Isaiah 1:7

‘All its land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and nothing sprouting, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’

Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen, Because their tongue and their deeds are against Yahweh, To rebel against His glorious presence.

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He said, “Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant, Houses are without people, And the land is devastated to desolation,

For wickedness burns like a fire; It consumes briars and thorns; It even sets the thickets of the forest aflame, And they roll upward in a column of smoke.

“For your devastated and desolate places and your destroyed land— Surely now you will be too cramped for the inhabitants, And those who swallowed you will be far away.

“Instead of being forsaken and hated With no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, A joy from generation to generation.

Yahweh has sworn by His right hand and by His strong arm, “I will never again give your grain as food for your enemies; Nor will foreigners drink your new wine for which you have labored.”

Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

“A lion has gone up from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations has set out; He has gone out from his place To make your land a desolation. Your cities will be turned into ruins Without inhabitant.

“Then I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land will become a waste place.

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.

therefore, behold, I am going to give you to the sons of the east for a possession, and they will set their encampments among you and make their dwellings among you; they will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

Strangers devour his power, Yet he does not know it; Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him, Yet he does not know it.

“And I will cut off the cities of your land And pull down all your fortifications.

“So also I will make you sick, striking you down, Desolating you because of your sins.