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Isaiah 6:11

Isaiah 6:11 is verse 11 of Isaiah chapter 6, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,

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King James Version

Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

World English Bible

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,

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Isaiah 6:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible

9 And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’

10 Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

11 Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,

12 until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken.

13 And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”

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Hebrew words

וָאֹמַ֕רand I said עַדuntil מָתַ֖יwhen?אֲדֹנָ֑יO Lord וַיֹּ֡אמֶרand he said עַ֣דuntil אֲשֶׁר֩that אִם<if>שָׁא֨וּthey have lain desolate עָרִ֜יםcities מֵאֵ֣יןfrom not יוֹשֵׁ֗בinhabitant וּבָתִּים֙and houses מֵאֵ֣יןfrom not אָדָ֔םanyone וְהָאֲדָמָ֖הand the ground תִּשָּׁאֶ֥הit will be devastated שְׁמָמָֽהa desolation

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 74:10
How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?

Psalms 90:13
Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

Psalms 94:3
How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult?

Isaiah 1:7
Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.

Isaiah 3:26
And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

Isaiah 24:1
Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—

Isaiah 24:2
people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

Isaiah 24:3
The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.

Isaiah 24:4
The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.

Isaiah 24:5
The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 24:6
Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

Isaiah 24:7
The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.

Isaiah 24:8
The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.

Isaiah 24:9
They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.

Isaiah 24:10
The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

Isaiah 24:11
In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.

Isaiah 24:12
The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.

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