Isaiah 6:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,

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  • Isa 1:7 : 7 Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.
  • Isa 3:26 : 26 And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.
  • Isa 24:1-9 : 1 See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions. 2 And it will be the same for the people as for the priest; for the servant as for his master; and for the woman-servant as for her owner; the same for the one offering goods for a price as for him who takes them; the same for him who gives money at interest and for him who takes it; the same for him who lets others have the use of his property as for those who make use of it. 3 The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord. 4 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing. 5 The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken. 6 For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number. 7 The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief. 8 The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad. 9 There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it. 10 The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in. 11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone. 12 In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.
  • Lev 26:31 : 31 And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;
  • Ps 79:5 : 5 How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire?
  • Ps 90:13 : 13 Come back, O Lord; how long? let your purpose for your servants be changed.
  • Ps 94:3 : 3 How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?
  • Ps 74:10 : 10 O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

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    12And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.

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    6I have had the nations cut off, their towers are broken down; I have made their streets a waste so that no one goes through them: destruction has overtaken their towns, so that there is no man living in them.

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    11They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.

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    9The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.

  • Ezek 12:20-21
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    20And the peopled towns will be made waste, and the land will become a wonder; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

    21And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Jer 4:26-27
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    26Looking, I saw that the fertile field was a waste, and all its towns were broken down before the Lord and before his burning wrath.

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  • Jer 9:10-12
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    10Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.

    11And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.

    12Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?

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    7Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

  • Isa 24:3
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    3The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord.

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    1See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.

  • Jer 12:4
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    4How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

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    8Undergo teaching, O Jerusalem, or my soul will be turned away from you, and I will make you a waste, an unpeopled land.

  • Jer 33:10
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  • Ezek 35:9
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    9I will make you waste for ever, and your towns will be unpeopled: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

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    8Now while they were doing so, and I was untouched, I went down on my face, and crying out, I said, Ah, Lord! will you give all the rest of Israel to destruction in letting loose your wrath on Jerusalem?

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    32And I will make your land a waste, a wonder to your haters living in it.

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