Ezekiel 12:20 Cross References - ISV

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.”’”

²⁶ and her gates lament and mourn. Ravaged, she will sit on the ground.”

²³ “At that time, every place where once there were a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briars and thorns will grow.
²⁴ “People will come there armed with bows and arrows, because the entire land will be nothing but briers and thorns.

³ The earth will be utterly depopulated and completely laid waste — for the LORD has spoken this message.

¹² Desolation remains in the city whose gates lie battered into ruins.

¹⁰ Your holy cities have become a desert; Zion has become like a desert, Jerusalem a desolation. ¹¹ Our holy Temple and our splendor, where our ancestors praised you, have become a conflagration of fire, and all our dearest places have become ruins.

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.

²³ A Vision of ChaosI looked at the earth, and it was formless and void, at the heavens, and there was no light there. ²⁴ I looked at the mountains; they were quaking, and all the hills moved back and forth. ²⁵ I looked, and no people were there. All the birds of the sky had gone. ²⁶ I looked, and the fruitful land had become a desert. All its towns were broken down because of the LORD, because of his burning anger. ²⁷ For this is what the LORD says: “The entire land will be devastated, but I won’t completely destroy it. ²⁸ Because of this, the land will mourn, and the heavens above will be dark. Because I have spoken and decided, I won’t turn back from doing it.”
²⁹ A Lament for ZionAt the sound of the horseman and the archer the entire city flees. Its residents go into the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned, and no one lives in them.

¹⁰ Many shepherds will destroy my vineyard. They’ll trample down my portion. They’ll turn my pleasant portion into a desolate desert. ¹¹ They’ll make it into a desolate place, and, desolate, it will cry out in mourning to me. The whole land will be desolate because no one takes it to heart. ¹² On all the barren heights in the desert destroyers will come. Indeed, a sword of the LORD will devour from one end of the land to the other. There will be no peace for any person.

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.

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.

⁸ “‘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. ⁹ I’ll make them into a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms of the earth; into a cause for contempt, into a byword, into a taunt, and into a curse in all the places to which I drive them. ¹⁰ I’ll send the sword, famine, and plague against them until they’re completely destroyed from the land which I gave them and their ancestors.’”

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.

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.’”

¹⁸ Because Mount Zion is desolate; foxes roam around it.

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

⁸ and dedicate the land to desolation because of their unfaithful unbelief,” declares the Lord GOD.

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.