Isaiah 1:7
5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
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.
8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto 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.
Compare
- 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 stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
Read in contextLamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:33
The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
Read in contextHosea 7:9
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
Read in contextEzekiel 30:12
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
Read in context2 Chronicles 28:5
Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
Read in context2 Chronicles 28:16–21
At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:48–52
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
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