Isaiah 1:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Your country lies in ruins; your towns are in ashes. Foreigners and strangers take and destroy your land while you watch.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:5

Ahaz and the people of Judah sinned and turned away from the LORD, the God their ancestors had worshipped. So the LORD punished them by letting their enemies defeat them. The king of Syria attacked Judah and took many of its people to Damascus as prisoners. King Pekah of Israel later defeated Judah and killed one hundred and twenty thousand of its bravest soldiers in one day.

Psalm 107:34

flowing streams into scorched land, and fruitful fields into beds of salt.

Psalm 107:39

Sometimes you may be crushed by troubles and sorrows, until only a few of you are left to survive.

Psalm 109:11

“Let the people he owes take everything he owns. Give it all to strangers.

Isaiah 1:8

Enemies surround Jerusalem, alone like a hut in a vineyard or in a cucumber field.

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem and Judah, you rebelled against your glorious LORD— your words and your actions, made you stumble and fall.

Isaiah 34:9

Edom's streams will turn into tar and its soil into sulphur— then the whole country will go up in flames.

Isaiah 49:19

Jerusalem is now in ruins! Nothing is left of the city. But it will be rebuilt and soon overcrowded; its cruel enemies will be gone far away.

Isaiah 5:17

His people will be like sheep grazing in their own pasture, and they will take off what was left by others.

Isaiah 5:9

But the LORD All-Powerful has made this promise to me: Those large and beautiful homes will be left empty, with no one to take care of them.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I asked the LORD, “How long will this last?” The LORD answered: Until their towns are destroyed and their houses are deserted, until their fields are empty,

Isaiah 60:15

You were hated and deserted, rejected by everyone. But I will make you beautiful, a city to be proud of for all time to come.

Isaiah 62:8

The LORD has given his word and made this promise: “Never again will I give to your enemies the grain and grapes for which you struggled.

Isaiah 64:10

Every one of your towns has turned into a desert, especially Jerusalem.

Isaiah 9:18

Evil had spread like a raging forest fire sending thorn bushes up in smoke.

Isaiah 9:5

The boots of marching warriors and the blood-stained uniforms have been fed to flames and eaten by fire.

Jeremiah 2:15

Enemies roared like lions and destroyed your land; towns lie burnt and empty.

Jeremiah 4:7

An army will come out, like a lion from its den. It will destroy nations and leave your towns empty and in ruins.”

Jeremiah 44:6

Finally, my anger struck like a raging flood, and today Jerusalem and the towns of Judah are nothing but empty ruins.

Jeremiah 6:8

Listen to me, you people of Jerusalem and Judah. I will abandon you, and your land will become an empty desert.

Jeremiah 7:34

When I have finished with your land, there will be deathly silence in the empty ruins of Jerusalem and the towns of Judah—no happy voices, no sounds of parties or wedding celebrations.

Lamentations 5:2

Foreigners and strangers have taken our land and our homes.

Ezekiel 25:4

Now I am going to let you be conquered by tribes from the eastern desert. They will set up their camps in your land and eat your fruit and drink your milk.

Ezekiel 30:12

I will dry up the River Nile, then sell the land to evil buyers. I will send foreigners to turn your entire nation into a barren desert. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Hosea 7:9

They don't seem to realize how weak and feeble they are; their hair has turned grey, while foreigners rule.

Hosea 8:7

If you scatter wind instead of wheat, you will harvest a whirlwind and have no wheat. Even if you harvest grain, enemies will steal it all.

Leviticus 26:33

After I destroy your towns and ruin your land with war, I'll scatter you among the nations.

Leviticus 26:34

While you are prisoners in foreign lands, your own land will enjoy years of rest and refreshment, as it should have done each seventh year when you lived there.

Micah 5:11

as well as your cities and your fortresses.

Micah 6:13

Because of your sins, I will wound you and leave you ruined and defenceless.

Deuteronomy 28:33

You will work hard on your farms, but everything you harvest will be eaten by foreigners, who will ill-treat you and abuse you for the rest of your life.

Deuteronomy 28:43

Foreigners in your towns will become wealthy and powerful, while you become poor and powerless.

Deuteronomy 29:23

has become a scorching desert of salt and sulphur, where nothing is planted, nothing sprouts, and nothing grows. It will be as lifeless as the land around the cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, after the LORD became angry and destroyed them.