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Foreigners plunder your fields before your eyes and destroy everything they see. <a href="/esv/isaiah/1.htm">English Standard Version</a> 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. <a href="/bsb/isaiah/1.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers. <a href="/kjv/isaiah/1.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/isaiah/1.htm">New King James Version</a> 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. <a href="/nasb_/isaiah/1.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nasb/isaiah/1.htm">NASB 1995</a> Your land is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire, Your fields— strangers are devouring them in your presence; It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers. <a href="/nasb77/isaiah/1.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Your land is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire, Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your presence; It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers. <a href="/lsb/isaiah/1.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Your land is desolate; Your cities are burned with fire; Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your presence; It is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. <a href="/amp/isaiah/1.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Your land lies desolate [because of your disobedience], Your cities are burned with fire, Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your very presence; It is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. <a href="/csb/isaiah/1.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Your land is desolate, your cities burned down; foreigners devour your fields right in front of you — a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners. <a href="/hcsb/isaiah/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire; foreigners devour your fields before your very eyes— a desolation demolished by foreigners. <a href="/asv/isaiah/1.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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. <a href="/cev/isaiah/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Your country lies in ruins; your towns are in ashes. Foreigners and strangers take and destroy your land while you watch. <a href="/erv/isaiah/1.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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. <a href="/gwt/isaiah/1.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> "Your country is devastated. Your cities are burned down. Your fields are destroyed right before your eyes by foreigners. Your fields are devastated and taken over by foreigners. <a href="/gnt/isaiah/1.htm">Good News Translation</a> Your country has been devastated, and your cities have been burned to the ground. While you look on, foreigners take over your land and bring everything to ruin. <a href="/isv/isaiah/1.htm">International Standard Version</a> "Your country lies desolate; your cities have been incinerated. Before your very eyes, foreigners are devouring your land— they've brought devastation on it, while the land is overthrown by foreigners. <a href="/msb/isaiah/1.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you?a desolation demolished by strangers. <a href="/net/isaiah/1.htm">NET Bible</a> Your land is devastated, your cities burned with fire. Right before your eyes your crops are being destroyed by foreign invaders. They leave behind devastation and destruction. <a href="/nheb/isaiah/1.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> 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. <a href="/wbt/isaiah/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> 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. <a href="/web/isaiah/1.htm">World English Bible</a> 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. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/isaiah/1.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Your land [is] a desolation, your cities burned with fire, "" Your ground—strangers are consuming it before you, "" And a desolation as overthrown by strangers! <a href="/ylt/isaiah/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Your land is a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, Your ground, before you strangers are consuming it, And a desolation as overthrown by strangers! <a href="/slt/isaiah/1.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Your land made desolate, your cities burnt with fire, your land before your strangers eating it up, and made desolate, as the overthrow of strangers.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/isaiah/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies. <a href="/cpdv/isaiah/1.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Your land is desolate. Your cities have been set ablaze. Foreigners devour your countryside in your sight, and it will become desolate, as if devastated by enemies. <a href="/nabre/isaiah/1.htm">New American Bible</a> Your country is waste, your cities burnt with fire; Your land—before your eyes strangers devour it, a waste, like the devastation of Sodom. <a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence aliens devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/1.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. <a href="/hpbt/isaiah/1.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Your land is desolate and your cities burn in fire. Foreigners consume your land near you, and it is a desolation like the ruin of foreigners<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/isaiah/1.