4 occurrences

'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

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

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