Isa 5:9-10, 6:11-12, 17:9, 25:2, 64:10, Jer 26:6, 18, Lam 1:4, 2:5-9 | ESV | STEP | The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing : Surely many houses shall be desolate , large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant .

9 The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:
^a“Surely many houses shall be desolate,
large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.
10 ^bFor ten acres ^{▼▼Hebrew ten yoke, the area ten yoke of oxen can plow in a day} of vineyard shall yield but one bath,
and a ^dhomer of seed shall yield but an ephah.” ^{▼▼A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters; a homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters; an ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters}

Isaiah 6:11-12

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

Isaiah 17:9

9 ^hIn that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.

Isaiah 25:2

2 For you have made the city ⁱa heap,
the fortified city a ruin;
the foreigners’ palace is a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.

Isaiah 64:10

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

Jeremiah 26:6

6 then I will make this house ^klike Shiloh, and I will make this city ^la curse for all the nations of the earth.’”

Jeremiah 26:18

18 “Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts,

^m“‘Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,
and the mountain of the house a wooded height.’

Lamentations 1:4

4 The roads to Zion mourn,
for none come to ⁿthe festival;
^oall her gates are desolate;
her priests ^pgroan;
her virgins have been afflicted, ^{▼▼Septuagint, Old Latin dragged away}
and she herself suffers bitterly.

Lamentations 2:5-9

5 ^rThe Lord has become like an enemy;
^she has swallowed up Israel;
^the has swallowed up all its palaces;
he has laid in ruins its strongholds,
and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah
^umourning and lamentation.
6 He has laid waste his booth like a garden,
laid in ruins ^vhis meeting place;
^wthe Lord has made Zion forget
festival and ^xSabbath,
and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.
7 ^yThe Lord has scorned his altar,
^zdisowned his sanctuary;
^aahe has delivered into the hand of the enemy
the walls of her palaces;
^abthey raised a clamor in the house of the Lord
as on the day of festival.
8 ^acThe Lord determined to lay in ruins
^adthe wall of the daughter of Zion;
^aehe stretched out the measuring line;
he did not restrain his hand from destroying;
^afhe caused rampart and wall to lament;
^agthey languished together.
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground;
^ahhe has ruined ^aiand broken her bars;
^ajher king and princes are among the nations;
the law is no more,
and ^akher prophets find
no vision from the Lord.