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    desolation


    1. It was the inferno, the black pit, the desolation


    2. Almost as though observing from a distance, I watch my other self flounder as doubts about my chances of concluding the quest with any degree of success become definite, bottomless failure; my perennial loneliness becomes an old age of isolation in a world slowly spiralling down into barrenness and desolation as I eek out my days, hated by those who remain here … the few who could not escape across … Berndt’s face stares at me, full of the loathing he feels for my failure


    3. The book of Daniel tells us that it is when the abomination of desolation is set up (Daniel 9:27) that the Antichrist is established


    4. The cafe was closed and it was time to head back anyway, but before I did, I wanted to go a little further down to where I could just see a swamp of what looked like complete desolation; dried-up marsh and cracked puddles and decomposing vegetation like the ones that used to scare me as a child


    5. 15When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the


    6. A frenetic city searching for an identity looked back at them as they alternately rumbled beside avenues of the wealthy in their bright Victorian enclaves, then through the crowded and filthy streets of broken buildings, poverty and desolation


    7. When taken together, the many images formed a pretty solid picture of the desolation


    8. As the day stretched and she received no answer, her desolation grew intense


    9. “Now who the hell could be out here in this desolation?” he muttered out loud to himself as he crouched beside a tree trunk


    10. We marched on past more desolation factories and more dwellings were just piles of rubble with weeds and splintered wood sticking out of them

    11. It remained in its prior state, pristine as all around it fell into desolation


    12. Raven shuddered as he remembered the look of desolation and hopelessness in the man’s eyes


    13. threw out a voice of desolation


    14. "It's my fault that Darkburst and Grey are dead," Soffen had whispered, her eyes filled with hopeless desolation


    15. What desolation and failure


    16. Overlooking the fact that, for more than three decades, ETA (Basque terrorist group in Spain) has been causing desolation, which has resulted in more than 800 deaths, before Madrid there were already New York, Bali, Moscow, Baghdad, Najaf, Karachi, Istanbul, Mombassa, Jerusalem, Riyadh, Casa Blanca… What do those voices want to accomplish, blame the Spanish government and justify, or perhaps even applaud, the atrocities of soulless terrorists who only desire to kill? In addition, do those heralds long for Spain to be ready to surrender its foreign policy to the demands of pitiless and savage terrorists? Were that posture of appeasement to be adopted, it would create infinity of problems much more severe in the future


    17. The temple to Apollo, the “Abomination of Desolation” was built as an additional insult to the rebellious Hebrews of the uprising of AD 135


    18. He came with his wife, old lady Desolation


    19. and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have rent your clothes, and wept before me; I


    20. 14 They came on me as a wide breaking in of waters, in the desolation they rolled themselves on me

    21. 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors


    22. be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked when it comes because the Lord shall be your confidence, and He


    23. bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel, and there shall be desolation


    24. 12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is hit with destruction


    25. off, and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you shall not know


    26. Your holy cities are a wilderness; Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem desolation


    27. 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an


    28. Judah, and the kings of it, and the princes of it, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;


    29. Wilderness: Separation from the Lord; desolation; place of provision; guidance; God’s mighty deeds; where the heart is tested; wandering and


    30. return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire, and I will make the cities of Judah desolation

    31. abominations which you have committed; therefore is your land desolation, and astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as


    32. myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities of it shall be perpetual


    33. desolation: everyone who goes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it


    34. 43 Her cities are desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land in which no man dwells; neither


    35. 47 Fear and a snare is come on us, desolation and destruction


    36. 27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the


    37. sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria


    38. 19 Egypt shall be desolation,


    39. desolation, and the inhabitants of it an hissing, therefore you shall bear the reproach of my people


    40. their goods shall become booty and their houses desolation; they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant

    41. wastefulness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, 16 A day of the trumpet and


    42. Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of


    43. both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the


    44. There were vibrant colors, especially reds and yellows, everywhere to the north and east, but in the west and south behind us was only desolation


    45. desolation in the city centre, the hotels, cafeteria and shops are empty, the bars


    46. mouth of Jeremy: 58 Until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths, the whole time of her desolation shall she rest, until the full term of


    47. 2 For I saw the desolation of Sion, and the wealth of them that dwelt at Babylon


    48. daughter; And he has delivered them up to be under the hand of all the kings that are round about us, to be a reproach, and desolation


    49. captivity of the people to Babylon; 3 But you do remain here amid the desolation of Zion, and I will show to you after these days


    50. month Casleu, in the hundred forty and fifth year, they set up the abomination of desolation on the altar, and builded idol altars













































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    Synonyms for "desolation"

    desolation devastation forlornness loneliness bareness bleakness nakedness

    "desolation" definitions

    the state of being decayed or destroyed


    a bleak and desolate atmosphere


    sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned


    an event that results in total destruction