Bible on Loneliness

They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.

And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.

Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.

For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

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 had they been?

As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.

If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.

And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;

Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;

So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.