'Desolate' in the Bible
Listen carefully: your house is being left to you desolate [completely abandoned by God and destitute of His protection]!
“So when you see the abomination of desolation [the appalling sacrilege that astonishes and makes desolate], spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the Holy Place (let the reader understand),
When the day was nearly gone, His disciples came to Him and said, “This is an isolated place, and it is already late;
His disciples replied to Him, “Where will anyone be able to find enough bread here in this isolated place to feed these people?”
“I will not leave you as orphans [comfortless, bereaved, and helpless]; I will come [back] to you.
For it is written [in the Scriptures],“Rejoice, o barren woman who has not given birth;Break forth into a [joyful] shout, you who are not in labor;For the desolate woman has many more childrenThan she who has a husband.”
Now a woman who is really a widow and has been left [entirely] alone [without adequate income] trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
(people of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and [living in] caves and holes in the ground.
And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her desolate and naked [stripped of her power and influence], and will eat her flesh and completely consume her with fire.