Ezekiel 35:14

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This is what the Sovereign LORD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation.

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  • Isa 14:7-8 : 7 The whole earth rests and is quiet; they break into song. 8 The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing,‘Since you fell asleep, no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’
  • Isa 65:13-15 : 13 So this is what the Sovereign LORD says:“Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry! Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty! Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated! 14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; you will wail because your spirits will be crushed. 15 Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. The Sovereign LORD will kill you, but he will give his servants another name.
  • Jer 51:48 : 48 Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will sing for joy over Babylon. For destroyers from the north will attack it,” says the LORD.

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  • Ezek 35:15
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    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
    2 verses
    83%

    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 15:8
    80%

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

  • Ezek 35:7-13
    7 verses
    80%

    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.

    10“‘You said,“These two nations, these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,”– although the LORD was there–

    11therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will deal with you according to your anger, and according to your envy, by which you acted spitefully against them. I will reveal myself to them when I judge you.

    12Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying,“They are desolate, they have been given to us for food.”

    13You exalted yourselves against me with your speech and hurled many insults against me– I have heard them all!

  • Ezek 33:28-29
    2 verses
    79%

    28I 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.

    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.’

  • Ezek 5:14-15
    2 verses
    79%

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

    15You will be an object of scorn and taunting, a prime example of destruction among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken!

  • Lev 26:31-33
    3 verses
    78%

    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 36:2-6
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    2This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The enemy has spoken against you, saying“Aha!” and,“The ancient heights have become our property!”’

    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–

    5therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Surely I have spoken in the fire of my zeal against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who with great joy and utter contempt have made my land their property and prey, because of its pasture.’

    6“Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I have spoken in my zeal and in my anger, because you have endured the insults of the nations.

  • Ezek 6:14
    78%

    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 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,”

  • Ezek 25:6-7
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    6For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you clapped your hands, stamped your feet, and rejoiced with intense scorn over the land of Israel,

    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.’”

  • Ezek 36:34-36
    3 verses
    77%

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

    35They will say,“This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; the ruined, desolate, and destroyed cities are now fortified and inhabited.”

    36Then the nations which remain around you will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken– and I will do it!’

  • Ezek 12:20
    77%

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

  • Jer 4:27
    77%

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

  • Ezek 32:15
    76%

    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 32:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

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

    9I will disturb many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, among countries you do not know.

  • Ezek 26:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19“For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging waters overwhelm you,

    20then I will bring you down to bygone people, to be with those who descend to the Pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand in the land of the living.

  • Ezek 30:7
    75%

    7They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will be among ruined cities.

  • Jer 12:11
    75%

    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.

  • Mic 7:13
    75%

    13The earth will become desolate because of what its inhabitants have done.

  • Ezek 6:3
    74%

    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.

  • Ezek 25:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her, and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die by the sword.

    14I will exact my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will carry out in Edom my anger and rage; they will experience my vengeance, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”

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

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