Isaiah 1:7

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“Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.”

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“Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“Your land <FI>is<Fi> a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, Your ground, before you strangers are consuming it, And a desolation as overthrown by strangers!”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 1:7 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 26:34Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
  2. Deuteronomy 28:33A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
  3. Deuteronomy 28:43The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
  4. Deuteronomy 28:48you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
  5. 2 Chronicles 28:5So the LORD his God delivered Ahaz into the hand of the king of Aram, who attacked him and took many captives to Damascus. Ahaz was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force.
  6. 2 Chronicles 28:16At that time King Ahaz sent for help from the king of Assyria.
  7. Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
  8. Psalms 107:39When they are decreased and humbled by oppression, evil, and sorrow,
  9. Isaiah 5:5Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
  10. Isaiah 5:9I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.
  11. Isaiah 5:17Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
  12. Isaiah 6:11Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,
  13. Isaiah 9:5For every trampling boot of battle and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.
  14. Isaiah 24:10The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.
  15. Isaiah 34:9Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.
  16. Jeremiah 2:15The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
  17. Jeremiah 6:8Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”
  18. Lamentations 5:2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
  19. Ezekiel 30:12I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.
  20. Hosea 7:9Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.
  21. Hosea 8:7For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

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