Isaiah 32:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the bustle of the city shall be abandoned; the forts and towers shall become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;

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  • Isa 24:10 : 10 The city of confusion is broken down; every house is shut up, that no one may come in.
  • Isa 24:12 : 12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
  • Isa 25:2 : 2 For You have made a city a heap, a fortified city a ruin; a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be rebuilt.
  • Isa 27:10 : 10 Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches.
  • Isa 34:11-17 : 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl and the raven shall dwell in it: and He shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses: and it shall be a habitation for dragons, and a court for owls. 14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. 15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. 16 Seek out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall lack her mate: for my mouth has commanded, and His Spirit has gathered them. 17 And He has cast the lot for them, and His hand has divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it forever, from generation to generation they shall dwell therein.
  • Luke 21:20 : 20 And when you shall see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near.
  • Luke 21:24 : 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
  • Rev 18:2-3 : 2 And he cried out mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become the dwelling of demons, and the prison of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich through the abundance of her luxuries.
  • 2 Kgs 25:9 : 9 And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house he burned with fire.
  • Ps 104:11 : 11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
  • Isa 5:9 : 9 In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Truly many houses shall be desolate, even great and beautiful, without inhabitant.
  • Isa 6:11 : 11 Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are laid waste without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate,
  • Isa 13:19-22 : 19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' excellency, will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 It will never be inhabited, nor will it be dwelt in from generation to generation: nor will the Arabian pitch tent there; nor will the shepherds make their fold there. 21 But wild beasts of the desert will lie there; and their houses will be full of doleful creatures; and owls will dwell there, and satyrs will dance there. 22 And the wild beasts of the islands will cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
  • Isa 24:1-3 : 1 Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters abroad its inhabitants. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him. 3 The land shall be utterly emptied and utterly plundered, for the LORD has spoken this word.

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