'Desolation' in the Bible

Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations which surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.

The inhabited cities will be laid waste and the land will be a desolation. So you will know that I am the Lord.”’”

‘You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,The cup of horror and desolation,The cup of your sister Samaria.

The land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am the Lord.Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I have made it,’

therefore, behold, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of Ethiopia.

So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.”

“When I make the land of Egypt a desolation,And the land is destitute of that which filled it,When I smite all those who live in it,Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and the pride of her power will cease; and the mountains of Israel will be desolate so that no one will pass through.

Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I make the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations which they have committed.”’

and say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord God,“Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir,And I will stretch out My hand against youAnd make you a desolation and a waste.

“I will lay waste your citiesAnd you will become a desolation.Then you will know that I am the Lord.

I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation and I will cut off from it the one who passes through and returns.

I will make you an everlasting desolation and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Thus says the Lord God, “As all the earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation.

As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be a desolation, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”’

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of being a desolation in the sight of everyone who passes by.