Isaiah 1:7

New International Version

Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.

Cross References

Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

Deuteronomy 28:43

The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days.

Hosea 7:9

Foreigners sap his strength, but he does not realize it. His hair is sprinkled with gray, but he does not notice.

Ezekiel 30:12

I will dry up the waters of the Nile and sell the land to an evil nation; by the hand of foreigners I will lay waste the land and everything in it. I the Lord have spoken.

2 Chronicles 28:5

Therefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hands of the king of Aram. The Arameans defeated him and took many of his people as prisoners and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hands of the king of Israel, who inflicted heavy casualties on him.

Hosea 8:7

“They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.

Jeremiah 6:8

Take warning, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you and make your land desolate so no one can live in it.”

Jeremiah 2:15

Lions have roared; they have growled at him. They have laid waste his land; his towns are burned and deserted.

Isaiah 34:9

Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning sulfur; her land will become blazing pitch!

Isaiah 9:5

Every warrior’s boot used in battle and every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning, will be fuel for the fire.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “For how long, Lord?” And he answered: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged,

Isaiah 5:17

Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture; lambs will feed among the ruins of the rich.

Isaiah 5:9

The Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing: “Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants.

Psalm 107:39

Then their numbers decreased, and they were humbled by oppression, calamity and sorrow;

Psalm 107:34

and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

Leviticus 26:34

Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

Leviticus 26:33

I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.

Deuteronomy 29:23

The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger.

Psalm 109:11

May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

Isaiah 1:8

Daughter Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under siege.

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling; their words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.

Isaiah 9:18

Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 49:19

“Though you were ruined and made desolate and your land laid waste, now you will be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

Isaiah 60:15

“Although you have been forsaken and hated, with no one traveling through, I will make you the everlasting pride and the joy of all generations.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain as food for your enemies, and never again will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled;

Isaiah 64:10

Your sacred cities have become a wasteland; even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion has come out of his lair; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his place to lay waste your land. Your towns will lie in ruins without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 7:34

I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.

Jeremiah 44:6

Therefore, my fierce anger was poured out; it raged against the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem and made them the desolate ruins they are today.

Ezekiel 25:4

therefore I am going to give you to the people of the East as a possession. They will set up their camps and pitch their tents among you; they will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

Micah 5:11

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

Micah 6:13

Therefore, I have begun to destroy you, to ruin you because of your sins.