Isaiah 1:7 - Revised Standard Version Your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence aliens devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by aliens. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 Bible - Classic Edition [Because of your detestable disobedience] your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire; your land–strangers devour it in your very presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by aliens. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Your country is deserted, your cities burned with fire; your land—strangers are devouring it in plain sight. It’s a wasteland, as when foreigners raid. Catholic Public Domain Version Your land is desolate. Your cities have been set ablaze. Foreigners devour your countryside in your sight, and it will become desolate, as if devastated by enemies. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies. |
Therefore the Lord his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who defeated him with great slaughter.
a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,
May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!
And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen; because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.
And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into brimstone; her land shall become burning pitch.
“Surely your waste and your desolate places and your devastated land— surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, fatlings and kids shall feed among the ruins.
The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing: “Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.
Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said: “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without men, and the land is utterly desolate,
Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic for ever, a joy from age to age.
The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored;
Thy holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
For wickedness burns like a fire, it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.
The lions have roared against him, they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.
A lion has gone up from his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone forth from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.
Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured forth and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day.
Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”
And I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens.
therefore I am handing you over to the people of the East for a possession, and they shall set their encampments among you and make their dwellings in your midst; they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.
And I will dry up the Nile, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it, by the hand of foreigners; I, the Lord, have spoken.
Aliens devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not.
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads, it shall yield no meal; if it were to yield, aliens would devour it.
And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
“Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.
and I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds;
Therefore I have begun to smite you, making you desolate because of your sins.
A nation which you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually;
The sojourner who is among you shall mount above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
the whole land brimstone and salt, and a burnt-out waste, unsown, and growing nothing, where no grass can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath —