150 occurrences in 12 translations

'Desolation' in the Bible

Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

And the land of Egypt hath been for a desolation and a waste, And they have known that I am Jehovah. Because he said: The flood is mine, and I made it.

Therefore, lo, I am against thee, and against thy floods, And have given the land of Egypt for wastes, A waste, a desolation, from Migdol to Syene, And unto the border of Cush.

I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and its cities will be a desolation among ruined cities for 40 years. I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them across the countries.

I will make the streams dryand sell the land into the hands of evil men.I will bring desolationon the land and everything in itby the hands of foreigners.I, Yahweh, have spoken.

I'm going to turn Pathros into a desolation, set fire to Zoan, and judge Thebes.

When I make the land of Egypt a desolation,so that it is emptied of everything in it,when I strike down all who live there,then they will know that I am Yahweh.

And I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, And ceased hath the excellency of its strength, And desolated have been mountains of Israel, Without any one passing through.

And they have known that I am Jehovah, In My making the land a desolation and an astonishment, For all their abominations that they have done.

and thou hast said to it: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am against thee, O mount Seir, And have stretched out My hand against thee, And made thee a desolation and an astonishment.

I will turn your cities into ruins,and you will become a desolation.Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

I'm turning Mount Seir over to ruin and desolation. I'm going to eliminate everyone who comes and goes,

I will make you a perpetual desolation; your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.

And thou hast known that I -- Jehovah, I have heard all thy despisings that thou hast spoken Against mountains of Israel, saying: A desolation, to us they were given for food.

“This is what the Lord God says: While the whole world rejoices, I will make you a desolation.

Just as you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it became a desolation, so I will deal with you: you will become a desolation, Mount Seir, and so will all Edom in its entirety. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “For good reason they have made you a desolation, and they crushed you from every side so that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have become the talk and the whispering of the people.”’”

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

Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?

In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the books according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet that the number of years for the desolation of Jerusalem would be 70.

Turn your ear and listen, O God. Open your eyes and look at our desolation and at the city that is called by your name. We're not presenting our requests before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great compassion.

He will make a firm covenantwith many for one week,but in the middle of the weekhe will put a stop to sacrifice and offering.And the abomination of desolationwill be on a wing of the templeuntil the decreed destructionis poured out on the desolator.”

His forces will rise up and desecrate the temple fortress. They will abolish the daily sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation.

From the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.

Ephraim will become a desolationon the day of punishment;I announce what is certainamong the tribes of Israel.

Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

It hath made my vine become a desolation, And my fig-tree become a chip, It hath made it thoroughly bare, and hath cast down, Made white have been its branches.

Before it consumed hath fire, And after it burn doth a flame, As the garden of Eden is the land before it, And after it a wilderness -- a desolation! And also an escape there hath not been to it,

Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

And all her graven images are beaten down, And all her gifts are burnt with fire, And all her idols I make a desolation, For, from the hire of a harlot she gathered, and unto the hire of a harlot they return.

“As a result, I have begun to strike you severely,bringing desolation because of your sins.

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

And the land hath been for a desolation, Because of its inhabitants, Because of the fruit of their doings.

But with an overwhelming deluge he will bring utter desolation to Nineveh, and his enemies he will pursue with darkness.

What are you scheming against the LORD? He will bring about utter desolation adversity will not strike twice!

Desolation, decimation, devastation!Hearts melt,knees tremble,loins shake,every face grows pale!

Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.

This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

“I scattered them with a windstorm over all the nations that had not known them, and the land was left desolate behind them, with no one coming or going. They turned a pleasant land into a desolation.”

Is not Esau Jacob's brother? -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.

And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.

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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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