Isaiah 64:10

10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a wasteland.

Isaiah 64:10 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 64:10

Thy holy cities are a wilderness
Meaning either Zion, the city of David, and Jerusalem; the one called the upper, the other the lower city; now uninhabited, and a mere wilderness: or else the other cities of Judea, in which were formerly synagogues for religious service, and in which dwelt many godly families where the worship of God was kept up; but now a desert, at least quite devoid of true religion and godliness. Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation;
which are either explanative of the holy cities in the preceding clauses, or are mentioned as distinct from them; the account proceeding from the lesser to the metropolitan cities, which fared no better than they did, but equally lay desolate; and which fulfilled the prophecy in ( Micah 3:12 ) and was the case of those cities, at the destruction of them by Titus; and to this day are in a ruinous condition in the hands of the Turks.

Isaiah 64:10 In-Context

8 But now, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter. All of us are the work of your hand.

9 Don't rage so fiercely, LORD; don't hold our sins against us forever, but gaze now on your people, all of us:

10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a wasteland.

11 Our holy, glorious house, where our ancestors praised you, has gone up in flames; all that we treasured has become a ruin.

12 After all this, will you hold back, LORD? Will you keep silent and torment us so terribly?