New American Standard Bible 2020
Isaiah 1:7
7Your 1land is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire; As for your fields, strangers are devouring them in front of you; It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.
Isaiah 1:7 in other versions
- King James Version (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.
- New International Version (NIV)Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Your country lies desolate; your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence foreigners devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
- New King James Version (NKJV)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.
Context of Isaiah 1:7
5Where will you be stricken again, As you continue in your rebellion? The entire head is sick And the entire heart is faint. 6From the sole of the foot even to the head There is nothing healthy in it, Only bruises, slashes, and raw wounds; Not pressed out nor bandaged, Nor softened with oil. Your land is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire; As for your fields, strangers are devouring them in front of you; It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers. 8The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, Like a watchman’s hut in a cucumber field, like a city under watch. 9If the Lord of armies Had not left us a few survivors, We would be like Sodom, We would be like Gomorrah.
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אַרְצְכֶ֣ם שְׁמָמָ֔ה עָרֵיכֶ֖ם שְׂרֻפ֣וֹת אֵ֑שׁ אַדְמַתְכֶ֗ם לְנֶגְדְּכֶם֙ זָרִים֙ אֹכְלִ֣ים אֹתָ֔הּ וּשְׁמָמָ֖ה כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֥ת זָרִֽים׃Read the interlinear
- landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
- is desolateשְׁמָמָהshemâmâh shimâmâh · devastationH8077
- Your citiesעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
- are burnedשָׂרַףώâraph · to burnH8313
- with fireאֵשׁ'êsh · fireH784
- your fieldsאֲדָמָה'ădâmâh · land: soilH127
- strangersזוּרzûr · be a strangerH2114
- are devouringאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
- them in frontנֶ֫גֶדneged · beforeH5048
- as overthrownמַהְפֵּכָהmahpêkâh · overthrowH4114
Cross-references for Isaiah 1:7
- Isaiah 5:5So now let Me tell you what I am going to do to My vineyard: I will remove its hedge and it will be consumed; I will break down its wall and it will become trampled ground.
- Isaiah 6:11Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered, “Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant, Houses are without people And the land is utterly desolate,
- Isaiah 24:10The city of chaos is broken down; Every house is shut up so that no one may enter.
- Leviticus 26:34‘Then the land will restore its Sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and restore its Sabbaths.
- Deuteronomy 28:51Furthermore, it will eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed; a nation that will leave you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the newborn of your cattle or the young of your flock, until they have eliminated you.
- 2 Chronicles 28:5Therefore the Lord his God handed him over to the king of Aram; and they defeated him and carried from him a great number of captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also handed over to the king of Israel, who struck him with heavy casualties.
- Psalms 107:34And a fruitful land into a salt waste, Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
- Jeremiah 6:8Be warned, Jerusalem, Or I shall be alienated from you, And make you a desolation, An uninhabited land.”
- Isaiah 9:5For every boot of the marching warrior in the roar of battle, And cloak rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.
- Isaiah 34:9Its streams will be turned into pitch, And its loose earth into brimstone, And its land will become burning pitch.
- Jeremiah 2:15The young lions have roared at him, They have roared loudly. And they have made his land a waste; His cities have been destroyed, without inhabitant.
- Isaiah 5:17Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, And strangers will eat in the ruins of the wealthy.
- Deuteronomy 28:33A people whom you do not know will eat the produce of your ground and every product of your labor, and you will never be anything but oppressed and mistreated continually.
- Lamentations 5:1Remember, Lord, what has come upon us; Look, and see our disgrace!
- Ezekiel 30:12Moreover, I will make the Nile canals dry And sell the land into the hands of evil men. And I will make the land desolate And all that is in it, By the hand of strangers; I the Lord have spoken.”
- Hosea 7:9Strangers devour his strength, Yet he does not know it; Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him, Yet he does not know it.
Commentaries on Isaiah 1:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7At the end of the verse, זרים zarim . This reading, though confirmed by all the ancient versions, gives us no good sense; for "your land is devoured by strangers; and is desolate, as if overthrown by strangers," is a mere tautology, or, what is as bad, an identical comparison. Aben Ezra thought that the word in its present form might be taken for the same with זרם zerem, an inundation: Schultens is of the same opinion; (see Taylor's Concord.); and…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Your country is desolate - This is the literal statement of what he had just affirmed by a figure. In this there was much art. The figure Isaiah 1:6 was striking. The resemblance between a man severely beaten, and entirely livid and sore, and a land perfectly desolate, was so impressive as to arrest the attention. This had been threatened as one of the curses which should attend disobedience; Leviticus 26:33: And I will scatter you among the heathen, And…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7land … cities: By 701 BC, the Assyrians had destroyed the infrastructure, captured cities, and devastated the fields (see Isaiah 64:10). This fulfilled Isaiah’s prophecy (Isaiah 6:11–13). Those who survived the Assyrian attack learned to heed later warnings of exile to Babylon (Isaiah 39:6–7). God fulfills his promises, so his warning of judgment on all nations is certain.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. Judah had not in Uzziah's reign recovered from the ravages of the Syrians in Joash's reign (2Ch 24:24), and of Israel in Amaziah's reign (2Ch 25:13, 23, &c.). Compare Isaiah's contemporary (Am 4:6-11), where, as here (Is 1:9, 10), Israel is compared to "Sodom and Gomorrah," because of the judgments on it by "fire." in your presence--before your eyes: without your being able to prevent them. desolate, &c.--literally, "there is desolation, such as one…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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