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It is used to describe lands, cities, and even individuals who have been forsaken or left in a state of devastation. The concept of desolation is frequently associated with divine judgment, reflecting the consequences of sin and disobedience to God. Old Testament Usage In the Old Testament, "desolate" is commonly used to describe the aftermath of God's judgment on nations and cities that have turned away from Him. For instance, in <a href="/isaiah/1-7.htm">Isaiah 1:7</a>, the prophet laments the condition of Judah: "Your land is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; foreigners devour your fields before you, a desolation demolished by strangers." Here, desolation is a direct result of the people's rebellion against God. The desolation of Jerusalem and the land of Israel is a recurring theme, particularly in the context of the Babylonian exile. In <a href="/lamentations/1-4.htm">Lamentations 1:4</a>, the desolation of the city is poignantly described: "The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are desolate; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she is in bitter anguish." New Testament Usage In the New Testament, the concept of desolation is often linked to prophetic warnings and eschatological themes. Jesus Himself uses the term when predicting the destruction of Jerusalem. In <a href="/matthew/24-15.htm">Matthew 24:15</a>, He refers to the "abomination of desolation" spoken of by the prophet Daniel, indicating a time of great tribulation and judgment. The desolation mentioned in the New Testament serves as a warning to remain faithful and vigilant, emphasizing the consequences of turning away from God's commandments. Spiritual Implications Beyond its physical implications, desolation carries a profound spiritual meaning. It symbolizes the emptiness and ruin that result from a life lived apart from God. In <a href="/psalms/34-21.htm">Psalm 34:21</a>, the psalmist declares, "Evil will slay the wicked, and the haters of the righteous will be condemned." This verse underscores the spiritual desolation that accompanies wickedness and rebellion. Conversely, the Bible also speaks of restoration from desolation. In <a href="/isaiah/51-3.htm">Isaiah 51:3</a>, God promises comfort and renewal: "For the LORD will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places, and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of melody." Conclusion The theme of desolation in the Bible serves as a powerful reminder of the consequences of sin and the importance of remaining faithful to God. It also offers hope, as God promises restoration and renewal to those who turn back to Him. Through the lens of desolation, believers are called to examine their own lives, seeking to avoid spiritual emptiness by maintaining a close relationship with the Lord.<a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (a.) Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.2. (a.) Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.3. (a.) Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.4. (a.) Lost to shame; dissolute.5. (a.) Destitute of; lacking in.6. (v. t.) To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.7. (v. t.) To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.<a name="isb" id="isb"></a><div class="vheading2">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</div>DESOLATEdes'-o-lat (very frequently in the Old Testament for shamem, and its derivatives; less frequently, charebh, and its derivatives, and other words. In the New Testament it stands for eremos (<a href="/matthew/23-38.htm">Matthew 23:38</a> <a href="/acts/1-20.htm">Acts 1:20</a> <a href="/galatians/4-27.htm">Galatians 4:27</a>) eremoo (<a href="/revelation/17-16.htm">Revelation 17:16</a>), and monoo (<a href="/1_timothy/5-5.htm">1 Timothy 5:5</a>)): From Latin de, intens., solus, alone. Several shades of meaning can be distinguished: (1) Its primary sense is "left lonely," "forlorn," e.g. <a href="/psalms/25-16.htm">Psalm 25:16</a>, "Have mercy upon me; for I am desolate" (Hebrew yachidh, "alone"); <a href="/1_timothy/5-5.htm">1 Timothy 5:5</a>, "she that is a widow indeed, and desolate" (Greek memonomene, "left alone"). (2) In the sense of "laid waste," "destitute of inhabitants," e.g. <a href="/jeremiah/4-7.htm">Jeremiah 4:7</a>, "to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant." (3) With the meaning "comfortless," "afflicted," e.g. <a href="/psalms/143-4.htm">Psalm 143:4</a>, "My heart within me is desolate." (4) In the sense of "barren," "childless," "unfruitful," e.g. <a href="/job/15-34.htm">Job 15:34</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-21.htm">Isaiah 49:21</a> (Hebrew galmudh). D. Miall Edwards<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/2049.htm">2049. eremoo -- to desolate</a> ... to desolate. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: eremoo Phonetic Spelling: (er-ay-mo'-o) Short Definition: I destroy, strip, rob Definition: (a) I make ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2049.