Isaiah 64:10
8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
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 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.
Read in contextLuke 21:24
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Read in contextRevelation 11:1–2
And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
Read in contextPsalms 79:1–7
O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Read in contextDaniel 12:7
And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
Read in context2 Chronicles 36:19–21
And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
Read in contextLamentations 5:18
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Read in contextLamentations 1:1–4
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
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