Isaiah 1:7 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 1:7

Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.

BSB

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ASV

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.

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 7) Your land is deserted; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your land before your eyes, and it is desolate like a hostile wasteland. These things were partially fulfilled under the Babylonians, with the temple being burned and Jerusalem being destroyed, when the Samaritans possessed the region of the ten tribes, and the promised land was so desolate that it was ravaged by lions.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Your 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 Isa 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; Lev 26:33: And I will scatter you among the heathen, And will draw out a sword after you: And your land shall be desolate, And your cities waste.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אַרְצְכֶ֣ם	'ar.tze.Khem	land your	H776 →
שְׁמָמָ֔ה	she.ma.Mah	[is] a desolation	H8077 →
עָרֵיכֶ֖ם	'a.rei.Khem	cities your	H5892 →
שְׂרֻפ֣וֹת	se.ru.Fot	[have been] burned	H8313 →
אֵ֑שׁ	'Esh	fire	H784 →
אַדְמַתְכֶ֗ם	'ad.mat.Khem	ground your	H127 →
לְנֶגְדְּכֶם֙	le.neg.de.Khem	to before you	H5048 →
זָרִים֙	za.Rim	strangers	H2114 →
אֹכְלִ֣ים	'o.khe.Lim	[are] devouring	H398 →
אֹתָ֔הּ	'o.Tah	<obj.> it	H853 →
וּשְׁמָמָ֖ה	u.she.ma.Mah	and desolation	H8077 →
כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֥ת	ke.mah.pe.Khat	[is] like [the] overthrow of	H4114 →
זָרִֽים׃	za.Rim	strangers	H2114 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hosea 7:9
Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.
leads to
- Hosea 8:7
  For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
Through
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
leads to
- Zephaniah 1:13
  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.
- Deuteronomy 28:30–68
  You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not…
- Psalms 79:1–2
  The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
Through
Deuteronomy 28:43
The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:13
  The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I…
- 1 Samuel 13:19–23
  And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.”
Through
Deuteronomy 28:33
A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
leads to
- Jeremiah 5:17
  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…
Through
Ezekiel 30:12
I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have…
leads to
- Ezekiel 29:3
  Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says,…