All 50 Uses of
desolate
in
Old Testament
- …that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: 47:19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.†
Book 1.
- 23:29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.†
Book 2.
- 26:22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.†
Book 3.
- 26:31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.†
Book 3.
- 26:32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.†
Book 3.
- 26:33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.†
Book 3.
- 26:34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.†
Book 3.
- 26:35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.†
Book 3.
- 26:43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.†
Book 3.
- 8:28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.†
Book 6.
- So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.†
Book 10. *
- 22:18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard; 22:19 Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.†
Book 12.
- 30:7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.†
Book 14.
- 36:20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: 36:21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.†
Book 14.
- 9:9 For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.†
Book 15.
- 3:13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 3:14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves; 3:15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 3:16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.†
Book 18.
- 15:28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.†
Book 18.
- 15:34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.†
Book 18.
- 16:7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.†
Book 18.
- 30:3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.†
Book 18.
- 30:14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.†
Book 18.
- 38:25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; 38:26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 38:27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?†
Book 18.
- 25:16 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.†
Book 19.
- 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.†
Book 19.
- 34:22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.†
Book 19.
- 40:15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.†
Book 19.
- 46:8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.†
Book 19. *
- 69:25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.†
Book 19.
- 73:19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.†
Book 19.
- 74:3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.†
Book 19.
- 109:10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.†
Book 19.
- 143:4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.†
Book 19.
- 1:24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 1:25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 1:26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 1:27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.†
Book 20.
- 3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.†
Book 20.
- 1:7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.†
Book 23.
- 1:7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.†
Book 23.
- 3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.†
Book 23.
- 5:9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.†
Book 23.
- And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, 6:12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.†
Book 23.
- 7:19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.†
Book 23.
- 10:3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?†
Book 23.
- 13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.†
Book 23.
- 13:22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.†
Book 23.
- 15:6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.†
Book 23.
- 17:9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.†
Book 23.
- 24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.†
Book 23.
- 24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.†
Book 23.
- 27:10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.†
Book 23.
- 47:11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.†
Book 23.
- 49:8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages; 49:9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves.†
Book 23.
Definitions:
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(desolate as in: desolated the region) destroyed; or emptied of people; or emptied of most plants and animals
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(desolate as in: felt desolate) sad or miserable--and often lonely