Ezekiel 33:28

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I will turn the land into a desolate ruin; her confident pride will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate no one will pass through them.

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  • Ezek 7:24 : 24 I will bring the most wicked of the nations and they will take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.
  • Mic 7:13 : 13 The earth will become desolate because of what its inhabitants have done.
  • Ezek 24:21 : 21 Say to the house of Israel,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary– the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life’s passion. Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die by the sword.
  • Jer 44:2 : 2 “The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,‘You have seen all the disaster I brought on Jerusalem and all the towns of Judah. Indeed, they now lie in ruins and are deserted.
  • Jer 44:6 : 6 So my anger and my wrath were poured out and burned like a fire through the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. That is why they have become the desolate ruins that they are today.’
  • Jer 44:22 : 22 Finally the LORD could no longer endure your wicked deeds and the disgusting things you did. That is why your land has become the desolate, uninhabited ruin that it is today. That is why it has become a proverbial example used in curses.
  • Ezek 6:14 : 14 I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
  • Ezek 6:2-6 : 2 “Son of man, turn toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them: 3 Say,‘Mountains of Israel, Hear the word of the Sovereign LORD! This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am bringing a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. 4 Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. 5 I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars. 6 In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out.
  • 2 Chr 36:21 : 21 This took place to fulfill the LORD’s message spoken through Jeremiah and lasted until the land experienced its sabbatical years. All the time of its desolation the land rested in order to fulfill the seventy years.
  • Isa 6:11 : 11 I replied,“How long, Lord?” He said,“Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated, and houses are uninhabited, and the land is ruined and devastated,
  • Jer 9:11 : 11 The LORD said,“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. I will destroy the towns of Judah so that no one will be able to live in them.”
  • Jer 16:16 : 16 But for now I, the LORD, say:“I will send many enemies who will catch these people like fishermen. After that I will send others who will hunt them out like hunters from all the mountains, all the hills, and the crevices in the rocks.
  • Jer 25:11 : 11 This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.’
  • Ezek 30:6-7 : 6 “‘This is what the LORD says: Egypt’s supporters will fall; her confident pride will crumble. From Migdol to Syene they will die by the sword within her, declares the Sovereign LORD. 7 They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will be among ruined cities.
  • Ezek 36:4 : 4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign LORD: This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, and to the desolate ruins and the abandoned cities that have become prey and an object of derision to the rest of the nations round about–
  • Ezek 36:34-35 : 34 The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by. 35 They will say,“This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; the ruined, desolate, and destroyed cities are now fortified and inhabited.”
  • Zech 7:13-14 : 13 “‘It then came about that just as I cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,’ the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had said. 14 ‘Rather, I will sweep them away in a storm into all the nations they are not familiar with.’ Thus the land had become desolate because of them, with no one crossing through or returning, for they had made the fruitful land a waste.”
  • Ezek 12:20 : 20 The inhabited towns will be left in ruins and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
  • Ezek 15:8 : 8 I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

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  • Ezek 33:29
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    29Then they will know that I am the LORD when I turn the land into a desolate ruin because of all the abominable deeds they have committed.’

  • Lev 26:31-33
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    31I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.

    32I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.

    33I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

  • Ezek 15:8
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    8I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

  • Ezek 6:14
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    14I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 35:14-15
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    14This is what the Sovereign LORD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation.

    15As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so will I deal with you– you will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all of Edom– all of it! Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Ezek 35:3-4
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    3Say to it,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Look, I am against you, Mount Seir; I will stretch out my hand against you and turn you into a desolate ruin.

    4I will lay waste your cities; and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD!

  • Ezek 12:20
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    20The inhabited towns will be left in ruins and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Ezek 35:7-9
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    7I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin; I will cut off from it the one who passes through or returns.

    8I will fill its mountains with its dead; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall.

    9I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

  • Ezek 36:3-4
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    3So prophesy and say:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Surely because they have made you desolate and crushed you from all directions, so that you have become the property of the rest of the nations, and have become the subject of gossip and slander among the people,

    4therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign LORD: This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, and to the desolate ruins and the abandoned cities that have become prey and an object of derision to the rest of the nations round about–

  • Ezek 36:34
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    34The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

  • Ezek 30:7
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    7They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will be among ruined cities.

