Ezekiel 12:20

Ezekiel Dramatizes Israel's Anxiety

¹⁹ Then tell the people of the land, "This is what the LORD says to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to Israel's land: "They'll eat their food in anxiety and drink their water in trepidation, because their land will be desolate in its entirety due to all the violence committed by all who live in it. ²⁰ The towns that are inhabited will lie in ruins, because the land will be devastated. Then they'll learn that I am the LORD."'" ²¹ Later, this message came to me from the LORD:

I Am the Lord

Know that I Am the Lord

Jehovah

Isaiah 7:23-24

"At that time, every place where once there were a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briars and thorns will grow.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his place to make your land a waste. Your cities will be ruined, and without inhabitants.

Isaiah 3:26

and her gates lament and mourn. Ravaged, she will sit on the ground."

Jeremiah 25:9

I'm now sending for all the tribes from the north, declares the LORD, and for my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I'll bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I'll utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and scorn, and an everlasting desolation.

Isaiah 24:3

The earth will be utterly depopulated and completely laid waste for the LORD has spoken this message.

Isaiah 24:12

Desolation remains in the city whose gates lie battered into ruins.

Isaiah 64:10-11

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

Jeremiah 4:23-29

I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void, at the heavens, and there was no light there.

Jeremiah 12:10-12

Many shepherds will destroy my vineyard. They'll trample down my portion. They'll turn my pleasant portion into a desolate desert.

Jeremiah 16:9

For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "In this place I'm about to bring an end to the sounds of happiness and rejoicing, the sounds of the bridegroom and the bride. I'll do it in front of your eyes and in your time.

Jeremiah 19:11

and say to them, "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "In this same way I'll break this people and this city, just as someone breaks a potter's vessel which he then cannot put back together again. They'll bury corpses in Topheth until there is no more room to bury anyone.

Jeremiah 24:8-10

""Like the bad figs that are too bad to be eaten for this is what the LORD says so I'll give up on Zedekiah king of Judah, along with his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem that is left in this land, and those living in the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 34:22

Look, I'm in command of them,' declares the LORD, "and I'll bring them back to this city. They'll capture it and burn it with fire, and I'll turn the towns of Judah into desolate places without inhabitants.'"

Lamentations 5:18

Because Mount Zion is desolate; foxes roam around it.

Ezekiel 15:6

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "Just as the wood from a grape vine is removed from the forest and used for kindling fires, I'm giving the inhabitants of Jerusalem over

Ezekiel 15:8

and dedicate the land to desolation because of their unfaithful unbelief," declares the Lord GOD.

Daniel 9:17

"So now, O God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his requests, and look with favor on your desolate sanctuary, for the sake of the Lord.