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/2048.htm">2048. eremos -- solitary, desolate</a> ... solitary, desolate. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: eremos Phonetic Spelling: (er'-ay-mos) Short Definition: deserted, desolate, a desert Definition ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2048.htm - 8k<a href="/greek/2050.htm">2050. eremosis -- a making desolate</a> ... a making desolate. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: eremosis Phonetic Spelling: (er-ay'-mo-sis) Short Definition: desolation, devastation ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2050.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/3443.htm">3443. monoo -- to leave alone, forsake</a> ... Word Origin from monos Definition to leave alone, forsake NASB Word Usage left alone (1). be desolate. From monos; to isolate, ie Bereave -- be desolate. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3443.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/3441.htm">3441. monos -- alone</a> ... alone. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: monos Phonetic Spelling: (mon'-os) Short Definition: only, solitary, desolate Definition: only, solitary ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3441.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/2047.htm">2047. eremia -- a solitude, a wilderness</a> ... Word Origin from eremos Definition a solitude, a wilderness NASB Word Usage deserts (1), desolate place (2), wilderness (1). desert, wilderness. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2047.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/3737.htm">3737. orphanos -- an orphan</a> ... Adjective Transliteration: orphanos Phonetic Spelling: (or-fan-os') Short Definition: bereaved, an orphan Definition: bereaved, an orphan, fatherless, desolate ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3737.htm - 6k<a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/3456.htm">3456. yasham -- to be desolate</a> ... 3455, 3456. yasham. 3457 . to be desolate. Transliteration: yasham Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-sham') Short Definition: appalled. Word Origin a prim. ... be desolate ... /hebrew/3456.htm - 5k <a href="/hebrew/2720b.htm">2720b. chareb -- waste, desolate</a> ... waste, desolate. Transliteration: chareb Short Definition: desolate. Word Origin from chareb Definition waste, desolate NASB Word Usage desolate (4), waste (4). ... /hebrew/2720b.htm - 5k <a href="/hebrew/3457.htm">3457. Yishma -- "desolate," a man of Judah</a> ... Yishma. 3458 . "desolate," a man of Judah. Transliteration: Yishma Phonetic Spelling: (yish-maw') Short Definition: Ishma. ... desolate; Jishma, an Israelite. ... /hebrew/3457.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/2717b.htm">2717b. chareb -- to be waste or desolate</a> ... 2717a, 2717b. chareb. 2717c . to be waste or desolate. Transliteration: chareb Short Definition: waste. Word Origin a prim. root ... /hebrew/2717b.htm - 5k <a href="/hebrew/8074.htm">8074. shamem -- to be desolated or appalled</a> ... 8073, 8074. shamem. 8075 . to be desolated or appalled. Transliteration: shamem Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-mame') Short Definition: desolate. Word Origin a prim ... /hebrew/8074.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/8076.htm">8076. shamem -- devastated</a> ... shamem. 8077 . devastated. Transliteration: shamem Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-mame') Short Definition: desolate. ... desolate. From shamem; ruined -- desolate. ... /hebrew/8076.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/8077.htm">8077. shemamah -- devastation, waste</a> ... Word Origin from shamem Definition devastation, waste NASB Word Usage desolate (19), desolation (33), horror (1), utterly desolate (1), waste (1), waste and a ... /hebrew/8077.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/2720.htm">2720. chareb -- dry</a> ... 2719, 2720. chareb. 2720a . dry. Transliteration: chareb Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-rabe') Short Definition: desolate. desolate, dry, waste ... /hebrew/2720.htm - 5k <a href="/hebrew/2717.htm">2717. charab -- to be dry or dried up</a> ... decay, be desolate, destroyer, be dry up, slay, surely, lay, lie, Or chareb {khaw-rabe'}; a primitive root; to parch (through drought ... /hebrew/2717.htm - 5k <a href="/hebrew/816.htm">816. asham -- to offend, be guilty</a> ... their guilt (1), bear their guilt (1), became guilty (1), become guilty (3), becomes guilty (4), certainly guilty (1), condemned (2), desolate (1), did wrong (1 ... /hebrew/816.htm - 6k<a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><a href="/library/palgrave/the_treasury_of_sacred_song/cccxlii_for_the_desolate.htm">For the Desolate</a> ... The Treasury of Sacred Song. Book First CCCXLII FOR THE DESOLATE. HS Sutton. When thy lone dreams sweet visions see,. And loving looks upon thee shine,. ... /.../palgrave/the treasury of sacred song/cccxlii for the desolate.htm<a href="/library/kempis/imitation_of_christ/chapter_l_how_a_desolate.htm">How a Desolate Man Ought to Commit Himself into the Hands of God</a> ... THE THIRD BOOK. ON INWARD CONSOLATION CHAPTER L How a desolate man ought to commit himself into the hands of God. O Lord, Holy Father ... /...