Job 10:22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'" (See RSV)
Isaiah 24:10 The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in. (See NAS RSV)
Isaiah 34:11 But the birds of the waste land will have their place there; it will be a heritage for the bittern and the raven: and it will be measured out with line and weight as a waste land. (See RSV NIV)
Isaiah 45:18 For this is the word of the Lord who made the heavens; he is God; the maker and designer of the earth; who made it not to be a waste, but as a living-place for man: I am the Lord, and there is no other. (See RSV)