9 occurrences

'Desolate' in the Bible

Listen carefully: your house is being left to you desolate [completely abandoned by God and destitute of His protection]!

Verse ConceptsEmpty Places

“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),

Verse ConceptsAbominationsReadingHoliness, As Set Apart For GodUnderstandingAbomination Of DesolationSacrilegeNamed Prophets Of The LordThis GenerationImage Of The BeastOlivet Discourseend times prophecymath

When the day was nearly gone, His disciples came to Him and said, “This is an isolated place, and it is already late;

Verse ConceptsLatenesslonliness

His disciples replied to Him, “Where will anyone be able to find enough bread here in this isolated place to feed these people?”

Verse ConceptsUnbelief, And Life Of FaithFeeding Groups

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.”

Verse ConceptsBarren WomenBarrennessSinglenessBarren, LandLabour PainsPerspective

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.

Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NightHope, In GodImportunity, Towards GodLonelinessPrayerfulnessSinglenessPrayer, Offered WithIsolated PersonsThe Hope Of The Gospel

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.

Verse ConceptsEating, Metaphorical UseNakednessTen ThingsPeople Stripping PeopleHorns In AllegoryAnimals Eating PeopleCosmic CreaturesBurning PeopleHating IndividualsFalse Religious Systemwhores

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)