//christianbookshelf.org/kempis/imitation of christ/chapter l how a desolate.htm<a href="/library/kempis/the_imitation_of_christ/the_fiftieth_chapter_how_a.htm">The Fiftieth Chapter: How a Desolate Person Ought to Commit ...</a> ... BOOK THREE. INTERNAL CONSOLATION The Fiftieth Chapter: How a Desolate Person Ought to Commit Himself Into the Hands of God. The Disciple ... /.../kempis/the imitation of christ/the fiftieth chapter how a.htm<a href="/library/tertullian/the_five_books_against_marcion/chapter_xxiii_the_dispersion_of_the.htm">The Dispersion of the Jews, and their Desolate Condition for ...</a> ... Wherein Christ is shown to be the Son of God, Who created the world Chapter XXIII."The Dispersion of the Jews, and Their Desolate Condition for Rejecting ... /.../the five books against marcion/chapter xxiii the dispersion of the.htm<a href="/library/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_a/the_holy_nation.htm">The Holy Nation</a> ... And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereat; it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.35. And they shall say, This ... /.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/the holy nation.htm<a href="/library/lee/sermons_on_various_important_subjects/sermon_xxiv_the_character_and.htm">The Character and Supports of Widows Indeed.</a> ... 1 Timothy v.5. "Now she that is a Widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day." *. ... /.../lee/sermons on various important subjects/sermon xxiv the character and.htm<a href="/library/justin/the_first_apology_of_justin/chapter_liii_summary_of_the_prophecies.htm">Summary of the Prophecies.</a> ... Rejoice, O barren, thou that dost not bear; break forth and shout, thou that dost not travail, because many more are the children of the desolate than of her ... /.../justin/the first apology of justin/chapter liii summary of the prophecies.htm<a href="/library/ephraim/hymns_and_homilies_of_ephraim_the_syrian/hymn_xxxvii_death_was_weeping.htm">Death was Weeping for Her, Even for Sheol, when He Saw Her ...</a> ... 2. All women grieve that are barren; Sheol rejoices because of her barrenness; she is desolate if so be that she brings forth. The ... /.../hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/hymn xxxvii death was weeping.htm<a href="/library/athanasius/select_works_and_letters_or_athanasius/35_it_was_therefore_better.htm">It was Therefore Better for Me to Hide Myself, and to Wait for ...</a> ... is apparent, and it is proved to all men that you never persecuted the Christians at all, but that it was they who made the Churches desolate, that they might ... /.../select works and letters or athanasius/35 it was therefore better.htm<a href="/library/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_j/no_condemnation.htm">No Condemnation</a> ... VOLUME I: PSALMS I to XLIX NO CONDEMNATION. 'None of them that trust in Him shall be desolate.' "Psalm 34:22. These words are very ... /.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/no condemnation.htm<a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/d/desolate.htm">Desolate (189 Occurrences)</a> ... 1. (a.) Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. ... /d/desolate.htm - 38k<a href="/topical/d/devastated.htm">Devastated (20 Occurrences)</a> ... the Baals. (DBY). Job 16:7 But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company. (See NIV). Psalms 78:45 ... /d/devastated.htm - 12k<a href="/topical/a/appalment.htm">Appalment (10 Occurrences)</a> ... Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and despoiled ... /a/appalment.htm - 9k<a href="/topical/a/appalled.htm">Appalled (31 Occurrences)</a> ... Lay your hand on your mouth. (See RSV). Psalms 40:15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame That say unto me, Aha, aha. (See JPS NAS RSV NIV). ... /a/appalled.htm - 15k<a href="/topical/r/ruined.htm">Ruined (65 Occurrences)</a> ... (See NIV). Job 15:28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps. (See NIV). ... /r/ruined.htm - 25k<a href="/topical/d/demolished.htm">Demolished (15 Occurrences)</a> ... (See RSV). Ezekiel 6:4 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. ... /d/demolished.htm - 11k<a href="/topical/s/solitary.htm">Solitary (20 Occurrences)</a> ... 4. (a.) Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert ... /s/solitary.htm - 13k<a href="/topical/f/floods.htm">Floods (37 Occurrences)</a> ... 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 overthrown by ... /f/floods.htm - 17k<a href="/topical/d/destitute.htm">Destitute (25 Occurrences)</a> ... destruction. (See NIV). Isaiah 3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground. (See NIV). ... /d/destitute.htm - 13k<a href="/topical/d/deserted.htm">Deserted (54 Occurrences)</a> ... Acts 1:20 for it hath been written in the book of Psalms: Let his lodging-place become desolate, and let no one be dwelling in it, and his oversight let ... /d/deserted.htm - 22k<a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Ichabod.html">What does the term “Ichabod” mean in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/loneliness.html">What does the Bible say about loneliness? