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 foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.
• Deut 28:33A nation which you don’t know eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always;
• Lam 5:2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
• Ezek 30:12I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
• Hos 7:9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it.
• Deut 28:48–52therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck, until he has destroyed you.
• 2 Chr 28:16–21At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.
• 2 Chr 28:5Therefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. They struck him, and carried away from him a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. He was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter.
• Hos 8:7For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
• Isa 9:5For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.
• Isa 24:10–12The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
• Jer 2:15The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
• Jer 6:8Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.”
• Ps 107:39Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
• Isa 5:9In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
• Lev 26:34Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
• Ps 107:34and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
• Isa 6:11Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste,
• Isa 34:9Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, And its land will become burning pitch.
• Isa 5:17Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
• Isa 5:5–6Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.

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