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Isaiah 13:19-22
And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. . . .

Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.

Ezekiel 6:14
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.'"

Joel 2:3
Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland--surely nothing will escape them.

Zephaniah 2:13, 14
And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert. . . .

opened not the house of his prisoners.

Isaiah 45:13
I will raise up Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild My city and set My exiles free, but not for payment or reward, " says the LORD of Hosts.

Isaiah 58:6
Is not the fast I have chosen to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and tear off every yoke?

2 Chronicles 28:8-15
Then the Israelites took 200, 000 captives from their kinsmen--women, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a great deal of plunder and brought it to Samaria. . . .

Ezra 1:2-4
"This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: 'The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. . . .