Isaiah 27:10

New Century Version

At that time the strong, walled city will be empty like a desert. Calves will eat grass there. They will lie down there and eat leaves from the branches.

Cross References

Isaiah 17:2

People will leave the cities of Aroer. Flocks will wander freely in those empty towns, and there will be no one to bother them.

Isaiah 17:9

In that day all their strong cities will be empty. They will be like the cities the Hivites and the Amorites left when the Israelites came to take the land. Everything will be ruined.

Isaiah 24:10

The ruined city will be empty, and people will hide behind closed doors.

Isaiah 25:2

You have made the city a pile of rocks and have destroyed her walls. The city our enemies built with strong walls is gone; it will never be built again.

Isaiah 32:19

Hail will destroy the forest, and the city will be completely destroyed.

Isaiah 35:1

The desert and dry land will become happy; the desert will be glad and will produce flowers. Like a flower,

Isaiah 49:21

Then you will say to yourself, ‘Who gave me all these children? I was sad and lonely, defeated and separated from my people. So who reared these children? I was left all alone. Where did all these children come from?’ ”

Isaiah 64:10

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

Isaiah 7:21

“At that time a person will be able to keep only one young cow and two sheep alive.

Isaiah 7:25

People once worked and grew food on these hills, but at that time people will not go there, because the land will be filled with weeds and thorns. Only sheep and cattle will go to those places.”

Jeremiah 25:37

Those peaceful pastures will be like an empty desert, because the Lord is very angry.

Jeremiah 26:18

“Micah, from the city of Moresheth, was a prophet during the time Hezekiah was king of Judah. Micah said to all the people of Judah, ‘This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: Jerusalem will be plowed like a field. It will become a pile of rocks, and the hill where the Temple stands will be covered with bushes.’

Jeremiah 26:6

If you don’t obey me, I will destroy my Temple in Jerusalem as I destroyed my Holy Tent at Shiloh. When I do, people all over the world will curse Jerusalem.’ ”

Jeremiah 52:27

There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them killed. So the people of Judah were led away from their country as captives.

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Jerusalem are sad, because no one comes for the feasts. No one passes through her gates. Her priests groan, her young women are suffering, and Jerusalem suffers terribly.

Lamentations 5:18

Mount Zion is empty, and wild dogs wander around it.

Ezekiel 36:4

So, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. The Lord God speaks to the mountains, hills, ravines, and valleys, to the empty ruins and abandoned cities that have been robbed and laughed at by the other nations.

Micah 3:12

Because of you, Jerusalem will be plowed like a field. The city will become a pile of rocks, and the hill on which the Temple stands will be covered with bushes.