Deuteronomy 26:5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, "A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. Judges (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Job 24:12 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn't regard the folly. (WEB JPS ASV)
Isaiah 32:14 For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks; (WEB ASV RSV)
Nahum 3:8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? (KJV WBS)