Isaiah 1 - 39

The Wickedness of Judah

1 The a vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem b in the days of c Uzziah, d Jotham, e Ahaz, and f Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

2 g Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O h earth;
for the Lord has spoken:
"Children 1 i have I reared and brought up,
but they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox j knows its owner,
and the donkey its master's crib,
but Israel does j not know,
my people do not understand."

4 Ah, sinful nation,
a people laden with iniquity,
k offspring of evildoers,
children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the Lord,
they have l despised m the Holy One of Israel,
they are utterly n estranged.

5 Why will you still be o struck down?
Why will you p continue to rebel?
The whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint.
6 q From the sole of the foot even to the head,
there is no soundness in it,
but bruises and sores
and raw wounds;
they are r not pressed out or bound up
or softened with oil.

7 s Your country lies desolate;
your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
foreigners devour your land;
it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
8 And t the daughter of Zion is left
like a u booth in a vineyard,
like a lodge in a cucumber field,
like a besieged city.

9 v If the Lord of hosts
had not left us w a few survivors,
we should have been like x Sodom,
and become like x Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the Lord,
you rulers of y z Sodom!
Give ear to the teaching 2 of our God,
you people of z Gomorrah!
11 a "What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
and the fat of well-fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs, or of goats.

12 "When you come to b appear before me,
who has required of you
this trampling of my courts?
13 Bring no more vain offerings;
incense is an abomination to me.
c New moon and Sabbath and the d calling of convocations -
I cannot endure e iniquity and f solemn assembly.
14 Your c new moons and your appointed feasts
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you g spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
h even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
i your hands are full of blood.
16 j Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
k cease to do evil,
17 learn to do good;
l seek justice,
correct oppression;
m bring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow's cause.

18 "Come now, n let us reason 3 together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as o white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool.
19 p If you are willing and obedient,
you shall eat the good of the land;
20 but if you refuse and rebel,
you shall be eaten by the sword;
q for the mouth of the Lord has spoken."

The Unfaithful City

21 How the faithful city
r has become a whore, 4
s she who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
but now murderers.
22 t Your silver has become dross,
your best wine mixed with water.
23 Your princes are rebels
and companions of thieves.
Everyone u loves a bribe
and runs after gifts.
v They do not bring justice to the fatherless,
and the widow's cause does not come to them.

24 Therefore the w Lord declares,
the Lord of hosts,
the x Mighty One of Israel:
"Ah, I will get relief from my enemies
y and avenge myself on my foes.
25 z I will turn my hand against you
and will smelt away your a dross as with lye
and remove all your alloy.
26 And I will restore your judges b as at the first,
and your counselors as at the beginning.
Afterward c you shall be called the city of righteousness,
the faithful city."

27 d Zion shall be redeemed by justice,
and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
28 e But rebels and sinners shall be broken together,
and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
29 f For they 5 shall be ashamed of g the oaks
that you desired;
and you shall blush for h the gardens
that you have chosen.
30 For you shall be i like an oak
whose leaf withers,
and like a garden without water.
31 And the strong shall become j tinder,
and his work a spark,
and both of them shall burn together,
with k none to quench them.

Isaiah 2

The Mountain of the Lord

1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2 l It shall come to pass in the latter days
that m the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and n all the nations shall flow to it,
3 and o many peoples shall come, and say:
"Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
and that we may walk in his paths."
For p out of Zion shall go the law, 6
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 He shall judge between the nations,
and shall decide disputes for many peoples;
q and they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
r nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore.

5 O house of Jacob,
come, let us walk
in s the light of the Lord.

The Day of the Lord

6 For you have rejected your people,
the house of Jacob,
because they are full of things t from the east
and u of fortune-tellers v like the Philistines,
and they w strike hands with the children of foreigners.
7 Their land is x filled with silver and gold,
and there is no end to their treasures;
their land is y filled with horses,
and there is no end to their chariots.
8 Their land is z filled with idols;
they bow down to a the work of their hands,
to what their own fingers have made.
9 So man b is humbled,
and each one b is brought low -
do not forgive them!
10 c Enter into the rock
and hide in the dust
d from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty.
11 e The haughty looks of man shall be brought low,
and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

12 f For the Lord of hosts has a day
against all that is proud and lofty,
against all that is lifted up - and it shall be brought low;
13 against all the g cedars of Lebanon,
lofty and lifted up;
and against all the h oaks of Bashan;
14 against all i the lofty mountains,
and against all the uplifted hills;
15 against every high tower,
and against every fortified wall;
16 against all j the ships of Tarshish,
and against all the beautiful craft.
17 k And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled,
and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
18 l And the idols shall utterly pass away.
19 m And people shall enter the caves of the rocks
and the holes of the ground, 7
from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
n when he rises to terrify the earth.

