John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:8
And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in the vineyard ,.... The Targum is, "after they have got in the vintage.' A cottage in the vineyard was a booth, as the word F5 כסכה ως σκηνη , Sept. signifies, which was erected in the middle of the vineyard for the keeper of the vineyard to watch in night and day, that the fruit might not be hurt by birds, or stolen by thieves, and was a very, lonely place; and when the clusters of the vine were gathered, this cottage or booth... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:7
Your country is desolate ,.... Or "shall be"; this is either a declaration in proper terms of what is before figuratively expressed, or rather a prophecy of what would be their case on account of transgressions; and which had its accomplishment partly in the Babylonish captivity, and fully in the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans; when not only their city and temple, called their house, Matthew 23:38 , were left unto them desolate, but the whole land; and they were carried captive,... read more