'Desolations' in the Bible

Lord, how long dost thou behold? Keep back my soul from their desolations, From young lions my only one.

Desolations are upon them, They go down to Sheol -- alive, For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst.

O God, Thou -- Thou hast known Concerning my overturn, And my desolations from Thee have not been hid.

Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.

For, the waters of Nimrim are desolations, For, withered hath been the hay, Finished hath been the tender grass, A green thing there hath not been.

And they have built the wastes of old, The desolations of the ancients they raise up, And they have renewed waste cities, The desolations of generation and generation.

And it hath come to pass, at the fulness of seventy years, I charge against the king of Babylon, and against that nation -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- their iniquity, and against the land of the Chaldeans, and have appointed it for desolations age-during.

Because of the cry of Heshbon unto Elealeh, Unto Jahaz they have given their voice, From Zoar unto Horonaim, A heifer of the third year, For even waters of Nimrim become desolations.

And they take not out of thee a stone for a corner, And a stone for foundations, For desolations age-during art thou, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Desolations age-during I make thee, And thy cities do not return, And ye have known that I am Jehovah.

Incline, O my God, Thine ear, and hear, open Thine eyes and see our desolations, and the city on which Thy name is called; for not for our righteous acts are we causing our supplications to fall before Thee, but for Thy mercies that are many.

And after the sixty and two weeks, cut off is Messiah, and the city and the holy place are not his, the Leader who hath come doth destroy the people; and its end is with a flood, and till the end is war, determined are desolations.