'Waste' in the Bible
For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.
And I will make waste her vines and her fig-trees, of which she has said, These are the payments which my lovers have made to me; and I will make them a waste of trees, and the beasts of the field will take them for food.
For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.
They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.
Ephraim will become a waste in the day of punishment; I have given knowledge among the tribes of Israel of what is certain.
I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.
Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.
I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.
Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.
And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will come to destruction; thorns and waste plants will come up on their altars; they will say to the mountains, Be a cover over us; and to the hills, Come down on us.
I had knowledge of you in the waste land where no water was.
Though he gives fruit among his brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of the Lord coming up from the waste land, and his spring will become dry, his fountain will be without water: it will make waste the store of all the vessels of his desire.
Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.
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- Barren (62 instances)
- Blow (142 instances)
- Consume (170 instances)
- Desert (358 instances)
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- Languish (15 instances)
- Neutralize (1 instance)
- Squander (1 instance)
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- Waste (696 instances)
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