Zephaniah 2:6

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The seacoast will become pasturelands, with meadows for shepherds and sheepfolds.

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  • Isa 5:17 : 17 Then lambs will graze as in their own pasture, and strangers will eat in the ruins of the rich.
  • Isa 17:2 : 2 The cities of Aroer are abandoned; they will be places for flocks, where they will lie down, and no one will disturb them.
  • Ezek 25:5 : 5 I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and the land of the Ammonites a resting place for flocks. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  • Zeph 2:14-15 : 14 Flocks and all kinds of wild animals will lie down in her midst; even the pelican and the hedgehog will lodge on her columns. Their voices will echo through the windows, rubble will fill the thresholds, for her cedar paneling has been laid bare. 15 This is the jubilant city that dwelled securely and said in her heart, 'I am, and there is no one besides me.' How she has become a desolation, a resting place for wild animals! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

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  • Zeph 2:7
    82%

    7 The land along the coast will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; there they will graze. In the evening, they will lie down in the houses of Ashkelon. The Lord their God will care for them and restore their fortunes.

  • Zeph 2:4-5
    2 verses
    81%

    4 For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon will become a ruin. At noon Ashdod will be driven out, and Ekron will be uprooted.

    5 Woe to you who live by the sea, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, and there will be no inhabitants left.

  • Jer 33:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12 This is what the Lord Almighty says: In this desolate place, without people or animals, and in all its towns, there will again be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.

    13 In the towns of the hill country, the western foothills, and the Negev, in the territory of Benjamin, around Jerusalem, and in the towns of Judah, flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the Lord.

  • Jer 25:34-37
    4 verses
    74%

    34 Weep and wail, you shepherds, cry out! Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock, for your time to be slaughtered has come. You will fall like a precious vessel.

    35 The shepherds will have no refuge, and the leaders of the flock will find no escape.

    36 Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the LORD is destroying their pasture.

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

  • Jer 6:3
    74%

    3 Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents surrounding her and graze, each in his place.

  • Ezek 25:16
    73%

    16 therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant living on the coast.

  • Ezek 34:5-9
    5 verses
    73%

    5 So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild animals; they were scattered.

    6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My flock was scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.

    7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:

    8 'As surely as I live,' declares the Lord GOD, 'because My flock has become prey and My flock has become food for every wild animal since there was no shepherd and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock,

    9 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD.

  • Isa 17:2
    72%

    2 The cities of Aroer are abandoned; they will be places for flocks, where they will lie down, and no one will disturb them.

  • Jer 31:24
    72%

    24 People will live together in Judah and all its cities—farmers and those who move with the herds.

  • Isa 65:10
    72%

    10 The Sharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting place for cattle, for my people who seek me.

  • Ezek 26:5
    72%

    5 She will become a drying place for fishing nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations.

  • Jer 50:6
    71%

    6 My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to wander on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill and forgotten their resting place.

  • Mic 7:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

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

    14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who live alone in a forest in the midst of Carmel. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as they did in days of old.

  • Jer 31:10
    71%

    10 Hear the word of the LORD, you nations; declare it in the distant coastlands and say: He who scattered Israel will gather them and watch over them like a shepherd cares for his flock.

  • Jer 50:39
    71%

    39 Therefore, desert creatures and hyenas will dwell there, and ostriches will inhabit it. It will never again be inhabited or settled from generation to generation.

  • Isa 27:10
    71%

    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 1:8
    71%

    8 'I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod, and the one who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; I will turn My hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,' says the Lord GOD.

  • Zech 9:5
    71%

    5 Ashkelon will see it and be afraid; Gaza too, and will writhe in great anguish, and Ekron, because its hope will be disappointed. The king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will no longer be inhabited.

  • Num 35:3
    70%

    3 The cities will be places for them to live, and the pasture lands will be for their livestock, their property, and all their animals.

  • Mic 2:12
    70%

    12 I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will place them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture—a noisy throng of people.

  • Jer 23:4
    70%

    4 I will appoint shepherds over them who will care for them, and they will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any be missing, declares the LORD.

  • Obad 1:20
    70%

    20 This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan will possess the land as far as Zarephath; the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the towns of the Negev.

  • Zech 11:4
    70%

    4 This is what the LORD my God says: ‘Shepherd the flock marked for slaughter.’

  • Zech 11:16
    70%

    16 For behold, I am raising up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those being destroyed, seek the young, heal the injured, or feed the healthy, but will eat the meat of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.'

  • Isa 5:9
    69%

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

  • Isa 7:19
    69%

    19 They will all come and settle in the steep ravines, in the crevices of the rocks, on all the thorn bushes, and in all the watering places.

  • Ezek 38:12
    69%

    12 You will come to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against resettled ruins and against a people gathered from the nations, people acquiring livestock and goods, who live at the center of the land.

  • Isa 5:17
    69%

    17 Then lambs will graze as in their own pasture, and strangers will eat in the ruins of the rich.

  • Zeph 1:13
    69%

    13 Their wealth will become plunder, and their houses a desolation. They will build houses but not live in them, and they will plant vineyards but not drink their wine.

  • Ezek 36:34
    69%

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

  • Ezek 34:22
    69%

    22 I will save My flock so they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.

  • Jer 50:19
    69%

    19 I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan; his soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.

  • Ezek 34:14
    69%

    14 I will feed them in good pasture, and their grazing land will be on the high mountains of Israel. There they will lie down in a pleasant grazing land and feed in rich pastures on the mountains of Israel.

  • Ezek 34:2
    69%

    2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them, the shepherds: This is what the Lord GOD says, 'Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not shepherds feed the flock?

  • Num 34:6
    69%

    6 Your western boundary will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea; this will be your boundary to the west.

  • Isa 13:14
    69%

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

  • Isa 7:21
    69%

    21 On that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two goats.

  • Isa 7:25
    69%

    25 As for all the hills once cultivated with a hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns; they will become places where cattle are turned loose and sheep run freely.

  • Isa 23:6
    69%

    6 Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you inhabitants of the coastland.

  • Joel 1:18
    69%

    18 How the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander in confusion because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering.