Isaiah 1:7

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.

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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 unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and rotting sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

8And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:33The fruit of your land, and all your labours, shall a nation which you know not eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always:

Deuteronomy 28:48Therefore shall you serve yours enemies which the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he have destroyed you.

2 Chronicles 28:16At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.

Psalms 107:39Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

Isaiah 5:9In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Truthfully many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

Isaiah 6:11Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly 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 →

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