'Waste' in the Bible

You have given their towns to destruction; the memory of them has gone; they have become waste for ever.

Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.

He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.

I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.)

Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.

Make songs to God, make songs of praise to his name; make a way for him who comes through the waste lands; his name is Jah; be glad before him.

O God, when you went out before your people, wandering through the waste land; (Selah.)

The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;

They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?

How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

But he took his people out like sheep, guiding them in the waste land like a flock.

It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.

Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

By his word the Red Sea was made dry: and he took them through the deep waters as through the waste land.

They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.

So he made an oath against them, to put an end to them in the waste land:

They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.

He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;

He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.

He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.

All the sinners of the earth are like waste metal in your eyes; and for this cause I give my love to your unchanging word.

To him who took his people through the waste land: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.