Zephaniah 3:6

“I have cut off nations;
Their corner towers are in ruins.
I have made their streets desolate,
With no one passing by;
Their cities are laid waste,
Without a man, without an inhabitant.

Leviticus 26:31

I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.

Isaiah 10:1-34

Woe to those who enact evil statutes
And to those who constantly record unjust decisions,

Isaiah 15:1-9

The oracle concerning Moab.
Surely in a night Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined;
Surely in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.

Isaiah 19:1-25

The oracle concerning Egypt.
Behold, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt;
The idols of Egypt will tremble at His presence,
And the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

Isaiah 37:11-13

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be spared?

Isaiah 37:24-26

“Through your servants you have reproached the Lord,
And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains,
To the remotest parts of Lebanon;
And I cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses.
And I will go to its highest peak, its thickest forest.

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, all of these were dead.

Jeremiah 25:9-11

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

Jeremiah 25:18-26

Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them a ruin, a horror, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day;

Nahum 2:1-3

The one who scatters has come up against you.
Man the fortress, watch the road;
Strengthen your back, summon all your strength.

Zephaniah 2:5

Woe to the inhabitants of the seacoast,
The nation of the Cherethites!
The word of the Lord is against you,
O Canaan, land of the Philistines;
And I will destroy you
So that there will be no inhabitant.

Zechariah 7:14

“but I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is desolated behind them so that no one went back and forth, for they made the pleasant land desolate.”

1 Corinthians 10:6

Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved.

1 Corinthians 10:11

Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

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
Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be spared?
Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved.

General references

Isaiah 14:26
This is the plan devised against the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out against all the nations.
Jeremiah 9:13
The Lord said, “Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice nor walked according to it,
Ezekiel 32:32
“Though I instilled a terror of him in the land of the living, yet he will be made to lie down among the uncircumcised along with those slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his hordes,” declares the Lord God.

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