Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
1 verse in the King James Version. Word study for “desolation” →
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 .
