7 aYour country is desolate,
Your cities are burned with fire;
Strangers devour your land in your presence;
And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Your cities are burned with fire;
Strangers devour your land in your presence;
And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8 So the daughter of Zion is left aas a booth in a vineyard,
As a hut in a garden of cucumbers,
bAs a besieged city.
As a hut in a garden of cucumbers,
bAs a besieged city.
9 aUnless the Lord of hosts
Had left to us a very small remnant,
We would have become like bSodom,
We would have been made like Gomorrah.
Had left to us a very small remnant,
We would have become like bSodom,
We would have been made like Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the Lord,
You rulers aof Sodom;
Give ear to the law of our God,
You people of Gomorrah:
You rulers aof Sodom;
Give ear to the law of our God,
You people of Gomorrah:
11 “To what purpose is the multitude of your asacrifices to Me?”
Says the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
And the fat of fed cattle.
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
Or of lambs or goats.
Says the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
And the fat of fed cattle.
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
Or of lambs or goats.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Commentaries:
No entry exists in Adam Clarke for Isaiah 1:9.
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