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 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 trampled down;
Isaiah 6:11
Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land laid waste, a desolation,
Isaiah 24:10
The city of shame is broken down; every house is shut up so that no one may come in.
Leviticus 26:34
Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lies waste, and you are in your enemies' land; then shall the land rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
Deuteronomy 28:51
And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed. He shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or flocks of your sheep, until he has destroyed you.
2 Chronicles 28:5
And Jehovah his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. And they struck him and carried away a great captivity, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter.
Psalm 107:34
a fruitful land to a salty desert, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Jeremiah 6:8
O Jerusalem, you must be instructed, lest My soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land without people.
Burned
Isaiah 9:5
For every boot of the warrior is with commotion, and the coat rolled in blood shall be burning fuel for the fire.
Isaiah 34:9
And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust to brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.
Jeremiah 2:15
The young lions roared against him; they gave their voice. And they made his land a waste; his cities are burned without inhabitant.
Strangers
Isaiah 5:17
Then shall the lambs feed in their way, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
Deuteronomy 28:33
The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall be eaten up by a nation which you do not know. And you shall always be oppressed and crushed,
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has turned to aliens, our houses to foreigners.
Ezekiel 30:12
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked. And I will waste the land, and her fullness, by the hand of strangers. I Jehovah have spoken.
Hosea 7:9
Strangers have eaten up his strength, and he does not know. Yea, gray hairs are here and there on him, yet he knows it not.
Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal; if it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
General references
Numbers 31:10
And they burned with fire all their cities, their homes, and all their towers.
Deuteronomy 28:52
And he shall besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down, throughout all the land. And he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which Jehovah your God has given you.
Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities are a wilderness; Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem is a ruin.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has turned to aliens, our houses to foreigners.