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Isaiah 1:7-9
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Isaiah 1:7-9
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7 Your land is in ruins, and your cities are in flames. Your enemies have taken your land, and foreigners are taking what it produces. It looks like some foreigners destroyed it.[a]
Warnings for Jerusalem
8 The city of Jerusalem[b] is now like an empty shed left in a vineyard. It is like an old straw hut abandoned in a field of cucumbers or like a city surrounded by enemies. 9 If the Lord All-Powerful had not allowed a few people to live, we would have been destroyed completely like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. And that almost happened!
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- Isaiah 1:7 It looks … destroyed it Or “It looks like the land of the foreigners that was destroyed.” This might refer to civil war in Israel or to some time when God destroyed foreign nations, such as Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Isaiah 1:8 city of Jerusalem Literally, “daughter Zion.” See “Zion” in the Word List.
Isaiah 1:7-9
New International Version
Isaiah 1:7-9
New International Version
7 Your country is desolate,(A)
your cities burned with fire;(B)
your fields are being stripped by foreigners(C)
right before you,
laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.(D)
8 Daughter Zion(E) is left(F)
like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut(G) in a cucumber field,
like a city under siege.
9 Unless the Lord Almighty
had left us some survivors,(H)
we would have become like Sodom,
we would have been like Gomorrah.(I)
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