# שְׁמָמָה (shemamah) Israeli respelling: she-ma-mah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H8077. 54 Old Testament occurrences. devastation; figuratively, astonishment King James renderings: (laid, [idiom] most) desolate(-ion), waste. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/shemamah-h8077 ## Occurrences - [Exodus 23:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/29) — I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. - [Leviticus 26:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/33) — And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. - [Joshua 8:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/28) — And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day. - [Isaiah 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/7) — Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthr… - [Isaiah 6:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/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 ut… - [Isaiah 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/17/9) — In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and… - [Isaiah 62:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/62/4) — Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land… - [Isaiah 64:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/64/10) — Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. - [Jeremiah 4:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/4/27) — For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. - [Jeremiah 6:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/8) — Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. - [Jeremiah 9:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/9/11) — And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. - [Jeremiah 10:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/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… - [Jeremiah 12:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/12/10) — Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. - [Jeremiah 12:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/12/11) — They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart. - [Jeremiah 25:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/12) — And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, fo… - [Jeremiah 32:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/32/43) — And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. - [Jeremiah 34:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/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 wi… - [Jeremiah 44:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/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 was… - [Jeremiah 49:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/2) — Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be… - [Jeremiah 49:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/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. - [Jeremiah 50:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/13) — Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be aston… - [Jeremiah 51:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/26) — And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD. - [Jeremiah 51:62](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/62) — Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but t… - [Ezekiel 6:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/6/14) — So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their ha… - [Ezekiel 7:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/27) — The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do… - [Ezekiel 12:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/12/20) — And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. - [Ezekiel 14:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/14/15) — If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the… - [Ezekiel 14:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/14/16) — Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be deliver… - [Ezekiel 15:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/15/8) — And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD. - [Ezekiel 23:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/33) — Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. - [Ezekiel 29:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/9) — And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I h… - [Ezekiel 29:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/10) — Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower o… - [Ezekiel 29:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/12) — And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid w… - [Ezekiel 32:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/15) — When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them t… - [Ezekiel 33:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/28) — For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none s… - [Ezekiel 33:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/29) — Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committe… - [Ezekiel 35:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/35/3) — And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I wil… - [Ezekiel 35:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/35/4) — I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. - [Ezekiel 35:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/35/7) — Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth. - [Ezekiel 35:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/35/9) — I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. - [Ezekiel 35:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/35/14) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate. - [Ezekiel 35:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/35/15) — As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O… - [Ezekiel 36:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/36/34) — And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. - [Daniel 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/18) — O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not… - [Joel 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/3) — A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wi… - [Joel 2:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/20) — But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea… - [Joel 3:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/3/19) — Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have she… - [Micah 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/1/7) — And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols the… - [Micah 7:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/7/13) — Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings. - [Zephaniah 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/1/13) — Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they sha… - [Zephaniah 2:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/2/4) — For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. - [Zephaniah 2:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/2/9) — Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even… - [Zephaniah 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/2/13) — And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. - [Malachi 1:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/1/3) — And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.