Verse 9

The Lord of Hosts said in my hearing: Truly, many houses will become desolate—large and beautiful ones, without occupants.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 23:38 : 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate.
  • Isa 22:14 : 14 The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: 'Surely this iniquity will not be atoned for you until you die,' says the Lord, the LORD of Hosts.
  • Isa 27:10 : 10 The fortified city is desolate, a desert place, abandoned and forsaken like the wilderness. There, calves will graze, lie down, and strip its branches bare.
  • Amos 3:7 : 7 Surely the Lord God does nothing without revealing His secret to His servants, the prophets.
  • Amos 5:11 : 11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from them, though you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; though you have planted delightful vineyards, you will not drink their wine.
  • Amos 6:11 : 11 For the LORD has given the command: The great house will be shattered into pieces, and the small house into bits.
  • Matt 22:7 : 7 The king was enraged. He sent his army, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
  • 2 Chr 36:21 : 21 This happened to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the time of its desolation it rested, to fulfill seventy years.
  • 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 6:11-12 : 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. 12 The LORD will drive the people far away, and the abandonment in the land will be great.