'Desolate' in the Bible
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.
Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.
In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: "Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
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.
For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn't respect man.
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:
"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.
"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.
For you shall spread out on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
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.
Related Words
Bible Theasaurus
- Abandon (107 instances)
- Bare (264 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)
- Lone (4 instances)
- Ravage (15 instances)
- Scourge (23 instances)
- Stark (4 instances)
- Waste (696 instances)
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