'Waste' in the Bible

“With rebukes You discipline man for sin;You consume like a moth what is precious to him;Surely every man is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]. Selah.

For they have devoured JacobAnd made his pasture desolate.

Nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,Nor of the destruction (sudden death) that lays waste at noon.

I am like a [mournful] vulture of the wilderness;I am like a [desolate] owl of the wasteland.

A productive land into a [barren] salt waste,Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

He pours contempt on princesAnd makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.