Isaiah 1:7

New American Bible - revised edition

Your country is waste, your cities burnt with fire; Your land—before your eyes strangers devour it, a waste, like the devastation of Sodom.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:5

Therefore the Lord, his God, delivered him into the power of the king of Aram. The Arameans defeated him and carried away captive a large number of his people, whom they brought to Damascus. He was also delivered into the power of the king of Israel, who defeated him with great slaughter.

Psalm 107:34

Fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its people.

Psalm 107:39

But he poured out contempt on princes, made them wander trackless wastes,

Psalm 109:11

May the usurer snare all he owns, strangers plunder all he earns.

Isaiah 1:8

And daughter Zion is left like a hut in a vineyard, Like a shed in a melon patch, like a city blockaded.

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem has stumbled, Judah has fallen; for their speech and deeds affront the Lord, a provocation in the sight of his majesty.

Isaiah 34:9

Edom’s streams shall be changed into pitch, its soil into sulfur, and its land shall become burning pitch;

Isaiah 49:19

Though you were waste and desolate, a land of ruins, Now you shall be too narrow for your inhabitants, while those who swallowed you up will be far away.

Isaiah 5:17

Lambs shall graze as at pasture, young goats shall eat in the ruins of the rich.

Isaiah 5:9

In my hearing the Lord of hosts has sworn: Many houses shall be in ruins, houses large and fine, with nobody living there.

Isaiah 6:11

“How long, O Lord?” I asked. And he replied: Until the cities are desolate, without inhabitants, Houses, without people, and the land is a desolate waste.

Isaiah 60:15

No longer forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, Now I will make you the pride of the ages, a joy from generation to generation.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: No more will I give your grain as food to your enemies; Nor shall foreigners drink the wine, for which you toiled.

Isaiah 64:10

Our holy and glorious house in which our ancestors praised you Has been burned with fire; all that was dear to us is laid waste.

Isaiah 9:18

At the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land quakes, and the people are like fuel for fire; no one spares his brother.

Isaiah 9:5

For a child is born to us, a son is given to us; upon his shoulder dominion rests. They name him Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero, Father-Forever, Prince of Peace.

Jeremiah 2:15

Against him lions roar, they raise their voices. They have turned his land into a waste; his cities are charred ruins, without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 4:7

Up comes the lion from its lair, the destroyer of nations has set out, has left its place, To turn your land into a desolation, your cities into an uninhabited waste.

Jeremiah 44:6

Therefore the fury of my anger poured forth and kindled fire in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, to turn them into the ruined wasteland they are today.

Jeremiah 6:8

Be warned, Jerusalem, or I will be estranged from you, And I will turn you into a wilderness, a land where no one dwells.

Jeremiah 7:34

I will silence the cry of joy, the cry of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for the land will be turned to rubble.

Lamentations 5:2

Our heritage is turned over to strangers, our homes, to foreigners.

Ezekiel 25:4

therefore I am giving you to people from the east as a possession. They shall set up their encampments among you and pitch their tents in your midst; they shall eat your produce and drink your milk.

Ezekiel 30:12

Then I will dry up the streams of the Nile, and sell the land into evil hands; By the hand of foreigners I will devastate the land and everything in it. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Hosea 7:9

Strangers have consumed his strength, but he does not know it; Gray hairs are strewn on his head, but he takes no notice of it.

Hosea 8:7

When they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind; The stalk of grain that forms no head can yield no flour; Even if it could, strangers would swallow it.

Leviticus 26:33

And you I will scatter among the nations at the point of my drawn sword, leaving your countryside desolate and your cities deserted.

Leviticus 26:34

Then shall the land, during the time it lies waste, make up its lost sabbaths, while you are in the land of your enemies; then shall the land have rest and make up for its sabbaths

Micah 5:11

I will destroy the sorcery you practice, and there shall no longer be soothsayers among you.

Micah 6:13

I have begun to strike you with devastation because of your sins.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people you do not know will consume the fruit of your soil and of all your labor, and you will be thoroughly oppressed and continually crushed,

Deuteronomy 28:43

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

Deuteronomy 29:23

they and all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord dealt thus with this land? Why this great outburst of wrath?”