Quotes About Desolation

He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.

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

so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

I made the wilderness his home and the salt flats his dwelling.

May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.

They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.

I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.

He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.

He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground,

and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.

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

Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.

And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.

For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.

For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,

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.”

Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.

I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,

until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken.

And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.

Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.

For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.