Isaiah 64:10
8 But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
9 Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
12 After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
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 holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
- KJV
- Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
- WEB
- Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
- ASV
- Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
- DARBY
- Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
- BLB
- Your holy Cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
- ÅB
- Dine hellige stæder er blitt en ørken; Sion er blitt en ørken, Jerusalem en ødemark.
- OTB
- Dine hellige byer har blitt en ødemark; Sion har blitt en ødemark, Jerusalem en ørken.
- B1930
- Dine hellige stæder er blitt en ørken; Sion er blitt en ørken, Jerusalem en ødemark.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 1:7
Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.
Read in contextLuke 21:24
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Read in contextRevelation 11:1–2
Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the number of worshipers there.
Read in contextPsalms 79:1–7
The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
Read in contextDaniel 12:7
And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed.”
Read in context2 Chronicles 36:19–21
Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.
Read in contextLamentations 5:18
because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
Read in contextLamentations 1:1–4
How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.
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