Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
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
The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon
Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.
At that time King Ahaz sent for help from the king of Assyria.
you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place
So the LORD his God delivered Ahaz into the hand of the king of Aram, who attacked him and took many captives to Damascu
Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour.
For every trampling boot of battle and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.
Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”
Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that
Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.
and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.
The young lions have roared at him; they have sounded their voices. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in rui
The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.
When they are decreased and humbled by oppression, evil, and sorrow,
Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will te