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> 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 floods. <a href="/sep/isaiah/1.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> Your land is desolate, your cities burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is made desolate, overthrown by strange nations. <a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-7.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=79" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/isaiah/1.htm">Judah's Rebellion</a> …6From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil. 7<a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: ’ar·ṣə·ḵem (N-fsc:: 2mp) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">Your land</a> <a href="/hebrew/8077.htm" title="8077: šə·mā·māh (N-fs) -- Devastation, waste. Or shimamah; feminine of shamem; devastation; figuratively, astonishment.">is desolate;</a> <a href="/hebrew/5892.htm" title="5892: ‘ā·rê·ḵem (N-fpc:: 2mp) -- Excitement. Or par; or ayar; from uwr a city in the widest sense.">your cities</a> <a href="/hebrew/8313.htm" title="8313: śə·ru·p̄ō·wṯ (V-Qal-QalPassPrtcpl-fp) -- To burn. A primitive root; to be on fire.">are burned</a> <a href="/hebrew/784.htm" title="784: ’êš (N-cs) -- A fire. A primitive word; fire.">with fire.</a> <a href="/hebrew/2114.htm" title="2114: zā·rîm (Adj-mp) -- A primitive root; to turn aside; hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically to commit adultery.">Foreigners</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: ’ō·ḵə·lîm (V-Qal-Prtcpl-mp) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">devour</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’ō·ṯāh (DirObjM:: 3fs) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/127.htm" title="127: ’aḏ·maṯ·ḵem (N-fsc:: 2mp) -- Ground, land. From 'adam; soil.">your fields</a> <a href="/hebrew/5048.htm" title="5048: lə·neḡ·də·ḵem (Prep-l:: 2mp) -- From nagad; a front, i.e. Part opposite; specifically a counterpart, or mate; usually over against or before.">before you—</a> <a href="/hebrew/8077.htm" title="8077: ū·šə·mā·māh (Conj-w:: N-fs) -- Devastation, waste. Or shimamah; feminine of shamem; devastation; figuratively, astonishment.">a desolation</a> <a href="/hebrew/4114.htm" title="4114: kə·mah·pê·ḵaṯ (Prep-k:: N-fsc) -- An overthrow. From haphak; a destruction.">demolished</a> <a href="/hebrew/2114.htm" title="2114: zā·rîm (Adj-mp) -- A primitive root; to turn aside; hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically to commit adultery.">by strangers.</a> 8And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/jeremiah/4-7.htm">Jeremiah 4:7</a> A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited. <a href="/lamentations/1-1.htm">Lamentations 1:1-3</a> 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. / She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies. / Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress. <a href="/hosea/5-9.htm">Hosea 5:9</a> Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain. <a href="/micah/3-12.htm">Micah 3:12</a> Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge. <a href="/deuteronomy/28-51.htm">Deuteronomy 28:51-52</a> They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish. / They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you. <a href="/2_kings/17-5.htm">2 Kings 17:5-6</a> Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years. / In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes. <a href="/jeremiah/5-17.htm">Jeremiah 5:17</a> They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.” <a href="/ezekiel/36-3.htm">Ezekiel 36:3-4</a> therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers, / therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you. <a href="/joel/1-6.htm">Joel 1:6-7</a> For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness. / It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white. <a href="/amos/5-11.htm">Amos 5:11</a> Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted. <a href="/zephaniah/1-13.htm">Zephaniah 1:13</a> Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine. <a href="/matthew/23-37.htm">Matthew 23:37-38</a> O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! / Look, your house is left to you desolate. <a href="/luke/21-20.htm">Luke 21:20-24</a> But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near. / Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city. / For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. ... <a href="/mark/13-14.htm">Mark 13:14-19</a> So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. / Let no one on the housetop go back inside to retrieve anything from his house. / And let no one in the field return for his cloak. ... <a href="/romans/9-29.htm">Romans 9:29</a> It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>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.country<a href="/isaiah/5-5.htm">Isaiah 5:5,6,9</a> And 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: … <a href="/isaiah/6-11.htm">Isaiah 6:11</a> Then 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,<a href="/isaiah/24-10.htm">Isaiah 24:10-12</a> The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in… burned<a href="/isaiah/9-5.htm">Isaiah 9:5</a> For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.<a href="/isaiah/34-9.htm">Isaiah 34:9</a> And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.<a href="/jeremiah/2-15.htm">Jeremiah 2:15</a> The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.strangers<a href="/isaiah/5-17.htm">Isaiah 5:17</a> Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.