the defenced

Isaiah 5:9, 10
I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: "Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied. . . .

Isaiah 6:11, 12
Then I asked, "How long, O Lord?" And He replied, "Until cities lie in ruins without an inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied, and the land is desolate and ravaged, . . .

Isaiah 17:9
In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.

Isaiah 25:2
Indeed, You have turned the city into a heap of rubble, a fortified town into ruins; the fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 26:6, 18
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth." . . .

Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.

Lamentations 2:5-9
The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the Daughter of Judah. . . .

Lamentations 5:18
because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, haunted by the jackals.

Ezekiel 36:4
therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD.' This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become plunder and a mockery to the rest of the nations all around.

Micah 3:12
Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.

Luke 19:43, 44
For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. . . .

Luke 21:20-24
But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near. . . .

there shall the

Isaiah 7:25
For fear of the thorns and briers, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.

Isaiah 17:2
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.

Isaiah 32:13, 14
and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers--even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry. . . .