'Waste' in the Bible

Then I said, "Until when, Lord?" And he said, "Until [the] cities lie wasted without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is ruined [and] a waste,

Look! Yahweh [is] about to lay the earth waste and [is] about to devastate it, and he will twist her surface, and he will scatter her inhabitants.

The earth shall be utterly laid waste, and it shall be utterly plundered, for Yahweh has spoken this word.

Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands and their land,

Your children hasten; your destroyers and those who laid you waste depart from you.