Leviticus 26:31-32

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³¹And I will ^(A)lay your cities waste and will ^(B)make your sanctuaries desolate, and ^(C)I will not smell your pleasing aromas. ³²And ^(D)I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be ^(E)appalled at it.

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2 Chronicles 30:7

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⁷^(A)Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the Lord God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.

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Jeremiah 25:18

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¹⁸^(A)Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, ^(B)to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;

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Jeremiah 44:22

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²²^(A)The Lord could no longer bear your evil deeds and ^(B)the abominations that you committed. ^(C)Therefore your land has become ^(D)a desolation and a waste and a curse, ^(E)without inhabitant, as it is this day.

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Micah 6:16

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¹⁶For you have kept the statutes of ^(A)Omri,^[a]
    and all the works of the house of ^(B)Ahab;
    and you have walked in their counsels,
that I may make you ^(C)a desolation, and your^[b] inhabitants ^(D)a hissing;
    so you shall bear ^(E)the scorn of my people.”