  • Ezek 33:27
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    27“This is what you must say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: As surely as I live, those living in the ruins will die by the sword, those in the open field I will give to the wild beasts for food, and those who are in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.

  • Ezek 6:3-4
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    3Say,‘Mountains of Israel, Hear the word of the Sovereign LORD! This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am bringing a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.

    4Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.

  • Jer 4:27
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    27All this will happen because the LORD said,“The whole land will be desolate; however, I will not completely destroy it.

  • Mic 7:13
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    13The earth will become desolate because of what its inhabitants have done.

  • Jer 12:11
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    11They will lay it waste. It will lie parched and empty before me. The whole land will be laid waste. But no one living in it will pay any heed.

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    14“I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

  • Zeph 3:6
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    6The Lord’s Judgment will Purify“I destroyed nations; their walled cities are in ruins. I turned their streets into ruins; no one passes through them. Their cities are desolate; no one lives there.

  • Isa 27:10
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    10For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the wilderness. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.

  • Ezek 25:7
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    7take note, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will hand you over as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands. I will destroy you; then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Isa 17:9
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    9At that time their fortified cities will be like the abandoned summits of the Amorites, which they abandoned because of the Israelites; there will be desolation.

  • Isa 42:15
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    15I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, and dry up pools of water.

  • Jer 19:8
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    8I will make this city an object of horror, a thing to be hissed at. All who pass by it will be filled with horror and will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.

  • Jer 9:10-11
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    10The Coming Destruction Calls For Mourning I said,“I will weep and mourn for the grasslands on the mountains, I will sing a mournful song for the pastures in the wilderness because they are so scorched no one travels through them. The sound of livestock is no longer heard there. Even the birds in the sky and the wild animals in the fields have fled and are gone.”

    11The LORD said,“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. I will destroy the towns of Judah so that no one will be able to live in them.”

  • Ezek 7:24
    75%

    24I will bring the most wicked of the nations and they will take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.

  • Jer 18:16
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    16So their land will become an object of horror. People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision.

  • Isa 24:3
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    3The earth will be completely devastated and thoroughly ransacked. For the LORD has decreed this judgment.

  • Isa 33:9
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    9The land dries up and withers away; the forest of Lebanon shrivels up and decays. Sharon is like the arid rift valley; Bashan and Carmel are parched.

  • Jer 50:3
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    3For a nation from the north will attack Babylon. It will lay her land waste. People and animals will flee out of it. No one will inhabit it.’

  • Zech 7:14
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    14‘Rather, I will sweep them away in a storm into all the nations they are not familiar with.’ Thus the land had become desolate because of them, with no one crossing through or returning, for they had made the fruitful land a waste.”

  • Ezek 32:8
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    8I will darken all the lights in the sky over you, and I will darken your land, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Ezek 14:15
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    15“Suppose I were to send wild animals through the land and kill its children, leaving it desolate, without travelers due to the wild animals.

  • Ezek 30:12
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    12I will dry up the waterways and hand the land over to evil men. I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners. I, the LORD, have spoken!

  • Amos 3:11
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    11Therefore,” says the Sovereign LORD,“an enemy will encircle the land. He will take away your power; your fortresses will be looted.”

  • Jer 25:37
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    37Their peaceful dwelling places will be laid waste by the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • Jer 51:43
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    43The towns of Babylonia have become heaps of ruins. She has become a dry and barren desert. No one lives in those towns any more. No one even passes through them.

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    15When I turn the land of Egypt into desolation and the land is destitute of everything that fills it, when I strike all those who live in it, then they will know that I am the LORD.’

  • Ezek 36:13
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    13“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because they are saying to you,“You are a devourer of men, and bereave your nation of children,”

  • Isa 5:6
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    6I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.

  • Ezek 7:27
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    27The king will mourn and the prince will be clothed with shuddering; the hands of the people of the land will tremble. Based on their behavior I will deal with them, and by their standard of justice I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the LORD!”

  • Ezek 39:5
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    5You will fall dead in the open field; for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.