Bible Cross References
shall not
Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 51:43
Her cities are desolate, a dry land and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwells, nor does any son of man pass by it.
Jeremiah 50:12
your mother shall be deeply ashamed; she who bore you shall be embarrassed. Behold, the last of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land and a desert.
Jeremiah 50:13
Because of the wrath of Jehovah it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly a waste. Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be horrified and hiss at all her plagues.
Isaiah 13:19-22
19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the majestic beauty of Chaldea, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20
It shall nevermore be inhabited, nor shall it be lived in from generation to generation; nor shall the Arabian pitch his tent there; nor shall the shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
21
But the wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of howling creatures; and young owls shall dwell there, and wild goats shall skip about.
22
And howling beasts shall respond from desolate places, and dragons in the delightful palaces. Indeed, her time will soon come to pass, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Isaiah 14:23
I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog, and marshes of muddy water; and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says Jehovah of Hosts.
desolate for ever
Jeremiah 50:40
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors, says Jehovah, so no man shall remain there, nor shall any son of man live in it.
Jeremiah 50:41
Behold, a people shall come from the north, even a great nation; and many kings shall be aroused from the ends of the earth.
Isaiah 34:8-17
8
For it is the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of retribution for the strife against Zion.
9
And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.
10
It shall not be quenched night or day; its smoke shall ascend forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; no one shall pass through it forever and forever.
11
But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; the owl also, and the raven, shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out over it the line of chaos, and the stones of emptiness.
12
They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but no one shall be there, and all its rulers shall be nothing.
13
And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it shall be a habitation of dragons and a dwelling for young owls.
14
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the howling beasts; and the shaggy goat shall cry to his fellow. The night creature also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
15
There the great owl shall make her nest, and lay and hatch, and gather them under her shadow; there shall the birds of prey also be gathered, every one with her mate.
16
Search from the book of Jehovah, and read; not one of these shall fail, not one shall lack her mate; for My mouth has commanded, and His Spirit has gathered them.
17
And He has cast the lot for them, and His hand has divided it unto them by measuring line; they shall possess it perpetually, from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.
Revelation 18:20-24
20
Rejoice over her, O Heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on her!
21
Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall by no means be found anymore.
22
The sound of harpists, musicians, flutists, and trumpeters shall by no means be heard in you anymore. No craftsman of any craft shall ever be found in you anymore, and the sound of a millstone shall by no means be heard in you anymore.
23
And the light of a lamp shall not ever shine in you anymore, and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not ever be heard in you anymore. For your merchants were the great men of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations were led astray.
24
And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth.