Isaiah 1:7
5 Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.
Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.
8 And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.
9 Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- 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.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers eat it up in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
- BLB
- Your⁺ land [is] a desolation, your⁺ cities burnt with fire, your⁺ ground in front of you⁺, strangers devour it, and it is a desolation, as overthrown by strangers.
- ÅB
- Deres land er en ørken, deres byer brent opp med ild; deres jord fortæres av fremmede for deres øyne, og en ørken er der, som etter fremmedes herjing.
- OTB
- Deres land er øde, deres byer er brent med ild; deres marker blir fortært av fremmede rett foran dere; det er øde, som omstyrtet av fremmede.
- B1930
- Eders land er en ørken, eders byer opbrent med ild; eders jord opetes av fremmede for eders øine, og en ørken er der, som efter fremmedes herjing.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 28:43
The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
Read in contextLamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:33
A 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.
Read in contextHosea 7:9
Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.
Read in contextEzekiel 30:12
I 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.
Read in context2 Chronicles 28:5
So 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.
Read in context2 Chronicles 28:16–21
At that time King Ahaz sent for help from the king of Assyria.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:48–52
you 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.
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