Your land is desolate, your cities burned down; foreigners devour your fields right in front of you – a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.
Isaiah 6:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Then I said, ‘Until when, Lord? ’ And he replied: Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants, houses are without people, the land is ruined and desolate, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then said I, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until cities lie waste without inhabitant and houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate, American Standard Version (1901) Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste, Common English Bible I said, “How long, Lord?” And God said, “Until cities lie ruined with no one living in them, until there are houses without people and the land is left devastated.” Catholic Public Domain Version And I said, "For how long, O Lord?" And he said, "Until the cities are desolate, without an inhabitant, and the houses are without a man, and the land will be left behind, deserted." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate. |
Your land is desolate, your cities burned down; foreigners devour your fields right in front of you – a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.
I will make a human scarcer than fine gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
Then her gates will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.
For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they have spoken and acted against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.
For the palace will be deserted, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become barren places for ever, the joy of wild donkeys, and a pasture for flocks,
The wilderness and the dry land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a wildflower. ,
I heard the Lord of Armies say: Indeed, many houses will become desolate, grand and lovely ones without inhabitants.
Instead of your being deserted and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you an object of eternal pride, a joy from age to age.
Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
For this is what the Lord says concerning the house of the king of Judah: ‘You are like Gilead to me, or the summit of Lebanon, but I will certainly turn you into a wilderness, uninhabited cities.
A lion has gone up from his thicket; a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to make your land a waste. Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.
‘This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster I brought against Jerusalem and all Judah’s cities. Look, they are a ruin today without an inhabitant in them
The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.
Wherever you live the cities will be in ruins and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will lie in ruins and be desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your shrines cut down, and what you have made wiped out.
Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the speaker, ‘How long will the events of this vision last #– #the regular sacrifice, the rebellion that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and of the army to be trampled? ’
I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.
In that day one will take up a taunt against you and lament mournfully, saying, ‘We are totally ruined! He measures out the allotted land of my people. How he removes it from me! He allots our fields to traitors.’
I will remove the cities of your land and tear down all your fortresses.
‘As a result, I have begun to strike you severely, , bringing desolation because of your sins.
Then the earth will become a wasteland because of its inhabitants and as a result of their actions.
Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God.
Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so he will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be ripped out of the land you are entering to possess.