Isaiah 49:17   (Read all of Isaiah 49)

Your children hasten back, and those who laid you waste depart from you.

Isaiah 49:19   (Read all of Isaiah 49)

"Though you were ruined and made desolate and your land laid waste, now you will be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

Isaiah 51:3   (Read all of Isaiah 51)

The Lord will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.

Isaiah 64:10   (Read all of Isaiah 64)

Your sacred cities have become a wasteland; even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 2:15   (Read all of Jeremiah 2)

Lions have roared; they have growled at him. They have laid waste his land; his towns are burned and deserted.

Jeremiah 4:7   (Read all of Jeremiah 4)

A lion has come out of his lair; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his place to lay waste your land. Your towns will lie in ruins without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 9:11   (Read all of Jeremiah 9)

"I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; and I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there."

Jeremiah 9:12   (Read all of Jeremiah 9)

Who is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the Lord and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?

Jeremiah 12:10   (Read all of Jeremiah 12)

Many shepherds will ruin my vineyard and trample down my field; they will turn my pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

Jeremiah 12:11   (Read all of Jeremiah 12)

It will be made a wasteland, parched and desolate before me; the whole land will be laid waste because there is no one who cares.

Jeremiah 17:6   (Read all of Jeremiah 17)

That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

Jeremiah 22:6   (Read all of Jeremiah 22)

For this is what the Lord says about the palace of the king of Judah: "Though you are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, I will surely make you like a wasteland, like towns not inhabited.

Jeremiah 25:11   (Read all of Jeremiah 25)

This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jeremiah 25:37   (Read all of Jeremiah 25)

The peaceful meadows will be laid waste because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Jeremiah 32:43   (Read all of Jeremiah 32)

Once more fields will be bought in this land of which you say, 'It is a desolate waste, without people or animals, for it has been given into the hands of the Babylonians.'

Jeremiah 33:10   (Read all of Jeremiah 33)

"This is what the Lord says: 'You say about this place, "It is a desolate waste, without people or animals." Yet in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, inhabited by neither people nor animals, there will be heard once more

Jeremiah 34:22   (Read all of Jeremiah 34)

I am going to give the order, declares the Lord, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, take it and burn it down. And I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there."

Jeremiah 44:22   (Read all of Jeremiah 44)

When the Lord could no longer endure your wicked actions and the detestable things you did, your land became a curse and a desolate waste without inhabitants, as it is today.

Jeremiah 46:19   (Read all of Jeremiah 46)

Pack your belongings for exile, you who live in Egypt, for Memphis will be laid waste and lie in ruins without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 48:9   (Read all of Jeremiah 48)

Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste ; her towns will become desolate, with no one to live in them.

Jeremiah 50:3   (Read all of Jeremiah 50)

A nation from the north will attack her and lay waste her land. No one will live in it; both people and animals will flee away.

Jeremiah 51:29   (Read all of Jeremiah 51)

The land trembles and writhes, for the Lord's purposes against Babylon stand- to lay waste the land of Babylon so that no one will live there.

Lamentations 2:6   (Read all of Lamentations 2)

He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting. The Lord has made Zion forget her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.

Lamentations 2:8   (Read all of Lamentations 2)

The Lord determined to tear down the wall around Daughter Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withhold his hand from destroying. He made ramparts and walls lament; together they wasted away.