Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

Bible References

The defenced

Isaiah 5:9
In my ears [says] LORD of hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
Isaiah 6:11
Then I said, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,
Isaiah 17:9
In that day their strong cities shall be as the forsaken places in the woodland and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the sons of Israel, and it shall be a desolation.
Isaiah 25:2
For thou have made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It shall never be built.
Isaiah 64:10
Thy holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Jeremiah 26:6
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
Lamentations 2:5
LORD has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. And he has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.
Lamentations 5:18
for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk upon it.
Ezekiel 36:4
therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of lord LORD. Thus says lord LORD 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 have be
Micah 3:12
Therefore for your sake 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.
Luke 19:43
Because the days will come upon thee, and thine enemies will build a barricade around thee, and will surround thee, and enclose thee on every side.
Luke 21:20
But when ye see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that the desolation of it has come near.

There shall the

Isaiah 7:25
And all the hills that were dug with the mattock, thou 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 17:2
The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They shall be for flocks, which shall lay down, and none shall make them afraid.
Isaiah 32:13
Thorns and briers shall come up on the land of my people, yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

General references

Isaiah 17:9
In that day their strong cities shall be as the forsaken places in the woodland and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the sons of Israel, and it shall be a desolation.
Jeremiah 25:37
And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of LORD.
Ezekiel 20:34
And I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out,
Ezekiel 34:15
I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lay down, says lord LORD.