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Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, And it is desolate, As overthrown by strangers.
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Sin's Tangible Destruction
Commentators explain that the desolate country and burned cities are not random tragedies but the direct, physical consequences of Judah's spiritual rebellion. Isaiah moves from a figurative description of a sick body (v. 6) to the literal devastation of the land, showing how national sin leads to national ruin, fulfilling warnings given centuries earlier in Leviticus and Deuteronomy.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 (…
19th Century
Anglican
Your country is desolate...—It is natural to take the words as describing the actual state of things when the prophet wro…
Baptist
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 …
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16th Century
Protestant
Your country is desolate. Literally, it is desolation; and thus Isaiah goes on to speak more fully and plainly of what he had alr…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Your country [is] desolate Or "shall be"; this is either a declaration in proper terms of what is before figurativel…
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
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…
