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
Now I will inform you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge and turn it into pasture, I will break its wall and allow animals to graze there.
Isaiah 6:11
I replied, "How long, sovereign master?" He said, "Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated, and houses are uninhabited, and the land is ruined and devastated,
Isaiah 24:10
The ruined town is shattered; all of the houses are shut up tight.
Leviticus 26:34
"'Then the land will make up for its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and make up its Sabbaths.
Deuteronomy 28:51
They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.
2 Chronicles 28:5
The Lord his God handed him over to the king of Syria. The Syrians defeated him and deported many captives to Damascus. He was also handed over to the king of Israel, who thoroughly defeated him.
Psalm 107:34
and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.
Jeremiah 6:8
So take warning, Jerusalem, or I will abandon you in disgust and make you desolate, a place where no one can live."
Burned
Isaiah 9:5
Indeed every boot that marches and shakes the earth and every garment dragged through blood is used as fuel for the fire.
Isaiah 34:9
Edom's streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.
Jeremiah 2:15
Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him; they raise their voices in triumph. They have laid his land waste; his cities have been burned down and deserted.
Strangers
Isaiah 5:17
Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.
Deuteronomy 28:33
As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.
Ezekiel 30:12
I will dry up the waterways and hand the land over to evil men. I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners. I, the Lord, have spoken!
Hosea 7:9
Foreigners are consuming what his strenuous labor produced, but he does not recognize it! His head is filled with gray hair, but he does not realize it!
Hosea 8:7
They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.
General references
Numbers 31:10
They burned all their towns where they lived and all their encampments.
Deuteronomy 28:52
They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse -- those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.
Isaiah 64:10
Your chosen cities have become a desert; Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.