Ezekiel 12:20

Ezekiel Dramatizes Israel's Anxiety

¹⁹ And say unto the people of the land, Thus says the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink their water with dismay, that their land may be emptied from all who are in it, because of the violence of all them that dwell in it. ²⁰  And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD. ²¹ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

I Am the Lord

Know that I Am the Lord

Jehovah

Isaiah 7:23-24

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there could be a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, it shall even be briers and thorns.

Jeremiah 4:7

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

Isaiah 3:26

And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

Jeremiah 25:9

Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Isaiah 24:3

The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly plundered: for the LORD has spoken this word.

Isaiah 24:12

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is stricken with destruction.

Isaiah 64:10-11

Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 4:23-29

I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; 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 says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

Jeremiah 19:11

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

Jeremiah 24:8-10

And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad; surely thus says the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the rest of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:

Jeremiah 34:22

Behold, I will command, says the LORD, and 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 an inhabitant.

Lamentations 5:18

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

Ezekiel 15:6

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; As the vine tree 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 desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the Lord GOD.

Daniel 9:17

Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of your servant, and his supplications, and cause your face to shine upon your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.