'Desolate' in the Bible
The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.
How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and none hath escaped them.
but I will remove far off from you the northern army , and will drive it into a land barren and desolate, its forepart into the eastern sea, and its hinder part into the western sea; and its stench shall come up, and its ill savor shall come up, because it hath done great things.
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Related Words
Bible Theasaurus
- Abandon (107 instances)
- Bare (264 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)
- Lone (4 instances)
- Ravage (15 instances)
- Scourge (23 instances)
- Stark (4 instances)
- Waste (696 instances)
Reverse Interlinear
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