he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.
Cross References
Job 3:14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
Isaiah 5:8Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
Isaiah 5:9I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: "Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.
Treasury of Scripture
And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.
desolate
Job 3:14
With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Job 18:15
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Isaiah 5:8-10
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! …
which are ready
Jeremiah 9:11
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 26:18
Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
Jeremiah 51:37
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
