Isaiah 1:7
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.
Cross-reference
Isaiah 24:10-12 depicts a city in chaos and desolation, a later expansion on the same judgment theme.
Isaiah 6:11 echoes the same desolation of cities and land, reinforcing the certainty of judgment.
Isaiah 5:5 describes God removing protection, leaving the vineyard to be devoured — a parallel judgment of land desolation.
Isaiah 5:6 intensifies the waste with thorns and drought, mirroring the desolation of the land in 1:7.
Isaiah 5:9 foretells houses desolate without inhabitant, matching the burned cities and foreign invasion.
Isaiah 64:10 laments Jerusalem as desolate and Zion a wilderness, directly reflecting the desolation of 1:7.
Isaiah 42:22 describes the people as plundered and trapped, matching the foreign plundering in 1:7.
Isaiah 36:1 records the Assyrian invasion that historically fulfills the judgment proclaimed in 1:7.
Isaiah 33:9 portrays the land mourning and withering, directly echoing the desolation of 1:7.
Isaiah 5:13 traces the same judgment to exile and famine, showing the cause of the desolation in 1:7.
Isaiah 34:9 turns Edom's land into burning pitch—a heightened, symbolic version of the land devastation seen historically in Isaiah 1:7.
Isaiah 5:17 shows strangers eating in waste places—the same 'strangers devour' outcome of Isaiah 1:7 played out in a pastoral scene.
Jeremiah 6:8 warns Jerusalem of desolation if untaught—using the same language as Isaiah 1:7's accomplished judgment to call for repentance.
Jeremiah 2:15 echoes Isaiah 1:7 almost verbatim—'land waste, cities burned without inhabitant'—reinforcing the same judgment.
Psalm 107:34 states the same principle: fruitful land turns barren because of wickedness—confirming why Isaiah 1:7's desolation occurred.
2 Chronicles 28:16-21 recounts Ahaz's alliance with Assyria—foreign invasion and oppression that historically fulfills the desolation Isaiah 1:7 describes.
Lamentations 5:2 laments inheritance turned over to strangers and homes to aliens — directly echoing the foreign devouring in Isaiah.
Deuteronomy 28:51 warns of foreigners consuming the land's produce, exactly the invasion described here.
Deuteronomy 28:48-52 lists covenant curses including a foreign nation devouring the land — here Isaiah sees that curse fulfilled.
Deuteronomy 28:33 is a covenant curse: a foreign nation eats the land's produce—exactly what 'strangers devour it' in Isaiah 1:7 fulfills.
Leviticus 26:34 connects land desolation to Sabbath rest — a covenant curse that Isaiah's prophecy sees fulfilled.
Hosea 7:9 says 'foreigners devour his strength' — nearly identical complaint against Israel, reinforcing the same judgment.
Leviticus 26:32 continues with the land becoming desolate so that enemies are astonished — same covenant curse being realized.
Jeremiah 4:7 warns of a lion/destroyer making the land desolate and cities waste, same imagery as 1:7.
Deuteronomy 28:52 foretells siege reducing high walls — part of the same curse list, specifying the military invasion causing desolation.
Leviticus 26:31 threatens that God will lay waste cities and sanctuaries — directly matching the burned cities in Isaiah.
Luke 13:35 applies the same 'house left desolate' language to Jesus' lament over Jerusalem's coming judgment, echoing this verse's desolation.
Jeremiah 7:34 says the land will become a waste with joyful voices silenced, echoing the desolation in 1:7.