Leviticus 26:32

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to settle in it shall be appalled at it.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:8

This house will become a heap of ruins; everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this house?’

Isaiah 24:1

Now the Lord is about to lay waste the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Isaiah 5:9

The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing: Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said, “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is utterly desolate;

Isaiah 64:10

Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 12:11

They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no one lays it to heart.

Jeremiah 18:16

making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. All who pass by it are horrified and shake their heads.

Jeremiah 19:8

And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.

Jeremiah 25:11

This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jeremiah 25:18

Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, an object of hissing and of cursing, as they are today;

Jeremiah 25:38

Like a lion he has left his den, for their land has become a waste because of the cruel anger and because of his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 33:10

Thus says the Lord: In this place of which you say, “It is a waste without humans or animals,” in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without inhabitants, human or animal, there shall once more be heard

Jeremiah 44:2

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You yourselves have seen all the disaster that I have brought on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah. Look at them; today they are a desolation, without an inhabitant in them,

Jeremiah 44:22

The Lord could no longer bear the sight of your evil doings, the abominations that you committed; therefore your land became a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is to this day.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

Lamentations 4:12

The kings of the earth did not believe, nor did any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

Lamentations 5:18

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.

Ezekiel 5:15

You shall be a mockery and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations around you when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury and with furious punishments—I, the Lord, have spoken—

Daniel 9:18

Incline your ear, O my God, and hear. Open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that bears your name. We do not present our supplication before you on the ground of our righteousness but on the ground of your great mercies.

Daniel 9:2

I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, must be fulfilled for the devastation of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

Habakkuk 3:17

Though the fig tree does not blossom and no fruit is on the vines; though the produce of the olive fails and the fields yield no food; though the flock is cut off from the fold and there is no herd in the stalls,

Luke 21:20

“When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.

Deuteronomy 28:37

You shall become an object of horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you.