17 occurrences in 12 translations

'Desolation' in the Bible

Your land is desolate,your cities burned with fire;foreigners devour your fieldsbefore your very eyes—a desolation demolished by foreigners.

The Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem) is left like a [deserted] shelter in a vineyard,Like a watchman’s hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city [isolated, surrounded by devastation].

By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!

And I say, 'Till when, O Lord?' And He saith, 'Surely till cities have been wasted without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the ground be wasted -- a desolation,

Now in that day [because of the poverty caused by the invaders] a man will keep alive only a young milk cow and two sheep;

And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

Look, the day of the Lord is coming—cruel, with rage and burning anger—to make the earth a desolationand to destroy the sinners on it.

In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven. Then the desert will become an orchard and the orchard will be considered a forest.

But pelican and hedgehog will possess it,And owl and raven will dwell in it;And He will stretch over it the line of desolationAnd the plumb line of emptiness.

Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, desolation nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.

It shall no longer be said of you, "Forsaken," and it shall no longer be said of your land, "Desolation!" but {you will} be called "My Delight [Is] In Her," and your land, "Married," for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.

Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אלמנה 
'almanah 
Usage: 54

חרבּה 
Chorbah 
Usage: 42

ἐρημόω 
Eremoo 
Usage: 3

אשׁם אשׁם 
'asham 
Usage: 35

אשׁמן 
'ashman 
Usage: 1

בּדד 
Badad 
Usage: 11

בּתּה 
Battah 
Usage: 1

גּלמוּד 
Galmuwd 
Usage: 4

חרב חרב 
Charab 
Usage: 40

חרב 
Chareb 
Usage: 10

חרב 
Choreb 
Usage: 16

יחיד 
Yachiyd 
Usage: 12

יצת 
Yatsath 
Usage: 29

ישׁם 
Yasham 
Usage: 4

כּחד 
Kachad 
Usage: 32

משׁאה משׁואה 
M@show'ah 
Usage: 3

משׁמּה 
M@shammah 
Usage: 7

נקה 
Naqah 
Usage: 44

שׁאה 
Sha'ah 
Usage: 6

שׁאת 
She'th 
Usage: 1

שׁוד שׁד 
Shod 
Usage: 25

שׁאה שׁואה שׁוא 
Show' 
Usage: 13

שׁמּה 
Shammah 
Usage: 39

שׁמם 
Shamem 
Usage: 89

שׁמם 
Shamem 
Usage: 3

שׁממה שׁממה 
Sh@mamah 
Usage: 57

ἔρημος 
Eremos 
Usage: 41

ἐρήμωσις 
Eremosis 
Usage: 0

μονόω 
Monoo 
Usage: 1

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