Isaiah 1:7
Your land is devastated, your cities burned with fire. Right before your eyes your crops are being destroyed by foreign invaders. They leave behind devastation and destruction.
Leviticus 26:34
"'Then the land will make up for its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and make up its Sabbaths.
Isaiah 6:11
I replied, "How long, sovereign master?" He said, "Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated, and houses are uninhabited, and the land is ruined and devastated,
Deuteronomy 28:33
As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.
Deuteronomy 28:43
The foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.
Deuteronomy 28:48-52
instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.
2 Chronicles 28:5
The Lord his God handed him over to the king of Syria. The Syrians defeated him and deported many captives to Damascus. He was also handed over to the king of Israel, who thoroughly defeated him.
2 Chronicles 28:16-21
At that time King Ahaz asked the king of Assyria for help.
Psalm 107:34
and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.
Psalm 107:39
As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering.
Isaiah 5:5-6
Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.
Isaiah 5:9
The Lord who commands armies told me this: "Many houses will certainly become desolate, large, impressive houses will have no one living in them.
Isaiah 5:17
Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.
Isaiah 9:5
Indeed every boot that marches and shakes the earth and every garment dragged through blood is used as fuel for the fire.
Isaiah 24:10-12
The ruined town is shattered; all of the houses are shut up tight.
Isaiah 34:9
Edom's streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.
Jeremiah 2:15
Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him; they raise their voices in triumph. They have laid his land waste; his cities have been burned down and deserted.
Jeremiah 6:8
So take warning, Jerusalem, or I will abandon you in disgust and make you desolate, a place where no one can live."
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.
Ezekiel 30:12
I will dry up the waterways and hand the land over to evil men. I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners. I, the Lord, have spoken!
Hosea 7:9
Foreigners are consuming what his strenuous labor produced, but he does not recognize it! His head is filled with gray hair, but he does not realize it!
Hosea 8:7
They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.