Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Desolate’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Desolate’ occurs 74 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Leviticus
Leviticus 26:22 And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the field, which will consume you and your cattle, and which will reduce everything to paucity, and cause your roadways to become desolate.Leviticus 26:22
Leviticus 26:31 so much so that I will reduce your cities to a wilderness, and I will make your Sanctuaries desolate, and I will no longer accept the most sweet odors.Leviticus 26:31
Number of the word / term Desolate in Leviticus: 2
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Nehemiah
Nehemiah 2:3 And I said to the king: “O king, live forever. Why should my expression not be mournful, since the city of the house of the sepulchers of my father is desolate, and its gates have been burned with fire?”Nehemiah 2:3
Nehemiah 2:17 And so I said to them: “You know the affliction in which we are, because Jerusalem is desolate, and its gates have been consumed by fire. Come, and let us rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, and let us no longer be in disgrace.”Nehemiah 2:17
Number of the word / term Desolate in Nehemiah: 2
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Job
Job 15:28 He has lived in desolate cities and deserted houses, which have been turned into tombs.Job 15:28
Job 38:27 so that it would fill impassable and desolate places, and would bring forth green plants?Job 38:27
Number of the word / term Desolate in Job: 2
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 1:7 Your land is desolate. Your cities have been set ablaze. Foreigners devour your countryside in your sight, and it will become desolate, as if devastated by enemies.Isaiah 1:7
Isaiah 3:26 And her gates will grieve and mourn. And she will sit on the ground, desolate.Isaiah 3:26
Isaiah 5:6 And I will make it desolate. It will not be pruned, and it will not be dug. And briers and thorns will rise up. And I will command the clouds not to rain upon it.Isaiah 5:6
Isaiah 5:9 These things are in my ears, says the Lord of hosts. Otherwise, many houses, great and beautiful, will become desolate, without an inhabitant.Isaiah 5:9
Isaiah 6:11 And I said, “For how long, O Lord?” And he said, “Until the cities are desolate, without an inhabitant, and the houses are without a man, and the land will be left behind, deserted.”Isaiah 6:11
Isaiah 11:15 And the Lord will desolate the tongue of the sea of Egypt. And he will lift up his hand over the river, with the strength of his Spirit; and he will strike it, in its seven streams, so that they may cross through it in their shoes.Isaiah 11:15
Isaiah 15:6 For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate, because the plants have withered, and the seedling has failed, and all the greenery has passed away.Isaiah 15:6
Isaiah 19:5 And the waters of the sea will dry up, and the river will be desolate and dry.Isaiah 19:5
Isaiah 27:10 For the fortified city will be desolate. The shining city will be abandoned and will be left behind like a desert. In that place, the calf will pasture, and in that place, he will lie down, and he will feed from its summits.Isaiah 27:10
Isaiah 33:8 The roads have become desolate. Travelers have ceased along the paths. The covenant has been nullified. He has tossed aside cities. He has disregarded men.Isaiah 33:8
Isaiah 34:10 Night and day, it will not be extinguished; its smoke will rise up without ceasing. From generation to generation it will remain desolate. No one will pass through it, forever and ever.Isaiah 34:10
Isaiah 35:1 The desolate and impassable land will rejoice, and the place of solitude will exult, and it will flourish like the lily.Isaiah 35:1
Isaiah 42:15 I will desolate the mountains and the hills, and I will wither all their grass. And I will turn rivers into islands, and I will dry up the pools of water.Isaiah 42:15
Isaiah 44:27 I say to the depths, “Be desolate,” and, “I will dry up your rivers.”Isaiah 44:27
Isaiah 54:1 Give praise, you who are barren and unable to conceive. Sing praise and make a joyful noise, you who have not given birth. For many are the children of the desolate, more so than of her who has a husband, says the Lord.Isaiah 54:1
Isaiah 54:3 For you shall extend to the right and to the left. And your offspring shall inherit the nations, and you shall inhabit the desolate cities.Isaiah 54:3
Isaiah 58:12 And places that have been desolate for ages will be built up by you. You will raise a foundation for generation after generation. And you will be called the repairer of hedges, who turns the roadways into quiet places.Isaiah 58:12
Isaiah 61:4 And they will rebuild the deserted places of past ages, and they will raise up the ruins of antiquity, and they will repair the desolate cities, which had been dissipated for generation after generation.Isaiah 61:4
Isaiah 62:4 You will no longer called Forsaken. And your land will no longer be called Desolate. Instead, you shall be called My Will within it, and your land shall be called Inhabited. For the Lord has been well pleased with you, and your land will be inhabited.Isaiah 62:4
Isaiah 64:10 The city of your sanctuary has become a desert. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is desolate.Isaiah 64:10
Number of the word / term Desolate in Isaiah: 20
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 2:12 Be astonished at this, O heavens, and be utterly desolate, O gates of heaven, says the Lord.Jeremiah 2:12
Jeremiah 4:27 For thus says the Lord: “All the earth will be desolate, but I will not yet bring about its consummation.Jeremiah 4:27
Jeremiah 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem into piles of sand and into a lair for serpents. And I will make the cities of Judah desolate, so much so that there will be no inhabitant.Jeremiah 9:11
