Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—
She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale
Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of H
I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain
The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise
The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses
I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of A
The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a th
Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be lai
I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them
The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off the
Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter y
The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim se
and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelr
You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed i
For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there the
I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by t
Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship
I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,
I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds
Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolishe
Set the empty pot on its coals until it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt within; its rust w
Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said
Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepher
But when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting, “Thes
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land
Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush hi
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes of the Dispersion: Greetings.