Isaiah 24:10
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10 The city of confusion is broken down;
Every house is shut up, so that none may go in.
Revelation 18:2
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2 And he cried [a]mightily with a loud voice, saying, (A)“Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and (B)has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and (C)a cage for every unclean and hated bird!
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- Revelation 18:2 NU, M omit mightily
Revelation 17:5-6
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5 And on her forehead a name was written:
(A)MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.
6 I saw (B)the woman, drunk (C)with the blood of the saints and with the blood of (D)the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.
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Revelation 11:7-8
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The Witnesses Killed
7 When they (A)finish their testimony, (B)the beast that ascends (C)out of the bottomless pit (D)will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them. 8 And their dead bodies will lie in the street of (E)the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, (F)where also [a]our Lord was crucified.
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- Revelation 11:8 NU, M their
Luke 21:24
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24 And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles (A)until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
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Luke 19:43
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43 For days will come upon you when your enemies will (A)build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side,
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Matthew 23:34-35
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34 (A)Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: (B)some of them you will kill and crucify, and (C)some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, 35 (D)that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, (E)from the blood of righteous Abel to (F)the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
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Micah 3:12
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12 Therefore because of you
Zion shall be (A)plowed like a field,
(B)Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
And (C)the mountain of the [a]temple
Like the bare hills of the forest.
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- Micah 3:12 Lit. house
Micah 2:13
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13 The one who breaks open will come up before them;
They will break out,
Pass through the gate,
And go out by it;
(A)Their king will pass before them,
(B)With the Lord at their head.”
Jeremiah 52:13-14
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13 He burned the house of the Lord and the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire. 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.
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Jeremiah 52:7
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7 Then the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled and went out of the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans were near the city all around. And they went by way of the [a]plain.
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- Jeremiah 52:7 Or Arabah; the Jordan Valley
Jeremiah 39:8
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8 (A)And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the houses of the people with (B)fire, and broke down the (C)walls of Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 39:4
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4 (A)So it was, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled and went out of the city by night, by way of the king’s garden, by the gate between the two walls. And he went out by way of the [a]plain.
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- Jeremiah 39:4 Or Arabah; the Jordan Valley
Jeremiah 9:25-26
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25 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that (A)I will punish all who are circumcised with the uncircumcised— 26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all who are in the (B)farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are (C)uncircumcised in the heart.”
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Isaiah 34:13-15
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13 And (A)thorns shall come up in its palaces,
Nettles and brambles in its fortresses;
(B)It shall be a habitation of jackals,
A courtyard for ostriches.
14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the [a]jackals,
And the wild goat shall bleat to its companion;
Also [b]the night creature shall rest there,
And find for herself a place of rest.
15 There the arrow snake shall make her nest and lay eggs
And hatch, and gather them under her shadow;
There also shall the hawks be gathered,
Every one with her mate.
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- Isaiah 34:14 Lit. howling creatures
- Isaiah 34:14 Heb. lilith
Isaiah 34:11
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11 (A)But the [a]pelican and the [b]porcupine shall possess it,
Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
And (B)He shall stretch out over it
The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
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- Isaiah 34:11 Or owl
- Isaiah 34:11 Or hedgehog
Isaiah 32:14
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14 (A)Because the palaces will be forsaken,
The bustling city will be deserted.
The forts and towers will become lairs forever,
A joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks—
Isaiah 27:10
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10 Yet the fortified city will be (A)desolate,
The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness;
There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down
And consume its branches.
Isaiah 25:2
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2 For You have made (A)a city a ruin,
A fortified city a ruin,
A palace of foreigners to be a city no more;
It will never be rebuilt.
Isaiah 24:12
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12 In the city desolation is left,
And the gate is stricken with destruction.
Isaiah 23:1
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Proclamation Against Tyre
23 The (A)burden[a] against Tyre.
Wail, you ships of Tarshish!
For it is laid waste,
So that there is no house, no harbor;
From the land of [b]Cyprus it is revealed to them.
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- Isaiah 23:1 oracle, prophecy
- Isaiah 23:1 Heb. Kittim, western lands, especially Cyprus
2 Kings 25:9-10
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9 (A)He burned the house of the Lord (B)and the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, (C)he burned with fire. 10 And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard (D)broke down the walls of Jerusalem all around.
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2 Kings 25:4
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4 Then (A)the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans were still encamped all around against the city. And (B)the king[a] went by way of the [b]plain.
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- 2 Kings 25:4 Lit. he
- 2 Kings 25:4 Or Arabah, the Jordan Valley
Genesis 11:9
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9 Therefore its name is called [a]Babel, (A)because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
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- Genesis 11:9 Lit. Confusion, Babylon
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