~ like a wilderness ~ 23_ISA_27_10  Yet the defenced city [shall be] desolate, [and] the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness, there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. #, 23_ISA_33_09  The earth mourneth [and] languisheth, Lebanon is ashamed [and] hewn down, Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their fruits]. #, 24_JER_09_12  Who [is] the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth [and] is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? #, 36_ZEP_02_13  And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, [and] dry like a wilderness. #,