26 Bible Verses about Land Becoming Empty

I will not drive them out within a year's time. If I did, the land would become deserted. There would be too many wild animals for you.

I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,' declares the Lord Jehovah.

Be warned, O Jerusalem, I will be alienated from you. I will make you desolation, a land not inhabited.

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

This is what Jehovah says: 'You have said that this place is ruined and that no people or animals live in it. It is true! The cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem are deserted. No people or animals live there. But once again you will hear,

Jehovah of Hosts said: 'In this land that is like a desert and where no people or animals live, there will once again be pastures where shepherds can take their sheep.'

If I send wild animals through that country and they make it childless and turn it into such a wasteland that no one travels through it because of the animals.

Say about King Jehoiakim of Judah: 'This is what Jehovah says: You burned this scroll, and you asked Jeremiah: Why did you write that the king of Babylon would certainly come to destroy this land and take away people and animals?'

The same thing will happen to Edom that happened to Sodom and Gomorrah, when they and the nearby towns were destroyed. No one will ever live there again. I Jehovah have spoken.

I will make you an everlasting desolation! Your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Jehovah!'

Hazor will be a place where only jackals live. It will become a permanent wasteland. No one will live there. No human will stay there.

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

I will dry up the Nile River and sell the land to wicked people. I will have foreigners destroy the land and everything in it. I, Jehovah, have spoken.'

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.

The land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am Jehovah. Because you said: 'The Nile is mine, and I have made it.'

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

The earth will become desolate because of the inhabitants and the fruit of their deeds.

Behold! The Day of Jehovah is coming! It will be cruel, with fury and burning anger. It will make the land desolation and exterminate the sinners from it.

But before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.

They will not be extinguished day or night, and smoke will always go up from them. Edom will lie in ruins for generations. No one will ever travel through it.

I see that there are no people, and every bird has flown away.

I will cry and weep for the mountains. I will sing a funeral song for the pastures in the wilderness. They are destroyed so that no one can travel through them. No one can hear the sound of cattle. Birds and cattle have fled. They are gone.

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.

You will no longer be called Deserted, and your land will no longer be called Destroyed. You will be named My Delight. Your land will be named Married (owned as a wife). Jehovah is delighted with you, and your land will be married.

I will destroy (take away) (remove) (consume) everything on the face of the earth! declared Jehovah. (Zephaniah 2:3)

I will scatter them with a whirlwind among the nations that they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned. They tread down the pleasant land and made it desolate.'