Isaiah 1:7

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Your land is in ruins, and your cities are in flames. Your enemies have taken your land, and foreigners are taking what it produces. It looks like some foreigners destroyed it.

Cross References

Lamentations 5:2

Our land has been turned over to strangers. Our houses have been given to foreigners.

Deuteronomy 28:43

The foreigners living among you will get more and more power, and you will lose the power you had.

Deuteronomy 28:33

“A nation that you don’t know will take all your crops and everything you worked for. People will treat you badly and abuse you.

Hosea 7:9

Strangers destroy Ephraim’s strength, but Ephraim does not know it. Gray hairs are also sprinkled on Ephraim, but Ephraim does not know it.

Ezekiel 30:12

I will make the Nile River become dry land. Then I will sell the dry land to evil people. I will use strangers to make that land empty. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

2 Chronicles 28:5

Because Ahaz did these things, the Lord his God let the king of Aram defeat him. The king and his army defeated Ahaz and took many people of Judah as prisoners to the city of Damascus. Ahaz also suffered a terrible defeat by the king of Israel, Pekah son of Remaliah. Pekah and his army killed 120,000 of the bravest soldiers in Judah in one day. All this happened because the people of Judah had turned away from the Lord, the God their ancestors worshiped.

Hosea 8:7

The Israelites did a foolish thing—it was like trying to plant the wind. But they will get only troubles—they will harvest a whirlwind. The grain in the fields will grow, but it will give no food. Even if it grew something, strangers would eat it.

Jeremiah 6:8

Listen to this warning, Jerusalem, or I will turn my back on you. I will make your land an empty desert. No one will be able to live there.”

Jeremiah 2:15

Like a lion the enemy has roared at Israel. They have destroyed your land. Your cities have been burned, and no one is left in them.

Isaiah 34:9

Edom’s rivers will be like hot tar. Edom’s ground will be like burning sulfur.

Isaiah 9:5

Every boot that marched in battle and every uniform stained with blood will be destroyed and thrown into the fire.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I asked, “Lord, how long should I do this?” He answered, “Do this until the cities are destroyed and all the people are gone. Do this until there is no one left living in the houses and the land is destroyed and empty.”

Isaiah 5:17

Then sheep will be able to go wherever they want and graze on the land that rich people once owned.

Isaiah 5:9

I heard the Lord All-Powerful make this oath: “I swear, all these houses will be destroyed. These big, fancy houses will be empty.

Psalm 107:39

But because of disaster and troubles, their families became small and weak.

Psalm 107:34

He made the fertile land become salty, because the people living there did such evil things.

Leviticus 26:34

“You will be taken to your enemy’s country. Your country will be empty. So your land will finally get its rest. The land will enjoy its time of rest.

Leviticus 26:33

I will scatter you among the nations. I will pull out my sword and destroy you. Your land will become empty, and your cities will be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 29:23

All the land will be useless—destroyed by burning sulfur and covered with salt. The land will have nothing planted in it. Nothing will be growing—not even weeds. The land will be destroyed like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, the cities the Lord destroyed when he was very angry.

Psalm 109:11

Let the people he owes take everything he owns. Let strangers get everything he worked for.

Isaiah 1:8

The city of Jerusalem is now like an empty shed left in a vineyard. It is like an old straw hut abandoned in a field of cucumbers or like a city surrounded by enemies.

Isaiah 3:8

This will happen because Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen. They turned against the Lord. They said and did things against him, right in front of his glorious eyes.

Isaiah 9:18

That evil was like a small fire that started among the weeds and thorns and then spread to the larger bushes in the forest. Finally, it became a giant fire, and everything went up in smoke.

Isaiah 49:19

“You are destroyed and defeated now. Your land is useless. But after a short time, you will have many people in your land. And those who destroyed you will be far, far away.

Isaiah 60:15

“People hated you. You were left all alone with no one passing through. But I will make you great from now on. You will be happy forever and ever.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord made a promise and guaranteed it by his own power. And he will use that power to keep his promise. The Lord said, “I promise that I will never again give your food to your enemies. I promise that they will never again take the wine you make.

Isaiah 64:10

Your holy cities are as empty as the desert. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is destroyed.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has come out of his cave. A destroyer of nations has begun to march. He has left his home to destroy your land. Your towns will be destroyed. There will be no one left to live in them.

Jeremiah 7:34

I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and happiness in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. There will be no more sounds of the bride and bridegroom in Judah or Jerusalem. The land will become an empty desert.”

Jeremiah 44:6

So I showed my anger against them. I punished the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. My anger made Jerusalem and the towns of Judah the empty piles of stone they are today.’

Ezekiel 25:4

So I will give you to the people from the east. They will get your land. Their armies will set up their camps in your country and will live among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

Micah 5:11

I will destroy the cities in your country. I will pull down all your fortresses.

Micah 6:13

So I have begun to punish you. I will destroy you because of your sins.