Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
6 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “desolate” →
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built 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?