'Waste' in the Bible

While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

And the Lord said to him, Go back on your way through the waste land to Damascus; and when you come there, put the holy oil on Hazael to make him king over Aram;

And he said, Which way are we to go? And he said in answer, By the waste land of Edom.

And the dead body of Jezebel will be like waste dropped on the face of the earth in the heritage of Jezreel; so that they will not be able to say, This is Jezebel.

And have I now come up to send destruction on this place without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.

'Truly, O Jehovah, kings of Asshur have laid waste the nations, and their land,

Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

Because your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before me, when you had word of what I said against this place and its people, that they would become a waste and a curse, and you gave signs of grief, weeping before me: truly, I have given ear to you, says the Lord.

And to the east his limits went as far as the starting point of the waste land, ending at the river Euphrates, because their cattle were increased in number in the land of Gilead.

And on the other side of Jordan, at Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the waste land with its outskirts, and Jahzah with its outskirts,

And some of the Gadites, siding with David, went to his strong place in the waste land, great and strong men, trained for war, expert in the use of arms, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were quick-footed like roes on the mountains;

Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,

And it came to pass at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go forth, that Joab led forth the power of the army, and laid waste the land of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David abode at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and overthrew it.

For the House of the Lord, which Moses had made in the waste land, and the altar of burned offerings, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.

Then Solomon, and all the men of Israel with him, went to the high place at Gibeon, because the Tent of meeting of God, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had made in the waste land, was there.

"I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for a sacrificial temple to me. Whenever I close the skies so there is no rain, or whenever I command locusts to lay waste to the land, or whenever I send epidemics among my people,

And he put up the buildings of Tadmor in the waste land, and of all the store-towns in Hamath;

Go down against them tomorrow: see, they are coming up by the slope of Ziz; at the end of the valley, before the waste land of Jeruel, you will come face to face with them.

And early in the morning they got up and went out to the waste land of Tekoa: and when they were going out, Jehoshaphat took his station and said to them, Give ear to me, O Judah and you people of Jerusalem: have faith in the Lord your God and you will be safe; have faith in his prophets and all will go well for you.

And Judah came to the watchtower of the waste land, and looking in the direction of the army, they saw only dead bodies stretched on the earth; no living man was to be seen.

And an order was sent out through all Judah and Jerusalem that payment was to be made to the Lord of the tax which Moses, the servant of God, had put on Israel in the waste land.

And he put up towers in the waste land and made places for storing water, for he had much cattle, in the low hills and in the table land; and he had farmers and vine-keepers in the mountains and in the fertile land, for he was a lover of farming.

And in all the towns of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon as far as Naphtali, he made waste their houses round about.

So that the words of the Lord, which he said by the mouth of Jeremiah, might come true, till the land had had pleasure in her Sabbaths; for as long as she was waste the land kept the Sabbath, till seventy years were complete.

so that a search may be made in the record books of your fathers. And you will discover in the record books and learn that that city is a rebellious city and damaging to kings and provinces, and that they have incited revolt within it in past days; therefore that city was laid waste.

And I have given orders that if anyone makes any change in this word, one of the supports is to be pulled out of his house, and he is to be lifted up and fixed to it; and his house is to be made waste for this;

For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

And I went out by night, through the doorway of the valley, and past the dragon's water-spring as far as the place where waste material was put, viewing the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down, and the doorways which had been burned with fire.

Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

Hanun and the people of Zanoah were working on the doorway of the valley; they put it up and put up its doors, with their locks and rods, and a thousand cubits of wall as far as the doorway where the waste material was placed.

And Malchijah, the son of Rechab, the ruler of the division of Beth-haccherem, made good the doorway of the waste, building it up and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods.

And Judah said, The strength of the workmen is giving way, and there is much waste material; it is impossible for us to put up the wall.

Even then, in your great mercy, you did not give them up in the waste land: the pillar of cloud still went before them by day, guiding them on their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light, and make clear the way they were to go.

Truly, for forty years you were their support in the waste land, and they were in need of nothing; their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.

Then I made the rulers of Judah come up on the wall, and I put in position two great bands of them who gave praise, walking in ordered lines; one went to the right on the wall, in the direction of the doorway where the waste was put;

When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish.

“I waste away; I will not live forever.Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

He taketh away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste.

So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

Waters have gone away from a sea, And a river becometh waste and dry.

“But now He has exhausted me;You have laid waste all my company.

Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.

I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night on my bed, With my tear my couch I waste.

You have given their towns to destruction; the memory of them has gone; they have become waste for ever.

Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

Indeed, my life is consumed with griefand my years with groaning;my strength has failedbecause of my sinfulness,and my bones waste away.

With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity is every man. Selah.

He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.

Like sheep they are headed for Sheol;Death will shepherd them.The upright will rule over them in the morning,and their form will waste away in Sheol,far from their lofty abode.

I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.)

Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.

Make songs to God, make songs of praise to his name; make a way for him who comes through the waste lands; his name is Jah; be glad before him.

O God, when you went out before your people, wandering through the waste land; (Selah.)

The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;

They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?

How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

But he took his people out like sheep, guiding them in the waste land like a flock.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

Of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,Or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.

Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

I resemble a pelican of the wilderness;I have become like an owl of the waste places.

By his word the Red Sea was made dry: and he took them through the deep waters as through the waste land.

They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.

So he made an oath against them, to put an end to them in the waste land:

They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.

He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;

and a fruitful land into a salty waste, due to the wickedness of its inhabitants.

He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.

He poureth contempt upon nobles, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste;

All the sinners of the earth are like waste metal in your eyes; and for this cause I give my love to your unchanging word.

To him who took his people through the waste land: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

Daughter of Babylon, who art to be laid waste, happy he that rendereth unto thee that which thou hast meted out to us.

so that you don't give your honor to others, and waste your best years;

It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.

You will vomit the little you’ve eatenand waste your pleasant words.

Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; lay not waste his resting-place.

And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

Take away the waste from silver, and a vessel will come out for the silver-worker.

Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.

A king, by right rule, makes the land safe; but one full of desires makes it a waste.

As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.

Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?

Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.

Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.

And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.