Isaiah 6:12
Good News Translation
I will send the people far away and make the whole land desolate.

New Revised Standard Version
until the LORD sends everyone far away, and vast is the emptiness in the midst of the land.

Contemporary English Version
and I have sent them far away, leaving their land in ruins.

New American Bible
Until the LORD sends the people far away, and great is the desolation in the midst of the land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord shall remove men far away, and she shall be multiplied that was left in the midst of the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord shall remove men far away, and she shall be multiplied that was left in the midst of the earth.

the Lord

Isaiah 26:15 Thou hast been favourable to the nation, O Lord, thou hast been favourable to the nation: art thou glorified? thou hast removed all the ends of the earth far off.

2 Kings 25:11,21 And Nabuzardan, the commander of the army, carried away the rest of the people, that remained in the city, and the fugitives, that had gone over to the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the common people. . . .

Jeremiah 15:4 And I will give them up to the rage of all the kingdoms of the earth: because of Manasses the son of Ezechias the king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 52:28-30 This is the people whom Nabuchodonosor carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews. . . .

a great

Jeremiah 4:29 At the voice of the horsemen, and the archers, all the city is fled away: they have entered into thickets and climbed up the rocks: all the cities are forsaken, and there dwelleth not a man in them.

Jeremiah 12:7 I have forsaken my house, I have left my inheritance: I have given my dear soul into the hand of her enemies.

Lamentations 5:20 Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?

Romans 11:1,2,15 I say then: Hath God cast away his people? God forbid! For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. . . .

Context
Isaiah's Commission
11And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate. 12And the Lord shall remove men far away, and she shall be multiplied that was left in the midst of the earth.13And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and as an oak that spreadeth its branches: that which shall stand therein, shall be a holy seed.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:64
The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone.

Isaiah 5:9
These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: Unless many great and fair houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant.

Isaiah 13:12
A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the finest of gold.

Jeremiah 4:29
At the voice of the horsemen, and the archers, all the city is fled away: they have entered into thickets and climbed up the rocks: all the cities are forsaken, and there dwelleth not a man in them.

Jeremiah 52:27
And the king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death in Reblatha, in the land of Emath: and Juda was carried away captive out of his land.

Zephaniah 1:3
I will gather man, and beast, I will gather the birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea: and the ungodly shall meet with ruin: and I will destroy men from off the face of the land, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 6:11
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