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Beulah-Land.html">What is Beulah Land? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://clyx.com/term/desolate.htm">Desolate: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a> <a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div>Desolate (189 Occurrences)<a href="/matthew/14-13.htm">Matthew 14:13</a> and Jesus having heard, withdrew thence in a boat to a desolate place by himself, and the multitudes having heard did follow him on land from the cities. (YLT)<a href="/matthew/14-15.htm">Matthew 14:15</a> and evening having come, his disciples came to him, saying, 'The place is desolate, and the hour hath now past, let away the multitudes that, having gone to the villages, they may buy to themselves food.' (YLT NAS)<a href="/matthew/15-33.htm">Matthew 15:33</a> The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?" (See NAS)<a href="/matthew/23-38.htm">Matthew 23:38</a> Behold, your house is left to you desolate. (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/mark/6-35.htm">Mark 6:35</a> And now the hour being advanced, his disciples having come near to him, say, -- 'The place is desolate, and the hour is now advanced, (YLT NAS)<a href="/mark/8-4.htm">Mark 8:4</a> His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?" (See NAS)<a href="/luke/9-12.htm">Luke 9:12</a> And the day began to decline, and the twelve having come near, said to him, 'Let away the multitude, that having gone to the villages and the fields round about, they may lodge and may find provision, because here we are in a desert place.' (See NAS)<a href="/luke/13-35.htm">Luke 13:35</a> Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me, until you say,'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'" (WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT NAS NIV)<a href="/john/14-18.htm">John 14:18</a> I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you. (ASV RSV)<a href="/acts/1-20.htm">Acts 1:20</a> For it is written in the book of Psalms,'Let his habitation be made desolate. Let no one dwell therein;' and,'Let another take his office.' (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/galatians/4-27.htm">Galatians 4:27</a> For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear. Break forth and shout, you that don't travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband." (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_timothy/5-5.htm">1 Timothy 5:5</a> Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day. (WEB KJV WEY ASV WBS YLT)<a href="/revelation/17-16.htm">Revelation 17:16</a> The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/revelation/18-17.htm">Revelation 18:17</a> For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away, (WEB ASV DBY)<a href="/revelation/18-19.htm">Revelation 18:19</a> They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying,'Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!' For in one hour is she made desolate. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)<a href="/genesis/47-19.htm">Genesis 47:19</a> Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/exodus/23-29.htm">Exodus 23:29</a> I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/leviticus/26-22.htm">Leviticus 26:22</a> I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)<a href="/leviticus/26-31.htm">Leviticus 26:31</a> And I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries; and I will not smell your sweet odours. (DBY YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/leviticus/26-32.htm">Leviticus 26:32</a> and I have made desolate the land, and your enemies, who are dwelling in it, have been astonished at it. (YLT NAS)<a href="/leviticus/26-33.htm">Leviticus 26:33</a> 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. (KJV WBS NAS)<a href="/leviticus/26-34.htm">Leviticus 26:34</a> Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV NIV)<a href="/leviticus/26-35.htm">Leviticus 26:35</a> As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV NIV)<a href="/leviticus/26-43.htm">Leviticus 26:43</a> The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/numbers/21-30.htm">Numbers 21:30</a> And we shoot them, Perished hath Heshbon unto Dibon, And we make desolate unto Nophah, Which 'is' unto Medeba.' (YLT)<a href="/joshua/8-28.htm">Joshua 8:28</a> So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day. (See NIV)<a href="/1_samuel/5-6.htm">1 Samuel 5:6</a> And the hand of Jehovah is heavy on the Ashdodites, and He maketh them desolate, and smiteth them with emerods, Ashdod and its borders. (YLT)<a href="/1_samuel/23-19.htm">1 Samuel 23:19</a> And the Ziphites go up unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, 'Is not David hiding himself with us in fortresses, in the forest, in the height of Hachilah, which 'is' on the south of the desolate place? (YLT)<a href="/1_samuel/23-24.htm">1 Samuel 23:24</a> And they rise and go to Ziph before Saul, and David and his men 'are' in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain, at the south of the desolate place. (YLT)<a href="/2_samuel/13-20.htm">2 Samuel 13:20</a> Absalom her brother said to her, "Has Amnon your brother been with you? But now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother. Don't take this thing to heart." So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_kings/9-8.htm">1 Kings 9:8</a> And though this house is so high, yet shall every one that passeth by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath Jehovah done thus unto this land, and to this house? (See JPS)<a href="/2_chronicles/36-21.htm">2 Chronicles 36:21</a> to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths: for as long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)<a href="/nehemiah/2-3.htm">Nehemiah 2:3</a> I said to the king, Let the king live forever: why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies waste, and its gates are consumed with fire? (See NAS)<a href="/job/3-7.htm">Job 3:7</a> Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein. (See JPS)<a href="/job/3-14.htm">Job 3:14</a> With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves; (KJV DBY WBS)<a href="/job/15-28.htm">Job 15:28</a> He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)<a href="/job/15-34.htm">Job 15:34</a> For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. (KJV JPS WBS)<a href="/job/16-7.htm">Job 16:7</a> But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)<a href="/job/30-3.htm">Job 30:3</a> For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. (KJV DBY WBS RSV NIV)<a href="/job/38-27.htm">Job 38:27</a> to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/psalms/9-6.htm">Psalms 9:6</a> The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; And the cities which thou hast overthrown, The very remembrance of them is perished. (ASV)<a href="/psalms/25-16.htm">Psalms 25:16</a> Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted. (WEB KJV ASV WBS)<a href="/psalms/34-21.htm">Psalms 34:21</a> Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. (KJV WBS YLT)<a href="/psalms/34-22.htm">Psalms 34:22</a> The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. (KJV JPS WBS YLT)<a href="/psalms/40-2.htm">Psalms 40:2</a> And He doth cause me to come up From a pit of desolation -- from mire of mud, And He raiseth up on a rock my feet, He is establishing my steps. (See RSV)<a href="/psalms/40-15.htm">Psalms 40:15</a> Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, "Aha! Aha!" (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/psalms/68-6.htm">Psalms 68:6</a> God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land. (See RSV)<a href="/psalms/69-25.htm">Psalms 69:25</a> Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/psalms/73-19.htm">Psalms 73:19</a> How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors. (DBY)<a href="/psalms/78-40.htm">Psalms 78:40</a> How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place? (YLT)<a href="/psalms/79-7.htm">Psalms 79:7</a> For 'one' hath devoured Jacob, And his habitation they have made desolate. (YLT)<a href="/psalms/102-6.htm">Psalms 102:6</a> I am become like the pelican of the wilderness, I am as an owl in desolate places; (DBY)<a href="/psalms/109-10.htm">Psalms 109:10</a> Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)<a href="/psalms/143-4.htm">Psalms 143:4</a> Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/proverbs/31-8.htm">Proverbs 31:8</a> Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. (WEB ASV DBY RSV)<a href="/ecclesiastes/7-16.htm">Ecclesiastes 7:16</a> Be not over-righteous, nor show thyself too wise, why art thou desolate? (YLT)<a href="/isaiah/1-7.htm">Isaiah 1:7</a> Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/isaiah/3-26.htm">Isaiah 3:26</a> Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground. (WEB KJV ASV WBS)<a href="/isaiah/5-9.htm">Isaiah 5:9</a> In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/isaiah/6-11.htm">Isaiah 6:11</a> 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 utterly desolate, (KJV WBS NAS RSV)<a href="/isaiah/7-19.htm">Isaiah 7:19</a> They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)<a href="/isaiah/13-9.htm">Isaiah 13:9</a> Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. (KJV DBY WBS NIV)<a href="/isaiah/13-22.htm">Isaiah 13:22</a> And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. (KJV WBS)<a href="/isaiah/15-6.htm">Isaiah 15:6</a> For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)<a href="/isaiah/24-1.htm">Isaiah 24:1</a> See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions. (See RSV)<a href="/isaiah/24-6.htm">Isaiah 24:6</a> Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. (KJV WBS YLT)<a