6 occurrences

'Desolate' in the Bible

I'll send wild beasts against you from the open country to deprive you of your children, destroy your cattle, and decrease your number so that your roads become desolate.

Verse ConceptsBeastsNumbers ReducingAnimals Killing

I'll make the land so desolate that your enemies who live in it will be astonished."

"I'll scatter you among the nations and draw the sword after you so that your land becomes desolate and your towns become ruins.

Verse ConceptsWar As God's JudgmentScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering Israel

Then the land will finally be pleased with its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time, the land will rest and take its Sabbaths.

Verse ConceptsSabbatical Year

As long as it lies desolate, it will have rest that it will not have had during your Sabbaths when you were living in it.

They will leave the land so it can rest while it lies desolate without them. That's when they'll receive the punishment of their iniquity, because indeed they will have rejected my ordinances and despised 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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