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desolations

Meaning of “desolations”

Utter ruin, destruction, or a state left waste and uninhabited.

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11 occurrences10 verses6 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Ezra 9:9

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Every verse containing “desolations”

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Ezra 9:9
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For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezra 9:9 · retained source text

For wee were bondmen, yet our God hath not forsaken vs in our bondage, but hath extended mercie vnto vs in the sight of the kings of Persia, to giue vs a reuiuing to set vp the house of our God, and to repaire the desolations thereof, and to giue vs a wall in Iudah and in Ierusalem.

1611 marginal noteHeb. to set vp.

Psalms 74:3
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Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
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1611 witness · Psalms 74:3 · retained source text

Lift vp thy feete vnto the perpetuall desolations: euen all that the enemie hath done wickedly in the Sanctuarie.

Isaiah 61:4
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¶ And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 61:4 · retained source text

¶ And they shall build the olde wastes, they shall raise vp the former desolations, and they shall repaire the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

1611 marginal noteChap. 58.12.

Jeremiah 25:9
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Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 25:9 · retained source text

Behold, I will send and take all the families of the North, saith the LORD, and Nebuchad-rezzar the king of Babylon my seruant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will vtterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetuall desolations.

Jeremiah 25:12
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¶ And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 25:12 · retained source text

¶ And it shall come to passe when seuentie yeeres are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquitie, and the land of the Caldeans, and will make it perpetuall desolations.

1611 marginal noteHeb. visite vpon.

1611 marginal note2.Chron. 36.22. eszr. 1.1. Chap. 29.10. dan. 9.2.

Ezekiel 35:9
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I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
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I will make thee perpetuall desolations, & thy cities shall not returne, and ye shal know that I am the LORD

Daniel 9:2
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In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
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1611 witness · Daniel 9:2 · retained source text

In the first yeere of his reigne, I Daniel vnderstood by bookes the number of the yeeres, whereof the word of the LORD came to Ieremiah the Prophet, that he would accomplish seuentie yeeres in the desolations of Ierusalem.

1611 marginal noteIere.25.12. and 29.10.

Daniel 9:18
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O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
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1611 witness · Daniel 9:18 · retained source text

O my God, encline thine eare and heare: open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, & the city, which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.

1611 marginal noteHeb. wherupon thy Name is called.

1611 marginal noteHeb. cause to fall.

Daniel 9:26
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And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
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The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Daniel 9:26 · retained source text

And after threescore and two weekes, shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himselfe, and the people of the Prince that shall come, shall destroy the citie, and the Sanctuarie, and the ende thereof shall be with a flood, and vnto the ende of the warre desolations are determined.

1611 marginal noteOr, shall haue nothing.

1611 marginal noteOr, it shall be cut off by desolations.

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