Isaiah 13:20

New Century Version

No one will ever live there or settle there again. No Arab will put a tent there; no shepherd will bring sheep there.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 17:11

Some of the Philistines brought gifts and silver to Jehoshaphat as he demanded. Some Arabs brought him flocks: seventy-seven hundred sheep and seventy-seven hundred goats.

Job 3:7

Let that night be empty, with no shout of joy to be heard.

Song of Solomon 1:7

Tell me, you whom I love, where do you feed your sheep? Where do you let them rest at noon? Why should I look for you near your friend’s sheep, like a woman who wears a veil?

Isaiah 14:23

“I will make Babylon fit only for owls and for swamps. I will sweep Babylon as with a broom of destruction,” says the Lord All-Powerful.

Isaiah 21:1

This is a message about the Desert by the Sea: Disaster is coming from the desert like wind blowing in the south. It is coming from a terrible country.

Isaiah 25:2

You have made the city a pile of rocks and have destroyed her walls. The city our enemies built with strong walls is gone; it will never be built again.

Isaiah 34:17

God has divided the land among them, and he has given them each their portion. So they will own that land forever and will live there year after year.

Jeremiah 49:33

“The city of Hazor will become a home for wild dogs; it will be an empty desert forever. No one will live there, and no one will stay in it.”

Jeremiah 50:13

Because of the Lord’s anger, no one will live there. She will be completely empty. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be shocked. They will shake their heads when they see all her injuries.

Jeremiah 50:21

“Attack the land of Merathaim. Attack the people who live in Pekod. Chase them, kill them, and completely destroy them. Do everything I commanded you!” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:3

A nation from the north will attack Babylon and make it like an empty desert. No one will live there; both people and animals will run away.”

Jeremiah 50:39

“Desert animals and hyenas will live there, and owls will live there, but no people will ever live there again. She will never be filled with people again.

Jeremiah 50:45

So listen to what the Lord has planned to do against Babylon. Listen to what he has decided to do to the people in the city of Babylon. He will surely drag away the young ones of Babylon. Their hometowns will surely be shocked at what happens to them.

Jeremiah 51:25

The Lord says, “Babylon, you are a destroying mountain, and I am against you. You have destroyed the whole land. I will put my hand out against you. I will roll you off the cliffs, and I will make you a burned-out mountain.

Jeremiah 51:29

The land shakes and moves in pain, because the Lord will do what he has planned to Babylon. He will make Babylon an empty desert, where no one will live.

Jeremiah 51:37

Babylon will become a pile of ruins, a home for wild dogs. People will be shocked by what happened there. No one will live there anymore.

Jeremiah 51:43

Babylon’s towns are ruined and empty. It has become a dry, desert land, a land where no one lives. People do not even travel through Babylon.