Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city is isolated,
A homestead forlorn and forsaken like the desert;
There the calf will graze,
And there it will lie down and feed on its branches.

Isaiah 17:2

“The cities of Aroer are forsaken;
They will be for flocks to lie down in,
And there will be no one to frighten them.

Isaiah 17:9

In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken places in the forest,
Or like branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel;
And the land will be a desolation.

Isaiah 32:13-14

For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up;
Yea, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.

Jeremiah 26:6

then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”

Isaiah 5:9-10

In my ears the Lord of hosts has sworn, “Surely, many houses shall become desolate,
Even great and fine ones, without occupants.

Isaiah 6:11-12

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered,
“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,
Houses are without people
And the land is utterly desolate,

Isaiah 7:25

As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.

Isaiah 25:2

For You have made a city into a heap,
A fortified city into a ruin;
A palace of strangers is a city no more,
It will never be rebuilt.

Isaiah 64:10

Your holy cities have become a wilderness,
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus the Lord of hosts has said,
“Zion will be plowed as a field,
And Jerusalem will become ruins,
And the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.”’

Lamentations 1:4

The roads of Zion are in mourning
Because no one comes to the appointed feasts.
All her gates are desolate;
Her priests are groaning,
Her virgins are afflicted,
And she herself is bitter.

Lamentations 2:5-9

The Lord has become like an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel;
He has swallowed up all its palaces,
He has destroyed its strongholds
And multiplied in the daughter of Judah
Mourning and moaning.

Lamentations 5:18

Because of Mount Zion which lies desolate,
Foxes prowl in it.

Ezekiel 36:4

Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the forsaken cities which have become a prey and a derision to the rest of the nations which are round about,

Micah 3:12

Therefore, on account of you
Zion will be plowed as a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,
And the mountain of the temple will become high places of a forest.

Luke 19:43-44

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side,

Luke 21:20-24

“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near.

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Isaiah 27:10

Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

The defenced

There shall the

Isaiah 7:25

Isaiah 17:2

Isaiah 32:13

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