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Isaiah 64:10

Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.

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ASV

Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

KJV

Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
עָרֵ֥י'a.Rei[the] cities ofH5892 →
קָדְשְׁךָ֖kod.she.chaholiness yourH6944 →
הָי֣וּha.Yuthey have beenH1961 →
מִדְבָּ֑רmid.Bara wildernessH4057 →
צִיּוֹן֙tzi.yOnZionH6726 →
מִדְבָּ֣רmid.Bara wildernessH4057 →
הָיָ֔תָהha.Ya.tahit has beenH1961 →
יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖םye.ru.sha.LimJerusalemH3389 →
שְׁמָמָֽה׃she.ma.Mah[is] a desolationH8077 →

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Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.Daniel 9:2in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.Luke 21:24They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.Daniel 12:7And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed.”Lamentations 2:4–8He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.Lamentations 5:18because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.2 Chronicles 36:19–21Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.Daniel 9:26–27Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.Revelation 11:1–2Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the number of worshipers there.2 Kings 25:9He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.Micah 3:12Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.Lamentations 1:1–4How 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.Psalms 79:1–7The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.Ezekiel 6:6Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.Hosea 2:3Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.Isaiah 14:17who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”Isaiah 27:10For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.Isaiah 49:21Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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