Micah 3:12
For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.
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Micah 3:12
For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.
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Genesis 6:7
And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.
2 Chronicles 36:17
So he sent against them the king of the Chaldaeans, who put their young men to death with the sword in the house of their holy place, and had no pity for any, young man or virgin, old man or white-haired: God gave them all into his hands.
Jeremiah 4:26
Looking, I saw that the fertile field was a waste, and all its towns were broken down before the Lord and before his burning wrath.
Jeremiah 12:3
But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.
Jeremiah 21:6
And I will send a great disease on the people living in this town, on man and on beast, causing their death.
Jeremiah 33:12
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Again there will be in this place, which is a waste, without man and without beast, and in all its towns, a resting-place where the keepers of sheep will make their flocks take rest.
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 14:13
Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:
Ezekiel 14:17
Or if I send a sword against that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, cutting off from it man and beast:
Ezekiel 14:19
Or if I send disease into that land, letting loose my wrath on it in blood, cutting off from it man and beast:
Ezekiel 14:21
For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?
Ezekiel 33:27
This is what you are to say to them: The Lord has said, By my life, truly, those who are in the waste places will be put to the sword, and him who is in the open field I will give to the beasts for their food, and those who are in the strong places and in holes in the rocks will come to their death by disease.
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Genesis 6:11
And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.
Genesis 6:12
And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.
Genesis 6:13
And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.
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Genesis 9:6
Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
Psalms 10:2
The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.
Psalms 10:8
He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.
Psalms 106:38
And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.
Proverbs 5:22
The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 6:16
Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:
Proverbs 6:17
Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;
Jeremiah 2:30
I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.
Lamentations 4:14
They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.
Ezekiel 35:6
For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you.
Joel 3:19
Egypt will be a waste and Edom a land of destruction, because of the evil done to the children of Judah, because they have let blood be drained out in their land without cause.
Matthew 27:25
And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.
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Genesis 22:13
And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.
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Exodus 23:6
Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.
Exodus 23:7
Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.
Leviticus 19:15
Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.
Psalms 58:1
To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?
Psalms 82:2
How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)
Proverbs 22:22
Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:
Isaiah 1:23
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
Isaiah 10:2
Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.
Jeremiah 5:26
For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.
Jeremiah 5:27
As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.
Jeremiah 7:5
For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;
Jeremiah 7:6
If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:
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Deuteronomy 29:24
Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?
Deuteronomy 29:25
Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt:
Deuteronomy 29:26
And they went after other gods and gave them worship, gods who were strange to them, and whom he had not given them:
Deuteronomy 29:27
And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this land, to send on it all the curse recorded in this book:
Deuteronomy 29:28
Rooting them out of their land, in the heat of his wrath and passion, and driving them out into another land, as at this day.
1 Kings 9:6
But if you are turned from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods and give them worship:
2 Kings 23:27
And the Lord said, I will send Judah away from before my face, as I have sent Israel; I will have nothing more to do with this town, which I had made mine, even Jerusalem, and the holy house of which I said, My name will be there.
Jeremiah 2:15
The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.
Jeremiah 25:9
See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever.
Jeremiah 25:11
All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years.
Lamentations 1:16
For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.
Ezekiel 36:4
For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about:
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Joshua 8:28
So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.
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1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were evil and good-for-nothing men, having no knowledge of the Lord.
1 Samuel 2:13
And the priests' way with the people was this: when any man made an offering, the priest's servant came while the flesh was being cooked, having in his hand a meat-hook with three teeth;
1 Samuel 2:14
This he put into the pot, and everything which came up on the hook the priest took for himself. This they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.
1 Samuel 2:15
And more than this, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was making the offering, Give me some of the flesh to be cooked for the priest; he has no taste for meat cooked in water, but would have you give it uncooked.
1 Samuel 2:16
And if the man said to him, First let the fat be burned, then take as much as you will; then the servant would say, No, you are to give it to me now, or I will take it by force.
1 Samuel 2:17
And the sin of these young men was very great before the Lord; for they gave no honour to the Lord's offerings.
1 Samuel 2:22
Now Eli was very old; and he had news from time to time of what his sons were doing to all Israel.
Jeremiah 2:26
As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;
Jeremiah 2:27
Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.
Malachi 2:8
But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 2:9
And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
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1 Kings 22:19
And he said, Give ear now to the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord seated on his seat of power, with all the army of heaven in their places round him at his right hand and at his left.