Jeremiah 12:11 They have squandered it, and it has grieved concerning me. The entire earth has become utterly desolate, because there is no one who understands with the heart.”Jeremiah 12:11
Jeremiah 22:6 For thus says the Lord about the house of the king of Judah: You are to me like Gilead, the head of Lebanon. Certainly, I will make you desolate, with uninhabitable cities.Jeremiah 22:6
Jeremiah 26:9 “Why has he prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying: ‘Like Shiloh, so shall this house be,’ and, ‘This city shall be made desolate, even without an inhabitant?’ ” And all the people were gathered together against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.Jeremiah 26:9
Jeremiah 32:43 And fields will be possessed in this land, about which you say that it is desolate because there remains neither man nor beast, and because it has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans.Jeremiah 32:43
Jeremiah 33:10 Thus says the Lord: Still shall there be heard in this place, (which you say is desolate, because there is neither man nor beast,) and in the cities of Judah and outside of Jerusalem, (which are desolate, without man, and without an inhabitant and without cattle,)Jeremiah 33:10
Jeremiah 33:12 Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Still shall there be in this place, (which is desolate without man and without beast,) and in all of its cities: a habitation for the shepherds giving rest to their flocks.Jeremiah 33:12
Jeremiah 44:2 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You yourselves have seen all this evil that I have led over Jerusalem and over all the cities of Judah. And behold, they are desolate to this day, and there is no inhabitant in them,Jeremiah 44:2
Jeremiah 48:9 Give a blossom to Moab. For it will depart when it is blossoming. And its cities will become desolate and uninhabited.Jeremiah 48:9
Jeremiah 50:13 By the wrath of the Lord, it will not be inhabited. Instead, it will be entirely desolate. Every one who passes by Babylon will be stupefied and will hiss over all her wounds.Jeremiah 50:13
Jeremiah 51:29 And the earth will be shaken and will be disturbed. For the plan of the Lord against Babylon will awaken, so that he may make the land of Babylon desolate and uninhabitable.Jeremiah 51:29
Jeremiah 51:43 Her cities have become an astonishment, an uninhabited and desolate land, a land in which no one may live, nor may a son of man pass through it.Jeremiah 51:43
Jeremiah 51:62 you will say: ‘O Lord, you have spoken against this place so that you may destroy it, so that there would not be anyone, from man even to beast, who may live in it, and so that it may be desolate forever.’Jeremiah 51:62
Number of the word / term Desolate in Jeremiah: 15
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Ezekiel
Ezekiel 5:14 And I will make you desolate, and a disgrace among the Gentiles, who are all around you, in the sight of all who pass by.Ezekiel 5:14
Ezekiel 6:6 In all of your habitations, the cities will be made desolate, and the exalted places will be torn down and scattered. And your altars will be broken and destroyed. And your idols will cease to exist. And your shrines will be crushed. And your works will be wiped away.Ezekiel 6:6
Ezekiel 6:14 And I will extend my hand over them. And I will make the earth desolate and destitute: from the desert of Riblah to all their dwelling places. And they shall know that I am the Lord.”Ezekiel 6:14
Ezekiel 12:19 And say to the people of the land: Thus says the Lord God, to those who are living in Jerusalem, in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread in anxiety, and drink their water in desolation, so that the land may be desolate before its multitude, because of the iniquity of all who are living in it.Ezekiel 12:19
Ezekiel 12:20 And cities that are now inhabited will become desolate, and the land will be forsaken. And you shall know that I am the Lord.”Ezekiel 12:20
Ezekiel 15:8 and when I will have made their land impassable and desolate. For they have stood forth as transgressors, says the Lord God.”Ezekiel 15:8
Ezekiel 19:7 He learned to make widows, and to lead their citizens into the desert. And the land, with its plenitude, was made desolate by the voice of his roaring.Ezekiel 19:7
Ezekiel 25:13 therefore, thus says the Lord God: I will extend my hand over Idumea, and I will take from it both man and beast, and I will make it desolate from the south. And those who are in Dedan will fall by the sword.Ezekiel 25:13
Ezekiel 26:19 For thus says the Lord God: When I will have made you a desolate city, like the cities that are uninhabited, and when I will have led the abyss over you, and many waters will have covered you,Ezekiel 26:19
Ezekiel 26:20 and when I will have dragged you down with those who descend into the pit to the everlasting people, and when I will have assembled you in the lowest parts of the earth, like the desolate places of antiquity, with those who have been brought down into the pit, so that you will be uninhabited, and moreover, when I will have given glory to the land of the living:Ezekiel 26:20
Ezekiel 29:12 And I will set the land of Egypt in desolation, in the midst of desolate lands, and its cities in the midst of overturned cites. And they will be desolate for forty years. And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and I will disperse them among the lands.Ezekiel 29:12
Ezekiel 30:7 And they will be scattered into the midst of desolate lands, and its cities will be in the midst of cities that have been deserted.Ezekiel 30:7
Ezekiel 33:28 And I will make the land into a wilderness and a desert. And its arrogant strength will fail. And the mountains of Israel will be desolate; for there will be no one who crosses through them.Ezekiel 33:28
