Isaiah 1:7
Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners destroy your fields in your presence. Your fields are devastated and taken over by strangers.
Leviticus 26:34
Then the land will enjoy its time to honor Jehovah while it lies deserted. You will be in your enemies' land. Then the land will joyfully celebrate its time to honor Jehovah.
Isaiah 6:11
Then I said: How long, O Jehovah? And He answered: Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, until the houses are deserted and the land is utterly desolate.
Deuteronomy 28:33
A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow. You will receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.
Deuteronomy 28:43
The alien who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower.
Deuteronomy 28:48-52
You will serve your enemies whom Jehovah will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
2 Chronicles 28:5
Jehovah his God handed him over to the king of Aram, who defeated him, captured many prisoners, and brought them to Damascus. He also handed him over to the king of Israel, who decisively defeated him.
2 Chronicles 28:16-21
King Ahaz then sent for help from the kings of Assyria.
Psalm 107:34
and fertile ground into a layer of salt because of the wickedness of the people living there.
Psalm 107:39
They became few in number and were humiliated because of oppression, disaster, and sorrow.
Isaiah 5:5-6
Here is what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge and break down the wall that protects it. I will let wild animals eat it and trample it down.
Isaiah 5:9
With my own ears I heard Jehovah of Hosts say: Many houses will become empty. Large, beautiful houses will be without people to live in them.
Isaiah 5:17
In the ruins of the cities lambs will eat grass and young goats will find pasture.
Isaiah 9:5
Every warrior's boot used in battle and every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning, will be fuel for the fire.
Isaiah 24:10-12
The ruined city lies desolate. The entrance to every house is barred and none may enter.
Isaiah 34:9
Edom's streams will be turned to tar. Its soil will be turned to burning sulfur. Its land will become blazing tar.
Jeremiah 2:15
Young lions have roared at them. Young lions have turned the land into waste. The cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 6:8
Be warned, O Jerusalem, I will be alienated from you. I will make you desolation, a land not inhabited.
Lamentations 5:2
Our heritage is turned over to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
Ezekiel 30:12
I will dry up the Nile River and sell the land to wicked people. I will have foreigners destroy the land and everything in it. I, Jehovah, have spoken.'
Hosea 7:9
Foreigners are using up your strength, but you do not realize it. You have become a gray-haired, old man, but you do not realize it.
Hosea 8:7
The people of Israel plant the wind, but they harvest a storm. A field of grain that does not ripen will never produce any grain. Even if it did produce grain, foreigners would eat it all.