who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behin
Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the op
Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their kinsmen—women, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a great d
I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderne
I will raise up Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild My city and set My exiles
And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom an
And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a d
“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, h