Isaiah 1:7 Meaning
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.
Context Explained
5Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6From 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.
7Your 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.
8And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9Except 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.
Key Themes
Related Cross References
Matthew 23:38
Jesus laments over Jerusalem's desolation, echoing the themes of Isaiah.
Lamentations 1:1
Both verses describe the desolation of a city due to sin.
Revelation 18:2
The fall of Babylon parallels the desolation described in Isaiah.
Source: Isaiah 1:7