Jeremiah 9:11
9:11 The Lord said,
“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins.
Jackals will make their home there.
I will destroy the towns of Judah
so that no one will be able to live in them.”
Jeremiah 19:8
19:8 I will make this city an object of horror, a thing to be hissed at. All who pass by it will be filled with horror and will hiss out their scorn
because of all the disasters that have happened to it.
Jeremiah 25:9
25:9 So I, the
Lord, affirm that
I will send for all the peoples of the north
and my servant,
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy
this land, its inhabitants, and all the nations that surround it
and make them everlasting ruins.
I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn.
Jeremiah 49:13
49:13 For I solemnly swear,”
says the
Lord, “that Bozrah
will become a pile of ruins. It will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example to be used in curses.
All the towns around it will lie in ruins forever.”
Jeremiah 50:13
50:13 After I vent my wrath on it Babylon will be uninhabited.
It will be totally desolate.
All who pass by will be filled with horror and will hiss out their scorn
because of all the disasters that have happened to it.
Leviticus 26:33-34
26:33 I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword
after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
26:34 “‘Then the land will make up for its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and make up its Sabbaths.
Leviticus 26:43
26:43 The land will be abandoned by them
in order that it may make up for
its Sabbaths while it is made desolate
without them,
and they will make up for their iniquity because
they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred
my statutes.
Deuteronomy 29:23
29:23 The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the
Lord destroyed in his intense anger.
Isaiah 6:11
6:11 I replied, “How long, sovereign master?” He said,
“Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated,
and houses are uninhabited,
and the land is ruined and devastated,
Ezekiel 6:14
6:14 I will stretch out my hand against them
and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah,
in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the
Lord!”
Ezekiel 12:19
12:19 Then say to the people of the land, ‘This is what the sovereign
Lord says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in fright, for their land will be stripped bare of all it contains because of the violence of all who live in it.
Ezekiel 33:28-29
33:28 I will turn the land into a desolate ruin; her confident pride will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate no one will pass through them.
33:29 Then they will know that I am the
Lord when I turn the land into a desolate ruin because of all the abominable deeds they have committed.’