Zephaniah 3:6

New American Bible - revised edition

I have cut down nations, their battlements are laid waste; I have made their streets deserted, with no one passing through; Their cities are devastated, with no one dwelling in them.

Cross References

Isaiah 14:26

This is the plan proposed for the whole earth, and this the hand outstretched over all the nations.

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of the Lord went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. Early the next morning, there they were, all those corpses, dead!

Isaiah 6:11

“How long, O Lord?” I asked. And he replied: Until the cities are desolate, without inhabitants, Houses, without people, and the land is a desolate waste.

Jeremiah 9:12

The Lord said: Because they have abandoned my law, which I set before them, and did not listen to me or follow it,

Leviticus 26:31

I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries, refusing your sweet-smelling offerings.

Zephaniah 2:5

Ah! You who dwell by the seacoast, the nation of Cherethites, the word of the Lord is against you! O Canaan, land of the Philistines, I will leave you to perish without an inhabitant!

Zechariah 7:14

And I will scatter them among all the nations that they do not know. So the land was left desolate behind them with no one moving about, and they made a pleasant land into a wasteland.

Matthew 23:38

Behold, your house will be abandoned, desolate.

1 Corinthians 10:11

These things happened to them as an example, and they have been written down as a warning to us, upon whom the end of the ages has come.

1 Corinthians 10:6

These things happened as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil things, as they did.

Joshua 23:4

See, I have apportioned among your tribes as their heritage the nations that survive, as well as those I destroyed, between the Jordan and the Great Sea in the west.