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Isaiah 1:7 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 1 · verse 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.Isaiah 1:7 · King James Version
Isaiah 1:7 in context
5Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
7Your 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.
8And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- overthrownmahpêkâha destructionH4114 →
- strangerszûwrto turn asideH2114 →
- desolateshᵉmâmâhdevastationH8077 →
- countryʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- citiesʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
- burnedsâraphto be on fireH8313 →
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We will hope to meet with a brighter and more pleasant scene before we come to the end of this book; but truly here, in the beginning of it, every thing looks very bad, very black, with Judah and Jerusalem. What is the wilderness of the world, if the church, the vineyard, has such a dismal aspect as this? I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 2-9