Ezekiel 12:19

Ezekiel Dramatizes Israel's Anxiety

¹⁸ "Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with anxious shaking. ¹⁹ Then say to the people of the land, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in fright, for their land will be stripped bare of all it contains because of the violence of all who live in it. ²⁰ The inhabited towns will be left in ruins and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the Lord.'"

Inhabitants of Jerusalem

Land of Israel

People of the Land

Says the Lord

Thus Says the Lord

This Is What The Lord Says

Israel

Jehovah

Jerusalem

Zechariah 7:14

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."

Ezekiel 6:6-7

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.

Ezekiel 6:14

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!"

Micah 7:13

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

Jeremiah 10:22

Listen! News is coming even now. The rumble of a great army is heard approaching from a land in the north. It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble, places where only jackals live.

Ezekiel 7:23

(Make the chain, because the land is full of murder and the city is full of violence.)

Genesis 6:11-13

The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence.

1 Kings 17:10-12

So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, "Please give me a cup of water, so I can take a drink."

Psalm 24:1

A psalm of David. The Lord owns the earth and all it contains, the world and all who live in it.

Psalm 107:34

and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

Isaiah 6:11

I replied, "How long, sovereign master?" He said, "Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated, and houses are uninhabited, and the land is ruined and devastated,

Jeremiah 4:27

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

Jeremiah 6:7

As a well continually pours out fresh water so it continually pours out wicked deeds. Sounds of violence and destruction echo throughout it. All I see are sick and wounded people.'

Jeremiah 9:10-11

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."

Jeremiah 18:16

So 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.

Jeremiah 32:28

Therefore I, the Lord, say: 'I will indeed hand this city over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the Babylonian army. They will capture it.

Jeremiah 33:10

"I, the Lord, say: 'You and your people are saying about this place, "It lies in ruins. There are no people or animals in it." That is true. The towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem will soon be desolate, uninhabited either by people or by animals. But happy sounds will again be heard in these places.

Jeremiah 33:12

"I, the Lord who rules over all, say: 'This place will indeed lie in ruins. There will be no people or animals in it. But there will again be in it and in its towns sheepfolds where shepherds can rest their sheep.

Ezekiel 4:16

Then he said to me, "Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror

Ezekiel 36:3

So 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,

Micah 3:10-12

You build Zion through bloody crimes, Jerusalem through unjust violence.

1 Corinthians 10:26

for the earth and its abundance are the Lord's.

1 Corinthians 10:28

But if someone says to you, "This is from a sacrifice," do not eat, because of the one who told you and because of conscience --