Ezekiel 12:20

The inhabited cities will be ruined and the land made desolate, so that they will know He is the LORD.

Cross-references · 17

• Jer 4:7A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.
• Isa 7:23–24And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
• Jer 25:9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
• Isa 3:26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
• Ezek 15:6Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem.
• Dan 9:17So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.
• Jer 19:11and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.
• Jer 12:10–12Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
• Jer 4:23–29I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.
• Ezek 15:8Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
• Isa 24:12The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.
• Jer 16:9For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
• Lam 5:18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
• Jer 24:8–10But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.
• Isa 64:10–11Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
• Isa 24:3The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.
• Jer 34:22Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

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