Isaiah 1:7
Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is made desolate, overthrown by strange nations.
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Deuteronomy 28:33A nation which thou knowest not shall eat the produce of thy land, and all thy labours; and thou shalt be injured and crushed always.
Deuteronomy 28:48And thou shalt serve thine enemies, which the Lord will send forth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the want of all things; and thou shalt wear upon thy neck a yoke of iron until he shall have destroyed thee.
2 Chronicles 28:16At that time king Achaz sent to the king of Assyria to help him, and on this occasion,
Isaiah 5:9For these things have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts: for though many houses should be built, many and fair houses shall be desolate, and there shall be no inhabitants in them.
Isaiah 6:11And I said, How long, O Lord? And he said, Until the cities be deserted + 6:11 Compare use of παρὰ, Jer. 40. 10,12; also 1 Cor. 12. 15,16.by reason of their not being inhabited, and the houses by reason of there being no men, and the land shall be left desolate.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:3-10
The Degeneracy of Israel; The Sinfulness of Israel; The Sufferings of Israel. ( b. c. 738.) 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord , they have provoked the Holy One of… Read the whole commentary →