href="/isaiah/24-10.htm">Isaiah 24:10</a> The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in. (See NIV)<a href="/isaiah/27-10.htm">Isaiah 27:10</a> Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. (KJV WBS NIV)<a href="/isaiah/33-8.htm">Isaiah 33:8</a> The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn't respect man. (WEB DBY YLT NAS)<a href="/isaiah/34-10.htm">Isaiah 34:10</a> It will not be put out day or night; its smoke will go up for ever: it will be waste from generation to generation; no one will go through it for ever. (See NAS NIV)<a href="/isaiah/37-26.htm">Isaiah 37:26</a> Hast thou not heard from afar? -- it I did, From days of old -- that I formed it. Now, I have brought it in, And it is to make desolate, Ruinous heaps -- fenced cities, (YLT)<a href="/isaiah/42-14.htm">Isaiah 42:14</a> I have kept silent from of old, I keep silent, I refrain myself, As a travailing woman I cry out, I desolate and swallow up together. (YLT)<a href="/isaiah/43-19.htm">Isaiah 43:19</a> Lo, I am doing a new thing, now it springeth up, Do ye not know it? Yea, I put in a wilderness a way, In a desolate place -- floods. (YLT)<a href="/isaiah/43-20.htm">Isaiah 43:20</a> Honour me doth the beast of the field, Dragons and daughters of an ostrich, For I have given in a wilderness waters, Floods in a desolate place, To give drink to My people -- My chosen. (YLT)<a href="/isaiah/49-8.htm">Isaiah 49:8</a> Thus says Yahweh, "In an acceptable time have I answered you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/isaiah/49-19.htm">Isaiah 49:19</a> "For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now you shall be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/isaiah/49-21.htm">Isaiah 49:21</a> Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been? (KJV DBY WBS)<a href="/isaiah/54-1.htm">Isaiah 54:1</a> "Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife," says Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/isaiah/54-3.htm">Isaiah 54:3</a> For you shall spread aboard on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/isaiah/54-4.htm">Isaiah 54:4</a> And desolate cities they cause to be inhabited. Fear not, for thou art not ashamed, Nor blush, for thou art not confounded, For the shame of thy youth thou forgettest, And the reproach of thy widowhood Thou dost not remember any more. (YLT)<a href="/isaiah/59-10.htm">Isaiah 59:10</a> We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. (KJV WBS YLT)<a href="/isaiah/61-4.htm">Isaiah 61:4</a> And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the places desolate from generation to generation. (DBY)<a href="/isaiah/62-4.htm">Isaiah 62:4</a> You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/2-12.htm">Jeremiah 2:12</a> Be astonished, you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate, says Yahweh. (WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS RSV)<a href="/jeremiah/2-15.htm">Jeremiah 2:15</a> The young lions roared against him, they gave forth their voice, and they made his land desolate: his cities are burned, without inhabitant. (DBY JPS)<a href="/jeremiah/4-7.htm">Jeremiah 4:7</a> A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)<a href="/jeremiah/4-27.htm">Jeremiah 4:27</a> For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. (KJV JPS WBS)<a href="/jeremiah/4-30.htm">Jeremiah 4:30</a> You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; your lovers despise you, they seek your life. (WEB ASV NAS RSV)<a href="/jeremiah/6-8.htm">Jeremiah 6:8</a> Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited. (KJV JPS WBS NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/7-34.htm">Jeremiah 7:34</a> Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate. (KJV JPS WBS NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/9-10.htm">Jeremiah 9:10</a> Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone. (See NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/9-11.htm">Jeremiah 9:11</a> And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. (KJV WBS)<a href="/jeremiah/10-22.htm">Jeremiah 10:22</a> 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 dragons. (KJV JPS WBS NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/10-25.htm">Jeremiah 10:25</a> Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate. (KJV WBS YLT)<a href="/jeremiah/12-10.htm">Jeremiah 12:10</a> Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/12-11.htm">Jeremiah 12:11</a> They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/jeremiah/18-16.htm">Jeremiah 18:16</a> To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. (KJV WBS)<a href="/jeremiah/19-8.htm">Jeremiah 19:8</a> And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. (KJV WBS)<a href="/jeremiah/21-12.htm">Jeremiah 21:12</a> O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is made desolate out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. (WBS)<a href="/jeremiah/25-12.htm">Jeremiah 25:12</a> It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever. 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