Isaiah 6:11

New American Bible - revised edition

“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.

Cross References

Psalm 74:10

How long, O God, will the enemy jeer? Will the enemy revile your name forever?

Psalm 79:5

How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealous anger keep burning like fire?

Psalm 90:13

Relent, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants!

Psalm 94:3

How long, Lord, shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked glory?

Isaiah 1:7

Your country is waste, your cities burnt with fire; Your land—before your eyes strangers devour it, a waste, like the devastation of Sodom.

Isaiah 13:12

I will make mortals more rare than pure gold, human beings, than the gold of Ophir.

Isaiah 3:26

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

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem has stumbled, Judah has fallen; for their speech and deeds affront the Lord, a provocation in the sight of his majesty.

Isaiah 32:14

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;

Isaiah 35:1

The wilderness and the parched land will exult; the Arabah will rejoice and bloom;

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 60:15

No longer forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, Now I will make you the pride of the ages, a joy from generation to generation.

Isaiah 64:10

Our holy and glorious house in which our ancestors praised you Has been burned with fire; all that was dear to us is laid waste.

Jeremiah 22:6

For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah: Though you be to me like Gilead, like the peak of Lebanon, I swear I shall turn you into a waste, with cities uninhabited.

Jeremiah 4:7

Up comes the lion from its lair, the destroyer of nations has set out, has left its place, To turn your land into a desolation, your cities into an uninhabited waste.

Jeremiah 44:2

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You yourselves have seen all the evil I brought upon Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah. Today they lie in ruins uninhabited,

Jeremiah 52:27

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

Ezekiel 6:6

Wherever you live, cities shall be ruined and high places laid waste, in order that your altars be laid waste and devastated, your idols broken and smashed, your incense altars hacked to pieces, and whatever you have made wiped out.

Daniel 8:13

I heard a holy one speaking, and another said to whichever one it was that spoke, “How long shall the events of this vision last concerning the daily sacrifice, the desolating sin, the giving over of the sanctuary and the host for trampling?”

Leviticus 26:31

I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries, refusing your sweet-smelling offerings.

Leviticus 26:33

And you I will scatter among the nations at the point of my drawn sword, leaving your countryside desolate and your cities deserted.

Micah 2:4

On that day you shall be mocked, and there will be bitter lament: “Our ruin is complete, our fields are divided among our captors, The fields of my people are measured out, and no one can get them back!”

Micah 5:11

I will destroy the sorcery you practice, and there shall no longer be soothsayers among you.

Micah 6:13

I have begun to strike you with devastation because of your sins.

Micah 7:13

And the earth shall be a waste because of its inhabitants, as a result of their deeds.

Deuteronomy 28:62

You who were numerous as the stars of the heavens will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord, your God. Exile.

Deuteronomy 28:63

Just as the Lord once took delight in making you prosper and grow, so will the Lord now take delight in ruining and destroying you, and you will be plucked out of the land you are now entering to possess.