Isaiah 1:7-9

7 aYour country lies desolate;
your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
foreigners devour your land;
it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
8And bthe daughter of Zion is left
like a cbooth in a vineyard,
like a lodge in a cucumber field,
like a besieged city.
9 dIf the Lord of hosts
had not left us ea few survivors,
we should have been like fSodom,
and become like gGomorrah.

Isaiah 5:6

6I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and hbriers and thorns shall grow up;
iI will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.

Isaiah 6:11-12

11Then I said, j“How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
Until kcities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,
12and the Lord removes people far away,
and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

Isaiah 7:17-25

17 lThe Lord will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father’s house such days as have not come since the day that mEphraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria!”

18In that day the Lord will nwhistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and oin the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures.
Or watering holes, or brambles


20In that day qthe Lord will rshave with a razor that is shired beyond tthe River—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.

21 uIn that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep, 22and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eat vcurds and honey.

23In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels
A  shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
of silver, will become xbriers and thorns.
24 yWith bow and arrows a man will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns. 25 zAnd as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear aaof briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.

Isaiah 27:10

10 abFor the fortified city is solitary,
a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
there it lies down and strips its branches.

Isaiah 32:13-14

13 acfor the soil of my people
growing up in thorns and briers,
adyes, for all the joyous houses
in the exultant city.
14For the palace is forsaken,
the populous city deserted;
the hill and the watchtower
will become dens forever,
aea joy of wild donkeys,
a pasture of flocks;

Isaiah 42:15

15 afI will lay waste mountains and hills,
and dry up all their vegetation;
I will turn the rivers into islands,
Or  into coastlands

and dry up the pools.

Jeremiah 4:7

7 ahA lion has gone up from his thicket,
a destroyer of nations has set out;
he has gone out from his place
to make your land a waste;
your cities will be ruins
aiwithout inhabitant.
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