Ezekiel 12:19

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Ezekiel 12:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible

17 Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

18 “Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.

19 Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: ‘They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it.

20 The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

21 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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1 Kings 17:10

So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”

1 Kings 17:11

And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread.”

1 Kings 17:12

But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”

Ezekiel 6:6

Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.

Ezekiel 6:7

The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 6:14

I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,

Isaiah 6:11

Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,

Jeremiah 4:27

For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.

Jeremiah 9:10

I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.

Jeremiah 9:11

“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Jeremiah 10:22

Listen! The sound of a report is coming— a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made a desolation, a haunt for jackals.

Jeremiah 18:16

They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

Jeremiah 32:28

Therefore this is what the LORD says: Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will capture it.

Jeremiah 33:10

This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again

Jeremiah 33:12

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: In this desolate place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will once more be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.

Micah 7:13

Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.

Zechariah 7:14

But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”

Psalms 24:1

The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.

1 Corinthians 10:26

for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”

1 Corinthians 10:28

But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience—

Ezekiel 7:23

Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

Genesis 6:11

Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.

Genesis 6:12

And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.

Genesis 6:13

Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.

Psalms 107:34

and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.

Jeremiah 6:7

As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

Micah 3:10

who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Micah 3:11

Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.