Translations
Modern
Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
Traditional
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.
Literal
Your land is a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, your ground in front of you, strangers devour it, and it is a desolation, as overthrown by strangers.
Latin
Terra vestra deserta; civitates vestræ succensæ igni: regionem vestram coram vobis alieni devorant, et desolabitur sicut in vastitate hostili.
Original
Hebrew
English
Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
Notes
land … cities: By 701 BC, the Assyrians had destroyed the infrastructure, captured cities, and devastated the fields (see Isaiah 64:10). This fulfilled Isaiah’s prophecy (Isaiah 6:11–13).
Those who survived the Assyrian attack learned to heed later warnings of exile to Babylon (Isaiah 39:6–7). God fulfills his promises, so his warning of judgment on all nations is certain.
Theme notes and profiles
Events
- Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC
Parallels
Glossary
Topics
Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Church: Backslidden Cities were Frequently: Burned National Sins: Kingdom of Judah Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments The Jews: Punished For: Transgressing the Law War: Often Attended by Devastation