Isaiah 27:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Fortress cities are left like a desert where no one lives. Cattle walk through the ruins, stripping the trees bare.

Cross References

Isaiah 17:2

The villages around Aroer will be deserted, with only sheep living there and no one to bother them.

Isaiah 17:9

Israel captured powerful cities and chased out the people who lived there. But these cities will lie in ruins, covered over with weeds and undergrowth.

Isaiah 24:10

Towns are crushed and in chaos; houses are locked tight.

Isaiah 25:2

You have destroyed the fortress of our enemies, leaving their city in ruins. Nothing in that foreign city will ever be rebuilt.

Isaiah 32:19

even if hailstones flatten forests and cities.

Isaiah 35:1

Thirsty deserts will be glad; barren lands will celebrate and blossom with flowers.

Isaiah 49:21

and Jerusalem will ask, “Am I really their mother? How could I have given birth when I was still mourning in a foreign land? Who raised these children? Where have they come from?”

Isaiah 64:10

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

Isaiah 7:21

No one will have more than one young cow and two sheep,

Isaiah 7:25

The hills where you once planted crops will be overgrown with thorns and thistles. You will be afraid to go there, and your cattle, sheep, and goats will be turned loose on those hills.

Jeremiah 26:18

years ago when Hezekiah was king of Judah, a prophet named Micah from the town of Moresheth had said: “I, the LORD All-Powerful, say Jerusalem will be ploughed under and left in ruins. Thorns will cover the mountain where the temple now stands.”

Jeremiah 26:6

I will destroy this temple, just as I destroyed the town of Shiloh. Then everyone on earth will use the name “Jerusalem” as a curse word.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels there to celebrate the festivals. The city gates are deserted; priests are weeping. Young women are raped; Zion is in sorrow!

Lamentations 5:18

our city is in ruins, overrun by wild dogs.

Ezekiel 36:4

So all you mountains and hills, streams and valleys, listen to what I will do. Your towns may now lie in ruins, and nations may laugh and insult you.

Micah 3:12

And so, because of you, Jerusalem will be ploughed under and left in ruins. Thorns will cover the mountain where the temple now stands.