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Isaiah 6:11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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,

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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.


Then her gates  will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.


I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.


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


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


I will make a human scarcer than fine gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.


For the palace will be deserted, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become barren places for ever, the joy of wild donkeys, and a pasture for flocks,


The wilderness and the dry land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a wildflower.  ,


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.


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


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.


For this is what the Lord says concerning the house of the king of Judah: ‘You are like Gilead  to me, or the summit of Lebanon, but I will certainly turn you into a wilderness, uninhabited cities.


‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought against Jerusalem and all Judah’s cities. Look, they are a ruin today without an inhabitant in them


The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.


Wherever you live the cities will be in ruins and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will lie in ruins and be desecrated,  your idols smashed and obliterated, your shrines cut down, and what you have made wiped out.


Then I heard a holy one speaking,  and another holy one said to the speaker, ‘How long will the events of this vision last   #– #the regular sacrifice, the rebellion that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and of the army to be trampled? ’


In that day one will take up  a taunt against you and lament mournfully,   saying, ‘We are totally ruined! He measures out the allotted land of my people. How he removes it from me! He allots our fields  to traitors.’


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


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


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.


Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God.


Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so he will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be ripped out of the land you are entering to possess.


Then the earth will become a wasteland because of its inhabitants and as a result of their actions.





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