שְׁמָמָה
she.ma.mah
devastation, waste, desolation
Also means: shi.me.mah (שִֽׁמְמָה "desolation" H8077B)
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Concordance 53 verses
- Exodus 23:29 שְׁמָמָ֔ה
I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.
- Leviticus 26:33 שְׁמָמָ֔ה
But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
- Joshua 8:28 שְׁמָמָ֔ה
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.
- Isaiah 1:7 שְׁמָמָ֔הוּשְׁמָמָ֖ה
Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.
- Isaiah 6:11 שְׁמָמָֽה׃
Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,
- Isaiah 17:9 שְׁמָמָֽה׃
In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.
- Isaiah 62:4 שְׁמָמָ֔ה
No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.
- Isaiah 64:10 שְׁמָמָֽה׃
Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
- Jeremiah 4:27 שְׁמָמָ֥ה
For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
- Jeremiah 6:8 שְׁמָמָ֔ה
Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”
- Jeremiah 9:11 שְׁמָמָ֖ה
“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
- Jeremiah 10:22 שְׁמָמָ֖ה
Listen! The sound of a report is coming— a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made a desolation, a haunt for jackals.
- Jeremiah 12:10 שְׁמָמָֽה׃
Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
- Jeremiah 12:11 שְׁמֵמָ֑ה
They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
- Jeremiah 25:12 לְשִֽׁמְמ֥וֹת
But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
- Jeremiah 32:43 שְׁמָמָ֥ה
And fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.’
- Jeremiah 34:22 שְׁמָמָ֖ה
Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
- Jeremiah 44:6 לִשְׁמָמָ֖ה
Therefore My wrath and anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so that they have become the desolate ruin they are today.
- Jeremiah 49:2 שְׁמָמָ֔ה
Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.
- Jeremiah 49:33 שְׁמָמָ֖ה
“Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”
- Jeremiah 50:13 שְׁמָמָ֖ה
Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.
- Jeremiah 51:26 שִׁמְמ֥וֹת
No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:62 שִׁמְמ֥וֹת
and say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’
- Ezekiel 6:14 שְׁמָמָ֤ה
I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
- Ezekiel 7:27 שְׁמָמָ֔ה
The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and I will judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
- Ezekiel 12:20 שְׁמָמָ֣ה
The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
- Ezekiel 14:15 שְׁמָמָה֙
Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,
- Ezekiel 14:16 שְׁמָמָֽה׃
then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.
- Ezekiel 15:8 שְׁמָמָ֑ה
Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
- Ezekiel 23:33 וּשְׁמָמָ֔ה
You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.
- Ezekiel 29:9 לִשְׁמָמָ֣ה
The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it,’
- Ezekiel 29:10 שְׁמָמָ֔ה
therefore I am against you and against your rivers. I will turn the land of Egypt into a ruin, a desolate wasteland from Migdol to Syene, and as far as the border of Cush.
- Ezekiel 29:12 שְׁמָמָ֜השְׁמָמָ֔ה
I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.
- Ezekiel 32:15 שְׁמָמָ֣ה
‘When I make the land of Egypt a desolation and empty it of all that filled it, when I strike down all who live there, then they will know that I am the LORD.’
- Ezekiel 33:28 שְׁמָמָ֣ה
I will make the land a desolate waste, and the pride of her strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, so that no one will pass through.
- Ezekiel 33:29 שְׁמָמָ֣ה
Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolate waste because of all the abominations they have committed.’
- Ezekiel 35:3 שְׁמָמָ֥ה
and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.
- Ezekiel 35:4 שְׁמָמָ֣ה
I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 35:7 לְשִֽׁמְמָ֖הוּשְׁמָמָ֑ה
I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.
- Ezekiel 35:9 שִֽׁמְמ֤וֹת
I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 35:14 שְׁמָמָ֖ה
This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
- Ezekiel 35:15 שְׁמָמָ֨ה
As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 36:34 שְׁמָמָ֔ה
The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through.
- Joel 2:3 שְׁמָמָ֔ה
Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland— surely nothing will escape them.
- Joel 2:20 וּשְׁמָמָה֒
The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.
- Joel 3:19 לִשְׁמָמָ֣השְׁמָמָ֖ה
Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
- Micah 1:7 שְׁמָמָ֑ה
All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.
- Micah 7:13 לִשְׁמָמָ֖ה
Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.
- Zephaniah 1:13 לִשְׁמָמָ֑ה
Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.
- Zephaniah 2:4 לִשְׁמָמָ֑ה
For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.