'Waste' in the Bible

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.