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Jeremiah 49:17

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“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

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Ezekiel 35:7rank 6

I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

Jeremiah 50:13rank 5

Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.

Jeremiah 49:13rank 4

For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”

I Kings 9:8rank 3

And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

Jeremiah 18:16rank 3

They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

Jeremiah 51:37rank 3

Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.

Zephaniah 2:15rank 2

This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

Ezekiel 25:13rank 2

therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

Micah 6:16rank 2

You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”

Ezekiel 35:15rank 2

As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

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