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Isa. 64:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

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Wilderness,

Zion; Sion; Mount Zion

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Isa. 1:7• ⁷Your country [is] desolate; your cities [are] burned with fire; your ground, strangers devour it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, as overthrown by strangers. (Isa. 1:7)

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2 Kings 25:9• ⁹{i}and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; and every great man's house he burned with fire.{/i} (2 Kings 25:9)

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2 Chron. 36:19‑21• ¹⁹{i}And they burned the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all the palaces thereof with fire, and all the precious vessels thereof were given up to destruction.{/i}
²⁰{i}And them that had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; and they became servants to him and his sons, until the reign of the kingdom of Persia;{/i}
²¹{i}to fulfil the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbath,{/i} for as long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath to fulfil seventy years. (2 Chron. 36:19‑21)

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Psa. 79:1‑7• ¹A psalm of Asaph.{HR}O God, nations are come into thine inheritance,{HR}The temple of thy holiness have they defiled,{HR}They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
²They have given the dead bodies of thy servants{HR}For meat to the birds of the heavens,{HR}The flesh of thy saints to the beasts of the earth.
³They have shed their blood, as the waters, round about Jerusalem,{HR}And there was none to bury.
⁴We are become a reproach to our neighbours,{HR}A mockery and derision to those round about us.
⁵How long, Jehovah? wilt thou be angry forever?{HR}Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
⁶Pour out thy fury upon the nations that have not known thee,{HR}And upon the kingdoms that called not on thy name.
⁷For they have devoured Jacob{HR}And laid waste his habitation. (Psa. 79:1‑7)

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Lam. 1:1‑4• ¹{i}How{/i} {i}doth the city sit solitary that was full of people!{HR}She that was great among the nations is become as a widow;{HR}The princess among the provinces is become tributary!{/i}
²{i}She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks;{HR}Among all her lovers she hath no comforter;{HR}All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.{/i}
³{i}Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude;{HR}She dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest:{HR}All her pursuers have overtaken her within the straits.{/i}
⁴{i}The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly:{HR}All her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her virgins are in grief;{HR}And as for her, she is in bitterness.{/i} (Lam. 1:1‑4)

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Lam. 2:4‑8• ⁴He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary,{HR}And slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion:{HR}He poured out his fury like fire.
⁵The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel,{HR}He hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strongholds,{HR}And hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
⁶And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden:{HR}He hath destroyed his places of the assembly.{HR}Jehovah hath caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion,{HR}And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
⁷The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary,{HR}He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces;{HR}They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as in the day of a solemn feast.
⁸Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion:{HR}He hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying:{HR}Therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. (Lam. 2:4‑8)

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Lam. 5:18• ¹⁸Because of the mount of Zion which is desolate, foxes walk about on it. (Lam. 5:18)

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Dan. 9:26‑27• ²⁶After the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
²⁷He shall confirm covenant with the many for one week; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the wing of abominations, [there shall be] a desolator, even until the consummation, and that determined, shall be poured upon the desolate. (Dan. 9:26‑27)

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Dan. 12:7• ⁷{i}And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river; and he held up his right hand and his left hand unto the heavens, and swore by him that liveth forever that it is for a time, times, and a half; and when the scattering of the power of the holy people shall be accomplished, all these things shall be finished.{/i} (Dan. 12:7)

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Mic. 3:12• ¹²Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. (Mic. 3:12)

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Luke 21:21,24• ²¹Then let those who are in Judea flee unto the mountains, and those in the midst of it depart out, and those in the fields not enter into it.
²⁴And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by [the] nations until [the] times of [the] nations be fulfilled. (Luke 21:21,24)

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Rev. 11:1‑2• ¹And there was given me a reed like a rod, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those that worship therein.
²And the court that is without the temple cast out, and measure it not; for it was given to the nations: and the holy city shall they tread forty [and] two months. (Rev. 11:1‑2)

• The desolations mentioned in verses 10 and 11 strike us as being stated prophetically, for though the king of Assyria ravaged the cities of Judah in the days of Hezekiah, he was not allowed to take Jerusalem nor burn the temple. (“Isaiah 64:4-65:12” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

W. Kelly Translation

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Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.