Devine Scripture

Isaiah 27:10

Isaiah chapter 27 · verse 10 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

Context

v.9Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

v.10This passage

v.11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Luke 21:20

    But when ye see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that her desolation is at hand.

  • Isaiah 7:25

    And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.

  • Isaiah 17:2

    The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

  • Isaiah 5:9

    In mine ears saith Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

  • Lamentations 5:18

    For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.

  • Isaiah 64:10

    Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.