1 Kings 22:20
And the Lord said, How may Ahab be tricked into going up to Ramoth-gilead to his death? And one said one thing and one another.
1 Kings 22:21
Then a spirit came forward and took his place before the Lord and said, I will get him to do it by a trick.
1 Kings 22:22
And the Lord said, How? And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out and do so.
1 Kings 22:23
And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has said evil against you.
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2 Kings 18:3
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as David his father had done.
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2 Kings 20:17
Truly, days are coming when everything in your house, and whatever your fathers have put in store till this day, will be taken away to Babylon: all will be gone, says the Lord.
2 Kings 21:14
And I will put away from me the rest of my heritage, and give them up into the hands of their haters, who will take their property and their goods for themselves;
2 Kings 24:2
And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.
2 Chronicles 32:26
But then, Hezekiah, in sorrow for what he had done, put away his pride; and he and all Jerusalem made themselves low, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in Hezekiah's life-time.
2 Chronicles 33:11
So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.
Isaiah 37:26
Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.
Jeremiah 32:28
So this is what the Lord has said: See, I am giving this town into the hands of the Chaldaeans and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon, and he will take it:
Jeremiah 37:10
For even if you had overcome all the army of the Chaldaeans fighting against you, and there were only wounded men among them, still they would get up, every man in his tent, and put this town on fire.
Lamentations 2:2
The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.
Ezekiel 6:6
In all your living-places the towns will become broken walls, and the high places made waste; so that your altars may be broken down and made waste, and your images broken and ended, and so that your sun-images may be cut down and your works rubbed out.
Ezekiel 22:31
And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.
Zephaniah 1:13
And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.
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2 Kings 25:5
But the Chaldaean army went after the king, and overtook him in the lowlands of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.
2 Kings 25:6
And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged.
2 Kings 25:7
And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon.
2 Kings 25:8
Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem;
Jeremiah 39:4
And when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men of war saw it, they went in flight from the town by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the doorway between the two walls: and they went out by the Arabah.
Jeremiah 52:7
Then an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight out of the town by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and they went by the way of the Arabah.
Jeremiah 52:14
And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.
Micah 2:13
The opener of the way will go up before them: forcing their way out they will go on to the doorway and out through it: their king will go on before them, and the Lord at their head.
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2 Kings 15:27
In the fifty-second year of Azariah, king of Judah, Pekah, the son of Remaliah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for twenty years.
2 Chronicles 28:5
So the Lord his God gave him up into the hands of the king of Aram; and they overcame him, and took away a great number of his people as prisoners to Damascus. Then he was given into the hands of the king of Israel, who sent great destruction on him.
2 Chronicles 28:6
For Pekah, the son of Remaliah, in one day put to death a hundred and twenty thousand men of Judah, all of them good fighting-men; because they had given up the Lord, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 28:7
And Zichri, a great fighting-man of Ephraim, put to death Maaseiah, the king's son, and Azrikam, the controller of his house, and Elkanah, who was second in authority to the king.
2 Chronicles 28:18
And the Philistines, forcing their way into the towns of the lowlands and the south of Judah, had taken Beth-shemesh and Aijalon and Gederoth and Soco, with their daughter-towns, as well as Timnah and Gimzo and their daughter-towns, and were living there.
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Nehemiah 1:3
They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.
Nehemiah 2:13
And I went out by night, through the doorway of the valley, and past the dragon's water-spring as far as the place where waste material was put, viewing the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down, and the doorways which had been burned with fire.
Nehemiah 4:4
Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:
Nehemiah 4:10
And Judah said, The strength of the workmen is giving way, and there is much waste material; it is impossible for us to put up the wall.
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Job 15:28
And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.
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Job 30:24
Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?
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Psalms 80:12
Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?
Isaiah 4:3
And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:
Isaiah 5:1
Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:
Jeremiah 12:10
The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;
Ezekiel 15:2
Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any branching tree which is among the trees of the woods?
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.
Hosea 3:4
For the children of Israel will for a long time be without king and without ruler, without offerings and without pillars, and without ephod or images.
Matthew 21:19
And seeing a fig-tree by the wayside, he came to it, and saw nothing on it but leaves only; and he said to it, Let there be no fruit from you from this time forward for ever. And straight away the fig-tree became dry and dead.
Romans 11:19
You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in.
Romans 11:25
For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;
Romans 11:26
And so all Israel will get salvation: as it is said in the holy Writings, There will come out of Zion the One who makes free; by him wrongdoing will be taken away from Jacob:
Romans 11:27
And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins.
