57 occurrences

'Desolate' in the Bible

why do we die before thine eyes, both we and our ground? buy us and our ground for bread, and we and our ground are servants to Pharaoh; and give seed, and we live, and die not, and the ground is not desolate.'

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenPossibility Of DeathLiteral PlantingGroups Of Slaves

and sent against you the beast of the field, and it hath bereaved you; and I have cut off your cattle, and have made you few, and your ways have been desolate.

Verse ConceptsBeastsNumbers ReducingAnimals Killing

and I have made your cities a waste, and have made desolate your sanctuaries, and I smell not at your sweet fragrances;

Verse ConceptsFaintingRejection Of God, Results OfSanctuarySmellsArchaeologyAromasDestruction Of CitiesCities Under AttackRefreshing God

and I have made desolate the land, and your enemies, who are dwelling in it, have been astonished at it.

And we shoot them, Perished hath Heshbon unto Dibon, And we make desolate unto Nophah, Which is unto Medeba.'

And the hand of Jehovah is heavy on the Ashdodites, and He maketh them desolate, and smiteth them with emerods, Ashdod and its borders.

Verse ConceptsDiseases, Kinds OfAnger Of God, Examples OfSwellingcancer

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?

Verse ConceptsSouthTelling Of Movements

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.

Verse ConceptsDeserts, Specific

and Absalom her brother saith unto her, 'Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? and now, my sister, keep silent, he is thy brother; set not thy heart to this thing;' and Tamar dwelleth -- but desolate -- in the house of Absalom her brother.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Being SilentLoneliness And Depression

To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?

Jehovah redeemeth the soul of His servants, And none trusting in Him are desolate!

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerTrusting In GodNo Condemnation

They are desolate because of their shame, Who are saying to me, 'Aha, aha.'

Verse ConceptsDuplicating WordsDespising People

For one hath devoured Jacob, And his habitation they have made desolate.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Jerusalem

And they have come, and rested all of them in the desolate valleys, And in holes of the rocks, and on all the thorns, And on all the commendable things.

Verse ConceptsGathering Creatures

Therefore a curse hath consumed the land, And the inhabitants in it are become desolate, Therefore consumed have been inhabitants of the land, And few men have been left.

Verse ConceptsFew PeopleGod CursingGuiltThe Earth

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,

Verse ConceptsGuidance, God's Promises OfHistoryDestruction Of CitiesHearing About GodGod Planning Of OldGod's Plans

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.

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfGod, Suffering OfSilenceLabour PainsGod Being Silent

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.

Verse ConceptsTravelling With GodLife, Of FaithNewnessBlessing In The WildernessMaking RoadsRiversFuture Plansa new beginningNew BeginningsA New DayPathsNew

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.

Verse ConceptsHonorWaterBlessing In The WildernessGod Providing WaterWild Beasts SubduedOstriches

Thus said Jehovah: 'In a time of good pleasure I answered thee, And in a day of salvation I helped thee, And I keep thee, and give thee, For a covenant of the people, To establish the earth, To cause to inherit desolate inheritances.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, the newThe Accepted TimeGrace, In OtLast DaysOpportunities, And SalvationSeasons, Of LifeSustaining ProvidenceA Time Of SalvationGod AnsweredRight Time For GodInheritanceAcceptanceGod's TimingRecoveryFavorGods TimingA New Daycovenanthelphelpingpreservation

Because thy wastes, and thy desolate places, And the land of thy ruins, Surely now are straitened because of inhabitants, And far off have been those consuming thee.

Verse ConceptsWaste Places RestoredFar From Here

Sing, O barren, she hath not borne! Break forth with singing, and cry aloud, She hath not brought forth! For more are the sons of the desolate, Than the sons of the married one, said Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsBarren WomenBarrennessdisabilitiesMothers, As A SymbolSingingSinglenessBarren, LandChildlessnessAttitudes To BarrennessMusic To Celebratecredibility

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.

Verse ConceptsYouthCoping With DeathLimitations Of YouthForgetting ThingsEliminating ShameNot Put To ShameDisappointmentBeing ScaredRemoving People From Your Lifelonliness

We feel like the blind for the wall, Yea, as without eyes we feel, We have stumbled at noon as at twilight, In desolate places as the dead.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Blindness, Consequences OfGuidance, Need For God'sWallsTwilightPeople StumblingAfflicted To Death

It is not said of thee any more, 'Forsaken!' And of thy land it is not said any more, 'Desolate,' For to thee is cried, 'My delight is in her,' And to thy land, 'Married,' For Jehovah hath delighted in thee, And thy land is married.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessDivine FavourLand Becoming EmptyGod Not ForsakingMarriage To God

Pour out Thy fury on the nations that have not known Thee, And on the families that have not called in Thy name, For they have eaten up Jacob, Yea, they have eaten him up, yea, they consume him, And his habitation they have made desolate!

Verse ConceptsFamilies, Nature OfCalling upon GodDestruction Of CountriesNot Knowing GodGod Angry With The NationsNot PrayingNot Seeking God

Therefore, hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, That He hath counselled concerning Edom, And His devices that He hath devised Concerning the inhabitants of Teman: Drag them out do not little ones of the flock, Make desolate over them doth he not their habitation?

Verse ConceptsPlansGod's Plans

Therefore, hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, That He counselled concerning Babylon, And His devices that He hath devised Concerning the land of the Chaldeans; Drag them out do not little ones of the flock, Doth He not make desolate over them the habitation?

Verse ConceptsPlansGod's Plans

The ways of Zion are mourning, Without any coming at the appointed time, All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted -- and she hath bitterness.

