Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageYour land is a wasteland; your cities consumed by fire; right before your eyes, strangers are devouring your fields — utter desolation, as when overthrown by an enemy horde.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GYour land lies desolate; your cities are gutted by fire; your soil is devoured by strangers right before your eyes — a wasteland, like the devastation left by foreign invaders.
KJV
King James VersionYour country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleYour land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
Footnotes
כְּמַהְפֵּכַת זָרִים (kemahpekhat zarim) — "like the overthrow of strangers": textually debated. Some commentators, noting the explicit Sodom comparison in vv.9–10, suggest the original read כִּמְהַפֵּכַת סְדֹם ("like the overthrow of Sodom"), the MT's זָרִים ("strangers/foreigners") being a later substitution. Both versions follow the MT as it stands, which fits the 8th-century Assyrian context; the Sodom reading would make this a veiled echo that vv.9–10 then make explicit.
