Verse 13

The land of my people will be covered with thorns and briers, indeed over all the joyful houses in the jubilant city.

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  • Isa 22:2 : 2 The city is full of noise and tumult, a city of revelry. Your slain were not killed by the sword, nor did they die in battle.
  • Isa 34:13 : 13 Thorns will grow in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses. It will become a dwelling place for jackals, a home for ostriches.
  • Hos 9:6 : 6 Even if they escape destruction, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Weeds will inherit their treasures of silver, and thorns will overrun their tents.
  • Isa 7:23 : 23 On that day in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be only briers and thorns.
  • Hos 10:8 : 8 The high places of wickedness will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel. Thorns and thistles will grow over their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, 'Cover us!' and to the hills, 'Fall on us!
  • Rev 18:7-8 : 7 As much as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, give her that much torment and grief, because in her heart she says, 'I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and I will never see grief.' 8 Because of this, her plagues will come in a single day: death, mourning, and famine. She will be consumed by fire, for the mighty Lord God is the one who judges her.
  • Jer 39:8 : 8 The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and the houses of the people and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
  • Isa 22:12-13 : 12 In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth. 13 But behold, there is joy and gladness—killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine—saying, 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!'
  • Ps 107:34 : 34 and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who dwell there.
  • Isa 5:6 : 6 I will make it a wasteland; it will neither be pruned nor hoed, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.
  • Isa 6:11 : 11 Then I said, "For how long, Lord?" And He replied, "Until cities lie ruined without inhabitants, houses are unoccupied, and the land is desolate and devastated.