Look, the LORD is ready to devastate the earth and leave it in ruins; he will mar its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

看哪，耶和华使地空虚，变为荒凉；又翻转大地，将居民分散。

看哪，耶和华使地空虚，变为荒芜，地面扭曲，居民四散。

看哪，耶和华使地空虚，变为荒芜，地面扭曲，居民四散。

看啊，耶和华必摧毁大地，使大地荒凉。祂毁坏地面，驱散万民。

看哪！耶和华使大地空虚，变为荒凉；他必翻转地面，使地上的居民四散。

看哪！耶和华使大地空废，变得荒凉；又使地面扭曲，使地上的居民四散。

看哪，耶和華使地空虛，變為荒涼；又翻轉大地，將居民分散。

看哪，耶和華使地空虛，變為荒蕪，地面扭曲，居民四散。

看哪，耶和華使地空虛，變為荒蕪，地面扭曲，居民四散。

看啊，耶和華必摧毀大地，使大地荒涼。祂毀壞地面，驅散萬民。

看哪！耶和華使大地空虛，變為荒涼；他必翻轉地面，使地上的居民四散。

看吧，永恆主必將大地弄空，使它變為荒蕪；他必扭歪地的面貌，使它的居民四散。

看哪！耶和華使大地空廢，變得荒涼；又使地面扭曲，使地上的居民四散。

耶和華使大地空虛荒蕪、傾而覆之、散其居民、

耶和華使斯土荒蕪、國家傾覆、居民離散、

主使斯地空虛、使之荒蕪、傾而覆之、傾而覆之原文作傾覆其面使其居民離散、

See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants—

The Lord is going to completely destroy everything on earth. He will twist its surface. He’ll scatter those who live on it.

Behold, the Lord will empty the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

Look! The Lord is about to destroy the earth and make it a vast wasteland. He devastates the surface of the earth and scatters the people.

Look, the LORD is stripping the earth bare and making it desolate. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:

Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, twists its surface, and scatters its inhabitants.

Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste, Distorts its surface And scatters abroad its inhabitants.

Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare and making it desolate. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:

Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, and dry up pools of water.

Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Their hearts faint, their knees tremble, each stomach churns, each face turns pale!

I replied,“ How long, sovereign master?” He said,“ Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated, and houses are uninhabited, and the land is ruined and devastated,and the LORD has sent the people off to a distant place, and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned.

They will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.

The earth will stagger around like a drunk; it will sway back and forth like a hut in a windstorm. Its sin will weigh it down, and it will fall and never get up again.

Like a lion that has come up from its lair the one who destroys nations has set out from his home base. He is coming out to lay your land waste. Your cities will become ruins and lie uninhabited.

The inhabited towns will be left in ruins and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.

Please recall the word you commanded your servant Moses:‘ If you act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the nations.

Your land is devastated, your cities burned with fire. Right before your eyes your crops are being destroyed by foreign invaders. They leave behind devastation and destruction.Daughter Zion is left isolated, like a hut in a vineyard, or a shelter in a cucumber field; she is a besieged city.If the LORD who commands armies had not left us a few survivors, we would have quickly become like Sodom, we would have become like Gomorrah.

This is what the sovereign LORD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation.

I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known anything about. I will send people chasing after them with swords until I have destroyed them.’”

I will destroy Jerusalem the same way I did Samaria and the dynasty of Ahab. I will wipe Jerusalem clean, just as one wipes a plate on both sides.

Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.

Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker,“ He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter,“ He doesn’t understand”?

In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out.

The LORD protects those residing outside their native land; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.

For the fortified city is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the desert. Calves graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare.

Set the empty pot on the coals, until it becomes hot and its copper glows, until its uncleanness melts within it and its rot is consumed.

The land dries up and withers away; the forest of Lebanon shrivels up and decays. Sharon is like the desert; Bashan and Carmel are parched.

The LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.

“ I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away as captives among all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once- happy houses in the city filled with revelry.For the fortress is neglected; the once-crowded city is abandoned. Hill and watchtower are permanently uninhabited. Wild donkeys love to go there, and flocks graze there.

“ I said,‘ I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.

Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the LORD will drive you.

The LORD will bring on you, your people, and your father’s family a time unlike any since Ephraim departed from Judah– the king of Assyria!”At that time the LORD will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.All of them will come and make their home in the ravines between the cliffs, and in the crevices of the cliffs, in all the thorn bushes, and in all the watering holes.At that time the sovereign master will use a razor hired from the banks of the Euphrates River, the king of Assyria, to shave the head and the pubic hair; it will also shave off the beard.At that time a man will keep alive a young cow from the herd and a couple of goats.From the abundance of milk they produce, he will have sour milk for his meals. Indeed, everyone left in the heart of the land will eat sour milk and honey.At that time every place where there had been a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels will be overrun with thorns and briers.With bow and arrow men will hunt there, for the whole land will be covered with thorns and briers.They will stay away from all the hills that were cultivated, for fear of the thorns and briers. Cattle will graze there and sheep will trample on them.

“ Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” says the LORD who rules over all. Strike the shepherd that the flock may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the insignificant ones.It will happen in all the land, says the LORD, that two-thirds of the people in it will be cut off and die, but one-third will be left in it.Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say,‘ These are my people,’ and they will say,‘ The LORD is my God.’”

Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah there at Mizpah,“ Let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah before anyone knows about it. Otherwise he will kill you and all the Judeans who have rallied around you will be scattered. Then what remains of Judah will disappear.”

“ The people of Israel are like scattered sheep which lions have chased away. First the king of Assyria devoured them. Now last of all King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has gnawed their bones.

When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, screaming,“ These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world have come here too,

From James, a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. Greetings!