I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices. Cross References 2 Kings 22:19 because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,' declares the LORD. Nehemiah 2:3 and replied to the king, "May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?" Isaiah 6:11 Then I asked: "How long, O Lord?" And He replied: "Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged, Isaiah 63:18 For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary. Jeremiah 44:2 "This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster that I brought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, they lie today in ruins and desolation Jeremiah 44:6 Therefore My wrath and anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so that they have become the desolate ruin they are today. Lamentations 2:7 The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast. Ezekiel 6:6 Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out. Daniel 2:46 At this, King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, paid homage to Daniel, and ordered that an offering of incense be presented to him. Amos 5:21 "I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. Amos 7:9 The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword." Zephaniah 3:6 "I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant. Treasury of Scripture And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the smell of your sweet odors. And I will make 2 Kings 25:4-10 2 Chronicles 36:19 Nehemiah 2:3,17 and bring Psalm 74:3-8 Jeremiah 22:5 Jeremiah 26:6,9 I will not smell Genesis 8:21 Isaiah 1:11-14 Isaiah 66:3 |