Quotes About Desolation

And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

All in all, he felt more milked than loved.

His broken heart was unfeeling, like shattered glass in an acid bath.

it was simply the solar system's colder version of hell.

There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.

Great loss is felt by no one

I'd say it was a relief to have at last nothing, nothing, but I was too hollow to register relief, too empty to carry it.

After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind.

Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”

I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.

I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.

But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.

For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.

Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.

So they went and called out to the gatekeepers of the city, saying, “We went to the Aramean camp and no one was there—not a trace—only tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents were intact.”

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,í declares the LORD.

So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.

Now the city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and the houses had not yet been rebuilt.

he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.

He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.