The whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it sprout, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in His anger and His wrath.

Your land is a desolation; your cities burned with fire. Strangers devour your land before you; and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.

and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor dug; but briers and thorns shall come up. And I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Jehovah of Hosts said in my ears, Truly many big and pleasant houses shall be laid waste, without inhabitant.

Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities have been smashed to ruins without inhabitant, and the houses without a man, and the land is left devastated,

Behold, Jehovah empties the earth and makes it bare, and distorts its face, and scatters its inhabitants.

On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city;

because the palaces shall be abandoned, the multitude of the city shall be deserted. Instead, the mound and tower shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

Your holy cities are a wilderness; Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem is a desolation.

And I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

And this whole land shall be a ruin and a waste. And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, their kings and their rulers, to make them a desolation, a horror, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

He has left His den like a lion; for their land is wasted at the presence of His fierce violence, and before His fierce anger.

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. And, behold, today they are a desolation, and no one lives there

Yes, so that Jehovah could no longer hold back because of the evil of your doings, because of the abominations which you have done! Therefore your land is a waste, and a wonder, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today.

The mountain of Zion is laid waste; the foxes walk upon it.

For I will make the land a desolate waste, her arrogant strength shall cease, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through.

Then they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have made the land a desolate waste because of all their abominations which they have done.

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood the number of the years by the books, from the Word of Jehovah to Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

O my God, bow down Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Your name. For we do not make our supplications before You on account of our righteousness, but because of Your great mercies.

Though the fig tree shall not blossom, and fruit is not on the vines; the work of the olive fails, and the fields yield no food; the flock is cut off from the fold, and no herd is in the stalls,

But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near.

And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the nations where Jehovah shall drive you.

And all the nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus unto this land? What is the meaning of this great burning anger?

for they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods that they had not known and that He had not apportioned to them.

And Jehovah uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.

And as for this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and shall hiss, and say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?

to make their land desolate and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by will be appalled, and will wag his head.

And I will make this city a desolation and a hissing. Everyone who passes by shall be amazed and shall hiss because of all its plagues.

The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy would have entered the gates into Jerusalem.

So it shall be a reproach, a taunt, a chastening, and a horror to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger and in fury and in furious punishment. I, Jehovah, have spoken.