Quotes about Desolation

And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”

His forces will rise up and desecrate the temple fortress. They will abolish the daily sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation.

And from the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation set up, there will be 1,290 days.

Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.

Give them, O LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!

Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.

The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.

Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?

To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.

Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.