Isaiah 1:7 — Bible Verse (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.”

Isaiah 1:7 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Isaiah 1:7 in 6 Bible Translations

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Isaiah 1:7 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

“Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.”

Isaiah 1:7 — World English Bible

Isaiah 1:7 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

“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 — American Standard Version

Isaiah 1:7 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“Your land <FI>is<Fi> a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, Your ground, before you strangers are consuming it, And a desolation as overthrown by strangers!”

Isaiah 1:7 — Young's Literal Translation

Isaiah 1:7 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers eat it up in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. ”

Isaiah 1:7 — Darby Translation

Isaiah 1:7 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“Your land is waste: your cities are burnt with fire: strangers deuoure your lande in your presence, and it is desolate like the ouerthrowe of strangers.”

Isaiah 1:7 — Geneva Bible

Isaiah 1:7 in Context — Isaiah 1

5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

6 From 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.

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.

8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

9 Except 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.

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What Does Isaiah 1:7 Mean?

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