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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
General references
Bible References
Country
Isaiah 5:5
Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.
Isaiah 6:11
Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste,
Isaiah 24:10
The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Leviticus 26:34
Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
Deuteronomy 28:51
and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
2 Chronicles 28:5
Therefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they struck him, and carried away of his a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. He was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter.
Psalm 107:34
and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Jeremiah 6:8
Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited."
Burned
Isaiah 9:5
For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.
Isaiah 34:9
Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, And its land will become burning pitch.
Jeremiah 2:15
The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
Strangers
Isaiah 5:17
Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
Deuteronomy 28:33
The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don't know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always;
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
Ezekiel 30:12
I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
Hosea 7:9
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn't realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn't realize it.
Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
General references
Numbers 31:10
All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.
Deuteronomy 28:52
They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.
Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.