Isaiah 32:14

New American Bible - revised edition

The castle will be forsaken, the noisy city deserted; Citadel and tower will become wasteland forever, the joy of wild donkeys, the pasture of flocks;

Cross References

2 Kings 25:9

He burned the house of the Lord, the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem (every noble house); he destroyed them by fire.

2 Chronicles 33:14

Afterward he built an outer wall for the City of David to the west of Gihon in the valley, extending to the Fish Gate and encircling Ophel; he built it very high. He stationed army officers in all the fortified cities of Judah.

Nehemiah 3:26

to a point opposite the Water Gate on the east, and the projecting tower.

Psalm 104:11

They give drink to every beast of the field; here wild asses quench their thirst.

Isaiah 22:2

You who were full of noise, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor killed in battle.

Isaiah 24:10

Broken down is the city of chaos, every house is shut against entry.

Isaiah 24:12

In the city nothing remains but desolation, gates battered into ruins.

Isaiah 25:2

For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin, The castle of the insolent, a city no more, not ever to be rebuilt.

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city shall be desolate, an abandoned pasture, a forsaken wilderness; There calves shall graze, there they shall lie down, and consume its branches.

Isaiah 3:26

Her gates will lament and mourn, as the city sits desolate on the ground.

Isaiah 5:9

In my hearing the Lord of hosts has sworn: Many houses shall be in ruins, houses large and fine, with nobody living there.

Isaiah 6:11

“How long, O Lord?” I asked. And he replied: Until the cities are desolate, without inhabitants, Houses, without people, and the land is a desolate waste.

Isaiah 7:23

On that day every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand pieces of silver shall become briers and thorns.

Jeremiah 14:6

The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, gasping for breath like jackals; Their eyes grow dim; there is no grass.

Jeremiah 33:4

Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are being torn down because of the siegeworks and the sword:

Jeremiah 52:27

who had them struck down and executed in Riblah, in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was exiled from the land.

Jeremiah 6:5

“Up! let us rush upon her by night, destroy her palaces!”

Hosea 2:3

Say to your brothers, “My People,” and to your sisters, “Pitied.”

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem reduced to rubble, And the mount of the temple to a forest ridge.

Zephaniah 2:15

Is this the exultant city that dwelt secure, That told itself, “I and there is no one else”? How it has become a waste, a lair for wild animals! Those who pass by it hiss, and shake their fists!

Zephaniah 2:7

The seacoast shall belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; by the sea they shall pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down in the evening. For the Lord their God will take care of them, and bring about their restoration.

Luke 21:20

“When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, know that its desolation is at hand.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken as captives to all the Gentiles; and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. The Coming of the Son of Man.