Isaiah 1:7

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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.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:5

And so the Lord, his God, delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria, who struck him and took great plunder from his kingdom. And he carried it away to Damascus. Also, he was delivered into the hands of the king of Israel, and he struck him with great affliction.

Isaiah 1:8

And the daughter of Zion will be left behind, like an arbor in a vineyard, and like a shelter in a cucumber field, and like a city being laid to waste.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah has fallen, because their words and their plans are against the Lord, in order to provoke the eyes of his majesty.

Isaiah 34:9

And its torrents will be turned into tar, and its soil into sulfur. And its land will become burning tar.

Isaiah 49:19

For your deserts, and your solitary places, and the land of your ruination will now be too narrow, because of all the inhabitants. And those who devoured you will be chased far away.

Isaiah 5:17

And the lambs will pasture in proper order, and new arrivals will eat from the deserts turned into fertile lands.

Isaiah 5:9

These things are in my ears, says the Lord of hosts. Otherwise, many houses, great and beautiful, will become desolate, without an inhabitant.

Isaiah 6:11

And I said, "For how long, O Lord?" And he said, "Until the cities are desolate, without an inhabitant, and the houses are without a man, and the land will be left behind, deserted."

Isaiah 60:15

For though you were forsaken, and held in hatred, and there was no one who would pass near you, I will establish you as an everlasting glory, as a gladness from generation to generation.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord has sworn with his right hand and with the arm of his strength: "Certainly, I will no longer permit your grain to be the food of your enemies. And the sons of foreigners will not drink your wine, for which you have labored."

Isaiah 64:10

The city of your sanctuary has become a desert. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is desolate.

Isaiah 9:18

For impiety has been kindled like a fire: it will devour brier and thorn, and it will burn in the dense forest, and it will be interwoven with the ascending smoke.

Isaiah 9:5

For every violent plunder with a tumult, and every garment mixed with blood, will be burned up and will become fuel for the fire.

Jeremiah 2:15

The lions have roared over him, and they have uttered their voice. They have set his land in solitude; his cities have been burned up, and there is no one who lives in them.

Jeremiah 4:7

The lion has ascended from his den, and the pillager of the nations has lifted himself up. He has gone forth from his place, so that he may set your land in desolation. Your cities will be laid waste, remaining without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 44:6

And so my indignation and my fury was fanned and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. And they have been turned into desolation and devastation, just as it is this day.

Jeremiah 6:8

O Jerusalem, accept instruction, lest perhaps my soul may withdraw from you; lest perhaps I may set you in a desert, in an uninhabitable land."

Jeremiah 7:34

And from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, I will cause the cessation of the voice of gladness and the voice of rejoicing, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride. For the land will be in utter desolation."

Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.

Ezekiel 25:4

therefore, I will deliver you to the sons of the East, as an inheritance. And they will arrange their fences within you, and they will place their tents within you. They will eat your crops, and they will drink your milk.

Ezekiel 30:12

And I will cause the channels of the rivers to dry up. And I will deliver the land into the hand of the most wicked. And by the hands of foreigners, I will utterly destroy the land and its plenitude. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Hosea 7:9

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he did not know it. And grey hairs also have spread across him, and he is ignorant of it.

Hosea 8:7

For they will sow wind and reap a whirlwind. It does not have a firm stalk; the bud will yield no grain. But if it does yield, strangers will eat it.

Leviticus 26:33

Then I will scatter you among the Gentiles, and I will unsheathe the sword after you. And your land will be deserted, and your cities will be demolished.

Leviticus 26:34

Then the land will be pleased by her Sabbaths, throughout all the days of her solitude. So, while you will be

Micah 5:11

And I will destroy the cities of your land, and I will pull down all your fortifications, and I will take away evil-doing from your hand, and there will be no divinations among you.

Micah 6:13

And I, therefore, began to strike you with perdition because of your sins.

Deuteronomy 28:33

May a people you do not know eat the fruits of your land and of all your labors. And may you continually suffer from slander and oppression every day.

Deuteronomy 28:43

The new arrival who lives with you in the land will ascend over you, and be higher. But you will descend, and be lower.

Deuteronomy 29:23

having burned it with sulphur and molten salt, so that it can no longer be sown. And certainly no greenery would spring up, as in the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overturned with his wrath and fury.