Isaiah 1:7

Isaiah describes the land's desolation: cities burned and foreigners devouring it. The outward ruin mirrors the nation's inward sin.

Cross-references · 21

• Deut 28:43The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
• Deut 28:33The 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:
• Lam 5:2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
• Ezek 30:12And 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.
• Hos 7:9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
• Deut 28:48–52Therefore 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.
• 2 Chr 28:16–21At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
• 2 Chr 28:5Wherefore 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.
• Hos 8:7For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
• Isa 9:5For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
• Isa 24:10–12The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
• Jer 2:15The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
• Jer 6:8Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
• Ps 107:39Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
• Isa 5:9In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
• Lev 26:34Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
• Ps 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
• Isa 6:11Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,
• Isa 34:9And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
• Isa 5:17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
• Isa 5:5–6And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

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