Isaiah 27:10
For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.
Isaiah 17:2
The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Isaiah 17:9
In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places of the Hivites and the Amorites, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.
Isaiah 32:13-14
Thorns and briars will come up on my people's land; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
Jeremiah 26:6
then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.'"
Isaiah 5:9-10
In my ears, the LORD of hosts says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
Isaiah 6:11-12
Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste,
Isaiah 7:25
All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep."
Isaiah 25:2
For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.
Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities have become like a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 26:18
"Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest."'
Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests groan: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Lamentations 2:5-9
The Lord has become as an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all her palaces and has destroyed its strongholds. He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Lamentations 5:18
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.
Ezekiel 36:4
therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: "Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;
Micah 3:12
Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
Luke 19:43-44
For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
Luke 21:20-24
"But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near.