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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.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

Your country is desolate - This is the literal statement of what he had just affirmed by a figure. In this, there was much art. The figure (…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

Your country is desolate...—It is natural to take the words as describing the actual state of things when the prophet wro…

Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon

CharlesSpurgeon

19th Century
Baptist
19th Century

Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot …

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

Your country is desolate. Literally, it is desolation; and thus Isaiah goes on to speak more fully and plainly of what he had alr…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

Your country [is] desolate
Or "shall be"; this is either a declaration in proper terms of what is before figurativel…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

Isaiah signifies, "The salvation of the Lord"—a very suitable name for this prophet, who prophesies so much about Jesus the Savior and His salvatio…

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas

ThomasAquinas

13th Century
Catholic
13th Century

1. Hear, O you heavens, and give ear, O earth. Here begins the discourse of this book. From this point, it will be divided a…

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