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Psalms 102:13
You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
Psalms 137:3
For there those who had taken us prisoners made request for a song; and those who had taken away all we had gave us orders to be glad, saying, Give us one of the songs of Zion.
Psalms 149:2
Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.
Isaiah 25:12
And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.
Isaiah 40:9
You who give good news to Zion, get up into the high mountain; you who give good news to Jerusalem, let your voice be strong; let it be sounding without fear; say to the towns of Judah, See, your God!
Isaiah 63:19
We have become as those who were never ruled by you, on whom your name was not named.
Jeremiah 8:1
At that time, says the Lord, they will take the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem out of their resting-places:
Jeremiah 22:5
But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste.
Ezekiel 7:19
They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.
Ezekiel 16:41
And they will have you burned with fire, sending punishments on you before the eyes of great numbers of women; and I will put an end to your loose ways, and you will no longer give payment.
Joel 1:4
What the worm did not make a meal of, has been taken by the locust; and what the locust did not take, has been food for the plant-worm; and what the plant-worm did not take, has been food for the field-fly.
Micah 2:4
In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.
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1 Kings 9:3
And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.
2 Chronicles 36:18
And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the stored wealth of the Lord's house and the wealth of the king and his chiefs, he took away to Babylon.
Psalms 74:2
Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.
Isaiah 1:10
Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
Isaiah 32:15
Till the spirit comes on us from on high, and the waste land becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field is changed into a wood.
Jeremiah 9:12
Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?
Jeremiah 17:27
But if you do not give ear to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and to let no weight be lifted and taken through the doors of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: then I will put a fire in its doorways, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem, and it will never be put out.
Daniel 9:2
In the first year of his rule, I, Daniel, saw clearly from the books the number of years given by the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremiah, in which the making waste of Jerusalem was to be complete, that is, seventy years.
Daniel 9:12
And he has given effect to his words which he said against us and against those who were our judges, by sending a great evil on us: for under all heaven there has not been done what has been done to Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:18
O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.
Amos 3:1
Give ear to this word which the Lord has said against you, O children of Israel, against all the family which I took up out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Amos 3:8
The cry of the lion is sounding; who will not have fear? The Lord God has said the word; is it possible for the prophet to keep quiet?
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2 Kings 21:16
More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
2 Kings 24:4
And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.
Proverbs 1:19
Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.
Isaiah 1:21
The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.
Isaiah 1:24
For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me;
Isaiah 10:1
Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:
Isaiah 59:6
Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.
Jeremiah 5:28
They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.
Lamentations 4:18
They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.
Micah 7:2
The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.
Matthew 23:32
Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.
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Job 4:8
What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.
Proverbs 1:31
So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.
Proverbs 31:31
Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.
Isaiah 3:10
Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.
Isaiah 3:11
Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.
Jeremiah 17:10
I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.
Jeremiah 21:14
I will send punishment on you in keeping with the fruit of your doings, says the Lord: and I will put a fire in her woodlands, burning up everything round about her.
Jeremiah 32:19
Great in wisdom and strong in act: whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, giving to everyone the reward of his ways and the fruit of his doings:
Micah 7:13
But the land will become a waste because of its people, as the fruit of their works.
Galatians 6:7
Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.
Galatians 6:8
Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.
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Isaiah 29:1
Ho! Ariel, Ariel, the town against which David made war; put year to year, let the feasts come round:
Isaiah 29:2
And I will send trouble on Ariel, and there will be weeping and cries of grief; and she will be to me as Ariel.
Isaiah 29:3
And I will make war on you like David, and you will be shut in by earthworks, and I will make towers round you.
Isaiah 29:4
And you will be made low, and your voice will come out of the earth, and your words will be low out of the dust; and your voice will come out of the earth like that of a spirit, making bird-like noises out of the dust.
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Isaiah 34:13
And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.
Isaiah 34:14
And the beasts of the waste places will come together with the jackals, and the evil spirits will be crying to one another, even the night-spirit will come and make her resting-place there.
Isaiah 34:15
The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.
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Isaiah 44:23
Make a song, O heavens, for the Lord has done it: give a loud cry, you deep parts of the earth: let your voices be loud in song, you mountains, and you woods with all your trees: for the Lord has taken up the cause of Jacob, and will let his glory be seen in Israel.
Ephesians 3:16
That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts;
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2 Chronicles 27:2
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done; but he did not go into the Temple of the Lord. And the people still went on in their evil ways.
Psalms 79:2
They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.
