'Desolate' in the Bible
The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered.
How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.
But I will remove the northern army far away from you, and will drive it into a barren and desolate land, its front into the eastern sea, and its back into the western sea; and its stench will come up, and its bad smell will rise." Surely he has done great things.
Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will 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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