<a href="/deuteronomy/28-33.htm">Deuteronomy 28:33,43,48-52</a> The 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: … <a href="/lamentations/5-1.htm">Lamentations 5:1</a> Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.overthrown by strangers.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/144-11.htm">Aliens</a> <a href="/songs/1-6.htm">Burned</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-27.htm">Burnt</a> <a href="/psalms/69-35.htm">Cities</a> <a href="/psalms/18-8.htm">Consuming</a> <a href="/songs/7-11.htm">Country</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/7-16.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/proverbs/3-25.htm">Desolation</a> <a href="/proverbs/30-14.htm">Devour</a> <a href="/psalms/52-4.htm">Devouring</a> <a href="/songs/8-10.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/songs/7-11.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/songs/8-6.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/songs/8-7.htm">Floods</a> <a href="/proverbs/27-13.htm">Foreigners</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-7.htm">Ground</a> <a href="/psalms/116-9.htm">Lands</a> <a href="/songs/8-7.htm">Overcome</a> <a href="/proverbs/24-17.htm">Overthrown</a> <a href="/proverbs/22-12.htm">Overturned</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/8-3.htm">Presence</a> <a href="/songs/8-3.htm">Right</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/14-3.htm">rs</a> <a href="/proverbs/27-13.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-17.htm">Strangers</a> <a href="/psalms/76-5.htm">Stripped</a> <a href="/psalms/69-35.htm">Towns</a> <a href="/songs/8-5.htm">Waste</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/2-6.htm">Aliens</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-11.htm">Burned</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-11.htm">Burnt</a> <a href="/isaiah/6-11.htm">Cities</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-6.htm">Consuming</a> <a href="/isaiah/13-5.htm">Country</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-26.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-9.htm">Desolation</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-12.htm">Devour</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-6.htm">Devouring</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-15.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-10.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-31.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-25.htm">Floods</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-6.htm">Foreigners</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-10.htm">Ground</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-9.htm">Lands</a> <a href="/isaiah/13-8.htm">Overcome</a> <a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm">Overthrown</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-16.htm">Overturned</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-8.htm">Presence</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-17.htm">Right</a> <a href="/daniel/2-27.htm">rs</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-6.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-6.htm">Strangers</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-26.htm">Stripped</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-26.htm">Towns</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-14.htm">Waste</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 1</div>1. <a href="/isaiah/1-1.htm">Isaiah complains of Judah for her rebellion</a> 5. <a href="/isaiah/1-5.htm">He laments her judgments</a> 10. <a href="/isaiah/1-10.htm">He upbraids their whole service</a> 16. <a href="/isaiah/1-16.htm">He exhorts to repentance, with promises and threats</a> 21. <a href="/isaiah/1-21.htm">Bewailing their wickedness, he denounces God's judgments</a> 25. <a href="/isaiah/1-25.htm">He promises grace</a> 28. <a href="/isaiah/1-28.htm">And threatens destruction to the wicked</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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This phrase reflects the consequences of Israel's disobedience to God. The desolation of the land is a recurring theme in the Old Testament, often associated with divine judgment (<a href="/leviticus/26-33.htm">Leviticus 26:33</a>). The land, once flowing with milk and honey, is now barren, symbolizing the spiritual barrenness of the people. This desolation serves as a physical manifestation of the nation's spiritual state.your cities are burned with fire. The burning of cities indicates a military invasion, likely by the Assyrians or Babylonians, who were known for their destructive campaigns. This imagery of fire is often used in the Bible to signify judgment and purification (<a href="/amos/1-4.htm">Amos 1:4</a>). Historically, cities like Jerusalem faced sieges and destruction, which were seen as direct consequences of the nation's sin and rebellion against God.Foreigners devour your fields before you— The presence of foreigners consuming the fields suggests occupation and exploitation by enemy forces. This aligns with the covenant curses outlined in <a href="/deuteronomy/28-33.htm">Deuteronomy 28:33</a>, where foreign nations would eat the produce of the land as a result of Israel's unfaithfulness. It highlights the loss of sovereignty and the humiliation of the people, who are powerless to stop the plundering of their resources.a desolation demolished by strangers. The repetition of "desolation" emphasizes the totality of the destruction. The term "strangers" underscores the alienation and loss of control over their own land. This situation is a fulfillment of prophetic warnings given by earlier prophets, such as in <a href="/isaiah/5-5.htm">Isaiah 5:5-6</a>, where God speaks of removing His protection and allowing the land to be trampled. The imagery also foreshadows the ultimate desolation that comes with the exile, a pivotal event in Israel's history that serves as both punishment and a call to repentance.