Lexicon :: Strong's H8077 - šᵊmāmâ

Your land lies desolate [because of your disobedience],

Your cities are burned with fire,

Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your very presence;

It is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered,

“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,

And houses are without people

And the land is utterly desolate,

In that day the strong cities of Aram and Israel will be like [fn]deserted places in the forest,

Or like branches which they abandoned before the children of Israel;

And the land will be a desolation.

It will no longer be said of you [Judah], “Azubah (Abandoned),”

Nor will it any longer be said of your land, “Shemamah (Desolate)”;

But you will be called, “Hephzibah (My Delight is in Her),”

And your land, “[fn]Married”;

For the LORD delights in you,

And to Him your land will be married [owned and protected by the LORD].

[fn]Your holy cities have become a wilderness,

Zion has become a wilderness,

Jerusalem a desolation.

Therefore says the LORD,

“The whole land shall be a desolation,

Yet I will not cause total destruction.

“Be wise and be warned, O Jerusalem,

Or I will be alienated from you,

And make you a desolation,

An uninhabited land.”

“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,

A haunt and dwelling place of jackals;

And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

The sound of a report! Behold, [the invader] comes—

A great commotion from the country of the north (Babylonia)—

To make the cities of Judah

A desolation, a haunt and dwelling place of jackals.

“Many shepherds (invaders) have destroyed My vineyard (Judah),

They have trampled My field underfoot;

They have made My pleasant field

A desolate wilderness.

‘Then when seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans (Babylonia),’ says the LORD, ‘for their wickedness, and will make the land [of the Chaldeans] a perpetual waste.

“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD,

“When I will cause an alarm of war to be heard

Against Rabbah of the Ammonites;

And it [along with the high ground on which it stands] will become a desolate heap,

And its villages will be set on fire.

Then will Israel take possession of his possessors,”

Says the LORD.

“Hazor will become a haunt and dwelling place of jackals,

A desolation forever;

No one will live there,

Nor will a son of man reside in it.”

“Because of the wrath of the LORD she will not be inhabited

But she will be completely desolate;

Everyone who goes by Babylon will be appalled

And will hiss (mock) at all her wounds and plagues.

“They will not take from you [even] a stone for a cornerstone

Nor any rock for a foundation,

But you will be [fn]desolate forever,” says the LORD.

‘You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,

With the cup of horror and desolation,

With the cup of your sister Samaria.

“Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine and I have made it,’

“When I make the land of Egypt desolate,

And the country is stripped and deprived of all that which filled it,

When I strike all those who live in it,

Then they will know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD.

“Behold, Mount Seir, I am against you,

And I will stretch out My hand against you

And make you completely desolate.

Before them a fire devours,

And behind them a flame burns;

Before them the land is like the Garden of Eden,

But behind them a desolate wilderness;

And nothing at all escapes them.

“But I will remove the northern army far away from you,

And I will drive it into a parched and desolate land,

With its forward guard into the eastern sea (Dead Sea)

And with its rear guard into the western sea (Mediterranean Sea).

And its stench will arise and its foul odor of decay will come up [this is the fate of the northern army in the final day of the LORD],

For [fn]He has done great things.”

Egypt will become a waste,

And Edom will become a desolate wilderness,

Because of their violence against the children of Judah,

In whose land they have shed innocent blood.

All her idols shall be broken in pieces,

All her earnings [from her idolatry] shall be burned with fire,

And all her images I shall make desolate;

For from the earnings of a prostitute she collected them,

And to the earnings of a prostitute they shall return.

Yet the earth [beyond the land of Israel] shall become desolate because of those who dwell in it,

Because of the fruit of their deeds.

“Furthermore, their wealth will become plunder

And their houses a desolation.

Yes, they will build houses but not live in them,

And plant vineyards but not drink their wine.”