Isaiah 6:11

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said: “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without men, and the land is utterly desolate,

Cross References

Psalm 74:10

How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile thy name for ever?

Psalm 79:5

How long, O Lord? Wilt thou be angry for ever? Will thy jealous wrath burn like fire?

Psalm 90:13

Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on thy servants!

Psalm 94:3

O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?

Isaiah 1:7

Your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence aliens devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by aliens.

Isaiah 13:12

I will make men more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.

Isaiah 3:26

And her gates shall lament and mourn; ravaged, she shall sit upon the ground.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen; because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.

Isaiah 32:14

For the palace will be forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

Isaiah 35:1

The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the crocus

Isaiah 5:9

The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing: “Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.

Isaiah 60:15

Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic for ever, a joy from age to age.

Isaiah 64:10

Thy holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 22:6

For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah: “ ‘You are as Gilead to me, as the summit of Lebanon, yet surely I will make you a desert, an uninhabited city.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has gone up from his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone forth from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 44:2

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Behold, this day they are a desolation, and no one dwells in them,

Jeremiah 52:27

And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried captive out of its land.

Ezekiel 6:6

Wherever you dwell your cities shall be waste and your high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.

Daniel 8:13

Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to the one that spoke, “For how long is the vision concerning the continual burnt offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled under foot?”

Leviticus 26:31

And I will lay your cities waste, and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors.

Leviticus 26:33

And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

Micah 2:4

In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you, and wail with bitter lamentation, and say, “We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he divides our fields.”

Micah 5:11

and I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds;

Micah 6:13

Therefore I have begun to smite you, making you desolate because of your sins.

Micah 7:13

But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their doings.

Deuteronomy 28:62

Whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude, you shall be left few in number; because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:63

And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you; and you shall be plucked off the land which you are entering to take possession of it.