Isaiah 1:7

The Passion Translation

Your country is devastated and your cities burned to the ground; foreigners plunder your crops before your eyes— with nothing but devastation and destruction in their wake!

Cross References

Psalm 107:34

Or he can take a fruitful land and make it into a saltwater swamp, all because of the wickedness of those who dwell there.

Psalm 107:39

But others will become poor, humbled because of their oppression, tyranny, and sorrows.

Psalm 109:11

Let the creditors seize his entire estate, and strangers, like vultures, take all that’s left!

Isaiah 1:8

And the daughter of Zion is left as helpless as a deserted shack in a vineyard or a flimsy shelter in a field of cucumbers— in every way like a city besieged!

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because their words and their works are defiant before the face of the Lord’s glorious presence.

Isaiah 34:9

Edom’s streams will be turned to pitch and its soil to sulfur; her land will become blazing pitch.

Isaiah 49:19

“See? Your ruins and devastated places will soon be overcrowded with settlers while your destroyers stay far away.

Isaiah 5:17

Then lambs will graze, as if in their own pastures, and the refugee will eat in the ruins of the rich.

Isaiah 5:9

This is what Yahweh, the Commander of Angel Armies, said in my ears: “Truly, many of your houses will become devastated and your large, impressive mansions will have no one living in them!

Isaiah 6:11

Then I asked, “O Lord, for how long?” He answered, “Until their houses and cities are destroyed and uninhabited and their land a desolate wasteland.

Isaiah 60:15

“Although once you were rejected and despised, undesirable for anyone to pass through you, I will make you majestic forever, a source of joy for every generation.

Isaiah 62:8

Yahweh swears an oath by the authority of his right hand and by his mighty arm: “I will never again give your new grain as food for your enemies, nor will foreigners drink your new wine that you worked hard to produce.

Isaiah 64:10

Your sacred cities are abandoned like a desert; Zion is a wasteland; Jerusalem sits in ruins.

Isaiah 9:18

Surely wickedness burned like an out-of-control fire, consuming thorns and thistles. It set ablaze the thickets of the forest with flames swirling upward in columns of smoke.

Isaiah 9:5

Every boot of marching troops and every uniform caked with blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.

Jeremiah 2:15

His enemies have raged against him, roaring like fierce lions. They leveled his cities, left them without inhabitants, and devastated his land.

Jeremiah 4:7

A nation-wrecker is on the prowl like a lion coming up from his lair. He is roused from his den to ransack your land. Your cities will be ruined and left without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 44:6

So I let loose a firestorm of my anger, burning down the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem until nothing remained but a desolate wasteland, as it still is today.

Jeremiah 6:8

Learn your lesson, Jerusalem, lest I turn my back on you in disgust and make the whole land desolate, a land where no one lives!”

Jeremiah 7:34

I will silence the sounds of mirth and gladness from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, the happy sounds of wedding feasts—the voice of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.’ ”

Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance has passed to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

Ezekiel 25:4

Therefore, behold! I am handing you over to the tribes of the eastern desert to come and take possession of you. They will take over your country and make their home in you. They will feast on the crops of your fields and drink the milk.

Ezekiel 30:12

I will dry up the waterways of the Nile and hand over the country to evil men. I will cause the land to be destroyed and everything in it, at the hand of foreigners. I, Yahweh, have spoken.”