Isa 1:7, 18:2, 36:1, 52:4-5, 56:9, Jer 50:17, 51:34-35, 52:4-11 | ESV | STEP | Your country lies desolate ; your cities are burned with fire ; in your very presence foreigners devour your land ; it is desolate , as overthrown by foreigners .

Isaiah 1:7

7 ^aYour country lies desolate;
your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
foreigners devour your land;
it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.

Isaiah 18:2

2 which ^bsends ambassadors by the sea,
in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation ^ctall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
a nation ^dmighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide.

Isaiah 36:1

Sennacherib Invades Judah

1 ^eIn the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, ^fSennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

Isaiah 52:4-5

4 For thus says the Lord God: ^g“My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing. ^{▼▼Or the Assyrian has oppressed them of late} 5 Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and ⁱcontinually all the day my name is despised.

Isaiah 56:9

Israel’s Irresponsible Leaders

9 ^jAll you beasts of the field, come to devour—
all you beasts in the forest.

Jeremiah 50:17

17 ^k“Israel is a hunted sheep ^ldriven away by lions. ^mFirst the king of Assyria ⁿdevoured him, and now at last ^oNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon ^phas gnawed his bones.

Jeremiah 51:34-35

34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon ^qhas devoured me;
he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
^rhe has swallowed me like ^sa monster;
he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
he has rinsed me out. ^{▼▼Or he has expelled me}
35 The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon,”
let the inhabitant of Zion say.
“My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
let Jerusalem say.

Jeremiah 52:4-11

4 ^uAnd in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it. 5 So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 6 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah. 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. 9 Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him. 10 The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at ^vRiblah. 11 ^wHe put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison ^xtill the day of his death.