Isaiah 27:10

Yet the Ir Betzurah (fortified city) shall be desolate, 1 and the habitation forsaken, and left like a midbar; 1 there shall the egel graze, and there shall it lie down, 1 and strip bare the branches thereof. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

In Context

9By this therefore shall kapporah be made for the avon Ya'akov; 1 and this is full fruitage to take away + 27:9 Yehudahʼs chattat; 1 when He maketh all the stones of the [heathen] mizbe'ach 1 like chalk stones crushed to pieces, 1 the Asherim poles and pagan incense altars 1 shall arise no more. 1

11When the boughs thereof are dry, 1 they shall be broken off; 1 the nashim come, and set them on fire; 1 for it is a people of no understanding; 1 therefore He that made them will not have compassion on them, 1 and He that formed them will show them no favor.

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Cross References

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 7:25And on all hills that were hoed with a hoe, thou shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for pasturing of cattle, and for the treading place of seh.

Isaiah 17:9In that day shall their strong cities be like abandoned places in the choresh (thicket), or like branches they abandoned before the Bnei Yisroel; and there shall be desolation. 1

Isaiah 25:2For Thou hast made an Ir a heap; 1 a fortified city, 1 a ruin; 1 the stronghold of the zarim (foreigners) to be rebuilt never more. 1

Isaiah 64:10Beis Kadsheinu v'Tifarteinu, 1 where Avoteinu praised Thee, 1 is burned up with eish; 1 and kol machamadeinu (all our desiring) is in ruins. 1

Jeremiah 26:18Michah the Morashti prophesied in the days of Chizkiyah Melech Yehudah, and spoke to kol Am Yehudah, saying, Thus saith Hashem Tzva'os: 1 Tziyon shall be plowed like a sadeh, 1 and Yerushalayim shall become rubble heaps, 1 and the Har HaBais (Temple Mount) like the bare heights of a ya'ar (forest).

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 27:8-13

Correction and Compassion. ( b. c. 718.) 7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? 8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. 9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand… Read the whole commentary →

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