Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

7 Your country is a desolation, your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is a desolation, like an overthrow of strangers.

8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a ’tent in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

[*](2. ‘nourished and brought up,’ cf. ch. xxiii. 4. Or, ‘made great and set on high.’ Cf. Ezek. xxxi.)[*](4 fin. Lit. ‘they are estranged backward’: ‘abalienati sunt Vulg. Cf. xlii. 17.)[*](5. ‘revolt more and more,’ Heb. ‘add revolt.’ ‘the whole,’ head...every heart,’ as the Greek.)[*](8. ‘tent,’ or, ‘hut.’ Cf. xxiv. 20)
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9 Except the LORD of Hosts had left us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.