~ a desolate wilderness ~ 24_JER_12_10  Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. #, 29_JOE_02_03  A  fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth, the land [is] as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. #, 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. #,