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Jesaja 1:7

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7 Uw aardrijk is een verwoesting, uw steden zijn met het vuur verbrand; uw land verteren de vreemden in uw tegenwoordigheid, en een verwoesting is er, als een omkering door de vreemden.

Jesaja 1:7 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 1:7

Your country [is] desolate
Or "shall be"; this is either a declaration in proper terms of what is before figuratively expressed, or rather a prophecy of what would be their case on account of transgressions; and which had its accomplishment partly in the Babylonish captivity, and fully in the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans; when not only their city and temple, called their house, ( Matthew 23:38 ) , were left unto them desolate, but the whole land; and they were carried captive, and scattered among the nations, where they have been ever since: your cities [are,
or shall be, burned with fire;
as, Jerusalem has been, and other cities in Judea, ( Matthew 22:7 ) your land, strangers devour it in your presence;
before their eyes, and it would not be in their power to prevent it; meaning either the Babylonians or the Romans, or both, and especially the latter, who were strangers and aliens from the commonwealth of Israel: and [it is] desolate, as overthrown by strangers;
who ravage, plunder, and destroy all they meet with, and spare nothing, not intending to settle there, as those who are near do, when they conquer a neighbouring nation. Some think this prophecy was delivered in the times of Ahaz, and refers to the desolation in his time, ( 2 Chronicles 28:17-19 ) but rather, as Joel and Amos prophesied before Isaiah, he may refer to those desolating judgments, they speak of, by the locusts, caterpillars, and fire, ( Joel 1:4 Joel 1:10-12 Joel 1:17-20 ) ( Amos 4:6 Amos 4:11 ) but to consider the words as a prediction of what should be in after times seems best; and so the Arabic version reads the words, "your land shall be desolate, your cities shall be burnt with fire, and your country strangers shall devour before you"; or shall be as overthrown by strangers, being overflown with a flood or storm of rain; so Abendana F4.


FOOTNOTES:

F4 As if it was (Mrz) , which signifies a flood, or overflowing of water, Hab. iii. 10. to which sense Aben Ezra inclines; so Schultens in Job xxiv. 8.
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Jesaja 1:7 In-Context

5 Waartoe zoudt gij meer geslagen worden? Gij zoudt des afvals des te meer maken; het ganse hoofd is krank, en het ganse hart is mat.
6 Van de voetzool af tot het hoofd toe is er niets geheels aan hetzelve; maar wonden, en striemen, en etterbuilen, die niet uitgedrukt noch verbonden zijn, en geen derzelve is met olie verzacht.
7 Uw aardrijk is een verwoesting, uw steden zijn met het vuur verbrand; uw land verteren de vreemden in uw tegenwoordigheid, en een verwoesting is er, als een omkering door de vreemden.
8 En de dochter van Sion is overgebleven als een hutje in den wijngaard, als een nachthutje in den komkommerhof als een belegerde stad.
9 Zo niet de HEERE der heirscharen ons nog een weinig overblijfsel had gelaten, als Sodom zouden wij geworden zijn; wij zouden Gomorra gelijk zijn geworden.
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.

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