Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city is desolate, the habitation is deserted and forsaken like the wilderness. 1 There a calf feeds, and there he lies down and consumes its branches. 1

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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.

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9So in this way, the iniquity of Jacob will be atoned for, for this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: 1 when he will make all the altar stones as chalk and crushed to pieces, 1 and no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing. 1

11When the boughs are withered, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, 1 for this is not a people of understanding. 1 Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, and he who made them will not be merciful to them. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 5:9Yahweh of hosts told me, 1 many houses will be empty, even great and impressive ones, without any inhabitant. 1

Isaiah 7:25They will stay away from all the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, for fear of the briers and thorns; 1 but it will be a place where cattle and sheep graze.

Isaiah 17:9On that day their strong cities will be like the abandoned wooded slopes on the hill summits, 1 that were forsaken because of the people of Israel and that will become a desolation. 1

Isaiah 25:2For you have made the city a heap, a fortified city, a ruin, 1 and a fortress of strangers into no city. 1

Isaiah 64:10Your holy cities have become a wilderness; 1 Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 1

Jeremiah 26:18They said, “Micah the Morashite was prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He spoke to all the people of Judah and said, 'Yahweh of hosts says this: 1 Zion will become a plowed field, 1 Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, 1 and the hill of the temple will become a thicket.'

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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