Zephaniah 3:6

"I have destroyed nations their fortifications are deserted. I have turned their main thoroughfares into wastelands where no one will travel. Their cities are desolate; as a result, not one man remains no, not even a single resident.

Leviticus 26:31

I'll lay your cities to waste and destroy your sanctuaries so I don't have to smell the scent of your soothing odors.

Isaiah 10:1-34

"How terrible it will be for the one who enacts unjust decrees, for those who write oppressive laws that they have prescribed

Isaiah 15:1-9

A message concerning Moab: "For Ir in Moab is destroyed in a night, and Moab is ruined! Because Ir in Moab is destroyed in a single night, Moab is ruined!

Isaiah 19:1-25

A message about Egypt: "Watch out! The LORD rides on a swift cloud, and is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him, and the hearts of the Egyptians melt within them.

Isaiah 37:11-13

Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all countries, dooming them to destruction. So do you think you will be saved?

Isaiah 37:24-26

By your messengers you have insulted the LORD, and you have said, "With my many chariots I have climbed the heights of mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its pines; I reached its remotest heights, the most verdant of its forests.

Isaiah 37:36

After this, the angel of the LORD went out and put to death 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When Hezekiah's army awakened in the morning there were all the dead bodies!

Jeremiah 25:9-11

I'm now sending for all the tribes from the north, declares the LORD, and for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I'll bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I'll utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting desolation.

Jeremiah 25:18-26

Jerusalem, the cities of Judah, its kings and officials to make them into a ruin, an object of horror and scorn, and a curse, as it is this day;

Nahum 2:1-3

You are being attacked by advancing forces! Guard your rampart! Watch your roads! Prepare yourselves! Marshall your defenses!

Zephaniah 2:5

Woe to those who live along the coast, the people of Philistia! This message from the LORD is being spoken against you, Canaan, land of the Philistines: "I'll destroy you until no one lives there!'

Zechariah 7:14

"I will scatter them to all of the nations, which they have not known.'" Now the earth was left desolate after them. As a result, no one came or went because they had turned a pleasant land into a desert.

1 Corinthians 10:6

Now their experiences serve as examples for us so that we won't set our hearts on evil as they did.

1 Corinthians 10:11

These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down as a warning for us in whom the culmination of the ages has been attained.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

Bible References

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Isaiah 37:11
Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all countries, dooming them to destruction. So do you think you will be saved?
Jeremiah 25:9
I'm now sending for all the tribes from the north, declares the LORD, and for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I'll bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I'll utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting desolation.
1 Corinthians 10:6
Now their experiences serve as examples for us so that we won't set our hearts on evil as they did.

General references

Isaiah 14:26
"This is what I've planned for the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
Jeremiah 9:13
The LORD said, "It is because they have forsaken my Law that I gave them. They didn't obey me and didn't live according to it.
Ezekiel 32:32
"because he spread terror throughout the land of the living. Therefore he'll be laid to rest among the uncircumcised, who have been killed violently; that is, Pharaoh and all of his hordes," declares the Lord GOD.

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