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.
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Bible References
Country
Isaiah 5:5 Now I will tell you
what I am about to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge,
and it will be consumed;
I will tear down its wall,
and it will be trampled.
what I am about to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge,
and it will be consumed;
I will tear down its wall,
and it will be trampled.
Isaiah 6:11
Then I said, “Until when, Lord?” And He replied:
Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants,
houses are without people,
the land is ruined and desolate,
houses are without people,
the land is ruined and desolate,
Isaiah 24:10 The city of chaos is shattered;
every house is closed to entry.
every house is closed to entry.
Leviticus 26:34
“Then the land will make up for its Sabbath years during the time it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and make up for its Sabbaths.
Deuteronomy 28:51
They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish.
2 Chronicles 28:5
So the Lord his God handed Ahaz over to the king of Aram. He attacked him and took many captives to Damascus.
Ahaz was also handed over to the king of Israel, who struck him with great force:
Ahaz was also handed over to the king of Israel, who struck him with great force:
Psalm 107:34 and fruitful land into salty wasteland,
because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
Jeremiah 6:8 Be warned, Jerusalem,
or I will turn away from you;
I will make you a desolation,
a land without inhabitants.
or I will turn away from you;
I will make you a desolation,
a land without inhabitants.
Burned
Isaiah 9:5 For the trampling boot of battle
and the bloodied garments of war
will be burned as fuel for the fire.
and the bloodied garments of war
will be burned as fuel for the fire.
Isaiah 34:9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
her soil into sulfur;
her land will become burning pitch.
her soil into sulfur;
her land will become burning pitch.
Jeremiah 2:15 The young lions have roared at him;
they have roared loudly.
They have laid waste his land.
His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.
they have roared loudly.
They have laid waste his land.
His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.
Strangers
Isaiah 5:17 Lambs will graze
as if in their own pastures,
and strangers will eat
among the ruins of the rich.
as if in
and strangers
among the ruins of the rich.
Deuteronomy 28:33
A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.
Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our houses to foreigners.
our houses to foreigners.
Ezekiel 30:12 I will make the streams dry
and sell the land into the hands of evil men.
I will bring desolation
on the land and everything in it
by the hands of foreigners.
I, Yahweh, have spoken.
and sell the land into the hands of evil men.
I will bring desolation
on the land and everything in it
by the hands of foreigners.
I, Yahweh, have spoken.
Hosea 7:9 Foreigners consume his strength,
but he does not notice.
Even his hair is streaked with gray,
but he does not notice.
but he does not notice.
Even his hair is streaked with gray,
but he does not notice.
Hosea 8:7 Indeed, they sow the wind
and reap the whirlwind.
There is no standing grain;
what sprouts fails to yield flour.
Even if they did,
foreigners would swallow it up.
and reap the whirlwind.
There is no standing grain;
what sprouts fails to yield flour.
Even if they did,
foreigners would swallow it up.
General references
Numbers 31:10
Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites lived, as well as all their encampments,
Deuteronomy 28:52
They will besiege you within all your gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your gates throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.
Isaiah 64:10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our houses to foreigners.
our houses to foreigners.