'Waste' in the Bible

“I will lay it waste;It will not be pruned or hoed,But briars and thorns will come up.I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain on it.”

Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,And strangers will eat in the waste places of the wealthy.

Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.

The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for the Lord has spoken this word.

“I will lay waste the mountains and hillsAnd wither all their vegetation;I will make the rivers into coastlandsAnd dry up the ponds.

For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited),“I am the Lord, and there is none else.

“I have not spoken in secret,In some dark land;I did not say to the offspring of Jacob,‘Seek Me in a waste place’;I, the Lord, speak righteousness,Declaring things that are upright.

“For your waste and desolate places and your destroyed land—Surely now you will be too cramped for the inhabitants,And those who swallowed you will be far away.

Indeed, the Lord will comfort Zion;He will comfort all her waste places.And her wilderness He will make like Eden,And her desert like the garden of the Lord;Joy and gladness will be found in her,Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.

Break forth, shout joyfully together,You waste places of Jerusalem;For the Lord has comforted His people,He has redeemed Jerusalem.