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Your country is desolate.
Your cities are burned with fire.
Foreigners devour your farmland right in front of your eyes,
and it is desolate, overthrown by foreigners.
The daughter of Zion[a] is left
    like a shelter in a vineyard,
    like a hut in a melon[b] field,
    like a besieged city.
Unless the Lord of Armies[c] had left us a small surviving remnant,
we would have been like Sodom;
we would have become just like Gomorrah.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:8 Daughter of Zion is a personification of Jerusalem and the people of Judah.
  2. Isaiah 1:8 Or cucumber
  3. Isaiah 1:9 Traditionally Lord of Hosts or Lord Sebaoth. The armies that God rules are the stars and the angels.