Isaiah 6:12

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The LORD will drive the people far away, and the abandonment in the land will be great.

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  • Jer 4:29 : 29 At the sound of the horsemen and archers, every city flees. They go into the thickets and climb among the rocks. The cities are abandoned, and no one lives in them.
  • Jer 12:7 : 7 I have abandoned my house, I have forsaken my inheritance; I have given the one I love into the hands of her enemies.
  • Jer 15:4 : 4 I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.
  • Jer 52:28-30 : 28 This is the number of people whom Nebuchadnezzar exiled: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews; 29 in Nebuchadnezzar's eighteenth year, 832 people were exiled from Jerusalem; 30 and in his twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, exiled 745 Jews. In total, 4,600 people were taken away.
  • Lam 5:20 : 20 Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us for so long?
  • Rom 11:1-2 : 1 So I ask, did God reject His people? Certainly not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected His people, whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the story of Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel?
  • Rom 11:15 : 15 For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
  • Deut 28:64 : 64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.
  • 2 Kgs 25:11 : 11 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, exiled the remainder of the people who were left in the city, including the deserters who had joined the king of Babylon, and the rest of the population.
  • 2 Kgs 25:21 : 21 The king of Babylon struck them down and executed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile away from its land.
  • Isa 26:15 : 15 You have increased the nation, LORD; You have increased the nation. You are glorified; You have extended all the borders of the land.

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  • 11Then 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.

  • Jer 12:10-12
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    81%

    10Many shepherds have ruined my vineyard; they have trampled my portion underfoot. They have turned my pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

    11They have made it a desolation, and it mourns before me. The whole land is desolate, but no one takes it to heart.

    12On all the barren heights in the wilderness, destroyers have come. For the sword of the LORD is devouring from one end of the land to the other; no flesh has peace.

  • 6I have cut off nations; their corner towers are in ruins. I have laid waste their streets, so that no one passes through. Their cities are destroyed; there is no one left—no inhabitant.

  • 9The Lord of Hosts said in my hearing: Truly, many houses will become desolate—large and beautiful ones, without occupants.

  • 6Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants bear the guilt. Therefore, the earth’s inhabitants are burned, and few people are left.

  • 13The land will become desolate because of its inhabitants, due to the fruit of their deeds.

  • 1Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface, and scatters its inhabitants.

  • 10The fortified city is desolate, a desert place, abandoned and forsaken like the wilderness. There, calves will graze, lie down, and strip its branches bare.

  • 14'I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. The land was left so desolate behind them that no one could come or go. This is how they made the pleasant land a wasteland.'

  • 9In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places of the wooded heights and hilltops that were abandoned because of the Israelites, and there will be desolation.

  • Jer 4:26-27
    2 verses
    76%

    26I looked, and behold, the fertile land was a wilderness, and all its cities were torn down before the LORD, in the heat of His fierce anger.

    27For this is what the LORD says: The whole land will be a desolation, but I will not bring it to complete destruction.

  • 20The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

  • 3The earth will be utterly laid waste and completely plundered, for the Lord has spoken this word.

  • 12Their houses will be turned over to others, along with their fields and wives. For I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord.

  • Isa 33:8-9
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    75%

    8The highways are deserted; travelers have ceased. Covenants are broken, cities are despised, and no one cares about humanity.

    9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and withers. Sharon has become like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

  • 7Your land is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your presence, foreigners devour your fields. It is desolate, as if overthrown by strangers.

  • 4On that day, they will take up a taunt against you and wail with bitter lament, saying: 'We are utterly ruined; my people's inheritance is divided. How it has been taken away from me! He removes our fields and gives them to traitors.'

  • 10I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants.

  • Jer 25:37-38
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    75%

    37The peaceful pastures will be silent because of the LORD's fierce anger.

    38Like a lion leaving its lair, He has left His den, for their land has become a desolation because of the oppressor's wrath and the LORD's fierce anger.

  • 8Be warned, Jerusalem, or I will become alienated from you and make you a desolation, a land uninhabited.

  • Lev 26:32-33
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    74%

    32I will bring the land to desolation so that even your enemies who live there will be appalled by it.

    33I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you. Your land will be desolate and your cities will lie in ruins.

  • 6They will be like a shrub in the desert, dwelling in a parched place in the wilderness, in a land of salt where no one lives, and will not see when prosperity comes.

  • 12Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, cut it down and abandoned it. Its branches fell on the mountains and in all the valleys; its boughs were broken in all the ravines of the earth, and all the nations of the earth left its shade.

  • 14Like a hunted gazelle, like sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his own land.

  • 12Be appalled at this, you heavens, and shudder with great horror,” declares the LORD.

  • Isa 24:12-13
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    74%

    12Only desolation is left in the city; the gate is battered into ruins.

    13So it will be in the midst of the earth among the nations, like the shaking of an olive tree, as gleanings after the grape harvest is over.

  • 34The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

  • 22Because the LORD could no longer endure the wickedness of your actions and the detestable things you committed, your land became a ruin, a desolation, and a curse, without inhabitants, as it is today.

  • 12And the Lord said, 'It is because they have forsaken my law that I set before them; they have not obeyed My voice or walked according to it.'

  • 10The fields are devastated, and the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the olive oil fails.

  • 4How long will the land mourn and the grass in the fields wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it, the beasts and the birds are swept away. For they said, 'He will not see our end.'

  • 12Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple will become a high place overgrown with thickets.

  • 19'Hear the word of the Lord, you women; let your ears receive the words of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail and one another to mourn.'

  • Lam 2:6-7
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    73%

    6He has violently done away with his dwelling, as if it were a garden, destroying his appointed meeting place. The LORD has caused Zion to forget its appointed times and Sabbaths. In his fierce anger, he has despised king and priest alike.

    7The Lord has rejected his altar and disowned his sanctuary. He has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. They raised their voices in the house of the LORD as on a day of appointed festival.

  • 28he will dwell in desolated cities, in houses no one inhabits, destined to become ruins.

  • 7They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie in ruins among ruined cities.

  • 6For this is what the LORD says about the house of the king of Judah: Though you are like Gilead to me, like the peak of Lebanon, yet I will surely make you into a wilderness, uninhabited cities.

  • 27The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will lead you.

  • 13Yet a tenth will remain in the land, and it will once again be ravaged. Like a terebinth or an oak whose stump remains when it is felled, the holy seed is its stump.

  • 17The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

  • 6'You have rejected Me,' declares the LORD. 'You keep going backward. So I have stretched out My hand against you and destroyed you; I am tired of relenting.'

  • 3For a nation has come against her from the north; it will make her land desolate. No one will live there—neither man nor beast—all will flee and be gone.