Isaiah 27:10
Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
Context
This verse from Isaiah Chapter 27 connects to 10 cross-references. God will slay Leviathan and in that day the vineyard of choice wine will flourish. Israel's sin will be atoned for when altars are made like chalk scattered. Those driven into exile will worship the Lord on the holy mountain …
Other Translations
For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
For the fenced city <FI>is<Fi> alone, A habitation cast out and forsaken as a wilderness, There doth the calf delight, And there it lieth down, And hath consumed its branches.
For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.
Cross References
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be …
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in …
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to …
In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because …
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them …
And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers …
And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without …
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.