Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.

To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;

And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.