See also Desolate; Desolation; Idleness; Ruin

Lev. 26: 20	your strength shall be spent in vain.
1 Kgs. 17: 14	barrel of meal shall not waste.
Neh. 2: 17	Ye see . . . how Jerusalem lieth waste.
Ps. 80: 13	boar out of the wood doth waste it.
Prov. 18: 9	slothful . . . to him that is a great waster.
Prov. 21: 20	treasure . . . a foolish man spendeth it.
Isa. 6: 11	(2 Ne. 16: 11) Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant.
Isa. 24: 1	Lord maketh the earth . . . waste.
Isa. 34: 10	generation to generation it shall lie waste.
Isa. 42: 15	I will make waste mountains.
Isa. 54: 16	created the waster to destroy.
Isa. 55: 2	do ye spend money for that which is not bread.
Isa. 61: 4	they shall build the old wastes.
Isa. 64: 11	our pleasant things are laid waste.
Ezek. 12: 20	cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste.
Joel 1: 10	field is wasted, the land mourneth.
Matt. 26: 8	To what purpose is this waste.
Luke 15: 13	wasted his substance with riotous living.
Luke 16: 1	accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
Acts 17: 21	spent their time in nothing else.
1 Ne. 8: 7	I was in a dark and dreary waste.
2 Ne. 9: 27	wo unto him . . . that wasteth the days of his probation.
Mosiah 12: 29	spend your strength with harlots.
Alma 24: 18	rather than spend their days in idleness.
Alma 34: 33	if we do not improve our time while in this life.
D&C 2: 3	(JS-H 1: 39) whole earth would be utterly wasted at his coming.
D&C 49: 21	wo be unto man . . . that wasteth flesh.
D&C 101: 18	(D&C 103: 11) return . . . to build up the waste places of Zion.
D&C 123: 13	that we should waste and wear out our lives.

See also Hag. 1: 6; John 6: 12.