Quotes about Wasteland
And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
- Jeremiah 25:11
therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
- Ezekiel 25:13
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 29:9
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 29:10
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 2:3
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.
- Joel 3:19
but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
- Malachi 1:3
A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.
- John C. Wright
The vast wasteland of television programming had finally reached its zenith, and the average person was no longer limited to fifteen minutes of fame.
- Ernest Cline
she had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland.
- Ayn Rand
The valley… was full of bones… and lo, they were very dry.
- Anonymous