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; he is on his way, he has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
• Isa 7:23–24It 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.
• Jer 25:9behold, 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. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
• Isa 3:26Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.
• Ezek 15:6Therefore 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.
• Dan 9:17Now 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.
• Jer 19:11and shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “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 is no place to bury.
• Jer 12:10–12Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
• Jer 4:23–29I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
• Ezek 15:8I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass,” says the Lord Yahweh.
• Isa 24:12The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
• Jer 16:9For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “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.
• Lam 5:18For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.
• Jer 24:8–10“‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely Yahweh says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
• Isa 64:10–11Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
• Isa 24:3The earth will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word.
• Jer 34:22Behold, I will command,” says Yahweh, “and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

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