Psalms 79:7
For they have taken Jacob for their meat, and made waste his house.
Isaiah 2:1
The word which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 5:17
They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.
Jeremiah 34:2
The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Go and say to Zedekiah, king of Judah, This is what the Lord has said: See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire:
Jeremiah 38:18
But if you do not go out to the king of Babylon's captains, then this town will be given into the hands of the Chaldaeans and they will put it on fire, and you will not get away from them.
Lamentations 2:5
The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.
Lamentations 5:16
The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
Ezekiel 21:15
In order that hearts may become soft, and the number of those who are falling may be increased, I have sent death by the sword against all their doors: you are made like a flame, you are polished for death.
Amos 6:1
Sorrow to those who are resting in comfort in Zion, and to those who have no fear of danger in the mountain of Samaria, the noted men of the chief of the nations, to whom the people of Israel come!
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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Jeremiah 2:8
The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.
Jeremiah 14:14
Then the Lord said to me, The prophets say false words in my name, and I gave them no orders, and I said nothing to them: what they say to you is a false vision and wonder-working words without substance, the deceit of their hearts.
Jeremiah 23:11
For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:12
For this cause their steps will be slipping on their way: they will be forced on into the dark and have a fall there: for I will send evil on them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:13
And I have seen ways without sense in the prophets of Samaria; they became prophets of the Baal, causing my people Israel to go wrong.
Jeremiah 23:14
And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a shocking thing; they are untrue to their wives, walking in deceit, and they make strong the hands of evil-doers, so that a man may not be turned back from his evil-doing: they have all become like Sodom to me, and its people like Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 23:15
So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.
Ezekiel 22:28
And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing.
Ezekiel 34:3
You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.
Ezekiel 34:10
This is what the Lord has said: See I am against the keepers of the flock, and I will make search and see what they have done with my sheep, and will let them be keepers of my sheep no longer; and the keepers will no longer get food for themselves; I will take my sheep out of their mouths so that they may not be food for them.
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Jeremiah 4:20
News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste.
Jeremiah 9:10
Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.
Jeremiah 9:19
For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.
Jeremiah 12:13
Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.
Jeremiah 22:6
For this is what the Lord has said about the family of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, and the top of Lebanon: but, truly, I will make you waste, with towns unpeopled.
Lamentations 5:13
The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
Micah 1:5
All this is because of the wrongdoing of Jacob and the sins of the children of Israel. What is the wrongdoing of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
Micah 1:9
For her wounds may not be made well: for it has come even to Judah, stretching up to the doorway of my people, even to Jerusalem.
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Psalms 76:7
You, you are to be feared; who may keep his place before you in the time of your wrath?
Isaiah 7:20
In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head and of the feet, as well as the hair of the face, with a blade got for a price from the other side of the River; even with the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 7:21
And it will be in that day that a man will give food to a young cow and two sheep;
Isaiah 7:22
And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.
Jeremiah 14:3
Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.
Jeremiah 14:4
Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.
Jeremiah 14:5
And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.
Jeremiah 14:6
And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.
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Jeremiah 23:1
A curse is on the keepers who are causing the destruction and loss of the sheep of my field, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:16
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Do not give ear to the words which the prophets say to you: they give you teaching of no value: it is from themselves that their vision comes, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:17
They keep on saying to those who have no respect for the word of the Lord, You will have peace; and to everyone who goes on his way in the pride of his heart, they say, No evil will come to you.
Jeremiah 23:19
See, the storm-wind of the Lord, even the heat of his wrath, has gone out, a rolling storm, bursting on the heads of the evil-doers.
Jeremiah 26:7
And in the hearing of the priests and the prophets and all the people, Jeremiah said these words in the house of the Lord.
Jeremiah 26:8
Now, when Jeremiah had come to the end of saying everything the Lord had given him orders to say to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people took him by force, saying, Death will certainly be your fate.
Jeremiah 28:8
The prophets, who were before me and before you, from early times gave word to a number of countries and great kingdoms about war and destruction and disease.
John 5:43
I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.
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Jeremiah 50:26
Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen.
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Ezekiel 10:18
Then the glory of the Lord went out from the doorstep of the house, and came to rest over the winged ones.
Ezekiel 11:22
Then the wings of the winged ones were lifted up, and the wheels were by their side; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them on high.
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Numbers 22:7
So the responsible men of Moab and Midian went away, taking in their hands rewards for the prophet; and they came to Balaam and said to him what Balak had given them orders to say.
