Leviticus 26:31

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

Cross References

Nehemiah 2:3

and replied to the king, ‘May the king live for ever! Why should I  not be sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins and its gates have been destroyed by fire? ’

Hebrews 10:26

For if we deliberately go on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Ezekiel 9:6

Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, as well as the children and older women,  but do not come near anyone who has the mark.  Begin at my sanctuary.’  So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.

Lamentations 2:7

The Lord has rejected his altar, repudiated his sanctuary; he has handed the walls of her palaces over to the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the  Lord as on the day of an appointed festival.

Lamentations 1:10

The adversary has seized all her precious belongings. She has even seen the nations enter her sanctuary – those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has gone up from his thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to make your land a waste. Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.

Acts 6:14

For we heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.’

Luke 21:24

They will be killed by the sword   , and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles   , until the times of the Gentiles   are fulfilled.

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be ploughed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the temple’s mountain will be a high thicket.

Ezekiel 24:21

Say to the house of Israel, “This is what the Lord God says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your heart. Also, the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 21:15

I have appointed a sword  for slaughter at all their gates, so that their hearts may melt and many may stumble. Yes! It is ready to flash like lightning; it is drawn  for slaughter.

Ezekiel 21:7

And when they ask you, “Why are you groaning? ” then say, “Because of the news that is coming.  Every heart will melt, and every hand will become weak. Every spirit will be discouraged, and all knees will run with urine.  , Yes, it is coming and it will happen. This is the declaration of the Lord God.” ’

Ezekiel 6:6

Wherever you live the cities will be in ruins and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will lie in ruins and be desecrated,  your idols smashed and obliterated, your shrines cut down, and what you have made wiped out.

Lamentations 1:1

How  she sits alone, the city  once crowded with people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow. The princess among the provinces has been put to forced labour.

Jeremiah 52:13

He burned the Lord’s temple, the king’s palace, all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down all the great houses.

Jeremiah 26:9

How dare you prophesy in the name of the Lord, “This temple will become like Shiloh and this city will become an uninhabited ruin”! ’ Then all the people crowded around Jeremiah at the Lord’s temple.

Jeremiah 26:6

I will make this temple like Shiloh.  I will make this city an example for cursing for all the nations of the earth.” ’

Jeremiah 22:5

But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by myself   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #that this house will become a ruin.” ’

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.

Isaiah 66:3

One person slaughters an ox, another kills a person; one person sacrifices a lamb, another breaks a dog’s neck; one person offers a grain offering, another offers pig’s blood; one person offers incense, another praises an idol – all these have chosen their ways and delight in their abhorrent practices.

Isaiah 1:7

Your land is desolate, your cities burned down; foreigners devour your fields right in front of you – a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.

Nehemiah 2:17

So I said to them, ‘You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins and its gates have been burned.  Come, let’s rebuild Jerusalem’s wall,  so that we will no longer be a disgrace.’

2 Chronicles 36:19

Then the Chaldeans burned God’s temple.  They tore down Jerusalem’s wall, burned all its palaces, and destroyed all its valuable articles.

Genesis 8:21

When the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma,  he said to himself, ‘I will never again curse the ground  because of human beings, even though the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth onward.  And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

2 Kings 22:19

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord   when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse,  and because you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I myself have heard” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, ‘Until when, Lord? ’  And he replied: Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants, houses are without people, the land is ruined and desolate,

Isaiah 63:18

Your holy people had a possession for a little while, but our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.

Jeremiah 44:2

‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought against Jerusalem and all Judah’s cities. Look, they are a ruin today without an inhabitant in them

Jeremiah 44:6

So my fierce wrath poured out and burned in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets  so that they became the desolate ruin they are today.

Daniel 2:46

Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell face down, worshipped Daniel, and gave orders to present an offering and incense to him.

Amos 7:9

Isaac’s high places  will be deserted, and Israel’s sanctuaries will be in ruins; I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.’

Zephaniah 3:6

I have cut off nations; their corner towers  are destroyed. I have laid waste their streets, with no one to pass through. Their cities lie devastated, without a person, without an inhabitant.

Nehemiah 1:3

They said to me, ‘The remnant in the province,  who survived the exile, are in great trouble and disgrace. Jerusalem’s wall has been broken down, and its gates have been burned.’

Isaiah 64:9

Lord, do not be terribly angry or remember our iniquity for ever. Please look #– #all of us are your people!

Jeremiah 4:26

I looked, and the fertile field  was a wilderness. All its cities were torn down because of the  Lord and his burning anger.

Jeremiah 4:27

For this is what the Lord says: ‘The whole land will be a desolation, but I will not finish it off.

Lamentations 2:6

He has wrecked his temple as if it were merely a shack in a field, destroying his place of meeting. The Lord has abolished appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion. He has despised king and priest in his fierce anger.

Ezekiel 12:20

The inhabited cities will be destroyed, and the land will become dreadful. Then you will know that I am the Lord.” ’