5 occurrences

'Desolate' in the Bible

The goat will carry on it all their wrongdoings into a desolate land, and he will release it there.

Verse ConceptsCarrying SinPreparing For Actionliberation

But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.

Verse ConceptsWar As God's JudgmentScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering Israel

“Then the land will make up for its Sabbath years during the time it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and make up for its Sabbaths.

Verse ConceptsSabbatical Year

As long as it lies desolate, it will have the rest it did not have during your Sabbaths when you lived there.

For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they pay the penalty for their sin, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.

Verse ConceptsAbhorRejection Of God

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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