10 occurrences in 13 translations

'Wasted' in the Bible

For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

Verse ConceptsDangers Of IgnorancePoverty, SpiritualSuffering, Causes OfPeople Exiled

Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CitiesEmpty Cities

For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.

Verse ConceptsFire Emanating From God

And he will put an end to the glory of his woods and of his planted fields, soul and body together; and it will be as when a man is wasted by disease.

Verse ConceptsEcological ConcernsHarming Trees

In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

Verse ConceptsReapingPlanting Seeds

Woe to the multitude of many peoples, As the sounding of seas they sound; And to the wasting of nations, As the wasting of mighty waters they are wasted.

Verse ConceptsSeaThings Like The SeaSea, Metaphorical References

Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.

Verse ConceptsChaffWindWhirlwindsLight As ChaffRoar Of NationsGod Requite Them!

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

Verse ConceptsWaters Drying UpRiver NileRiversCauses of failure in

The city of chaos is broken down;Every house is shut up so that no one may enter.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CitiesFormlessnessShutting Doors

For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

Verse ConceptsServing PeopleAnnihilation

Bible Theasaurus

Bony (1 instance)
Consume (170 instances)
Desolate (212 instances)
Devastate (25 instances)
Diminished (15 instances)
Emaciated (8 instances)
Gaunt (8 instances)
Haggard (1 instance)
Languish (15 instances)
Neutralize (1 instance)
Pinched (1 instance)
Pointless (31 instances)
Ravage (15 instances)
Scourge (23 instances)
Squander (1 instance)
Squandered (1 instance)
Wasted (113 instances)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain

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