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 go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down its wall, and it shall be trodden down:
Isaiah 6:11
And I said, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant and not a man in the houses, and the land is turned into desert,
Isaiah 24:10
The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up that no man may come in.
Leviticus 26:34
Then shall the land rest for her sabbaths all the days that it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest and enjoy her sabbaths.
Deuteronomy 28:51
and he shall eat the fruit of thy beast and the fruit of thy land until thou art destroyed, which also shall not leave thee either grain, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy cows or flocks of thy sheep until he has destroyed thee.
2 Chronicles 28:5
Therefore, the LORD his God delivered him into the hands 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 delivered into the hands of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
Psalm 107:34
the fruitful land into salt flats, because of the wickedness of those that dwell therein.
Jeremiah 6:8
Chastise Jerusalem lest peradventure my soul be disjointed from thee, lest peradventure I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
Burned
Isaiah 9:5
For every battle of him who fights is with shaking of the earth and the rolling of garments in blood; but this shall be with burning and consuming of fire.
Isaiah 34:9
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into sulphur, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
Jeremiah 2:15
The young lions roared upon him and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are deserted without inhabitant.
Strangers
Isaiah 5:17
Then the lambs shall be fed after their manner, and strangers shall eat the fat ones that are forsaken.
Deuteronomy 28:33
The fruit of thy land and all thy labours shall a people which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt only be oppressed and crushed all the days.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Ezekiel 30:12
And I will make the rivers dry and deliver the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will destroy the land and all that is therein by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken.
Hosea 7:9
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know it; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he does not understand.
Hosea 8:7
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind; they shall have no harvest; the fruit shall yield no meal: if so be it yields, the strangers shall swallow it up.
General references
Numbers 31:10
And they burnt all their cities in which they dwelt and all their palaces with fire.
Deuteronomy 28:52
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates until thy high and fenced walls come down, in which thou dost trust, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God has given thee.
Isaiah 64:10
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.