25 occurrences in 5 translations

'Devastate' in the Bible

After them, seven years of famine will take place, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten. The famine will devastate the land.

Verse ConceptsForgetting ThingsBad Luck

I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

Verse ConceptsFaintingRejection Of God, Results OfSanctuarySmellsArchaeologyAromasDestruction Of CitiesCities Under AttackRefreshing God

I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it.

Ships under control of Kittim will devastate Asshur and Eber, until they are permanently destroyed."

Verse ConceptsSeafaringShipsThe NavyShips For Attacking

But understand that today the Lord your God will cross over ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will devastate and subdue them before you. You will drive them out and destroy them swiftly, as the Lord has told you.

Verse ConceptsBattlesAssurance in the life of faithGod DestroyingCrossing Into The Promised Landtoughness

For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, they would come in like locusts for number, both they and their camels were innumerable; and they came into the land to devastate it.

Verse ConceptsInsectsMany CombatantsLocustsTentsGrasshoppersUncountable

And the people saw him, and they praised their god, for they said, "Our god has given into our hand those who hate us, devastate our land, and have {killed many of us}."

Verse ConceptsPraise, Reasons ForVictory, As An Act Of GodGiven Into One's Hands

"Watch out! The LORD is about to depopulate the land and devastate it; he will turn it upside down and scatter its inhabitants.

Verse ConceptsChaosWasteScattering The PeoplesDestruction Of The World

I'll devastate the mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation; I'll turn rivers into islands, and dry up the ponds.

Verse ConceptsdrynessGod Drying Things Up

Your builders hurry;those who destroy and devastate you will leave you.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Destroy

Look, I create the craftsman, who fans the coals into a fire and forges a weapon. I create the destroyer so he might devastate.

Verse ConceptsOccupationsBlacksmithsThose Who DestroyFurnacescraftsmanshipcredibility

Therefore a lion from the forest will attack them, a wolf from the desert will devastate them. A leopard is watching their towns, and everyone who goes out of them will be torn to pieces. For their transgressions are many, and their apostasies numerous.

Verse ConceptsForestsLeopardCarnivorousnessWolvesIn Danger From Lions

Kings will come against it with their armies. They will encamp in siege all around it. Each of them will devastate the portion assigned to him.

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As Kings And Leaders

Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated. Thus says the Lord,“Arise, go up to KedarAnd devastate the men of the east.

I'll send foreigners to Babylon, and they'll winnow her, and devastate her land. They'll come against her from every side on the day of her disaster.

Verse ConceptsForeignersWinnowing

Look, I am against you, devastating mountain—this is the Lord’s declaration—you devastate the whole earth.I will stretch out My hand against you,roll you down from the cliffs,and turn you into a charred mountain.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of The WorldGod OpposingSeven Mountains

For the Lord is going to devastate Babylon;He will silence her mighty voice.Their waves roar like abundant waters;the tumult of their voice resounds,

Verse ConceptsSilenceDestruction Of BabylonBabylon DestroyedSoundRoar Of Nations

"I'll send famine and wild beasts against you that will rob you of your children. Pestilence and bloodshed will devastate you when I'll declare war on you. I, the LORD, have spoken."

Verse ConceptsWar As God's JudgmentFamine Coming From GodBereavementKilling Will Happen

When they made every firstborn pass through the fire, I defiled them through their gifts in order to devastate them so they would know that I am Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornChild sacrificeSacrificing The FirstbornPeople Being PollutedKilling Sons And Daughters

I'm going to make your gangs die using the weapons of valiant warriors, all of whom are ruthless people. "They will devastate the majesty of Egypt, destroying all of its hordes.

Verse ConceptsKilled With The SwordThe Proud Will Be Abased

I will devastate her vines and fig trees.She thinks that these are her wagesthat her lovers have given her.I will turn them into a thicket,and the wild animals will eat them.

Verse ConceptsForestsFig treeAnimals, religious role ofVinesDestruction Of PlantsWild Animals DevouringWages Of A Prostitute

The shepherds will devastate the land of Assyria with the sword, along with the entrances to the land of Nimrod. "This is how he will vanquish Assyria when he invades our land, trampling within our borders:

Verse ConceptsBoundariesSwordsAssyria, Facts OfBabylon DestroyedTrampling PlacesNations Attacking Israelborders

Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Instead, I will turn everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.”

Verse ConceptsGod Without Mercypity

This is the kind of plague that will devastate horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the other animals in those camps.

Verse ConceptsMulesAnimals, religious role ofLoss Of Donkeys

Bible Theasaurus

Desolate (212 instances)
Devastate (25 instances)
Ravage (15 instances)
Scourge (23 instances)

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