Ezekiel 33:29 And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I will have make their land desolate and deserted, because of all their abominations, which they have worked.Ezekiel 33:29
Ezekiel 35:3 Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, mount Seir, and I will extend my hand over you, and I will make you desolate and deserted.Ezekiel 35:3
Ezekiel 35:7 And I will make mount Seir desolate and deserted. And I will take away from it the one who departs and the one who returns.Ezekiel 35:7
Ezekiel 36:3 because of this, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: Because you have been made desolate, and you have been trampled on every side, and you have been made into an inheritance for the remainder of the nations, and because you rose up, over the tip of the tongue and over the shame of the people,Ezekiel 36:3
Ezekiel 36:34 and when the deserted land will have been cultivated, which previously was desolate to the eyes of all who passed by,Ezekiel 36:34
Number of the word / term Desolate in Ezekiel: 18
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Daniel
Daniel 9:17 Now, therefore, heed, O God, the prayer of your servant and his requests, and reveal your face over your sanctuary, which is desolate, for your own sake.Daniel 9:17
Number of the word / term Desolate in Daniel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Hosea
Hosea 13:15 For he will make a division among brothers. The Lord will bring a burning wind, rising up from the desert, and it will dry up his streams, and it will make his fountain desolate, and he will tear apart every collection of desirable useful things.Hosea 13:15
Number of the word / term Desolate in Hosea: 1
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Joel
Joel 2:3 Before their face is a devouring fire, and behind them is a burning flame. The land before them is like a lush garden, and behind them is a desolate desert, and there is no one who can escape them.Joel 2:3
Number of the word / term Desolate in Joel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Amos
Amos 7:9 And the heights of the idol will be demolished, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be desolate. And I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”Amos 7:9
Number of the word / term Desolate in Amos: 1
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Nahum
Nahum 1:5 The mountains have trembled before him, and the hills have become desolate, and the earth has quaked before his face, both the world and all that dwells in it.Nahum 1:5
Number of the word / term Desolate in Nahum: 1
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Zephaniah
Zephaniah 3:6 I have dispersed the nations, and their towers have been torn down. I have made their ways deserts, until there were none who passed through. Their cities have become desolate, with no man remaining, nor any inhabitant.Zephaniah 3:6
Number of the word / term Desolate in Zephaniah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Haggai
Haggai 1:9 You have looked for more, and behold, it became less, and you brought it home, and I blew it away. What is the cause of this, says the Lord of hosts? It is because my house is desolate, yet you have hurried, each one to his own house.Haggai 1:9
Number of the word / term Desolate in Haggai: 1
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Zechariah
Zechariah 7:14 And I dispersed them throughout all the kingdoms that they did not know. And the land was left desolate behind them, so that no one was passing through or returning. And they made the desirable land into a deserted place.Zechariah 7:14
Number of the word / term Desolate in Zechariah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Matthew
Matthew 12:25 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself will become desolate. And every city or house divided against itself will not stand.Matthew 12:25
Number of the word / term Desolate in Matthew: 1
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Luke
Luke 11:17 But when he perceived their thoughts, he said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself will become desolate, and house will fall upon house.Luke 11:17
Luke 13:35 Behold, your house will be left desolate for you. But I say to you, that you shall not see me, until it happens that you say: ‘Blessed is he who has arrived in the name of the Lord.’ ”Luke 13:35
Number of the word / term Desolate in Luke: 2
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Acts
Acts 1:20 For it has been written in the book of Psalms: ‘Let their dwelling place be desolate and may there be no one who dwells within it,’ and ‘Let another take his episcopate.’Acts 1:20
Number of the word / term Desolate in Acts: 1
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Galatians
Galatians 4:27 For it was written: “Rejoice, O barren one, though you do not conceive. Burst forth and cry out, though you do not give birth. For many are the children of the desolate, even more than of her who has a husband.”Galatians 4:27
Number of the word / term Desolate in Galatians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Desolate’ in the book Revelation
Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns that you saw on the beast, these shall hate the woman who fornicates, and they shall make her desolate and naked, and they shall chew her flesh, and they shall burn her completely with fire.Revelation 17:16
Revelation 18:19 And they cast dust upon their heads. And they cried out, weeping and mourning, saying: ‘Woe! Woe! to that great city, by which all who had ships at sea were made rich from her treasures. For she has been made desolate in one hour.Revelation 18:19
Number of the word / term ‘Desolate’ in Revelation: 2
These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.
Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 74
