5 occurrences

'Desolate' in the Bible

I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

Verse ConceptsBeastsNumbers ReducingAnimals Killing

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.

Verse ConceptsWar As God's JudgmentScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering Israel

Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

Verse ConceptsSabbatical Year

As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

Verse ConceptsAbhorRejection Of God

Bible Theasaurus

Abandon (107 instances)
Barren (62 instances)
Depopulate (2 instances)
Desert (358 instances)
Desolate (212 instances)
Devastate (25 instances)
Estranged (14 instances)
Forsake (97 instances)
Hopeless (8 instances)
Ravage (15 instances)
Scourge (23 instances)
Stark (4 instances)

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