Verse of the Day
Author Spotlight
Loading featured author...
Report Issue
See a formatting issue or error?
Let us know →
Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Verse Takeaways
1
Ruin as a Consequence of Sin
Commentators like Matthew Henry and John Calvin frame this verse within a larger confession. The desolation of Jerusalem and Zion was not a random disaster but a direct consequence of the people's sin. This shows that an outward profession of holiness, like having 'holy cities,' provides no defense against the ruin brought by iniquity.
See 3 Verse Takeaways
Book Overview
Isaiah
Author
Audience
Composition
Teaching Highlights
Outline
+ 5 more
See Overview
7
18th Century
Presbyterian
Your holy cities are a wilderness - It is to be remembered that this is supposed to be spoken near the close of the exile in Babylo…
19th Century
Anglican
Your holy cities ... —There is no other instance of the plural, and this probably led the Septuagint and Vulgate to subst…
Baptist
We are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: …
Go ad-free and create your own bookmark library
16th Century
Protestant
The cities of thy holiness. The Church again recounts her miseries, so that she may move God to mercy and obtain pardon. She says that the…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Your holy cities are a wilderness Meaning either Zion, the city of David, and Jerusalem; the one called the upper, t…
The people of God, in affliction, confess and bewail their sins, acknowledging themselves unworthy of His mercy. Sin is that abominable thing which…
Get curated content & updates
13th Century
Catholic
O that you would rend. Here the prophet offers a petition.
First, he asks for the presence of the judge; second, he asks …
