Zechariah 7:14

New Century Version

‘I scattered them like a hurricane to other countries they did not know. This good land was left so ruined behind them that no one could live there. They had made the desired land a ruin.’ ”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:21

And so what the Lord had told Israel through the prophet Jeremiah happened: The country was an empty wasteland for seventy years to make up for the years of Sabbath rest that the people had not kept.

Psalm 58:9

His anger will blow them away alive faster than burning thorns can heat a pot.

Isaiah 17:13

The people roar like the waves, but when God speaks harshly to them, they will run away. They will be like chaff on the hills being blown by the wind, or like tumbleweeds blown away by a storm.

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 60:15

“You have been hated and left empty with no one passing through. But I will make you great from now on; you will be a place of happiness forever and ever.

Isaiah 66:15

Look, the Lord is coming with fire and his armies with clouds of dust. He will punish those people with his anger; he will punish them with flames of fire.

Jeremiah 12:10

Many shepherds have ruined my vineyards and trampled the plants in my field. They have turned my beautiful field into an empty desert.

Jeremiah 23:19

Look, the punishment from the Lord will come like a storm. His anger will be like a hurricane. It will come swirling down on the heads of those wicked people.

Jeremiah 30:23

Look! It is a storm from the Lord! He is angry and has gone out to punish the people. Punishment will come like a storm crashing down on the evil people.

Jeremiah 36:19

Then the officers said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah must go and hide, and don’t tell anyone where you are.”

Jeremiah 44:6

So I showed my great anger against them. I poured out my anger in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem so they are only ruins and piles of stones today.

Jeremiah 5:15

Listen, family of Israel,” says the Lord, “I will soon bring a nation from far away to attack you. It is an old nation that has lasted a long time. The people there speak a language you do not know; you cannot understand what they say.

Jeremiah 52:30

in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan, commander of the king’s special guards, took 745 Jews as captives. In all 4,600 people were taken captive.

Ezekiel 12:19

Then say to the people of the land: ‘This is what the Lord God says about the people who live in Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They will eat their food with fear and drink their water in shock, because their land will be stripped bare because of the violence of the people who live in it.

Ezekiel 22:15

I will scatter you among the nations and spread you through the countries. That is how I will get rid of your uncleanness.

Ezekiel 5:10

So parents among you will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and will scatter to the winds all who are left alive.

Daniel 8:9

Then a little horn grew from one of those four horns, and it became very big. It grew to the south, the east, and toward the beautiful land of Judah.

Hosea 9:17

God will reject them, because they have not obeyed him; they will wander among the nations.

Joel 2:3

In front of them a fire destroys; in back of them a flame burns. The land in front of them is like the garden of Eden; the land behind them is like an empty desert. Nothing will escape from them.

Leviticus 26:22

I will send wild animals to attack you, and they will take your children away from you and destroy your cattle. They will make you so few in number the roads will be empty.

Leviticus 26:33

I will scatter you among the nations, and I will pull out my sword and destroy you. Your land will become empty, your cities a waste.

Amos 1:14

So I will send fire on the city wall of Rabbah that will destroy its strong buildings. It will come during a day of battle, during a stormy day with strong winds.

Nahum 1:3

The Lord does not become angry quickly, and his power is great. The Lord will not let the guilty go unpunished. Where the Lord goes, there are whirlwinds and storms, and the clouds are the dust beneath his feet.

Habakkuk 3:14

With the enemy’s own spear you stabbed the leader of his army. His soldiers rushed out like a storm to scatter us. They were happy as they were robbing the poor people in secret.

Zephaniah 3:6

“I have destroyed nations; their towers were ruined. I made their streets empty so no one goes there anymore. Their cities are ruined; no one lives there at all.

Zechariah 2:6

“Oh no! Oh no! Run away from Babylon, because I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven,” says the Lord.

Zechariah 8:1

The Lord All-Powerful spoke his word, saying,

Zechariah 9:14

Then the Lord will appear above them, and his arrows will shoot like lightning. The Lord God will blow the trumpet, and he will march in the storms of the south.

Deuteronomy 28:33

People you don’t know will eat the crops your land and hard work have produced. You will be mistreated and abused all your life.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the world, and it will swoop down like an eagle. You won’t understand their language,

Deuteronomy 28:64

Then the Lord will scatter you among the nations—from one end of the earth to the other. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known.

Deuteronomy 4:27

The Lord will scatter you among the other nations. Only a few of you will be left alive, and those few will be in other nations where the Lord will send you.