Zephaniah 3:6
I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
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Zephaniah 3:6
I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
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Genesis 3:14
Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
Leviticus 26:22
I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.
2 Chronicles 36:21
to fulfill Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
2 Chronicles 36:23
“Cyrus king of Persia says, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.’ ”
Isaiah 33:8
The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.
Jeremiah 52:30
in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five people. All the people numbered four thousand six hundred.
Daniel 9:16
Lord, according to all your righteousness, please let your anger and your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.
Daniel 9:17
“Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.
Daniel 9:18
My God, turn your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
Zechariah 7:14
“but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate.”
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Genesis 6:5
Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
Genesis 8:21
Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
Hosea 10:9
“Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn’t overtake them in Gibeah.
Matthew 23:31
Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
Matthew 23:32
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
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Leviticus 18:24
“ ‘Don’t defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.
Leviticus 18:25
The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
Leviticus 18:26
You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you
Leviticus 18:28
that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Leviticus 20:23
You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
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Joshua 5:1
When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 32:21
Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, the leaders, and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own body killed him there with the sword.
Psalms 2:5
Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:
Psalms 2:10
Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
Psalms 48:4
For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.
Psalms 48:5
They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away.
Psalms 48:6
Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.
Psalms 68:12
“Kings of armies flee! They flee!” She who waits at home divides the plunder,
Psalms 68:35
You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God!
Psalms 76:12
He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth.
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Psalms 59:10
My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
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Isaiah 5:4
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
1 Timothy 2:4
who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
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Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
Isaiah 5:9
In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
Isaiah 5:25
Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.
Isaiah 14:26
This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
Jeremiah 2:15
The young lions have roared at him and raised their voices. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 4:26
I saw, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of Yahweh, before his fierce anger.
Jeremiah 9:10
I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.
Jeremiah 9:11
“I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
Jeremiah 26:9
Why have you prophesied in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be desolate, without inhabitant?’ ” All the people were crowded around Jeremiah in Yahweh’s house.
Jeremiah 32:43
Fields will be bought in this land, about which you say, ‘It is desolate, without man or animal. It is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’
Jeremiah 33:12
Yahweh of Armies says: “Yet again there will be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
Jeremiah 48:9
Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get herself away: and her cities will become a desolation, without anyone to dwell in them.
Lamentations 2:2
The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
Ezekiel 36:4
therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
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Isaiah 37:11
Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?
Isaiah 37:13
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’ ”
Isaiah 37:18
Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land,
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Jeremiah 1:15
For behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north,” says Yahweh. “They will come, and they will each set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah.
Jeremiah 5:17
They will eat up your harvest and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat. They will eat up your flocks and your herds. They will eat up your vines and your fig trees. They will beat down your fortified cities in which you trust with the sword.
Jeremiah 20:9
If I say that I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.
Jeremiah 46:19
You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis will become a desolation, and will be burned up, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51:29
The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51:37
Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
Zechariah 14:10
All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.
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Habakkuk 1:14
and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them?
Habakkuk 1:15
He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
Habakkuk 1:16
Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious and his food is good.
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Isaiah 14:16
Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,
Isaiah 14:17
who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”
Zephaniah 2:6
The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
Zephaniah 2:14
Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all kinds of animals. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.
Zephaniah 2:15
This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss and shake their fists.
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Deuteronomy 31:16
Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Deuteronomy 31:17
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
2 Chronicles 7:19
But if you turn away and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
Ezra 9:10
“Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,
Psalms 89:30
If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;
Psalms 119:53
Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked who forsake your law.
Proverbs 28:4
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.
Jeremiah 9:13
Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways,
Jeremiah 22:9
Then they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, worshiped other gods, and served them.’ ”
Zephaniah 1:6
those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
Zephaniah 3:2
She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.
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Zephaniah 3:9
For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
Zephaniah 3:20
At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says Yahweh.
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Zechariah 10:4
From him will come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.
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Matthew 12:13
Then he told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other.
Matthew 12:41
The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.
Matthew 12:42
The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.
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Luke 13:3
I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.
Luke 13:5
I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”
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Isaiah 26:9
With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Luke 17:26
As it was in the days of Noah, even so it will also be in the days of the Son of Man.
Luke 17:29
but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky and destroyed them all.
1 Corinthians 10:1
Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
1 Corinthians 10:2
and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
1 Corinthians 10:6
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.
1 Corinthians 10:11
Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
Hebrews 4:11
Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
2 Peter 2:6
and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way,
Jude 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
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Romans 1:17
For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
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