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Isaías 7:23-24
In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be only briers and thorns.Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns. (niv)
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Jeremías 4:7
A lion has come out of his lair; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his place to lay waste your land. Your towns will lie in ruins without inhabitant. (niv)
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Isaías 3:26
The gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground. (niv)
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Jeremías 25:9
I will summon all the peoples of the north and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,” declares the Lord,“ and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin. (niv)
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Isaías 24:3
The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The Lord has spoken this word. (niv)
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Isaías 24:12
The city is left in ruins, its gate is battered to pieces. (niv)
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Ezequiel 15:8
I will make the land desolate because they have been unfaithful, declares the Sovereign Lord.” (niv)
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Daniel 9:17
“ Now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of your servant. For your sake, Lord, look with favor on your desolate sanctuary. (niv)
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Lamentaciones 5:18
for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it. (niv)
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Ezequiel 15:6
“ Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: As I have given the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest as fuel for the fire, so will I treat the people living in Jerusalem. (niv)
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Jeremías 4:23-29
I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone.I looked at the mountains, and they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.I looked, and there were no people; every bird in the sky had flown away.I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert; all its towns lay in ruins before the Lord, before his fierce anger.This is what the Lord says:“ The whole land will be ruined, though I will not destroy it completely.Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above grow dark, because I have spoken and will not relent, I have decided and will not turn back.”At the sound of horsemen and archers every town takes to flight. Some go into the thickets; some climb up among the rocks. All the towns are deserted; no one lives in them. (niv)
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Jeremías 34:22
I am going to give the order, declares the Lord, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, take it and burn it down. And I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there.” (niv)
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Jeremías 24:8-10
“‘ But like the bad figs, which are so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the Lord,‘ so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the survivors from Jerusalem, whether they remain in this land or live in Egypt.I will make them abhorrent and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword, a curse and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish them.I will send the sword, famine and plague against them until they are destroyed from the land I gave to them and their ancestors.’” (niv)
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Jeremías 12:10-12
Many shepherds will ruin my vineyard and trample down my field; they will turn my pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.It will be made a wasteland, parched and desolate before me; the whole land will be laid waste because there is no one who cares.Over all the barren heights in the desert destroyers will swarm, for the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the other; no one will be safe. (niv)
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Jeremías 19:11
and say to them,‘ This is what the Lord Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter’s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. (niv)
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Isaías 64:10-11
Your sacred cities have become a wasteland; even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins. (niv)
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Jeremías 16:9
For this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Before your eyes and in your days I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in this place. (niv)