Isaiah 1:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:5

So the Lord his God gave him up into the hands of the king of Aram; and they overcame him, and took away a great number of his people as prisoners to Damascus. Then he was given into the hands of the king of Israel, who sent great destruction on him.

Psalm 107:34

He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

Psalm 107:39

And when they are made low, and crushed by trouble and sorrow,

Psalm 109:11

Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.

Isaiah 1:8

And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.

Isaiah 34:9

And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire.

Isaiah 49:19

For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.

Isaiah 5:17

Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.

Isaiah 5:9

The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,

Isaiah 60:15

And though you were turned away from, and hated, and had no helper, I will make you a pride for ever, a joy from generation to generation.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord has taken an oath by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Truly, I will no longer give your grain to be food for your haters; and men of strange countries will not take the wine for which your work has been done:

Isaiah 64:10

Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.

Isaiah 9:18

For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

Isaiah 9:5

For every boot of the man of war with his sounding step, and the clothing rolled in blood, will be for burning, food for the fire.

Jeremiah 2:15

The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.

Jeremiah 44:6

Because of this, my passion and my wrath were let loose, burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are waste and unpeopled as at this day.

Jeremiah 6:8

Undergo teaching, O Jerusalem, or my soul will be turned away from you, and I will make you a waste, an unpeopled land.

Jeremiah 7:34

And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.

Lamentations 5:2

Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.

Ezekiel 25:4

For this cause I will give you up to the children of the east for their heritage, and they will put their tent-circles in you and make their houses in you; they will take your fruit for their food and your milk for their drink.

Ezekiel 30:12

And I will make the Nile streams dry, and will give the land into the hands of evil men, causing the land and everything in it to be wasted by the hands of men from a strange country: I the Lord have said it.

Hosea 7:9

Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.

Hosea 8:7

For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

Leviticus 26:33

And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.

Leviticus 26:34

Then will the land take pleasure in its Sabbaths while it is waste and you are living in the land of your haters; then will the land have rest.

Micah 5:11

I will have the towns of your land cut off and all your strong places pulled down:

Micah 6:13

So I have made a start with your punishment; I have made you waste because of your sins.

Deuteronomy 28:33

The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:

Deuteronomy 28:43

The man from a strange land who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 29:23

And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath: