Quotes About Desolation

Wail, O dwellers of the Hollow, for all your merchants will be silenced; all who weigh out silver will be cut off.

That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.

And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.

Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.

“I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant.

But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”

Ashkelon will see and fear; Gaza will writhe in agony, as will Ekron, for her hope will wither. There will cease to be a king in Gaza, and Ashkelon will be uninhabited.

but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

When evening came, the disciples came to Him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is already late. Dismiss the crowds so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”

The disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could we find enough bread to feed such a large crowd?”

Look, your house is left to you desolate.

So when you see standing in the holy place ëthe abomination of desolation,í described by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),

By now the hour was already late. So the disciples came to Jesus and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is already late.

His disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could anyone find enough bread to feed all these people?”

So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

As the day neared its end, the Twelve came to Jesus and said, “Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding villages and countryside for lodging and provisions. For we are in a desolate place here.”

Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ëBlessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.í”

But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.

“For it is written in the book of Psalms: ëMay his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,í and, ëMay another take his position.í

For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”

And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.

And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo—