Ezekiel 15:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 15:8 And
I will make the land desolate, because they have
committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
Isaiah 3:26 And
her gates shall lament and mourn; and she [
being]
desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Isaiah 7:23-
24 And it shall come to pass in that day, [
that] every place shall be, where there were
a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall [
even]
be for briers and thorns. ... With arrows and with bows shall [
men] come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
Isaiah 24:3 The land
shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
Isaiah 24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Isaiah 64:10-
11 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. ... Our
holy and our beautiful house,
where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and
all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Jeremiah 4:7 The
lion is come up from his thicket, and the
destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place
to make thy land desolate; [
and] thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 4:23-
29 I beheld
the earth, and, lo, [
it was] without form, and void; and
the heavens, and they [
had] no light. ... The whole city
shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen;
they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks:
every city [
shall be] forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
Jeremiah 12:10-
12 Many
pastors have destroyed
my vineyard, they have
trodden my portion under foot, they have made my
pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. ... The
spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for
the sword of the LORD shall devour from the [
one] end of the land even to the [
other] end of the land:
no flesh shall have peace.
Jeremiah 16:9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold,
I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
Jeremiah 19:11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Even so will I break this people and this city, as [
one] breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be
made whole again: and they shall bury [
them] in Tophet, till [
there be] no place to bury.
Jeremiah 24:8-
10 And
as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD,
So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land,
and them that dwell in the land of Egypt: ... And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
Jeremiah 25:9 Behold,
I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them
against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them
an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah 34:22 Behold,
I will command, saith the LORD, and
cause them to return to this city; and they
shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire:
and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
Lamentations 5:18 Because
of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,
the foxes walk upon it.
Daniel 9:17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and
cause thy face to shine upon
thy sanctuary that is desolate,
for the Lord's sake.
