Ezekiel 12:20

Ezekiel Dramatizes Israel's Anxiety

¹⁹ and say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with astonishment, because her land shall be left desolate of all that is in it, for the violence of all them that dwell therein. ²⁰ And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. ²¹ And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

I Am the Lord

Know that I Am the Lord

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Isaiah 7:23-24

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver pieces, shall become briars and thorns:

Jeremiah 4:7

The lion is come up from his thicket, the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate; thy cities shall be laid waste, without inhabitant.

Isaiah 3:26

and her gates shall lament and mourn; and, stripped, she shall sit upon the ground.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual wastes.

Isaiah 24:3

The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.

Isaiah 24:12

desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten, a ruin.

Isaiah 64:10-11

Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 4:23-29

I beheld the earth, and lo, it was waste and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light.

Jeremiah 12:10-12

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness:

Jeremiah 16:9

For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

Jeremiah 19:11

and shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again. And they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury.

Jeremiah 24:8-10

And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten for badness, surely, thus saith Jehovah: So will I make Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 34:22

Behold, I command, saith Jehovah, and I will cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

Lamentations 5:18

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.

Ezekiel 15:6

Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 15:8

And I will make the land a desolation, because they have wrought unfaithfulness, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Daniel 9:17

And now, our God, hearken to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.