Zephaniah 1:2
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The Coming Judgment on Judah
2 (A)“I will utterly sweep away everything
from the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.
2 Kings 22:16-17
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16 Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read. 17 (A)Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore (B)my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.
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Micah 7:13
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13 But (A)the earth will be desolate
because of its inhabitants,
for the fruit of their deeds.
Ezekiel 33:27-29
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27 Say this to them, Thus says the Lord God: (A)As I live, surely those who are in (B)the waste places shall fall by (C)the sword, and whoever is in the open field I will give to (D)the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in (E)strongholds and in caves shall die by (F)pestilence. 28 (G)And I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and (H)her proud might shall come to an end, and (I)the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that none will pass through. 29 (J)Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations that they have committed.
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Jeremiah 36:29
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29 And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord, You have burned this scroll, saying, (A)“Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cut off from it man and beast?”
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Jeremiah 24:8-10
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8 “But thus says the Lord: Like (A)the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat (B)Zedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who (C)dwell in the land of Egypt. 9 I will make them (D)a horror[a] to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be (E)a reproach, (F)a byword, (G)a taunt, and (H)a curse in all the places where I shall drive them. 10 And I will send (I)sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.”
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- Jeremiah 24:9 Compare Septuagint; Hebrew horror for evil
Jeremiah 6:8-9
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8 Be warned, O Jerusalem,
(A)lest I turn from you in disgust,
lest I make you (B)a desolation,
an uninhabited land.”
9 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
(C)“They shall glean thoroughly as a vine
the remnant of Israel;
like a grape gatherer pass your hand again
over its branches.”
Isaiah 6:11
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11 Then I said, (A)“How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until (B)cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,
2 Chronicles 36:21
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21 to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had (A)enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate (B)it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
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Genesis 6:7
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7 So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
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