21 occurrences

'Waste' in the Bible

and I will make it a waste it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Verse ConceptsBriersAgriculture, TermsPruningCommands, in OTdrought, physicalRainCultivationLack Of RainFallow Land

And the lambs shall feed as on their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

Verse ConceptsLambsSheepAnimals Eating

The burden of Moab: For in the night of being laid waste, Ar of Moab is destroyed; for in the night of being laid waste, Kir of Moab is destroyed!

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Strategies InDisastersDuring One Night

The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish! for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, none entering in. From the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

Verse ConceptsSeafaringShips

Howl, ships of Tarshish! for your fortress is laid waste.

Verse ConceptsSeafaringShipsDestruction Of Strongholds

Behold, Jehovah maketh the land empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.

Verse ConceptsChaosWasteScattering The PeoplesDestruction Of The World

it shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsSmokeLand Becoming EmptyNot ExtinguishingDay Or Nightsmoking

And the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, and the great owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And he shall stretch out upon it the line of waste, and the plummets of emptiness.

Verse ConceptsChaosRavensPlumb LineCrowsOwlsPelicansHedgehogsDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of CreaturesChaos As Judgment

Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands, and their countries,

Verse ConceptsPeople Destroying Foreign Nations

Hast thou not heard that long ago I did it, and that from ancient days I formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, God's Promises OfHistoryDestruction Of CitiesHearing About GodGod Planning Of OldGod's Plans

I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

Verse ConceptsdrynessGod Drying Things Up

behold, I do a new thing; now it shall spring forth: shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the waste.

Verse ConceptsTravelling With GodLife, Of FaithNewnessBlessing In The WildernessMaking RoadsRiversFuture Plansa new beginningNew BeginningsA New DayPathsNew

The beast of the field shall glorify me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I will give waters in the wilderness, rivers in the waste, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

Verse ConceptsHonorWaterBlessing In The WildernessGod Providing WaterWild Beasts SubduedOstriches

For thus saith Jehovah who created the heavens, God himself who formed the earth and made it, he who established it, not as waste did he create it: he formed it to be inhabited: I am Jehovah, and there is none else.

Verse ConceptsemptinessEarth, Description OfDivine PurposesGod, The CreatorGod, The LordGod, Uniqueness OfMonotheismCreation Of The Physical HeavensOne GodInhabitationNo Other Is GodEmpty By NatureCreationEarthThe EarthGod's CreationSolar EclipseNot Being AloneEarth Being Fixed And Immovable

Thy sons shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that laid thee waste shall go forth from thee.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Destroy

For in thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy destroyed land, thou shalt even now be too straitened by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

Verse ConceptsWaste Places RestoredFar From Here

For Jehovah shall comfort Zion, he shall comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah: gladness and joy shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of song.

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheHorticultureJoy, Of IsraelLand, Spiritual Aspects OfRuinsThanksgivingAfflictions, Consolation DuringArchaeologyEdenWaste Places RestoredBlessing In The WildernessThose Singing PraiseGod Will ComfortFree Of ChargeGardensPeace And ComfortzionFinding Comfort In God

Break forth, sing aloud together, waste places of Jerusalem; for Jehovah comforteth his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfSingingSongsArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredDestruction Of JerusalemGod Has ComfortedFinding Comfort In God

And they that come of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations that have remained from generation to generation; and thou shalt be called, Repairer of the breaches, restorer of frequented paths.

Verse ConceptsRuinsWallsArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredRepairingbridgesrebuilding

And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the places desolate from generation to generation.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsBeginningRuinsBuilding CitiesArchaeologyWaste Places RestoredRepairingRebuilding JerusalemRenewalbridgesrebuilding

Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up with fire, and all our precious things are laid waste.

Verse ConceptsTreasureArchaeologyBurning JerusalemOther Praising Of GodPraising God In Public Worship

Bible Theasaurus

Barren (62 instances)
Consume (170 instances)
Desert (358 instances)
Languish (15 instances)
Neutralize (1 instance)
Squander (1 instance)