• Isaiah 6:11, 12
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 11 At this I said: “How long, O Jehovah?” Then he said:

      “Until the cities crash in ruins without an inhabitant

      And the houses are without people

      And the land is ruined and desolate;+

      12 Until Jehovah removes men far away+

      And the deserted condition of the land becomes very extensive.

  • Jeremiah 26:18
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 18 “Miʹcah+ of Moʹresh·eth was prophesying in the days of King Hez·e·kiʹah+ of Judah, and he said to all the people of Judah, ‘This is what Jehovah of armies says:

      “Zion will be plowed up as a field,

      Jerusalem will become heaps of ruins,+

      And the mountain of the House* will become like high places in a forest.”’*+

  • Ezekiel 36:4
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah! This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says to the mountains and the hills, to the streams and the valleys, to the ruins that were desolated,+ and to the abandoned cities that have been plundered and ridiculed by the survivors of the nations around them;+