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.
Come, see Yahweh's works, what desolations he has made in the earth.
The green grew brighter every moment, and as it did so a faint, transparent blood-red mingled with, but did not mitigate, the blackness of the sky overhead and the rocky desolations about him.
The green sun was now topping the blackdesolations of the horizon, and the vision of the room was very faint.
Peaks of crystal towered above the straits, and the sublimities of mountain desolations everywhere appeared.
True, his works perish as he perishes, but new works and new men are rising forever to fill, and more than fill, the vacancies and desolations of the past.
You have seen the stern, invincible purpose of this man in the face of an apathetic public, painfully straitened finances, epidemics, and the desolations of war.
But that was many years ago, dear grandpa, and we will 'let the dead past bury its dead,' You will not deny me the great pleasure of helping to repair the desolations of war in the dear home of my childhood?
Zion is then introduced lamenting over the desolations which God has brought upon her and her children (chap.
To this event the desolations foretold in the twenty fourth of Matthew, and its parallels in the other gospels, had a primary reference.
Strange to tell, even the wolf, driven back long since by the approach of man, now returns, after the lapse of a hundred years, to howl over the desolations of slavery.
And now it is that you feel yourself verily on the threshold of the profound desolations of Arabia, from which no barrier, after all separates you.
Not a vague, nondescript stretch of country such as in the outskirts of our towns, not one of the solitudes of Europe, but the threshold of the vast desolations of Arabia.
They catch the inspiration of a powerful sympathy on seeing him bathed in tears, as he stands beholding in the distant vision the desolations coming on the city of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah, "the number of the years whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah,--that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
Oh what desolations have they made among the flocks of Christ!
Only in Bona, as Hippo is now called, has the memory of the great bishop been cherished,--the one solitary flower which escaped the successive desolations of Vandals and Saracens.
The day of retribution was fast approaching, a day when God and man united to punish this haughty ruler of France and his people, for all the desolations they had commited over the fair face of creation.
Back upon his consciousness came crowding the horrors anddesolations that had been his daily food now for three quarters of a year.
I have been also inwardly under great desolations for several months, in such sort that I could only say these words, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!
What torrents of tears, what desolations have these cost me?
The horrendous desolations that have come upon mankind, by the Irruptions of the old Barbarians upon the Roman World, and then of the Saracens, and since, of the Turks, were such woes as men had never seen before.
Devil be brought into, may be gathered from the woful pains, and wounds, and hideous desolations which the Devil brings upon them, with whom he has with a bodily Possession made a Seisure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "desolations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
