When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited;

我使你成为荒废的城市，像没有人居住的城镇；

youdao

Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, this house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant?

你为何托耶和华的名预言，说这殿必如示罗，这城必变为荒场无人居住呢。

youdao

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.

因为坚固城变为凄凉，成了撇下离弃的居所，像旷野一样，牛犊必在那里吃草，在那里躺卧，并吃尽其中的树枝。

youdao

But India's diamond center is now desolate. Merchants in the once busy trading city say they have transacted virtually no business since last Christmas as orders dry up from Western buyers, who bought nearly 90 percent of their stones.

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Walmart has eagerly been reviving desolate corners of the city.

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The trend toward New York-style loft living is transforming many old warehouses and office buildings in what was once a desolate area, and as NPR's Luke Burbank reports, the city's newest urban pioneers are bumping against the ones who were there first, the homeless.

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