They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will be among ruined cities.

The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

Look, your house is left to you desolate!

I will turn the land of Egypt into a desolation in the midst of desolate lands; for forty years her cities will lie desolate in the midst of ruined cities. I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries.

May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited! ¹ 

For wild animals ¹  are prowling over Mount Zion, which lies desolate.

The earth will become desolate ¹  because of what its inhabitants have done. ² 

They will lay it waste. It will lie parched ¹  and empty before me. The whole land will be laid waste. But no one living in it will pay any heed. ² 

I will turn the land into a desolate ruin; her confident pride will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate no one will pass through them.

The city is left in ruins; ¹  the gate is reduced to rubble. ² 

to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation? ¹ 

I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin; ¹  I will cut off ²  from it the one who passes through or returns.

Come! Witness the exploits ¹  of the Lord, who brings devastation to the earth! ² 

They will say, “This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; the ruined, desolate, and destroyed cities are now fortified and inhabited.”

gaunt ¹  with want and hunger, they would gnaw ²  the parched land, in former time desolate and waste. ³ 

Your chosen ¹  cities have become a desert; Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem ²  is a desolate ruin.

I will make ¹  the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the sovereign Lord.”

I will lay waste your cities; and you will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord!

This is what the sovereign Lord says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation.

Egypt will be desolate and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, because of the violence they did to the people of Judah, ¹  in whose land they shed innocent blood.