32 Bible Verses About Solitude

And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.

Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay there.

And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.

And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,

The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.

But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.

And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.

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?

And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.

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

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:

And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?

The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.