Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'desolate' occurs 173 times in the standard works.

61 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'desolate' in the standard works and contain 35.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 24 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 36:34-36 (5 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 29:9-12 (5 in 4 verses)

Jer. 12:10-11 (4 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 35:12-15 (4 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 33:28-29 (3 in 2 verses)

Hel. 3:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 26:33-35 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 33:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 6:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 1:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 6:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 19:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 30:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 9:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 7:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 34:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 12:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 14:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 26:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 35:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 36:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Joel 1:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 16:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 141 0 141
NT 7 0 7
BM 22 0 22
1 Ne. 3 0 3
2 Ne. 6 0 6
Alma 2 0 2
Hel. 5 0 5
3 Ne. 6 0 6
DC 1 0 1
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 173 0 173

1 Ne. 21:8
Thus saith the Lord: In an acceptable time have I heard thee, O isles of the sea, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee; and I will preserve thee, and give thee my servant for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

1 Ne. 21:19
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants; and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

1 Ne. 21:21
Then shalt thou say in thine heart: Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? And who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where have they been?

2 Ne. 13:26
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate, and shall sit upon the ground.

2 Ne. 15:9
In mine ears, said the Lord of Hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, and great and fair cities without inhabitant.

2 Ne. 16:11
Then said I: Lord, how long? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate;

2 Ne. 17:19
And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

2 Ne. 23:9
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

2 Ne. 23:22
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces; and her time is near to come, and her day shall not be prolonged. For I will destroy her speedily; yea, for I will be merciful unto my people, but the wicked shall perish.

Alma 16:10
But behold, in one day it was left desolate; and the carcasses were mangled by dogs and wild beasts of the wilderness.

Alma 16:11
Nevertheless, after many days their dead bodies were heaped up upon the face of the earth, and they were covered with a shallow covering. And now so great was the scent thereof that the people did not go in to possess the land of Ammonihah for many years. And it was called Desolation of Nehors; for they were of the profession of Nehor, who were slain; and their lands remained desolate.

Hel. 3:5
Yea, and even they did spread forth into all parts of the land, into whatever parts it had not been rendered desolate and without timber, because of the many inhabitants who had before inherited the land.

Hel. 3:6
And now no part of the land was desolate, save it were for timber; but because of the greatness of the destruction of the people who had before inhabited the land it was called desolate.

Hel. 14:24
And many highways shall be broken up, and many cities shall become desolate.

Hel. 15:1
And now, my beloved brethren, behold, I declare unto you that except ye shall repent your houses shall be left unto you desolate.

3 Ne. 4:1
And it came to pass that in the latter end of the eighteenth year those armies of robbers had prepared for battle, and began to come down and to sally forth from the hills, and out of the mountains, and the wilderness, and their strongholds, and their secret places, and began to take possession of the lands, both which were in the land south and which were in the land north, and began to take possession of all the lands which had been deserted by the Nephites, and the cities which had been left desolate.

3 Ne. 4:3
And the robbers could not exist save it were in the wilderness, for the want of food; for the Nephites had left their lands desolate, and had gathered their flocks and their herds and all their substance, and they were in one body.

3 Ne. 8:14
And many great and notable cities were sunk, and many were burned, and many were shaken till the buildings thereof had fallen to the earth, and the inhabitants thereof were slain, and the places were left desolate.

3 Ne. 10:7
But if not, O house of Israel, the places of your dwellings shall become desolate until the time of the fulfilling of the covenant to your fathers.

3 Ne. 22:1
And then shall that which is written come to pass: Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child; for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.

3 Ne. 22:3
For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left, and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.