Isaiah 1:7

Modern English Version

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; strangers devour your land in your presence; and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:5

So the Lord his God gave him into the hand of the king of Aram. They struck Ahaz and took captive many prisoners and brought them to Damascus. He was even given into the hand of the king of Israel, and he attacked Ahaz with a great slaughter.

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land into barrenness, because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein.

Psalm 107:39

When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow,

Psalm 109:11

Let the creditor seize all that he has, and let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

Isaiah 1:8

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their tongue and their deeds are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of His glory.

Isaiah 34:9

Its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.

Isaiah 49:19

For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.

Isaiah 5:17

Then the lambs shall feed in their pasture, and strangers shall eat in the waste places of the wealthy.

Isaiah 5:9

In my ears the Lord of Hosts said: Truly, many houses shall be desolate, even great and beautiful, without inhabitants.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered: “Until the cities are laid waste without inhabitants, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate,

Isaiah 60:15

Whereas you have been forsaken and hated so that no man went through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord has sworn by His right hand and by His strong arm: Surely I will no longer give your grain as food for your enemies; and the sons of the foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored.

Isaiah 64:10

Your holy cities are a wilderness; Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns as a fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall ignite in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like rising smoke.

Isaiah 9:5

For all the sandals of the tramping warriors and all the garments rolled in blood shall be burned as fuel for the fire.

Jeremiah 2:15

The young lions roared at him and roared loudly, and they made his land a waste; his cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 4:7

The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way. He has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate. And your cities shall be laid waste without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 44:6

Therefore My fury and My anger was poured out and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are ruined and desolate, as it is this day.

Jeremiah 6:8

Be instructed, O Jerusalem, lest My soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land not inhabited.

Jeremiah 7:34

Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of laughter and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become desolate.

Lamentations 5:2

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

Ezekiel 25:4

therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the men of the East for a possession, and they shall set their camps among you and make their dwellings among you. They shall eat your fruit and drink your milk.

Ezekiel 30:12

I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked; and I will make the land waste and all that is in it, by the hand of strangers. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Hosea 7:9

Foreigners devour his strength, but he does not know it. Gray hairs are here and there upon him, but he does not know it.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no head and will yield no flour. If it were to yield, foreigners would swallow it up.

Leviticus 26:33

I will scatter you among the nations and I will draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be desolate and your cities a waste.

Leviticus 26:34

Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

Micah 5:11

Then I will cut off the cities of your land, and I will overthrow your strongholds;

Micah 6:13

Therefore, I have struck you a dreadful blow, devastating you because of your sins.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A nation that you do not know will consume the produce of your land and all your labors, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed all the time.

Deuteronomy 28:43

The foreigner who resides with you will get up higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 29:23

“The whole land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and wrath.”