Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'waste' occurs 83 times in the standard works.

6 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'waste' in the standard works and contain 7.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 2 minutes to read the entire list.

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Isa. 15:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 6:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 29:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 62 26 88
Lev. 2 0 2
Num. 1 2 3
Deut. 1 1 2
1 Kgs. 1 1 2
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
1 Chr. 1 1 2
Neh. 2 0 2
Job 2 1 3
Ps. 2 2 4
Prov. 0 2 2
Isa. 19 5 24
Jer. 6 2 8
Ezek. 14 6 20
Joel 1 2 3
Amos 2 0 2
Micah 1 0 1
Nahum 2 0 2
Zeph. 1 1 2
Hag. 2 0 2
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 2 3 5
BM 14 4 18
DC 5 4 9
PGP 0 1 1
TOTAL 83 38 121

Num. 14:33
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

Num. 24:22
Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

Deut. 2:14
And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them.

1 Kgs. 17:16
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.

1 Chr. 20:1
And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.

Job 14:10
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

Ps. 91:6
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Ps. 137:3
For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

Prov. 18:9
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

Prov. 19:26
He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

Isa. 6:11
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

Isa. 19:5
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

Isa. 54:16
Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

Isa. 60:12
For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

Isa. 61:4
And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

Jer. 44:6
Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.

Jer. 49:13
For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

Ezek. 30:7
And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

Ezek. 33:24
Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

Ezek. 33:27
Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

Ezek. 36:4
Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;

Ezek. 36:10
And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:

Ezek. 36:33
Thus saith the Lord God; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.

Joel 1:10
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

Zeph. 1:15
That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,