Wasteland

…and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.

And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.

Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.

He deprives the earth’s leaders of reason and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

…to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

O God, when You went out before Your people, when You marched through the wasteland, Selah

He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.

Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.

I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”

Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again

…therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it,’

…therefore I am against you and against your rivers. I will turn the land of Egypt into a ruin, a desolate wasteland from Migdol to Syene, and as far as the border of Cush.

Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.

Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”

…but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”