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Letter "D" » desolation
«Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation.»
«A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.»
«Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.»
«And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men? / Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying, / The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind? / So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.»
«And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.»
«And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.»
«And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.»
«And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.»
«And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.»
«And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.»