Jeremiah 25:38 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger. (KJV WBS NIV)
Jeremiah 26:9 Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? All the people were gathered to Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 27:17 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live; wherefore should this city become desolate? (JPS)
Jeremiah 32:43 Fields shall be bought in this land, about which you say, It is desolate, without man or animal; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NIV)
Jeremiah 33:10 Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and without animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal, (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Jeremiah 33:12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. (KJV WBS NIV)
Jeremiah 44:6 Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NIV)
Jeremiah 44:22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 46:19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant. (KJV WBS)
Jeremiah 48:9 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein. (KJV WBS NIV)
Jeremiah 48:34 From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 49:2 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those who did possess him, says Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Jeremiah 49:20 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Jeremiah 49:33 And Hazor hath been for a habitation of dragons, A desolation -- unto the age, No one doth dwell there, nor sojourn in it doth a son of man!' (See NIV)
Jeremiah 50:3 For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both man and animal. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
Jeremiah 50:13 Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS NIV)
Jeremiah 50:23 How hath it been cut and broken, The hammer of the whole earth! How hath Babylon been for a desolation among nations! (See NIV)
Jeremiah 50:45 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Jeremiah 51:26 They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS NIV)
Jeremiah 51:43 Its cities have been for a desolation, A dry land, and a wilderness, A land -- none doth dwell in them, Nor pass over into them doth a son of man. (See NIV)
Jeremiah 51:62 and say, Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but that it shall be desolate forever. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV NIV)
Lamentations 1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Lamentations 1:13 From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Lamentations 1:16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Lamentations 3:11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Lamentations 4:5 Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Lamentations 5:18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 6:4 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 6:6 In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Ezekiel 6:14 I will stretch out my hand on them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know that I am Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 12:19 and tell the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and despoiled of all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Ezekiel 12:20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. (KJV JPS WBS NIV)
Ezekiel 14:8 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him desolate, so that he shall be for a sign and for proverbs, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. (DBY)
Ezekiel 14:15 If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals; (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 14:16 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 15:8 I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the Lord Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 19:7 He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)
Ezekiel 20:26 and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Ezekiel 25:3 and tell the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because you said, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 25:13 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even to Dedan shall they fall by the sword. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Ezekiel 26:19 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS NIV)
Ezekiel 26:20 then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)
Ezekiel 29:9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it. (KJV JPS WBS NIV)
Ezekiel 29:10 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia. (KJV JPS WBS NIV)
Ezekiel 29:12 I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 30:7 They shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 30:12 I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it. (WEB JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS)
Ezekiel 30:14 I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Ezekiel 32:15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that of which it was full, when I shall strike all those who dwell therein, then shall they know that I am Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 33:28 I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 33:29 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed. (KJV JPS WBS NIV)
Ezekiel 35:3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate. (KJV JPS WBS NIV)
Ezekiel 35:4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NIV)
Ezekiel 35:7 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth. (KJV JPS WBS NIV)
Ezekiel 35:12 You shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they have been given us to devour. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 35:14 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 35:15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 36:3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Ezekiel 36:4 therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 36:34 The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 36:35 They shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 36:36 Then the nations that are left around you shall know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 38:8 After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them. (See NIV)
Daniel 8:13 Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, How long shall be the vision concerning the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot? (WEB ASV DBY RSV)
Daniel 9:17 Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Daniel 9:27 He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease; and on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out on the desolate. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Daniel 11:31 Forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt offering, and they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Daniel 12:11 From the time that the continual burnt offering shall be taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred ninety days. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS RSV)
Hosea 2:12 And I will make desolate her vine and her fig-tree, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards which my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. (DBY YLT)
Hosea 5:9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. (KJV JPS WBS)
Hosea 5:15 I go -- I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!' (YLT)
Hosea 13:16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. (KJV WBS YLT)
Joel 1:17 The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Joel 1:18 How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)
Joel 2:3 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)
Joel 2:20 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Joel 3:19 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Amos 7:9 The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Amos 9:14 And I have turned back 'to' the captivity of My people Israel, And they have built desolate cities, and inhabited, And have planted vineyards, and drunk their wine, And made gardens, and eaten their fruit. (YLT)
Micah 1:7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot. (KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS)
Micah 6:13 Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
Micah 7:13 Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)
Nahum 2:10 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale. (See NAS RSV)
Zephaniah 1:13 And their wealth hath been for a spoil, And their houses for desolation, And they have built houses, and do not inhabit, And they have planted vineyards, And they do not drink their wine. (See NAS)
Zephaniah 2:13 And He stretcheth His hand against the north, And doth destroy Asshur, And he setteth Nineveh for a desolation, A dry land like a wilderness. (See NIV)
Zephaniah 3:6 I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Haggai 1:4 "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste? (See NAS)
Haggai 1:9 "You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says Yahweh of Armies, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house. (See NAS)
Zechariah 7:14 "but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)