'Devastated' in the Bible
Your land is devastated, your cities burned with fire. Right before your eyes your crops are being destroyed by foreign invaders. They leave behind devastation and destruction.
The Lord brings this chargeagainst the elders and leaders of His people:“You have devastated the vineyard.The plunder from the poor is in your houses.
Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered,“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,Houses are without peopleAnd the land is utterly desolate,
However, before the youth knows enough to reject what's wrong and choose what's right, the land whose two kings you dread will be devastated."
An oracle against Moab:Ar in Moab is devastated,destroyed in a night.Kir in Moab is devastated,destroyed in a night.
Therefore let Moab wail;let every one of them wail for Moab.Mourn, you who are completely devastated,for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.
Here is a message about Tyre: Wail, you large ships, for the port is too devastated to enter! From the land of Cyprus this news is announced to them.
The earth will be completely devastated and thoroughly ransacked. For the Lord has decreed this judgment.
The earth is completely devastated;the earth is split open;the earth is violently shaken.
Lord, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated all these countries and their lands.
""Didn't you hear how in the distant past I decided to do it, how I planned from days of old? Now I've made it happen that fortified cities become devastated, besieged heaps.
"This what the LORD says: "I'll answer you in a time of favor, and on a day of salvation I'll help you. I have watched over you, and given you as a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to reassign the inheritances that have been devastated;
Your builders are working faster than your destroyers, and those who devastated you go away from you.
Indeed, your ruins, your desolate places, and your devastated land will now be too crowded for your inhabitants, while those who swallowed you up will be far away.
For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve you shall perish, and the nations shall be utterly devastated.
They will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will build again the ruined cities, they will build again the places devastated for many generations.