Desolation Quotes

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; / To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless! / And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? / Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. - Bible

When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) / Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: / Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: / Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. - Bible

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years. - James Larkin

Upon stepping foot on the moon, Buzz remarked to Houston, 'Beautiful, beautiful. Magnificent desolation.' - Buzz Aldrin

Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. - Bible

Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. - Bible

This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand. - Bible

They create a desolation and call it peace. - Calgacus

They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. - Bible