'Desolation' in the Bible
For thus says Yahweh, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.
Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited."
I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.
They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation.
This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
[to wit], Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;
Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?
Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwells therein,
so that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
You daughter who dwells in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.
The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.
Hazor shall be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.