Isaiah 1:7

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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

Isaiah 9:5

Isaiah 34:9

Jeremiah 2:15

Strangers

General references

Bible References

Country

“So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard:
I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed;
I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground.

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered,
“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,
Houses are without people
And the land is utterly desolate,

The city of chaos is broken down;

Every house is shut up so that none may enter.

‘Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

Moreover, it shall eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.

Wherefore, the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Aram; and they defeated him and carried away from him a great number of captives and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who inflicted him with heavy casualties.

A fruitful land into a salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

“Be warned, O Jerusalem,
Or

I shall be alienated from you,

And make you a desolation,
A land not inhabited.”

Burned

For every boot of the booted warrior in the battle tumult,
And cloak rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.

Its streams will be turned into pitch,

And its loose earth into brimstone,
And its land will become burning pitch.

“The young lions have roared at him,
They have roared loudly.
And they have made his land a waste;
His cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.

Strangers

Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,

And strangers will eat in the waste places of the wealthy.

A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed continually.

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
Our houses to aliens.

“Moreover, I will make the Nile canals dry
And sell the land into the hands of evil men.
And I will make the land desolate
And all that is in it,
By the hand of strangers; I the Lord have spoken.”

Strangers devour his strength,

Yet he does not know it;
Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him,
Yet he does not know it.

For they sow the wind
And they reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
It yields no grain.
Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.

General references

Then they burned all their cities where they lived and all their camps with fire.

It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you.

Your holy cities have become a wilderness,
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
Our houses to aliens.