Isaiah 1:7
"Your country lies desolate; your cities have been incinerated. Before your very eyes, foreigners are devouring your land they've brought devastation on it, while the land is overthrown by foreigners.
Leviticus 26:34
Then the land will finally be pleased with its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time, the land will rest and take its Sabbaths.
Isaiah 6:11
Then I asked, "For how long, LORD?" He replied: "Until cities lie waste, without inhabitants, and houses without people; and the land becomes utterly desolate.
Deuteronomy 28:33
"A people whom you don't know will devour what your land and labor produces. You'll be only oppressed and discouraged continuously
Deuteronomy 28:43
The foreigner in your midst will be elevated higher and higher over you, while you are brought low little by little.
Deuteronomy 28:48-52
you'll serve your enemies whom the LORD your God will send against you. You will serve in famine and in drought, in nakedness, and in lack of everything. They'll set a yoke of iron upon your neck until they have exterminated you.
2 Chronicles 28:5
As a result, the LORD his God handed Ahaz over to the king of Aram, who defeated him and took a large number of captives away to Damascus. Ahaz was also delivered over to the control of the King of Israel, who defeated him with many heavy casualties.
2 Chronicles 28:16-21
Right about then, King Ahaz sent for help from the kings of Assyria
Psalm 107:34
and a fruitful land into a salty waste, due to the wickedness of its inhabitants.
Psalm 107:39
But they became few in number, and humiliated by continued oppression, agony, and sorrow.
Isaiah 5:5-6
"Now, let me tell you, won't you please, what I'm going to do to my vineyard. "I'm going to take away its protective hedge, and it will be devoured; I'll break down its wall, and it will be trampled.
Isaiah 5:9
The LORD of the Heavenly Armies has declared this so I could hear it: "Surely many houses will become desolate, great and beautiful houses, without occupants.
Isaiah 5:17
Then the lambs will graze in their pasture; fatlings and foreigners will eat among the waste places of the rich."
Isaiah 9:5
For every boot of the tramping soldier in battle tumult and every garment rolled in blood will be used for burning as fuel for a fire.
Isaiah 24:10-12
The chaotic city lies broken down; every house is closed up so that no one can enter them.
Isaiah 34:9
Edom's streams will be turned into burning sulfur, and its dust into sulfur; its land will become pitch.
Jeremiah 2:15
Young lions roar at him, they cry out loudly. They have made his land into a wasteland, and his cities are destroyed so they are without inhabitants.
Jeremiah 6:8
Be warned, Jerusalem, or I'll be alienated from you. I'll make you desolate, a land not inhabited."
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, and our homes to foreigners.
Ezekiel 30:12
I'll dry up their waterways, and evil men will sell off the land. I'm going to make that land desolate, along with everything that's in it, and I'm going to use foreigners to do it. I, the LORD have spoken!'"
Hosea 7:9
Foreigners have consumed his strength, and he hasn't noticed. Furthermore, his head is sprinkled with gray hair, but he doesn't realize it.
Hosea 8:7
"Because they sow the wind, they will reap the wind storm. The plant has no stalk and its bud yields no grain. Even if there's a harvest, foreigners will gobble it up.