Isaiah 1:8

New Living Translation

Beautiful Jerusalem stands abandoned like a watchman’s shelter in a vineyard, like a lean-to in a cucumber field after the harvest, like a helpless city under siege.

Cross References

Job 27:18

The wicked build houses as fragile as a spider’s web, as flimsy as a shelter made of branches.

Psalm 9:14

Save me so I can praise you publicly at Jerusalem’s gates, so I can rejoice that you have rescued me.

Isaiah 1:7

Your country lies in ruins, and your towns are burned. Foreigners plunder your fields before your eyes and destroy everything they see.

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord of Heaven’s Armies had not spared a few of us, we would have been wiped out like Sodom, destroyed like Gomorrah.

Isaiah 10:32

The enemy stops at Nob for the rest of that day. He shakes his fist at beautiful Mount Zion, the mountain of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 29:3

I will be your enemy, surrounding Jerusalem and attacking its walls. I will build siege towers and destroy it.

Isaiah 30:17

One of them will chase a thousand of you. Five of them will make all of you flee. You will be left like a lonely flagpole on a hill or a tattered banner on a distant mountaintop.”

Isaiah 37:22

the Lord has spoken this word against him: “The virgin daughter of Zion despises you and laughs at you. The daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head in derision as you flee.

Isaiah 37:4

But perhaps the Lord your God has heard the Assyrian chief of staff, sent by the king to defy the living God, and will punish him for his words. Oh, pray for those of us who are left!”

Isaiah 4:4

The Lord will wash the filth from beautiful Zion and cleanse Jerusalem of its bloodstains with the hot breath of fiery judgment.

Isaiah 49:21

Then you will think to yourself, ‘Who has given me all these descendants? For most of my children were killed, and the rest were carried away into exile. I was left here all alone. Where did all these people come from? Who bore these children? Who raised them for me?’”

Isaiah 62:11

The Lord has sent this message to every land: “Tell the people of Israel, ‘Look, your Savior is coming. See, he brings his reward with him as he comes.’”

Isaiah 8:8

and sweep into Judah until it is chin deep. It will spread its wings, submerging your land from one end to the other, O Immanuel.

Jeremiah 4:17

They surround Jerusalem like watchmen around a field, for my people have rebelled against me,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 6:2

O Jerusalem, you are my beautiful and delicate daughter— but I will destroy you!

Lamentations 2:1

The Lord in his anger has cast a dark shadow over beautiful Jerusalem. The fairest of Israel’s cities lies in the dust, thrown down from the heights of heaven. In his day of great anger, the Lord has shown no mercy even to his Temple.

Lamentations 2:6

He has broken down his Temple as though it were merely a garden shelter. The Lord has blotted out all memory of the holy festivals and Sabbath days. Kings and priests fall together before his fierce anger.

Zechariah 2:10

The Lord says, “Shout and rejoice, O beautiful Jerusalem, for I am coming to live among you.

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice, O people of Zion! Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem! Look, your king is coming to you. He is righteous and victorious, yet he is humble, riding on a donkey— riding on a donkey’s colt.

John 12:15

“Don’t be afraid, people of Jerusalem. Look, your King is coming, riding on a donkey’s colt.”