15 occurrences in 13 translations

'Wasting' in the Bible

Therefore, the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies will send a wasting disease among Assyria's sturdy warriors, and under its glory a conflagration will be kindled, like a blazing bonfire.

Verse ConceptsFire Emanating From God

And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day.

Verse ConceptsBriersLight, SpiritualThornsShort Time For Action

And he will destroy the glory of his forest and orchard {completely}, and it will be like the wasting away of one who is sick.

Verse ConceptsEcological ConcernsHarming Trees

Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the waster. For the extortioner is at an end, the wasting hath ceased, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

Verse ConceptsSatan as Destroyer

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!

For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.

Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelSorrowNo Comfort

The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

Verse ConceptsHaughtinessTransient WorldMourning Due To Catastrophe

Left in the city is desolation, And with wasting is the gate smitten.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsArchaeologyDestruction Of Cities

From the ends of the earth we hear songs -- the Just One is majestic. But I say, "I'm wasting away! I'm wasting away! I'm doomed! Deceivers deceive, deceivers thoroughly deceive!"

Verse ConceptsHanding Over PeopleGood Things From Far Awaytraitors

Ho! you who make waste those who did not make you waste; acting falsely to those who were not false to you. When you have come to an end of wasting, you will be made waste, and after your false acts, they will do the same to you.

Verse ConceptsBetrayalTreacheryWoeThe DestroyerWoe To The WickedUnfaithfulfinishingtraitors

The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.

Verse ConceptsdrynessThe Prophecy Towards LebanonMourning Due To Catastrophe

These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfKilling Israelites

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Verse ConceptsFeetevil, origins ofInnocence, Teaching OnCharacter Of WickedInnocent BloodSheddingPaths Of The WickedDestructionThoughts Of The WickedReady To Kill

Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.

Verse ConceptsSalvation, Illustrations OfFigurative WallsFreedom From ViolenceGod Saves The NeedyPraise The Lord!Spilling Your Seed On The Groundborders

Bible Theasaurus

Consume (170 instances)
Desolate (212 instances)
Devastate (25 instances)
Languish (15 instances)
Neutralize (1 instance)
Ravage (15 instances)
Scourge (23 instances)
Squander (1 instance)

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἀπώλεια 
Apoleia 
Usage: 18

διασκορπίζω 
Diaskorpizo 
Usage: 3

πορθέω 
Portheo 
Usage: 3

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