Isaiah 6:12
New International Version
until the LORD has sent everyone far away and the land is utterly forsaken.

New Living Translation
until the LORD has sent everyone away, and the entire land of Israel lies deserted.

English Standard Version
and the LORD removes people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

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

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

New King James Version
The LORD has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

New American Standard Bible
The LORD has completely removed people, And there are many forsaken places in the midst of the land.

NASB 1995
“The LORD has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

NASB 1977
“The LORD has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Yahweh has removed men far away, And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

Amplified Bible
The LORD has removed [His] people far away, And there are many deserted places in the midst of the land.

Christian Standard Bible
and the LORD drives the people far away, leaving great emptiness in the land.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and the LORD drives the people far away, leaving great emptiness in the land.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And LORD JEHOVAH shall remove men and shall increase desertion within the land

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And after this God shall remove the men far off, and they that are left upon the land shall be multiplied.

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

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.

English Revised Version
and the LORD have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD will send his people far away, and a large area in the middle of the land will be abandoned.

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

International Standard Version
Until the LORD removes people far away, and there are many empty places in the middle of the land.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the LORD have removed men far away, And the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land.

Literal Standard Version
And YHWH has put man far off, | And the forsaken part [is] great in the heart of the land.

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

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

NET Bible
and the LORD has sent the people off to a distant place, and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned.

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

New Heart English Bible
and the LORD has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD shall have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

World English Bible
and Yahweh has removed men far away, and the forsaken places are many within 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.

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Context
Isaiah's Commission
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, 12until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken. 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.”…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:64
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.

Isaiah 5:9
I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: "Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

Isaiah 13:12
I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.

Jeremiah 4:29
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 52:27
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.

Zephaniah 1:3
"I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth," declares the LORD.


Treasury of Scripture

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

the Lord

Isaiah 26:15
Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.

2 Kings 25:11,21
Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away…

Jeremiah 15:4
And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

a great

Jeremiah 4:29
The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.

Jeremiah 12:7
I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

Lamentations 5:20
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

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(12) And the Lord have removed men far away.--The words point to the policy of deportation adopted by the Assyrian kings. From the first hour of Isaiah's call the thought of an exile and a return from exile was the key-note of his teaching, and of that thought thus given in germ, his whole after-work was but a development, the horizon of his vision expanding and taking in the form of another empire than the Assyrian as the instrument of punishment.

And there be a great forsaking.--Better, great shall be the deserted space. (Comp. Isaiah 5:9; Isaiah 7:22-23.) The words may have connected themselves in Isaiah's thoughts with what he had heard before from the lips of Micah (Jeremiah 26:18; Micah 3:12).

Verse 12. - And the Lord have removed men far away. The Assyrian and Babylonian policy of deportation is pointed at. Pul had attacked the kingdom of Israel ten or twelve years before Uzziah's death, and had perhaps made the Assyrian policy known, though he had allowed himself to be bought off (2 Kings 15:19, 20). And there be a great forsaking; rather, and the desolation be great; i.e. till a great portion of Judah be depopulated.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
until the LORD
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3069: YHWH

has driven men
הָאָדָ֑ם (hā·’ā·ḏām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

far away,
וְרִחַ֥ק (wə·ri·ḥaq)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7368: To be or become far or distant

and the land
הָאָֽרֶץ׃ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

is utterly
וְרַבָּ֥ה (wə·rab·bāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7227: Much, many, great

forsaken.
הָעֲזוּבָ֖ה (hā·‘ă·zū·ḇāh)
Article | Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular
Strong's 5805: Forsakenness, desolation


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