Isaiah 1:7

Your country is desolate, 1 your cities are burned with eish; 1 your land, zarim devour it in your presence, 1 and it is desolate, as overthrown by zarim. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

In Context

6From the sole of the regel even unto the rosh 1 there is no soundness in it; 1 but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores; 1 they have not been closed, 1 neither bound up, neither soothed with shemen. 1

8And the Bat Tziyon (i.e., Yerushalayim) is left 1 as a sukkah in a kerem (vineyard), 1 as a shack in a cucumber field, 1 as an ir (city) under siege. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:33The pri of thy adamah, and all thy labors, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed kol hayamim;

Deuteronomy 28:48Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which Hashem shall send against thee, in ra'av (hunger, famine), and in tzama (thirst), and in eirom (nakedness), and in choser (want) of all things; and He shall put an ol barzel (yoke of iron) upon thy tzavvar (neck), until He hath made thee shmad.

2 Chronicles 28:16At that time did HaMelech Achaz send unto the melachim of Assyria to help him.

Psalms 107:39Again, they are diminished and brought low through otzer (oppression), 1 ra'ah (calamity, peril, trouble) and yagon (sorrow, grief). 1

Isaiah 5:9Hashem Tzva'os said in my ozen, 1 Batim rabbim shall be in ruins, 1 gedolim and tovim, with no one to live in them. 1

Isaiah 6:11Then cried I, Adonoi, ad mosai (how much longer [will this go on])? 1 And He answered, 1 Until the towns be wasted without inhabitant, 1 and the batim (houses) are without man, 1 and the ground be utterly desolate, a wilderness, 1

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 →

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