~ as a wilderness and ~ 23_ISA_14_17  [That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; [that] opened not the house of his prisoners? #, 28_HOS_02_03  Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. #,