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desolation

«Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.»
«But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: / And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house: / And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.»
«Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Assyrians, desolation, east wind
«Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: desolation, snare
«For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Bozrah, desolation, reproach, sworn, wastes
«For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.»
«For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.»
«Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: desolation, Sudden Fear
«Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; / But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: / I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; / When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.»
«But to the king of Judah which sent you to enquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard; / Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: desolation, enquire, humbled, wept