Psalms 9:16
The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)
Isaiah 1:15
And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 5:29
Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 7:7
Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever.
Jeremiah 7:8
See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.
Jeremiah 7:15
And I will send you away from before my face, as I have sent away all your brothers, even all the seed of Ephraim.
Jeremiah 26:20
And there was another man who was a prophet of the Lord, Uriah, the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim; he said against this town and against this land all the words which Jeremiah had said:
Ezekiel 22:2
And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a judge of the town of blood? then make clear to her all her disgusting ways.
Ezekiel 22:12
In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.
Matthew 27:4
Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.
James 3:17
But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.
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Psalms 7:16
His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.
Psalms 21:11
For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.
Proverbs 1:18
And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.
Proverbs 10:6
Blessings are on the head of the upright, but the face of sinners will be covered with sorrow.
Proverbs 22:23
For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.
Isaiah 10:3
And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?
Isaiah 10:4
...For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 59:4
No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
Isaiah 59:5
They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.
Ezekiel 22:13
See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.
Ezekiel 22:14
Will your heart be high or your hands strong in the days when I take you in hand? I the Lord have said it and will do it.
Micah 3:4
Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.
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Isaiah 3:8
For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.
Jeremiah 6:7
As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.
Jeremiah 12:12
Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.
Ezekiel 12:19
And say to the people of the land, This is what the Lord has said about the people of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will take their food with care and their drink with wonder, so that all the wealth of their land may be taken from it because of the violent ways of the people living in it.
Ezekiel 14:15
Or if I send evil beasts through the land causing destruction and making it waste, so that no man may go through because of the beasts:
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,
Hosea 4:1
Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.
Hosea 4:3
Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.
Hosea 13:16
Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.
Amos 5:11
So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.
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 1:9
And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.
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Hosea 5:8
Let the horn be sounded in Gibeah and in Ramah; give a loud cry in Beth-aven, They are after you, O Benjamin.
Amos 1:5
And I will have the locks of the door of Damascus broken, and him who is seated in power cut off from the valley of Aven, and him in whose hand is the rod from the house of Eden; and the people of Aram will go away as prisoners into Kir, says the Lord.
Zechariah 9:10
And he will have the war-carriage cut off from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be cut off: and he will say words of peace to the nations: and his rule will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
Zechariah 9:17
For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.
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Jeremiah 23:2
So this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said against the keepers who have the care of my people: You have let my flock be broken up, driving them away and not caring for them; see, I will send on you the punishment for the evil of your doings, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:18
For which of them has knowledge of the secret of the Lord, and has seen him, and given ear to his word? which of them has taken note of his word and given attention to it?
Jeremiah 23:20
The wrath of the Lord will not be turned back till he has done, till he has put into effect, the purposes of his heart: in days to come you will have full knowledge of this.
Jeremiah 23:21
I did not send these prophets, but they went running: I said nothing to them, but they gave out the prophet's word.
Jeremiah 26:2
This is what the Lord has said: Take your place in the open square of the Lord's house and say to all the towns of Judah, who come into the Lord's house for worship, everything I give you orders to say to them: keep back not a word;
Lamentations 2:14
The visions which your prophets have seen for you are false and foolish; they have not made clear to you your sin so that your fate might be changed: but they have seen for you false words, driving you away.
Ezekiel 22:25
Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her.
Ezekiel 34:2
Son of man, be a prophet against the keepers of the flock of Israel, and say to them, O keepers of the sheep! this is the word of the Lord: A curse is on the keepers of the flock of Israel who take the food for themselves! is it not right for the keepers to give the food to the sheep?
Micah 3:5
This is what the Lord has said about the prophets by whom my people have been turned from the right way; who, biting with their teeth, say, Peace; and if anyone puts nothing in their mouths they make ready for war against him.
Micah 3:7
And the seers will be shamed, and the readers of the future will be at a loss, all of them covering their lips; for there is no answer from God.
Zechariah 11:5
Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.
John 16:2
They will put you out of the Synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever puts you to death will have the belief that he is doing God's pleasure.
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Micah 4:7
And I will make her whose steps were uncertain a small band, and her who was feeble a strong nation: and the Lord will be their King in Mount Zion from now and for ever.
Micah 4:13
Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
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Proverbs 24:3
The building of a house is by wisdom, and by reason it is made strong:
Jeremiah 22:13
A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;
Jeremiah 22:14
Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.
Jeremiah 22:15
Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?
Haggai 1:4
Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?
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Malachi 1:6
A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?