Verse ConceptsSighingPilgrimageRoadsTragedy On The StreetsFestivals DisregardedMourning Due To CatastropheNo One To Be Found

From above He hath sent fire into my bone, And it subdueth it, He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me backward, He hath made me desolate -- all the day sick.

Verse ConceptsNetsUnceasingContinual HardshipCausing People To TurnDamage To The BodyFire From HeavenGod Trapping

For these I am weeping, My eye, my eye, is running down with waters, For, far from me hath been a comforter, Refreshing my soul, My sons have been desolate, For mighty hath been an enemy.

Verse ConceptsBeing ForsakenPeace, Human Destruction OfSympathyRestoring SinnersI Mourn CatastropheNo Comfort

Those eating of dainties have been desolate in out-places, Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills.

Verse ConceptsProperty, HousesColors, ScarletThe HomelessSavourinessPurple ClothesTragedy On The StreetsAshes Of Humiliation

For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.

In all your dwellings the cities are laid waste, And the high places are desolate, So that waste and desolate are your altars, And broken and ceased have your idols, And cut down have been your images, And blotted out have been your works.

Verse ConceptsAbolish, Evil ThingsDestruction Of CitiesDestruction Of Satan's WorksUseless LabourOne's DeedsAbandoning Idols

and thou hast said unto the people of the land, Thus said the Lord Jehovah concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, concerning the land of Israel: Their bread with fear they do eat, and their water with astonishment drink, because its land is desolate, because of its fulness, because of the violence of all who are dwelling in it.

Verse ConceptsWorryViolence In The EarthEating And DrinkingFear Will ComeDespair

And it knoweth his forsaken habitations, And their cities it hath laid waste, And desolate is the land and its fulness, Because of the voice of his roaring.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CitiesDestruction Of StrongholdsCities Under AttackPeople Appalled

And I defile them by their own gifts, By causing to pass away every opener of a womb, So that I make them desolate, So that they know that I am Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornChild sacrificeSacrificing The FirstbornPeople Being PollutedKilling Sons And Daughters

and thou hast said to the sons of Ammon: Hear ye a word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of thy saying, Aha, to My sanctuary, Because it hath been polluted, And unto the ground of Israel, Because it hath been desolate, And unto the house of Judah, Because they have gone into a removal:

Verse ConceptsExile Of Judah To BabylonPolluting Holy PlacesRejoicing In Evil

And I have made the land of Egypt a desolation, In the midst of desolate lands, And its cities, in the midst of waste cities, Are a desolation forty years, And I have scattered the Egyptians among nations, And I have dispersed them through lands.

Verse ConceptsScattering The Peoples

And they have been desolated in the midst of desolate lands, And its cities are in the midst of wasted cities.

Verse ConceptsCities Under Attack

And I have made floods a dry place, And I have sold the land into the hand of evil doers, And I have made desolate the land, And its fulness, by the hand of strangers, I, Jehovah, have spoken.

Verse ConceptsdrynessLand Becoming EmptyWaters Drying UpGod Drying Things UpSuffering From ForeignersFamine

And I have made Pathros desolate, And I have given fire against Zoan, And I have done judgments in No,

Verse ConceptsBurning Cities

Therefore, O mountains of Israel, Hear a word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus said the Lord Jehovah, to mountains, and to hills, To streams, and to valleys, And to wastes that are desolate, And to cities that are forsaken, That have been for a prey, And for a scorn, to the remnant of the nations who are round about.

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyCities Under AttackAbandoning ThingsThe Mountains Of Israel

And the desolate land is tilled, Instead of which it was a desolation before the eyes of every passer by,

Verse ConceptsTilling The SoilCultivation

and now, hearken, O our God, unto the prayer of Thy servant, and unto his supplication, and cause Thy face to shine on Thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

Verse ConceptsPleasing GodDivine FavourGod Giving LightHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!petition

And he hath strengthened a covenant with many -- one week, and in the midst of the week he causeth sacrifice and present to cease, and by the wing of abominations he is making desolate, even till the consummation, and that which is determined is poured on the desolate one.'

Verse ConceptsAbominationsTribulation PeriodAbomination Of DesolationThree And A Half YearsSeven YearsThe DestroyerIsrael In TribulationPeace And SafetyThe World Ruler

And made desolate her vine and her fig-tree, Of which she said, A gift they are to me, That my lovers have given to me, And I have made them for a forest, And consumed them hath a beast of the field.

Verse ConceptsForestsFig treeAnimals, religious role ofVinesDestruction Of PlantsWild Animals DevouringWages Of A Prostitute

I go -- I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!'

Verse ConceptsAfflictions, Purpose OfFace Of GodRevival, Nature OfNot Seeking GodRebirth Of IsraelGuilt

And the northern I put far off from you, And have driven him unto a land dry and desolate, With his face unto the eastern sea, And his rear unto the western sea, And come up hath his stink, And come up doth his stench, For he hath exerted himself to work.

Verse ConceptsBarrennessBarren, LandSmellsMediterranean SeaDead SeaReturn From The NorthDry PlacesFront And Back

And I have turned back to the captivity of My people Israel, And they have built desolate cities, and inhabited, And have planted vineyards, and drunk their wine, And made gardens, and eaten their fruit.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalGarden, NaturalHorticultureBuilding CitiesVineyardPlanting VineyardsDrinking WineAbrahamic CovenantGardensrebuilding

And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins.

Verse ConceptsSin Brings Sickness

And I toss them on all the nations, That they have not known, The land hath been desolate behind them, Of any passing by and turning back, And they set a desirable land for a desolation!

Verse ConceptsWhirlwindsGod Scattering IsraelLand Becoming EmptyNot Knowing People

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)