Isa 6:11, 24:12, 64:10-11, Lam 1:1, 16, 5:18, Mic 3:12 | ESV | STEP | Then I said , How long , O Lord ? And he said : Until cities lie waste without inhabitant , and houses without people , and the land is a desolate waste ,

Isaiah 6:11

11 Then I said, ^a“How long, O Lord?”
And he said:
“Until ^bcities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,

Isaiah 24:12

12 Desolation is left in the city;
the gates are battered into ruins.

Isaiah 64:10-11

10 ^cYour holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 ^dOur holy and beautiful ^{▼▼Or holy and glorious} house,
where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.

Lamentations 1:1

How Lonely Sits the City

1 ^fHow lonely sits the city
that was full of people!
How like ^ga widow has she become,
she who was great among the nations!
She who was ^ha princess among the provinces
has become ⁱa slave.

Lamentations 1:16

16 “For these things ^jI weep;
my eyes flow with tears;
for ^ka comforter is far from me,
one to ^lrevive my spirit;
my children are desolate,
for the enemy has prevailed.”

Lamentations 5:18

18 for Mount Zion which lies desolate;
^mjackals prowl over it.

Micah 3:12

12 Therefore because of you
ⁿZion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem ^oshall become a heap of ruins,
and ^pthe mountain of the house ^qa wooded height.