Isaiah 1:7

New Century Version

Your land is ruined; your cities have been burned with fire. While you watch, your enemies are stealing everything from your land; it is ruined like a country destroyed by enemies.

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 who live among you will get stronger and stronger, and you will get weaker and weaker.

Deuteronomy 28:33

People you don’t know will eat the crops your land and hard work have produced. You will be mistreated and abused all your life.

Hosea 7:9

Foreign nations have eaten up his strength, but he doesn’t know it. Israel is weak and feeble, like an old man, but he doesn’t know it.

Ezekiel 30:12

I will make the streams of the Nile River become dry land, and then I will sell the land to evil people. I will destroy the land and everything in it through the power of foreigners. I, the Lord, have spoken.

2 Chronicles 28:5

So the Lord his God handed over Ahaz to the king of Aram. The Arameans defeated Ahaz and took many people of Judah as prisoners to Damascus. He also handed over Ahaz to Pekah king of Israel, and Pekah’s army killed many soldiers of Ahaz.

Hosea 8:7

“Israel’s foolish plans are like planting the wind, but they will harvest a storm. Like a stalk with no head of grain, it produces nothing. Even if it produced something, other nations would eat it.

Jeremiah 6:8

Listen to this warning, Jerusalem, or I will turn my back on you and make your land an empty desert where no one can live.”

Jeremiah 2:15

Enemies have roared like lions at Israel; they have growled at Israel. They have destroyed the land of Israel. The cities of Israel lie in ruins, and all the people have left.

Isaiah 34:9

Edom’s rivers will be like hot tar. Its dirt will be like burning sulfur. Its land will be like burning tar.

Isaiah 9:5

Every boot that marched in battle and every uniform stained with blood has been thrown into the fire.

Isaiah 6:11

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

Isaiah 5:17

Then the sheep will go anywhere they want, and lambs will feed on the land that rich people once owned.

Isaiah 5:9

The Lord All-Powerful said this to me: “The fine houses will be destroyed; the large and beautiful houses will be left empty.

Psalm 107:39

Because of disaster, troubles, and sadness, their families grew smaller and weaker.

Psalm 107:34

He made fertile land salty, because the people there did evil.

Leviticus 26:34

When you are taken to your enemy’s country, your land will finally get its rest. It will enjoy its time of rest all the time it lies empty.

Leviticus 26:33

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

Deuteronomy 29:23

“The land is nothing but burning cinders and salt. Nothing is planted, nothing grows, and nothing blooms. It is like Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed because he was very angry.”

Psalm 109:11

Let the people to whom he owes money take everything he owns, and let strangers steal everything he has worked for.

Isaiah 1:8

Jerusalem is left alone like an empty shelter in a vineyard, like a hut left in a field of melons, like a city surrounded by enemies.

Isaiah 3:8

This will happen because Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen. The things they say and do are against the Lord; they turn against him.

Isaiah 9:18

Evil is like a small fire. First, it burns weeds and thorns. Next, it burns the larger bushes in the forest, and they all go up in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 49:19

“You were destroyed and defeated, and your land was made useless. But now you will have more people than the land can hold, and those people who destroyed you will be far away.

Isaiah 60:15

“You have been hated and left empty with no one passing through. But I will make you great from now on; you will be a place of happiness forever and ever.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord has made a promise, and by his power he will keep his promise. He said, “I will never again give your grain as food to your enemies. I will not let your enemies drink the new wine that you have worked to make.

Isaiah 64:10

Your holy cities are empty like the desert. Jerusalem is like a desert; it is destroyed.

Jeremiah 4:7

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

Jeremiah 7:34

I will end the happy sounds of the bride and bridegroom. There will be no happy sounds in the cities of Judah or in the streets of Jerusalem, because the land will become an empty desert!

Jeremiah 44:6

So I showed my great anger against them. I poured out my anger in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem so they are only ruins and piles of stones today.

Ezekiel 25:4

So I am going to give you to the people of the East to be theirs. They will set up their camps among you and make their homes among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

Micah 5:11

I will destroy the cities in your country and tear down all your defenses.

Micah 6:13

As for me, I will make you sick. I will attack you, ruining you because of your sins.