Leviticus 26:32
I will make your land so deserted that your enemies will be shocked as they settle in it.
Jeremiah 9:11
I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. It will be a gathering place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah desolation, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 18:16
They make their land desolation. It becomes an object of perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and shake his head.
Jeremiah 19:8
I will also make this city a desolation and an object of hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its disasters.
Jeremiah 25:11
This whole land will be ruined and become a wasteland. These nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.'
Deuteronomy 28:37
You will become a thing of revulsion. All the nations where Jehovah will send you will make an example of you and laugh at you.
1 Kings 9:8
This house will become a mass of broken walls. Everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds. They will say: Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house?
Jeremiah 25:18
Jerusalem and the cities of Judah as well as its kings and officials drank from it. When they drank from it, they became wastelands and ruins, something ridiculed and cursed, until today.
Ezekiel 5:15
The nations that are around you will ridicule you and laugh at you. When I punish you because of my anger, fury, and fierce revenge, you will become something ridiculed and something horrible. I, Jehovah, have spoken.
Deuteronomy 29:23-28
All its land is brimstone and salt. It is a burning waste, unsown and unproductive. No grass grows on it. Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his wrath.
Isaiah 1:7-8
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.
Isaiah 5:6
It will turn into a desert, neither pruned nor cultivated. It will be covered with thorns and briars. I will command the clouds not to send rain.
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 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.
Isaiah 24:1
Jehovah lays the earth waste, annihilates it, disfigures its surface and scatters its inhabitants.
Isaiah 32:13-14
For the land of my people where thorns and briars will grow for they are on the delightful houses and the exultant city.
Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is a wasteland.
Jeremiah 25:38
He has left his lair like a lion. Their land has been ruined because of the heat of the oppressor, because of the fury of his anger.
Jeremiah 44:2
Jehovah, the God of Israel, said: 'You have seen the destruction I brought on Jerusalem and all the other cities of Judah. Even now they are still in ruins, and no one lives in them.
Jeremiah 44:22
This very day your land lies in ruins and no one lives in it. It has become a horrifying sight. People use its name as a curse because Jehovah could no longer endure your wicked and evil practices.
Lamentations 4:12
To the kings of the earth and to all the people of the world it did not seem possible that the attackers and the enemy would enter the gates of Jerusalem.
Lamentations 5:18
The mountain of Zion is a waste. So jackals go there.
Ezekiel 33:28-29
I will turn the land into a barren wasteland. People will no longer brag about its power. The mountains of Israel will become so ruined that no one will travel through them.
Daniel 9:2
It was the first year of his reign. I, Daniel, understood from The Books (Holy Scriptures) the number of the years in the word of Jehovah to Jeremiah the prophet. It was seventy years since the destruction of Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:18
O my God, incline your ear, and hear! Open your eyes, and behold our desolations and the city that is called by your name. We do not present our supplications before you because of our righteous merits, but according to your many mercies.
Habakkuk 3:17
The fig tree will not flourish. There will be no fruit on the vines. The labor of the olive will fail and the fields will yield no food! The flock will be cut off from the fold and there will be no herd in the stalls.
Luke 21:20
When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies you will know that desolation is near.