Isaiah 1:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Your land is desolate, your cities burned down; foreigners devour your fields right in front of you – a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.

Cross References

Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

Deuteronomy 28:43

The resident foreigner among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have laboured for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually.

Hosea 7:9

Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with grey, but he does not notice.

Ezekiel 30:12

I will make the streams dry and sell the land to evil men. I will bring desolation on the land and everything in it by the hands of foreigners. I, the Lord, have spoken.

2 Chronicles 28:5

So the Lord his God handed Ahaz over  to the king of Aram. He attacked him and took many captives to Damascus. Ahaz was also handed over to the king of Israel, who struck him with great force:

Hosea 8:7

Indeed, they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. There is no standing corn; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it did, foreigners would swallow it up.

Jeremiah 6:8

Be warned, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitants.

Jeremiah 2:15

The young lions have roared at him; they have roared loudly. They have laid waste his land. His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.

Isaiah 34:9

Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch, her soil into sulphur; her land will become burning pitch.

Isaiah 9:5

For every trampling boot of battle and the bloodied garments of war will be burned as fuel for the fire.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, ‘Until when, Lord? ’  And he replied: Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants, houses are without people, the land is ruined and desolate,

Isaiah 5:17

Lambs will graze as if in  their own pastures, and resident foreigners  will eat among the ruins of the rich.

Isaiah 5:9

I heard the Lord of Armies say: Indeed, many houses  will become desolate, grand and lovely ones without inhabitants.

Leviticus 26:34

‘Then the land will make up for its Sabbath years during the time it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and make up for its Sabbaths.

Leviticus 26:33

But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.

Deuteronomy 29:23

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulphur and salt, unsown, producing nothing, with no plant growing on it, just like the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord demolished in his fierce anger.

Isaiah 1:8

Daughter Zion  is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they have spoken and acted against the  Lord, defying his glorious presence.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes thorns and briars and kindles the forest thickets so that they go up in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 49:19

For your waste and desolate places and your land marked by ruins will now be indeed too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

Isaiah 60:15

Instead of your being deserted and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you an object of eternal pride, a joy from age to age.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord has sworn with his right hand and his strong arm: I will no longer give your grain to your enemies for food, and foreigners will not drink the new wine for which you have laboured.

Isaiah 64:10

Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has gone up from his thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to make your land a waste. Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.

Jeremiah 7:34

I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sound of joy and gladness and the voices of the groom and the bride,  for the land will become a desolate waste.

Jeremiah 44:6

So my fierce wrath poured out and burned in Judah’s cities and Jerusalem’s streets  so that they became the desolate ruin they are today.

Ezekiel 25:4

therefore I am about to give you to the people of the east as a possession. They will set up their encampments and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

Micah 5:11

I will remove the cities of your land and tear down all your fortresses.

Micah 6:13

‘As a result, I have begun to strike you severely,  , bringing desolation because of your sins.