Ezekiel 35:4
I will lay waste your cities; and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD!
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- Ezek 35:9 : 9 I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Mal 1:3-4 : 3 and rejected Esau. I turned Esau’s mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals.” 4 Edom says,“Though we are devastated, we will once again build the ruined places.” So the LORD of Heaven’s Armies responds,“They indeed may build, but I will overthrow. They will be known as the land of evil, the people with whom the LORD is permanently displeased.
- Ezek 35:12 : 12 Then 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.”
- Joel 3:19 : 19 Egypt will be desolate and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, because of the violence they did to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
- Exod 9:14 : 14 For this time I will send all my plagues on your very self and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
- Exod 14:4 : 4 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will chase after them. I will gain honor because of Pharaoh and because of all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So this is what they did.
- Ezek 6:6-7 : 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. 7 The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the LORD.
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- Ezek 35:7-126 verses90%
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.”
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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 35:14-152 verses83%
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 33:28-292 verses83%
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.’
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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.’”
- Ezek 6:13-142 verses82%
13Then you will know that I am the LORD– when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak, the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
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.
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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.
- Ezek 6:6-72 verses79%
6In 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.
7The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the LORD.
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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.
- Lev 26:31-333 verses79%
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.
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8I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
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7They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will be among ruined cities.
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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–
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4My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For I will hold you responsible for your behavior, and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that I am the LORD!
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16You will be profaned within yourself in the sight of the nations; then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
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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.’
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10You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
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17I will exact great vengeance upon them with angry rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I exact my vengeance upon them.’”
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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!’
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23I will send a plague into the city and bloodshed into its streets; the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it from every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
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14I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.
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14I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it, and you will know that I am the LORD.
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10They will know that I am the LORD; my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty.’
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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!”
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6and her daughters who are in the field will be slaughtered by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
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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,”
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31I will pour out my anger on you; the fire of my fury I will blow on you. I will hand you over to brutal men, who are skilled in destruction.
- Ezek 6:3-42 verses75%
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.
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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,
- Ezek 7:8-92 verses74%
8Soon now I will pour out my rage on you; I will fully vent my anger against you. I will judge you according to your behavior. I will hold you accountable for all your abominable practices.
9My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable, and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who is striking you.
- Ezek 36:33-342 verses74%
33“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will populate the cities and the ruins will be rebuilt.
34The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.
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9I will disturb many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, among countries you do not know.
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8“Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I– even I– am against you, and I will execute judgment among you while the nations watch.
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11I will destroy the cities of your land, and tear down all your fortresses.
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4The LORD told Jeremiah,“Tell Baruch,‘The LORD says,“I am about to tear down what I have built and to uproot what I have planted. I will do this throughout the whole earth.
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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.