Isaiah 14:17
who made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; who did not open the house for his prisoners?
Joel 2:3
A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. Yes, and nothing shall escape them.
Isaiah 45:13
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways; he shall build My city, and he shall let My captives go, not for price nor reward, says Jehovah of Hosts.
2 Chronicles 28:8-15
And the sons of Israel carried away captive two hundred thousand of their brothers, women, and daughters, and also took away much plunder from them and brought the plunder to Samaria.
Ezra 1:2-4
So says Cyrus king of Persia, Jehovah, the God of Heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Isaiah 13:19-22
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the majestic beauty of the Chaldees, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 58:6
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed ones go free, and that you break every yoke?
Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities are a wilderness; Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem is a ruin.
Ezekiel 6:14
And I will stretch out My hand on them and make the land a waste, even more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all the places where they live; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Zephaniah 2:13-14
And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desert and dry like a desert.