Quotes About Land

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on Zedekiah.

But Nebuzaradan captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.

There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.

So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.

I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.í”

Doom has come to you, O inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near; there is panic on the mountains instead of shouts of joy.

Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

“Son of man, your brothers—your relatives, your fellow exiles, and the whole house of Israel—are those of whom the people of Jerusalem have said, ëThey are far away from the LORD; this land has been given to us as a possession.í

Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ëI will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries to which you have been scattered, and I will give back to you the land of Israel.í

Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: ëThey will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it.

The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.í”

Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,

Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ëLet a sword pass through it,í so that I cut off from it both man and beast,

Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,

Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,í declares the Lord GOD.”

When the nations heard of him, he was trapped in their pit. With hooks they led him away to the land of Egypt.

He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.

Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.

Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—

When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.

And I will purge you of those who rebel and transgress against Me. I will bring them out of the land in which they dwell, but they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the land that I swore to give your fathers.