Isaiah 6:12 “until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsake…”

Isaiah 6:12

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

World English Bible

and the LORD has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within the land.

American Standard Version

and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the Lord haue remoued men farre away, and there be a great desolation in the mids of the land.

Darby Translation

and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the solitude be great in the midst of the land.

Young's Literal Translation

And Jehovah hath put man far off, And great [is] the forsaken part in the heart of the land.

Bible in Basic English

And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.

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Cross references

“the Lord”

Isaiah 26:15 2 Kings 25:11 2 Kings 25:21 Jeremiah 15:4 Jeremiah 52:28–30

Isaiah 26:15 · BSB

You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; You have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for Yourself; You have extended all the borders of the land.

2 Kings 25:11 · BSB

Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the population.

2 Kings 25:21 · BSB

There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.

Jeremiah 15:4 · BSB

I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 52:28–30 · BSB

These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;

“a great”

Jeremiah 4:29 Jeremiah 12:7 Lamentations 5:20 Romans 11:15 Romans 11:1 Romans 11:2

Jeremiah 4:29 · BSB

Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.

Jeremiah 12:7 · BSB

I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies.

Lamentations 5:20 · BSB

Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?

Romans 11:15 · BSB

For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

Romans 11:1 · BSB

I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

Romans 11:2 · BSB

God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:

Also

Deuteronomy 28:64

Deuteronomy 28:64 · BSB

Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Then 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,

13And 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.”

Read Isaiah 6