26 Bible Verses about Land Becoming Empty

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Exodus 23:29

I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.

Ezekiel 15:8

Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,’” declares the Lord God.

Jeremiah 6:8

“Be warned, O Jerusalem,
Or I shall be alienated from you,
And make you a desolation,
A land not inhabited.”

Jeremiah 32:43

Fields will be bought in this land of which you say, “It is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”

Jeremiah 33:10

“Thus says the Lord, ‘Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, “It is a waste, without man and without beast,” that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

Jeremiah 33:12

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘There will again be in this place which is waste, without man or beast, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds who rest their flocks.

Ezekiel 14:15

“If I were to cause wild beasts to pass through the land and they depopulated it, and it became desolate so that no one would pass through it because of the beasts,

Jeremiah 36:29

And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord, “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will make man and beast to cease from it?’”

Jeremiah 49:18

Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors,” says the Lord, “no one will live there, nor will a son of man reside in it.

Ezekiel 35:9

I will make you an everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Jeremiah 49:33

“Hazor will become a haunt of jackals,
A desolation forever;
No one will live there,
Nor will a son of man reside in it.”

Ezekiel 35:7

I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation and I will cut off from it the one who passes through and returns.

Ezekiel 30:12

“Moreover, I will make the Nile canals dry
And sell the land into the hands of evil men.
And I will make the land desolate
And all that is in it,
By the hand of strangers; I the Lord have spoken.”

Ezekiel 29:11

A man’s foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.

Ezekiel 29:9

The land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord.Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I have made it,’

Ezekiel 29:10

therefore, behold, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of Ethiopia.

Micah 7:13

And the earth will become desolate because of her inhabitants,
On account of the fruit of their deeds.

Isaiah 13:9

Behold, the day of the Lord is coming,
Cruel, with fury and burning anger,
To make the land a desolation;
And He will exterminate its sinners from it.

Isaiah 7:16

For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.

Isaiah 34:10

It will not be quenched night or day;
Its smoke will go up forever.
From generation to generation it will be desolate;
None will pass through it forever and ever.

Jeremiah 4:25

I looked, and behold, there was no man,
And all the birds of the heavens had fled.

Jeremiah 9:10

“For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing,
And for the pastures of the wilderness a dirge,
Because they are laid waste so that no one passes through,
And the lowing of the cattle is not heard;
Both the birds of the sky and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

Ezekiel 33:28

I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and the pride of her power will cease; and the mountains of Israel will be desolate so that no one will pass through.

Isaiah 62:4

It will no longer be said to you, “Forsaken,”
Nor to your land will it any longer be said, “Desolate”;
But you will be called, “My delight is in her,”
And your land, “Married”;
For the Lord delights in you,
And to Him your land will be married.

Zephaniah 1:2

“I will completely remove all things
From the face of the earth,” declares the Lord.

Zechariah 7:14

“but I scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is desolated behind them so that no one went back and forth, for they made the pleasant land desolate.”

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