Isaiah 1:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Your country lies desolate; your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence aliens devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners. More versionsKing 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 Aram, 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 daughter Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a shelter 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 sulfur; her land shall become burning pitch.
For your wastelands, your desolate places, and your devastated land— now you will be too crowded for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.
Then the lambs shall graze as in their pasture; fatted calves 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 people, and the land is utterly desolate;
Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic forever, 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 the wine for which you have labored,
Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
For wickedness burned like a fire, consuming briers and thorns; it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they swirled upward in a column of smoke.
For all the boots of the tramping warriors and all the garments rolled in blood shall 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 its thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone out from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.
So my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a waste and a desolation, as they still are today.
Take warning, O Jerusalem, or I shall turn from you in disgust and make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.
And I will bring to an end the sound of mirth and gladness, the voice of the bride and bridegroom in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, for the land shall become a waste.
therefore I am handing you over to the people of the East for a possession. They shall set their encampments among you and pitch their tents in your midst; they shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.
I will dry up the channels of the Nile and will sell the land into the hand of evildoers; I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it by the hand of foreigners; I the Lord have spoken.
Foreigners devour his strength, but he does not know it; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, but he does not know it.
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, foreigners would devour it.
And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword against you; your land shall be a desolation and your cities a waste.
“Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbath years as long as it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest and enjoy its Sabbath years.
and I will cut off the cities of your land and destroy all your strongholds;
Therefore I have begun to strike you down, making you desolate because of your sins.
A people whom you do not know shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors; you shall be continually abused and crushed
Aliens residing among you shall ascend above you higher and higher, while you shall descend lower and lower.
all its soil burned out by sulfur and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, unable to support any vegetation, like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his fierce anger—