Ezekiel 15:8
Good News Translation
They have been unfaithful to me, and so I will make the country a wilderness." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.

New Revised Standard Version
And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, says the Lord GOD.

Contemporary English Version
I will make their country an empty wasteland, because they have not been loyal to me. I, the LORD God, have spoken.

New American Bible
Yes, I will make the land desolate, because they are so unfaithful— oracle of the Lord GOD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and desolate, because they have been transgressors, saith the Lord God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and desolate, because they have been transgressors, saith the Lord God.

I will

Ezekiel 6:14 And I will stretch forth my hand upon them: and I will make the land desolate, and abandoned from the desert of Deblatha in all their dwelling places: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 14:13-21 Son of man, when a land shall sin against me, so as to transgress grievously, I will stretch forth my hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof: and I will send famine upon it, and will destroy man and beast out of it. . . .

Ezekiel 33:29 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have made their land waste and desolate, for all their abominations which they have committed.

Isaiah 6:11 And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate.

Isaiah 24:3-12 With desolation shall the earth be laid waste, and it shall be utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word. . . .

Jeremiah 25:10,11 And I will take away from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the mill and the light of the lamp. . . .

Zephaniah 1:18 Neither shall their silver and their gold be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: all the land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy destruction of all them that dwell in the land.

2 Chronicles 36:14-16 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people wickedly transgressed according to all the abominations of the Gentiles: and they defiled the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself in Jerusalem. . . .

Context
Jerusalem the Useless Vine
7And I will set my face against them: they shall go out from fire, and fire shall consume them: and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have set my face against them. 8And I shall have made their land a wilderness, and desolate, because they have been transgressors, saith the Lord God.
Cross References
Exodus 21:8
If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.

Ezekiel 14:13
Son of man, when a land shall sin against me, so as to transgress grievously, I will stretch forth my hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof: and I will send famine upon it, and will destroy man and beast out of it.

Ezekiel 16:1
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Ezekiel 17:20
And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my net: and I will bring him into Babylon, and will judge him there for the transgression by which he hath despised me.

Ezekiel 15:7
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