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'Desolation' in the Bible

For thus says Yahweh, "The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a full end.

Verse ConceptsGod DestroyingDestruction Of CountriesNot Destroyed

Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited."

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfThreatsSeparation From GodLand Becoming Empty

I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

Verse ConceptsRuinsArchaeologyTearsDestruction Of JerusalemEmpty Citiesjerusalem

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.

Verse ConceptsCities Under AttackOut Of The North

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.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Countries

But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says Yahweh, that this house shall become a desolation.

Verse ConceptsRuinsRefusing To Hear

This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine Gift70 To 80 YearsServing Kings

[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;

Verse ConceptsHissingMade A Horror

Don't listen to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city become a desolation?

Verse ConceptsKeeping Oneself AliveServing KingsServingSurrender

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.

Verse ConceptsWasteEmpty CitiesBurning JerusalemActual Attacks On JerusalemCapturing Cities

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,

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyDestruction Of JerusalemGod Harmed ThemNatural Disasters

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.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftMade A HorrorUnbearable Things

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.

Verse ConceptsRuinsArchaeologyMemphisExiled ForeignersBurning CitiesBaggagePreparing To Travel

The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

Verse ConceptsDestruction

Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.

Verse ConceptsEmpty Cities

Hazor shall be a dwelling place of jackals, a desolation forever: no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.

Verse ConceptsLand Becoming Empty

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

Verse ConceptsBabylonToolsHammers

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.

Verse ConceptsDivine PurposesEmpty Cities

How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

Verse ConceptsBabylon DestroyedMade A HorrorCapturing Cities

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.

Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesDry PlacesMade A Horror

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