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Isaiah 7:23-24
And on that day every place where there were 1,000 vines, worth 1,000 pieces of silver, will become thorns and briers.A man will go there with bow and arrows because the whole land will be thorns and briers.
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Jeremiah 4:7
A lion has gone up from his thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to make your land a waste. Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.
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Isaiah 3:26
Then her gates will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.
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Jeremiah 25:9
I am going to send for all the families of the north’— this is the Lord’s declaration—‘ and send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, against its residents, and against all these surrounding nations, and I will completely destroy them and make them a desolation, a derision, and ruins forever.
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Isaiah 24:3
The earth will be stripped completely bare and will be totally plundered, for the Lord has spoken this message.
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Isaiah 24:12
Only desolation remains in the city; its gate has collapsed in ruins.
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Ezekiel 15:8
I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
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Daniel 9:17
Therefore, our God, hear the prayer and the petitions of Your servant. Show Your favor to Your desolate sanctuary for the Lord’s sake.
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Lamentations 5:18
because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate and has jackals prowling in it.
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Ezekiel 15:6
“ Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire as fuel, so I will give up the residents of Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 4:23-29
I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty. I looked to the heavens, and their light was gone.I looked at the mountains, and they were quaking; all the hills shook.I looked, and no man was left; all the birds of the sky had fled.I looked, and the fertile field was a wilderness. All its cities were torn down because of the Lord and His burning anger.For this is what the Lord says: The whole land will be a desolation, but I will not finish it off.Because of this, the earth will mourn; the skies above will grow dark. I have spoken; I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back from it.Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and the archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.
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Jeremiah 34:22
I am about to give the command”— this is the Lord’s declaration—“ and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. I will make Judah’s cities a desolation, without inhabitant.”
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Jeremiah 24:8-10
“ But as for the bad figs, so bad they are inedible, this is what the Lord says: in this way I will deal with king Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem— those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.I will make them an object of horror and disaster to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace, an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing, wherever I have banished them.I will send the sword, famine, and plague against them until they have perished from the land I gave to them and their ancestors.”
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Jeremiah 12:10-12
Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of land. They have turned My desirable plot into a desolate wasteland.They have made it a desolation. It mourns, desolate, before Me. All the land is desolate, but no one takes it to heart.Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the Lord has a sword that devours from one end of the earth to the other. No one has peace.
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Jeremiah 19:11
and you are to proclaim to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: I will shatter these people and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be mended. They will bury the dead in Topheth because there is no other place for burials.
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Isaiah 64:10-11
Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
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Jeremiah 16:9
For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am about to eliminate from this place, before your very eyes and in your time, the sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride.