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a> A major prophet in the Old Testament, Isaiah is the author of the book. He prophesied during the reigns of several kings of Judah and addressed the spiritual and moral decline of the nation. 2. <a href="/topical/j/judah.htm">Judah</a> The southern kingdom of Israel, which is the primary audience of Isaiah's prophecies. At the time, Judah was experiencing political turmoil and spiritual decay. 3. <a href="/topical/f/foreigners.htm">Foreigners</a> Refers to the invading nations and peoples who were a threat to Judah. Historically, this could include the Assyrians and Babylonians who were known for their conquests. 4. <a href="/topical/d/desolation.htm">Desolation</a> A state of utter destruction and ruin, which is both a physical and spiritual condition of the land and people of Judah. 5. <a href="/topical/s/strangers.htm">Strangers</a> Those who are not part of the covenant community of Israel, often seen as instruments of God's judgment against His people.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_sin.htm">The Consequences of Sin</a> Sin leads to destruction and desolation, both spiritually and physically. Just as Judah faced ruin due to their disobedience, we too face consequences when we turn away from God. <a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_in_judgment.htm">God's Sovereignty in Judgment</a> God uses nations and events to accomplish His purposes. The presence of foreigners in the land of Judah was not outside of God's control but part of His divine judgment. <a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance.htm">Call to Repentance</a> The desolation described is a call to repentance. God desires His people to return to Him, acknowledging their sins and seeking His forgiveness. <a href="/topical/h/hope_in_restoration.htm">Hope in Restoration</a> While the immediate context is one of judgment, the broader message of Isaiah includes hope and restoration for those who turn back to God. <a href="/topical/v/vigilance_against_spiritual_decline.htm">Vigilance Against Spiritual Decline</a> Just as Judah was warned, we must remain vigilant against spiritual decline in our own lives and communities, ensuring that we remain faithful to God's commands.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_1.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 1</a> <a href="/q/is_there_evidence_of_isaiah's_land_ruin.htm">Isaiah 1:7 describes a land devoured by foreigners; is there historical or archaeological evidence confirming such devastation at the time of Isaiah? </a> <a href="/q/does_isaiah_62_4_contradict_history.htm">Does Isaiah 62:4’s depiction of the land as “no longer desolate” contradict historical accounts of desolation across the region? </a> <a href="/q/which_'fortified_city'_in_isaiah_25_2.htm">In Isaiah 25:2, which specific 'fortified city' is being referenced, and what archaeological evidence supports or contradicts its complete destruction?</a> <a href="/q/how_reconcile_rabshakeh's_claim_with_judah's_deliverance.htm">Isaiah 36:18-20: How do we reconcile the Rabshakeh's claim that no god has saved any nation from Assyria with the biblical assertion that the Lord ultimately delivered Judah?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/1.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(7) Your country is desolate . . .--It is natural to take the words as describing the actual state of things when the prophet wrote. There had been such invasions in the days of Ahaz, in which Israel and Syria (<a href="/isaiah/7-1.htm" title="And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.">Isaiah 7:1</a>), Edom and the Philistines, had been conspicuous (<a href="/context/2_chronicles/28-17.htm" title="For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.">2Chronicles 28:17-18</a>); and the reign of Hezekiah already had witnessed that of Sargon (<a href="/isaiah/20-1.htm" title="In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;">Isaiah 20:1</a>).The Hebrew has no copulative verb, but joins subject and predicate together with the emphasis of abruptness: Your land--a desolation, and so on. The repetition of the word "strangers" is characteristic of Isaiah's style.As overthrown by strangers.--Conjectural readings give (1) "as the overthrow of Sodom;" (2) "as the overthrow of (i.e., wrought by) a rain-storm." The word rendered "overthrown" is elsewhere applied only to the destruction of the cities of the plain (<a href="/deuteronomy/29-23.htm" title="And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:">Deuteronomy 29:23</a>; <a href="/amos/4-11.htm" title="I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have you not returned to me, said the LORD.">Amos 4:11</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/49-18.htm" title="As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, said the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.">Jeremiah 49:18</a>). So taken, the clause prepares the way for the fuller comparison of <a href="/context/isaiah/1-9.htm" title="Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrah.">Isaiah 1:9-10</a>. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 7. - Your country is desolate. Metaphor is now dropped, and the prophet describes in strong but simple language the judgments of God, which have already followed the sins of the nation. First of all, their land is "a desolation." It has been recently ravaged by an enemy; the towns have been burnt, the crops devoured. There is nothing to determine who the enemy had been. Knobel supposes the Edomites and Philistines, who invaded Judaea in the time of Ahaz (<a href="/2_chronicles/28-17.htm">2 Chronicles 28:17, 18</a>), to be intended; Rosenmüller suggests the Israelites under Amaziah (<a href="/2_chronicles/25-21.htm">2 Chronicles 25:21-24</a>); while Mr. Cheyne supposes the devastation to have been wrought by the Assyrians under Sargon. If we could be assured that the prophecies of Isaiah are arranged in chronological order, we should either have to accept Rosenmüller's view, or to suppose some invasion of Judaea to have taken place in the later years of Uzziah of which no mention is made by the authors of Kings and Chronicles; but it is impossible to be certain on what principle Isaiah's prophecies are arranged. The mention of "strangers" is in favor of the enemy having been actual foreigners, and therefore not the Israelites. Your cities are burned with fire. The common fate of cities taken in war. In the Assyrian sculptures we often see the torch applied to them. Your land. Mr. Cheyne translates, "your tillage." Adamah means "soil" or "ground" generally; but here no doubt denotes the ground which bore crops. Strangers devour it; i.e. "foreigners" others than the sons of the soil - not necessarily persons of a different race, but still probably such persons. In your presence; before your eyes, as you look on - an aggravation of the affliction. It is desolate, as overthrown by strangers; literally, it is a desolation, like an overthrow by strangers. The near approach to repetition displeases moderns, who conjecture (1) that zarim, strangers, has another meaning, and should be here translated by "inundation" or "deluge" (Aben Ezra, Michaelis, Lowth); or (2) that it is a wrong reading, and should Be altered into sodim, a word not very different (Ewald, Cheyne). But "the return to words whose sounds are yet lingering in the ear" is characteristic of ancient writing, and a favorite practice of Isaiah's (Kay). The translation of the Authorized Version may therefore stand. <a href="/commentaries/isaiah/1-7.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Your land אַרְצְכֶ֣ם (’ar·ṣə·ḵem) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> Earth, land is desolate, שְׁמָמָ֔ה (šə·mā·māh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8077.htm">Strong's 8077: </a> Devastation, astonishment your cities עָרֵיכֶ֖ם (‘ā·rê·ḵem) Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5892.htm">Strong's 5892: </a> Excitement [are] burned שְׂרֻפ֣וֹת (śə·ru·p̄ō·wṯ) Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8313.htm">Strong's 8313: </a> To be, on fire with fire; אֵ֑שׁ (’êš) Noun - common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_784.htm">Strong's 784: </a> A fire foreigners זָרִים֙ (zā·rîm) Adjective - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2114.htm">Strong's 2114: </a> To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery devour אֹכְלִ֣ים (’ō·ḵə·lîm) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> To eat your fields אַדְמַתְכֶ֗ם (’aḏ·maṯ·ḵem) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_127.htm">Strong's 127: </a> Ground, land before you -- לְנֶגְדְּכֶם֙ (lə·neḡ·də·ḵem) Preposition-l | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5048.htm">Strong's 5048: </a> A front, part opposite, a counterpart, mate, over against, before a desolation וּשְׁמָמָ֖ה (ū·šə·mā·māh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8077.htm">Strong's 8077: </a> Devastation, astonishment demolished כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֥ת (kə·mah·pê·ḵaṯ) Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4114.htm">Strong's 4114: </a> A destruction by strangers. זָרִֽים׃ (zā·rîm) Adjective - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2114.htm">Strong's 2114: </a> To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/1-7.htm">Isaiah 1:7 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/isaiah/1-7.htm">Isaiah 1:7 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/isaiah/1-7.htm">Isaiah 1:7 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/isaiah/1-7.htm">Isaiah 1:7 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/isaiah/1-7.htm">Isaiah 1:7 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/1-7.htm">Isaiah 1:7 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/1-7.htm">Isaiah 1:7 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/1-7.htm">Isaiah 1:7 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/1-7.htm">Isaiah 1:7 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/isaiah/1-7.htm">Isaiah 1:7 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-7.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 1:7 Your country is desolate (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/1-6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 1:6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 1:6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/1-8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 1:8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 1:8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>