Ezekiel 15:8
And I will make the land a waste because they have done evil, says the Lord.
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Ezekiel 15:8
And I will make the land a waste because they have done evil, says the Lord.
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Exodus 19:5
If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:
Revelation 1:6
And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to his God and Father; to him let glory and power be given for ever and ever. So be it.
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Joshua 22:16
This is what all the meeting of the people of the Lord has said, What is this wrong which you have done against the God of Israel, turning back this day from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, and being false to the Lord?
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1 Chronicles 10:13
So death came to Saul because of the sin which he did against the Lord, that is, because of the word of the Lord which he kept not; and because he went for directions to one who had an evil spirit,
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2 Chronicles 36:14
And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 36:15
And the Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them by his servants, sending early and frequently, because he had pity on his people and on his living-place;
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.
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Psalms 31:12
I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.
Isaiah 30:14
And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.
Isaiah 47:14
Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.
Jeremiah 48:38
On all the house-tops of Moab and in its streets there is weeping everywhere; for Moab has been broken like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, says the Lord.
Luke 4:2
For forty days, being tested by the Evil One. And he had no food in those days; and when they came to an end, he was in need of food.
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Psalms 89:40
All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.
Psalms 89:41
All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.
Psalms 89:42
You have given power to the right hand of his haters; you have made glad all those who are against him.
Psalms 89:43
His sword is turned back; you have not been his support in the fight.
Psalms 89:44
You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth.
Psalms 89:45
You have made him old before his time; he is covered with shame. (Selah.)
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Psalms 107:4
They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.
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Psalms 52:5
But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)
Psalms 80:11
It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.
Psalms 80:14
Come back, O God of armies: from heaven let your eyes be turned to this vine, and give your mind to it,
Isaiah 3:14
The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.
Isaiah 5:2
And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.
Isaiah 5:3
And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.
Isaiah 5:4
Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?
Isaiah 5:5
And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;
Isaiah 5:6
And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.
Isaiah 6:13
And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).
Jeremiah 11:16
You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.
Jeremiah 31:28
And it will come about that, as I have been watching over them for the purpose of uprooting and smashing down and overturning and sending destruction and causing trouble; so I will be watching over them for the purpose of building up and planting, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 19:12
But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.
Ezekiel 20:47
And say to the woodland of the South, Give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said: See, I will have a fire lighted in you, for the destruction of every green tree in you and every dry tree: the flaming flame will not be put out, and all faces from the south to the north will be burned by it.
Matthew 3:10
And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.
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2 Chronicles 36:21
So that the words of the Lord, which he said by the mouth of Jeremiah, might come true, till the land had had pleasure in her Sabbaths; for as long as she was waste the land kept the Sabbath, till seventy years were complete.
Isaiah 24:3
The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord.
Isaiah 24:4
The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.
Isaiah 24:5
The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.
Isaiah 24:6
For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.
Isaiah 24:7
The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.
Isaiah 24:8
The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.
Isaiah 24:9
There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.
Isaiah 24:10
The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.
Isaiah 24:11
There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.
Isaiah 24:12
In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.
Jeremiah 25:10
And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.
Ezekiel 33:29
Then they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a waste and a cause of wonder, because of all the disgusting things which they have done,
Zephaniah 1:3
I will take away man and beast; I will take away the birds of the heaven and the fishes of the sea; causing the downfall of the evil-doers, and cutting man off from the face of the earth, says the Lord.
Zephaniah 1:18
Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.
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Jeremiah 9:11
And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.
Jeremiah 16:16
See, I will send for great numbers of fishermen, says the Lord, and they will take them like fish in a net; and after that, I will send for numbers of bowmen, and they will go after them, driving them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
Jeremiah 44:2
The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: You have seen all the evil which I have sent on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah; and now, this day they are waste and unpeopled;
Jeremiah 44:6
Because of this, my passion and my wrath were let loose, burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are waste and unpeopled as at this day.
Jeremiah 44:22
And the Lord was no longer able to put up with the evil of your doings and the disgusting things you did; and because of this your land has become a waste and a cause of wonder and a curse, with no one living in it, as at this day.
Ezekiel 12:20
And the peopled towns will be made waste, and the land will become a wonder; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 33:28
And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through.
Ezekiel 36:34
And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.
Ezekiel 36:35
And they will say, This land which was waste has become like the garden of Eden; and the towns which were unpeopled and wasted and pulled down are walled and peopled.
Micah 7:13
But the land will become a waste because of its people, as the fruit of their works.
Zechariah 7:13
And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:
Zechariah 7:14
But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.
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Ezekiel 3:20
Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.
James 1:13
Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test:
James 1:14
But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.
James 1:15
Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.
James 1:16
Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers.
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Ezekiel 14:23
They will give you comfort when you see their ways and their doings: and you will be certain that not for nothing have I done all the things I have done in it, says the Lord.
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Isaiah 1:8
And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.
Ezekiel 17:6
And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves.
Ezekiel 19:10
Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.
Matthew 21:43
For this reason I say to you, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.
John 15:1
I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.
Romans 11:17
But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,
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Matthew 8:11
And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven:
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Matthew 8:12
But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.
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Matthew 21:33
Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.
Matthew 21:34
And when the time for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the workmen, to get the fruit.
Matthew 21:35
And the workmen made an attack on his servants, giving blows to one, putting another to death, and stoning another.
Matthew 21:36
Again, he sent other servants more in number than the first: and they did the same to them.
Matthew 21:37
But after that he sent his son to them, saying, They will have respect for my son.
Matthew 21:38
But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage.
Matthew 21:39
And they took him and, driving him out of the vine-garden, put him to death.
Matthew 21:40
When, then, the lord of the vine-garden comes, what will he do to those workmen?
Matthew 21:41
They say to him, He will put those cruel men to a cruel death, and will let out the vine-garden to other workmen, who will give him the fruit when it is ready.
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