Malachi 1:7
You put unclean bread on my altar. And you say, How have we made it unclean? By your saying, The table of the Lord is of no value.
Malachi 1:8
And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 2:1
And now, O you priests, this order is for you.
Malachi 2:3
See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.
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Ecclesiastes 3:16
And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.
Ezekiel 20:26
I made them unclean in the offerings they gave, causing them to make every first child go through the fire, so that I might put an end to them.
Amos 7:9
And the high places of Isaac will be unpeopled, and the holy places of Israel will be made waste; and I will come up against the family of Jeroboam with the sword.
Zechariah 12:1
The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:
2 Timothy 3:16
Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:
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Deuteronomy 33:9
Who said of his father, Who is he? and of his mother, I have not seen her; he kept himself separate from his brothers and had no knowledge of his children: for they have given ear to your word and kept your agreement.
1 Kings 22:14
And Micaiah said, By the living Lord, whatever the Lord says to me I will say.
Job 32:21
Let me not give respect to any man, or give names of honour to any living.
Job 32:22
For I am not able to give names of honour to any man; and if I did, my Maker would quickly take me away.
Matthew 22:16
And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we see that you are true, and that you are teaching the true way of God, and have no fear of anyone, because you have no respect for a man's position.
Mark 12:14
And when they had come, they said to him, Master, we are certain that you are true, and have no fear of anyone: you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God: Is it right to give taxes to Caesar or not?
Luke 20:21
And they put a question to him, saying, Master, we are certain that your teaching and your words are right, and that you have no respect for a man's position, but you are teaching the true way of God:
2 Corinthians 5:16
For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.
Galatians 1:10
Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 2:6
But from those who seemed to be important (whatever they were has no weight with me: God does not take man's person into account): those who seemed to be important gave nothing new to me;
1 Thessalonians 2:4
But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested.
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Psalms 69:25
Give their houses to destruction, and let there be no one in their tents.
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!
Matthew 23:38
See, your house is made waste.
Matthew 24:1
And Jesus went out of the Temple, and on the way his disciples came to him, pointing out the buildings of the Temple.
Matthew 24:3
And while he was seated on the Mountain of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Make clear to us, when will these things be? and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the world?
Luke 19:41
And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it,
Luke 19:42
Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.
Luke 21:20
But when you see armies all round about Jerusalem, then be certain that her destruction is near.
Luke 21:21
Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains; and those who are in the middle of the town go out; and let not those who are in the country come in.
Luke 21:22
For these are the days of punishment, in which all the things in the Writings will be put into effect.
Luke 21:23
It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people.
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John 11:47
Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs.
John 11:48
If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation.
John 11:49
But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You have no knowledge of anything;
John 11:50
You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.
John 11:51
He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation;
John 11:52
And not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the children of God all over the world.
John 11:53
And from that day they took thought together how to put him to death.
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Ezekiel 20:46
Son of man, let your face be turned to the south, let your words be dropped to the south, and be a prophet against the woodland of the South;
Matthew 21:18
Now in the morning when he was coming back to the town, he had a desire for food.
Romans 11:20
Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear;
Romans 11:21
For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you.
Romans 11:22
See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.
Romans 11:23
And they, if they do not go on without faith, will be united to the tree again, because God is able to put them in again.
Romans 11:24
For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?
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Leviticus 26:14
But if you do not give ear to me, and do not keep all these my laws;
Leviticus 26:34
Then will the land take pleasure in its Sabbaths while it is waste and you are living in the land of your haters; then will the land have rest.
Leviticus 26:43
And the land, while she is without them, will keep her Sabbaths; and they will undergo the punishment of their sins, because they were turned away from my decisions and in their souls was hate for my laws.
Leviticus 26:44
But for all that, when they are in the land of their haters I will not let them go, or be turned away from them, or give them up completely; my agreement with them will not be broken, for I am the Lord their God.
Deuteronomy 29:23
And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:
Joshua 23:15
And you will see that, as all the good things which the Lord your God undertook to do for you, have come to you, so the Lord will send down on you all the evil things till he has made your destruction complete, and you are cut off from the good land which the Lord your God has given you.
2 Kings 22:16
These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even everything which the king of Judah has been reading in the book;
Isaiah 3:1
For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;
Jeremiah 15:3
And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them.
Jeremiah 15:4
And I will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and what he did in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 35:17
For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, I will send on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem all the evil which I said I would do to them: because I sent my words to them, but they did not give ear; crying out to them, but they gave no answer.
2 Peter 3:11
Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness,
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