Quotes About Desolation

How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.

I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”

I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.í”

“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ëThe end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.í”

Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,

then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.

Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,í declares the Lord GOD.”

“Son of man, say to her, ëIn the day of indignation, you are a land that has not been cleansed, upon which no rain has fallen.í

They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and put her to the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgment against her.

You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.

therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread the fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.í

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ëWhen I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,

I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.

The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because you said, ëThe Nile is mine; I made it,í

therefore I am against you and against your rivers. I will turn the land of Egypt into a ruin, a desolate wasteland from Migdol to Syene, and as far as the border of Cush.

No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.

I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.

They will be desolate among desolate lands, and their cities will lie among ruined cities.

I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.