Isa 32:13-14, 33:9, 64:10, Jer 2:31, 4:26, 12:10, 22:6, Eze 19:13 | ESV | STEP | for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers , yes , for all the joyous houses in the exultant city .

Isaiah 32:13-14

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

Isaiah 33:9

9 ^dThe land mourns and languishes;
Lebanon is confounded and withers away;
Sharon is like a desert,
and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

Isaiah 64:10

10 ^eYour holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 2:31

31 And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘We are free,
we will come no more to you’?

Jeremiah 4:26

26 I looked, and behold, the ^ffruitful land was a desert,
and all its cities were laid in ruins
before the Lord, before ^ghis fierce anger.

Jeremiah 12:10

10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard;
^hthey have trampled down my portion;
they have made my pleasant portion
a desolate wilderness.

Jeremiah 22:6

6 For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah:

“‘You are like Gilead to me,
like the summit of ⁱLebanon,
yet surely I will make you a desert,
^jan uninhabited city. ^{▼▼Hebrew cities}

Ezekiel 19:13

13 ^lNow it is planted in the wilderness,
in a dry and thirsty land.