Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Your cities are burned with fire,
Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your presence;
It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
your cities burned with fire;
foreigners devour your fields
before your very eyes—
a desolation demolished by foreigners.
International Standard Version
"Your country lies desolate; your cities have been incinerated. Before your very eyes, foreigners are devouring your land they've brought devastation on it, while the land is overthrown by foreigners.
A Conservative Version
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.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
Your land lies desolate [because of your disobedience],
Your cities are burned with fire,
Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your very presence;
It is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Bible in Basic English
Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.
Darby Translation
Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers eat it up in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Julia Smith Translation
Your land made desolate, your cities burnt with fire, your land before your strangers eating it up, and made desolate, as the overthrow of strangers.
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned [with] fire; [As for] your land, aliens are devouring it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, like devastation [by] foreigners.
Modern King James verseion
Your land is wasted, your cities burned with fire. Strangers devour your land right before your eyes, and it is wasted, as overthrown by strangers.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Your land lieth waste, your cities are burnt up, your enemies devour your land, and ye must be fain to stand, and look upon it: and it is desolate, as it were with enemies in a battle.
NET Bible
Your land is devastated, your cities burned with fire. Right before your eyes your crops are being destroyed by foreign invaders. They leave behind devastation and destruction.
New Heart English Bible
Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
The Emphasized Bible
Your country - is a desolation, Your cities - are consumed with fire, - Your soil - right before your eyes, foreigners are devouring it, And it is a desolation a very overthrow by foreigners;
Webster
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.
World English Bible
Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Youngs Literal Translation
Your land is a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, Your ground, before you strangers are consuming it, And a desolation as overthrown by strangers!
Topics
Interlinear
'erets
Zuwr
Sh@mamah
References
Easton
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 1:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Rebellious Judah
6
From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head there is no healthy spot left on your body. You have only bruises, sores, and fresh wounds. They have not been cleansed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
7
Your cities are burned with fire,
Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your presence;
It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:34
Then the land will enjoy its time to honor Jehovah while it lies deserted. You will be in your enemies' land. Then the land will joyfully celebrate its time to honor Jehovah.
Isaiah 6:11
Then I said: How long, O Jehovah? And He answered: Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, until the houses are deserted and the land is utterly desolate.
Deuteronomy 28:33
A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow. You will receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.
Deuteronomy 28:43
The alien who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower.
Deuteronomy 28:48-52
You will serve your enemies whom Jehovah will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
2 Chronicles 28:5
Jehovah his God handed him over to the king of Aram, who defeated him, captured many prisoners, and brought them to Damascus. He also handed him over to the king of Israel, who decisively defeated him.
2 Chronicles 28:16-21
King Ahaz then sent for help from the kings of Assyria.
Psalm 107:34
and fertile ground into a layer of salt because of the wickedness of the people living there.
Psalm 107:39
They became few in number and were humiliated because of oppression, disaster, and sorrow.
Isaiah 5:5-6
Here is what I am going to do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge and break down the wall that protects it. I will let wild animals eat it and trample it down.
Isaiah 5:9
With my own ears I heard Jehovah of Hosts say: Many houses will become empty. Large, beautiful houses will be without people to live in them.
Isaiah 5:17
In the ruins of the cities lambs will eat grass and young goats will find pasture.
Isaiah 9:5
Every warrior's boot used in battle and every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning, will be fuel for the fire.
Isaiah 24:10-12
The ruined city lies desolate. The entrance to every house is barred and none may enter.
Isaiah 34:9
Edom's streams will be turned to tar. Its soil will be turned to burning sulfur. Its land will become blazing tar.
Jeremiah 2:15
Young lions have roared at them. Young lions have turned the land into waste. The cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 6:8
Be warned, O Jerusalem, I will be alienated from you. I will make you desolation, a land not inhabited.
Lamentations 5:2
Our heritage is turned over to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
Ezekiel 30:12
I will dry up the Nile River and sell the land to wicked people. I will have foreigners destroy the land and everything in it. I, Jehovah, have spoken.'
Hosea 7:9
Foreigners are using up your strength, but you do not realize it. You have become a gray-haired, old man, but you do not realize it.
Hosea 8:7
The people of Israel plant the wind, but they harvest a storm. A field of grain that does not ripen will never produce any grain. Even if it did produce grain, foreigners would eat it all.