be a desolation # 24_JER_25_11 # And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. be a desolation # 24_JER_49_17 # Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof. be a desolation # 29_JOE_03_19 # Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence [against] the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.