Ezekiel 35

“Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end... Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns." vv.5, 7

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Has anything felt worse then feeling desolate?  Sure there's physical pain that I can't even imagine, but what about pain that goes deeper and last longer than any physical pain?  A person who is desolate is described as lonesome, abandoned in relationships, deprived of human consolation or presence.  
In this chapter about the judgement on Mount Seir it was to be made desolate.  Mount Seir, referring to the people inhabited there, were the people of Edom and are said to have an ancient hatred, a badly pre-eminent bitterness and hatred toward the people Israel.  Remember Esau, from whom came the Edomites, was the brother of Jacob, from where came the twelve tribes of Israel.  Esau sold his birthright and therefore Jacob received the blessing and thus began the bitter anger.  The Edomites were going to become desolate- the land laid waste, uninhabited, solitary; they were never going to be perpetually desolate (v.9), never to be restored to what it once was.
Those that have a continual hatred toward God will also one day be made desolate.  But this isn't always destroyed but to lay waste the evil and never let it return, but can be made new.  
How have you felt desolation in your life?  What result has come of it?  Or if you're current in a state of desolation how can you look for redemption to something better?