The remains of a city, town or building after destruction or neglect. In Scripture it mainly describes the aftermath of divine judgment.

Leviticus 26:27-33

Israel's reduction to ruins

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As a covenant curse for disobeying God

Deuteronomy 13:16; 28:49-52
Jeremiah 9:11
Micah 1:6-7

The ruin prophesied

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Isaiah 5:5-7; 6:11-13
Jeremiah 4:7,20,23-26; 22:5
Ezekiel 6:6-7,14; 21:27
Amos 3:13-15; 7:9
2 Kings 25:8-15

The ruin described

pp 2Ch 36:17-19

pp Jer 39:8-10

Psalms 89:39-41

pp Jer 52:12-19

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The ruin lamented

Psalms 74:3; 80:12-16
Isaiah 64:8-12
Lamentations 2:5-9
Jeremiah 44:2-6

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The ruin explained

Ezekiel 33:23-29
Isaiah 51:3; 61:4

Restoration of Israel's ruins

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Restoration of the ruins prophesied

Isaiah 44:24-26; 58:12
Jeremiah 30:18-19; 31:27-28
Ezekiel 36:8-12,33-36
Amos 9:11-12
Ezra 3:1-13
Nehemiah 1:3-4; 2:11-20

Restoration of the ruins fulfilled at the return from exile

Haggai 1:1-15

Ruins through God's judgment on Israel's enemies

Nahum 3:7

Assyria

Zephaniah 2:13-15

Nineveh was the capital of Assyria:

Isaiah 13:19-22; 23:13
Jeremiah 51:37

Babylon

Ezekiel 35:1-4,9
Malachi 1:2-4

Edom

Jeremiah 46:19
Ezekiel 29:8-12

Egypt

Jeremiah 48:1,18

Moab

Zephaniah 2:4-6

Philistia

Ezekiel 26:3-4,11-14,19-21

Tyre

Joshua 8:24-29

Towns and sites ruined

1 Chronicles 20:1

In warfare

Joel 1:6-12,16-17

In natural disaster

Isaiah 24:1-13; 27:9-10

Apocalyptic prophecies of ruin

Revelation 16:17-21; 18:21-23
1 Kings 18:30

Repairs to the ruined temple, altar and defences

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2 Kings 12:1-12
2 Kings 22:3-7

pp 2Ch 24:4-13

pp 2Ch 34:8-13

Proverbs 25:28

Proverbial references to ruins

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Job 3:13-14; 15:27-28
Psalms 102:6
Proverbs 24:30-31

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