Ezekiel 12:20

Ezekiel Dramatizes Israel's Anxiety

¹⁹ and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, [and despoiled] of all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein. ²⁰ The cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. ²¹ The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

I Am the Lord

Know that I Am the Lord

Jehovah

Isaiah 7:23-24

It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

Isaiah 3:26

Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Isaiah 24:3

The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.

Isaiah 24:12

The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

Isaiah 64:10-11

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

Jeremiah 4:23-29

I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste 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 Yahweh of Armies, 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 gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

Jeremiah 19:11

and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that can't be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there be no place to bury.

Jeremiah 24:8-10

As the bad figs, which can't be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus says Yahweh, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt,

Jeremiah 34:22

Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, 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 inhabitant.

Lamentations 5:18

For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.

Ezekiel 15:6

Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 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

I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the Lord Yahweh.

Daniel 9:17

Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.