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Isaiah 1:7-9
Contemporary English Version
Isaiah 1:7-9
Contemporary English Version
A Country in Ruins
7 Your country lies in ruins;
your towns are in ashes.
Foreigners and strangers
take and destroy your land
while you watch.
8 Enemies surround Jerusalem,
alone like a hut
in a vineyard[a]
or in a cucumber field.
9 (A) Zion would have disappeared
like Sodom and Gomorrah,[b]
if the Lord All-Powerful
had not let a few
of its people survive.
Footnotes
- 1.8 a hut in a vineyard: When it was almost time for grapes to ripen, farmers would put up a temporary shelter or hut in the field or vineyard and stay there to keep thieves and wild animals away.
- 1.9 Sodom and Gomorrah: Two ancient cities of Palestine that God destroyed because the people were so wicked (see Genesis 19.1-29).
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