(Old Covenants) Ezekiel 18:10

Thus says the Lord God: In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities, I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be built. ... And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. ... And they shall say, This land that was desolate has become like the Garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities have become fortified and are inhabited. ... Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places and plant that which was desolate.

(Old Covenants) Jeremiah 13:8

Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Again in this place which is desolate, without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. ... In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that tells them, says the Lord.

(Old Covenants) Ezekiel 15:6

And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

(Old Covenants) Ezekiel 18:1

And say unto it, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you most desolate. ... I will lay your cities waste and you shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

(Old Covenants) Ezekiel 15:2

And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste, and they shall know that I am the Lord. ... Because he has said, The river is mine and I have made it — behold therefore, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia. ... And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years.

(Old Covenants) Leviticus 13:13

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors. ... And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you, and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

(Old Covenants) Ezekiel 14:4

For thus says the Lord God: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I shall bring up the deep upon you and great waters shall cover you, when I shall bring you down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set you in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old with them that go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited, and I shall set glory in the land of the living, I will make you a terror and you shall be no more.

(Old Covenants) Ezekiel 4:5

Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with anxiousness, and say unto the people of the land, Thus says the Lord God of the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiousness and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein because of the violence of all them that dwell therein. ... And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

(Old Covenants) Jeremiah 13:7

Thus says the Lord: Again there shall be heard in this place — which you say shall be desolate, without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast — the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the Lord of Hosts, for the Lord is good, for his mercy endures for ever unto them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord.

(Old Covenants) Jeremiah 13:5

And now therefore thus says the Lord the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: Behold, I will gather them out of all countries to which I have driven them — in my anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath — and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely, and they shall be my people and I will be their God. ... And fields shall be bought in this land whereof you say, It is desolate without man or beast, it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. ... Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south; for I will cause their captivity to turn back, says the Lord.

(Old Covenants) Ezekiel 2:1

And your altars shall be desolate and your images shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. ... In all your dwelling places, the cities shall be laid waste and the high places shall be desolate, that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished; and the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

(Old Covenants) Ezekiel 8:9

And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

(Old Covenants) Job 6:5

And he dwells in desolate cities and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

(Old Covenants) Isaiah 1:14

In my ears says the Lord of Hosts, Truly many houses shall be desolate, and great and fair cities without inhabitant.

(Old Covenants) Jeremiah 2:6

Declare in Judah and publish in Jerusalem, and say, Blow the trumpet in the land, cry, gather together and say, Assemble yourselves and let us go into the fortified cities. ... He is gone forth from his place to make your land desolate and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

(Old Covenants) Ezekiel 18:4

Thus says the Lord God: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession — therefore prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord God: Because they have made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people, therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. ... Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about; therefore, thus says the Lord God: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession, with the joy of all their heart, with spiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.

(Old Covenants) Jeremiah 4:17

Behold, the noise of the report has come and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate and a den of dragons.

(Old Covenants) Ezekiel 18:2

Thus will I make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passes out and him that returns. ... I will make you perpetual desolations and your cities shall not return.

(Old Covenants) Zephaniah 1:10

Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city. ... I have cut off the nations, their towers are desolate. ... Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is no inhabitant.

(Old Covenants) Isaiah 1:1

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire. ... Your land, strangers devour it in your presence; and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. ... And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

(Old Covenants) Ezekiel 15:8

And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No. ... The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword, and these cities shall go into captivity.

(Old Covenants) Isaiah 19:4

Sing, O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child; for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the Lord. ... Enlarge the place of your tent and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations; spare not, lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes, for you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left, and your seed shall inherit the gentiles and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

(Old Covenants) Jeremiah 3:1

I beheld the earth, and behold, it was empty and desolate; and the heavens, and they had no light. ... I beheld, and behold, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord and by his fierce anger.

(Old Covenants) Jeremiah 4:4

Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall be desolate.

(Old Covenants) Daniel 9:5

Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. ... And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end thereof shall be with a flood; and unto the end of the war, desolations are determined. ... And for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.