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants, houses are without people, the land is ruined and desolate,
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Genesis 6:11-13
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness.God saw how corrupt the earth was, for every creature had corrupted its way on the earth.Then God said to Noah,“ I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.
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Jeremiah 6:7
As a well gushes out its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her. Sickness and wounds keep coming to My attention.
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1 Corinthians 10 26
for the earth is the Lord’s, and all that is in it.
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Ezekiel 4:16
Then He said to me,“ Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight and in dread drink water by measure.
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Jeremiah 9:10-11
I will raise weeping and a lament over the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness grazing land, for they have been so scorched that no one passes through. The sound of cattle is no longer heard. From the birds of the sky to the animals, everything has fled— they have gone away.I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.
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Jeremiah 33:12
“ This is what the Lord of Hosts says: In this desolate place— without man or beast— and in all its cities there will once more be a grazing land where shepherds may rest flocks.
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Jeremiah 18:16
They have made their land a horror, a perpetual object of scorn; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and shake his head.
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1 Kings 17 10-1 Kings 17 12
So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow woman gathering wood. Elijah called to her and said,“ Please bring me a little water in a cup and let me drink.”As she went to get it, he called to her and said,“ Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand.”But she said,“ As the Lord your God lives, I don’t have anything baked— only a handful of flour in the jar and a bit of oil in the jug. Just now, I am gathering a couple of sticks in order to go prepare it for myself and my son so we can eat it and die.”