Isaiah 1:7

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

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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 foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.

8The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:33A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,

Deuteronomy 28:48therefore you will serve your enemies whom the LORD sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

2 Chronicles 28:16At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.

Psalms 107:39Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

Isaiah 5:9In my ears, the LORD of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

Isaiah 6:11Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,

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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