Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
Country
Burned
General references
Bible References
Country
Isaiah 5:5
And now, let me tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trodden under foot;
Isaiah 6:11
And I said, Lord, how long? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land become an utter desolation,
Isaiah 24:10
The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, so that none entereth in.
Leviticus 26:34
Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, when ye are in your enemies' land; then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.
Deuteronomy 28:51
and he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; for he shall not leave thee corn, new wine, or oil, offspring of thy kine, or increase of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
2 Chronicles 28:5
Therefore Jehovah his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
Psalm 107:34
A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Jeremiah 6:8
Be thou instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.
Burned
Isaiah 9:5
For every boot of him that is shod for the tumult, and the garment rolled in blood, shall be for burning, fuel for fire.
Isaiah 34:9
And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone; yea, the land thereof shall become burning pitch:
Jeremiah 2:15
The young lions roared against him, they gave forth their voice, and they made his land desolate: his cities are burned, without inhabitant.
Strangers
Isaiah 5:17
And the lambs shall feed as on their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
Deuteronomy 28:33
The fruit of thy ground and all thy labour, shall a people that thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed continually.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Ezekiel 30:12
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I Jehovah have spoken it.
Hosea 7:9
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not.
Hosea 8:7
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; should it sprout, it would yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
General references
Numbers 31:10
and all their cities in their settlements and all their encampments they burned with fire.
Deuteronomy 28:52
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and strong walls wherein thou trustedst come down, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
Isaiah 64:10
Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.