20 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

• Exile and Return
• Judgment

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• Isa 13:22 — And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
• Isa 25:2 — For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
• Isa 34:13 — And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
• Isa 34:13 — And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
• Jer 1:15 — For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against
• Jer 2:15 — The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
• Jer 4:7 — The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabit
• Jer 10:22 — Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
• Jer 10:22 — Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.
• Jer 22:6 — For thus saith the LORD unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
• Jer 25:11 — And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
• Jer 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 shal
• Jer 34:22 — Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation wit
• Jer 34:22 — Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation wit
• Jer 44:2 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man
• Jer 49:33 — And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
• Jer 51:37 — And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
• Lam 1:4 — The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
• Lam 2:2 — The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he ha
• Lam 2:7 — The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day o
• Lam 3:47 — Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
• Lam 5:18 — Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
• Lev 26:32 — And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
• Mic 3:12 — Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
• Ps 79:1 — O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
• 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.
• Zeph 1:18 — Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy ridd