Isaiah 27:10
For [the] fortified city [is] solitary, a settlement deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; [the] calf grazes there, lies down there and destroys its branches.
Isaiah 17:2
The cities of Aroer will be deserted; they will be for the flocks, and they will lie down and {no one will frighten} [them].
Isaiah 17:9
On that day, {its fortified cities} will be like the {abandonment of the wooded place and the summit}, which they deserted because of the children of Israel; and there will be desolation.
Isaiah 32:13-14
over the soil of my people. It goes up [in] thorns [and] briers, indeed over all of [the] houses of joy [in the] jubilant city.
Jeremiah 26:6
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse for all the nations of the earth.'" '"
Isaiah 5:9-10
Yahweh of hosts [said] in my ears: {Surely} many houses shall become a desolation, large and beautiful [ones] without inhabitant.
Isaiah 6:11-12
Then I said, "Until when, Lord?" And he said, "Until [the] cities lie wasted without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is ruined [and] a waste,
Isaiah 7:25
And [as for] all of the hills that they hoed with the hoe, you will not go there, [for] fear of briers and thornbushes. And it will become like pastureland [for] cattle and overtrodden land [for] sheep.
Isaiah 25:2
For you have {made} [the] city heap, [the] fortified city a ruin, [the] palace of foreigners {is no longer} a city; it will {never} be rebuilt.
Isaiah 64:10
{Your holy cities} have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 26:18
"Micah the Morashtite was prophesying in the days of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and he said to all the people of Judah, {saying}: 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Zion will be plowed, and Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the {temple} as high places of wood." '
Lamentations 1:4
The roads of Zion [are] mourning because no one comes to the festival. All her gates [are] desolate, her priests groan; her young women [are] worried, and she herself suffers bitterly.
Lamentations 2:5-9
The Lord has become like an enemy; he has destroyed Israel; he has destroyed all its citadel fortresses; he has ruined all its fortifications and multiplied lamentation and mourning in the daughter of Judah.
Lamentations 5:18
Because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, {foxes tread on it}.
Ezekiel 36:4
Therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh; thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the river channels and to the valleys and to the ruins that [are] desolate and to the cities that [are] abandoned [and] that have become as plunder and as scorn for the remainder of the nations that [are] from all around.
Micah 3:12
Therefore on account of you Zion will be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem will be a heap of rubble, and {the temple mount} as a high place [in] a forest.
Luke 19:43-44
For days will come upon you and your enemies will put up an embankment against you, and will surround you and press you hard from all directions.
Luke 21:20-24
"But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.