Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
6 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “desolate” →
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
