Ezekiel 12:20

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

Cross References

Isaiah 24:12

Desolation is left in the city, the gates are battered into ruins.

Isaiah 24:3

The earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly despoiled; for the Lord has spoken this word.

Isaiah 3:26

And her gates shall lament and mourn; ravaged, she shall sit upon the ground.

Jeremiah 16:9

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will make to cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

Jeremiah 19:11

and shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, so that it can never be mended. Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, and for Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about; I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

Jeremiah 34:22

Behold, I will command, says the Lord, and will bring them back to this city; and they will fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.”

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has gone up from his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone forth from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.

Lamentations 5:18

for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.

Ezekiel 12:15

And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries.

Ezekiel 12:21

And the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 15:6

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 15:8

And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, says the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: Because, yea, because they made you desolate, and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people;

Ezekiel 5:14

Moreover I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations round about you and in the sight of all that pass by.

Daniel 9:17

Now therefore, O our God, hearken to the prayer of thy servant and to his supplications, and for thy own sake, O Lord, cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary, which is desolate.

Leviticus 26:31

And I will lay your cities waste, and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors.

Leviticus 26:33

And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.