Isaiah 1:7

New English Translation

Your land is devastated, your cities burned with fire. Right before your eyes your crops are being destroyed by foreign invaders. They leave behind devastation and destruction.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:5

The Lord his God handed him over to the king of Syria. The Syrians defeated him and deported many captives to Damascus. He was also handed over to the king of Israel, who thoroughly defeated him.

Psalm 107:34

and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

Psalm 107:39

As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering.

Psalm 109:11

May the creditor seize all he owns! May strangers loot his property!

Isaiah 1:8

Daughter Zion is left isolated, like a hut in a vineyard, or a shelter in a cucumber field; she is a besieged city.

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem certainly stumbles, Judah falls, for their words and their actions offend the Lord; they rebel against his royal authority.

Isaiah 34:9

Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.

Isaiah 49:19

Yes, your land lies in ruins; it is desolate and devastated. But now you will be too small to hold your residents, and those who devoured you will be far away.

Isaiah 5:17

Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.

Isaiah 5:9

The Lord who commands armies told me this: “Many houses will certainly become desolate, large, impressive houses will have no one living in them.

Isaiah 6:11

I replied, “How long, sovereign master?” He said, “Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated, and houses are uninhabited, and the land is ruined and devastated,

Isaiah 60:15

You were once abandoned and despised, with no one passing through, but I will make you a permanent source of pride and joy to coming generations.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord swears an oath by his right hand, by his strong arm: “I will never again give your grain to your enemies as food, and foreigners will not drink your wine, which you worked hard to produce.

Isaiah 64:10

Your chosen cities have become a desert; Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.

Isaiah 9:18

For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke.

Isaiah 9:5

Indeed every boot that marches and shakes the earth and every garment dragged through blood is used as fuel for the fire.

Jeremiah 2:15

Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him; they raise their voices in triumph. They have laid his land waste; his cities have been burned down and deserted.

Jeremiah 4:7

Like a lion that has come up from its lair the one who destroys nations has set out from his home base. He is coming out to lay your land waste. Your cities will become ruins and lie uninhabited.

Jeremiah 44:6

So my anger and my wrath were poured out and burned like a fire through the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. That is why they have become the desolate ruins that they are today.’

Jeremiah 6:8

So take warning, Jerusalem, or I will abandon you in disgust and make you desolate, a place where no one can live.”

Jeremiah 7:34

I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, or the glad celebration of brides and grooms throughout the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. For the whole land will become a desolate wasteland.”

Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.

Ezekiel 25:4

So take note, I am about to make you slaves of the tribes of the east. They will make camps among you and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

Ezekiel 30:12

I will dry up the waterways and hand the land over to evil men. I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners. I, the Lord, have spoken!

Hosea 7:9

Foreigners are consuming what his strenuous labor produced, but he does not recognize it! His head is filled with gray hair, but he does not realize it!

Hosea 8:7

They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

Leviticus 26:33

I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

Leviticus 26:34

“‘Then the land will make up for its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and make up its Sabbaths.

Micah 5:11

I will destroy the cities of your land, and tear down all your fortresses.

Micah 6:13

I will strike you brutally and destroy you because of your sin.

Deuteronomy 28:33

As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

Deuteronomy 28:43

The foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 29:23

The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger.