Isaiah 6:11

Modern English Version

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,

Cross References

Isaiah 1:7

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.

Psalm 94:3

O  Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

Isaiah 3:26

Her gates shall lament and mourn, and she, being desolate, shall sit on the ground.

Psalm 90:13

Return, O  Lord! How long? Have compassion on Your servants!

Leviticus 26:31

I will make your cities a waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the aroma of your fragrant offerings.

Psalm 79:5

How long, O  Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Psalm 74:10

O God, how long will the adversary revile? Will the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?

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 5:9

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

Isaiah 13:12

I will make a man more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the golden wedge of Ophir.

Isaiah 32:14

because the palaces have been forsaken, the populated city is forsaken. The forts and towers shall be caves forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks,

Isaiah 35:1

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose;

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 64:10

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

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 22:6

For thus says the Lord to the king’s house of Judah: You are Gilead to Me, and the peak of Lebanon; yet surely I will make you a wilderness and cities which are not inhabited.

Jeremiah 44:2

Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the calamity that I have brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwells in them,

Jeremiah 52:27

The king of Babylon struck them and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of its own land.

Ezekiel 6:6

In all your dwelling places, the cities shall be laid waste and the high places shall be desolate so that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

Daniel 8:13

Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said to that certain saint which spoke, “How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice and the transgression of desolation, the giving of both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden underfoot?”

Micah 2:4

In that day they will take up a taunt against you, and they will wail a wailing lament, and say: “We are totally ruined! He diminishes the portion of my people; how He removes it from me! To a traitor He reassigns our fields!”

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.

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.

Deuteronomy 28:62

You will be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:63

It will be that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so the Lord will take pleasure over you to destroy you and to bring you to nothing. You will be plucked from off the land which you go to possess.

Micah 7:13

The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, from the fruit of their deeds.