7 occurrences in 12 translations

'Desolate' in the Bible

How desolate the city sits [that] was full of people! She has become like a widow, [once] great among the nations! Like a woman of nobility in the provinces, she has become a forced laborer.

Verse ConceptsLamentingQueensFilling PlacesWidowsEmpty CitiesGreat ThingsLuciferlonliness

The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

Verse ConceptsSighingPilgrimageRoadsTragedy On The StreetsFestivals DisregardedMourning Due To CatastropheNo One To Be Found

From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

Verse ConceptsNetsUnceasingContinual HardshipCausing People To TurnDamage To The BodyFire From HeavenGod Trapping

For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

Verse ConceptsBeing ForsakenPeace, Human Destruction OfSympathyRestoring SinnersI Mourn CatastropheNo Comfort

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

Verse ConceptsPeople Torn To PiecesBeing Mislead

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

Verse ConceptsProperty, HousesColors, ScarletThe HomelessSavourinessPurple ClothesTragedy On The StreetsAshes Of Humiliation

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

Bible Theasaurus

Abandon (107 instances)
Barren (62 instances)
Depopulate (2 instances)
Desert (358 instances)
Desolate (212 instances)
Devastate (25 instances)
Estranged (14 instances)
Forsake (97 instances)
Hopeless (8 instances)
Ravage (15 instances)
Scourge (23 instances)
Stark (4 instances)

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