20 In that day o mankind will cast away
their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
which they made for themselves to worship,
to the moles and to the p bats,
21 m to enter the caverns of the rocks
and the clefts of the cliffs,
from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of his majesty,
n when he rises to terrify the earth.
22 q Stop regarding man
r in whose nostrils is breath,
for of what account is he?

Isaiah 3

Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem

1 For behold, the s Lord God of hosts
is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah
support and supply, 8
all t support of bread,
and all support of water;
2 u the mighty man and the soldier,
the judge and the prophet,
the diviner and the elder,
3 the captain of fifty
and the man of rank,
the counselor and the skillful magician
and the expert in charms.
4 v And I will make boys their princes,
and infants 9 shall rule over them.
5 w And the people will oppress one another,
every one his fellow
and every one his neighbor;
the youth will be insolent to the elder,
and the despised to the honorable.

6 For x a man will take hold of his brother
in the house of his father, saying:
"You have a cloak;
you shall be our leader,
and this heap of ruins
shall be under your rule";
7 in that day he will speak out, saying:
"I will not be a y healer; 10
in my house there is neither bread nor cloak;
you shall not make me
leader of the people."
8 For Jerusalem has stumbled,
and Judah has fallen,
because their z speech and their deeds are against the Lord,
a defying his glorious presence. 11

9 For the look on their faces bears witness against them;
they proclaim their sin b like Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
c For they have brought evil on themselves.
10 d Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them,
e for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
11 f Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
12 My people - g infants are their oppressors,
and women rule over them.
O my people, h your guides mislead you
and they have swallowed up 12 the course of your paths.

13 The Lord i has taken his place to contend;
he stands to judge peoples.
14 The Lord will enter into judgment
with the j elders and princes of his people:
"It is you who k have devoured 13 the vineyard,
l the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What do you mean by m crushing my people,
by grinding the face of the poor?"
declares the Lord God of hosts.

16 The Lord said:
n Because o the daughters of Zion are haughty
and walk with outstretched necks,
glancing wantonly with their eyes,
mincing along as they go,
p tinkling with their feet,
17 therefore the Lord q will strike with a scab
the heads of o the daughters of Zion,
and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.

18 In that day the Lord will take away r the finery of the anklets, the s headbands, and the t crescents; 19 the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; 20 the u headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; 21 the signet rings and v nose rings; 22 the w festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags; 23 the mirrors, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.

24 Instead of x perfume there will be rottenness;
and instead of a y belt, a rope;
and instead of z well-set hair, a baldness;
and instead of a rich robe, a b skirt of sackcloth;
and c branding instead of beauty.
25 Your men shall fall by the sword
and your mighty men in battle.
26 And d her gates shall lament and mourn;
empty, she shall e sit on the ground.

Isaiah 4

1 f And seven women g shall take hold of f one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; h take away our reproach."

The Branch of the Lord Glorified

2 In that day i the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and j the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel. 3 k And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called l holy, everyone who has m been recorded for life in Jerusalem, 4 when n the Lord shall have washed away the filth of o the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by p a spirit of burning. 14 5 Then the Lord will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies q a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be r a canopy. 6 s There will be a t booth for shade by day from the heat, and u for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.

Isaiah 5

The Vineyard of the Lord Destroyed

1 Let me sing for my beloved
my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had v a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.
2 He dug it and cleared it of stones,
and planted it with w choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
and hewed out a wine vat in it;
and x he looked for it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.

3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
4 y What more was there to do for my vineyard,
that I have not done in it?
x When I looked for it to yield grapes,
why did it yield wild grapes?

5 And now I will tell you
what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove z its hedge,
and it shall be devoured; 15
a I will break down its wall,
and it shall be trampled down.
6 I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and b briers and thorns shall grow up;
c I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.

7 d For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
but behold, bloodshed; 16
for righteousness,
but behold, an outcry! 17

Woe to the Wicked

8 Woe to those who e join house to house,
who add field to field,
until there is no more room,
and you are made to dwell alone
in the midst of the land.
9 The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:
f "Surely many houses shall be desolate,
large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.
10 g For ten acres 18 of vineyard shall yield but one bath,
and a h homer of seed shall yield but an ephah." 19

11 Woe to those who i rise early in the morning,
that they may run after strong drink,
who tarry late into the evening
as wine inflames them!
12 j They have lyre and harp,
tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,
k but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord,
or see the work of his hands.

13 Therefore my people go into exile
l for lack of knowledge; 20
their m honored men go hungry, 21
and their multitude is parched with thirst.
14 Therefore Sheol has n enlarged its appetite
and opened o its mouth beyond measure,
and the nobility of Jerusalem 22 and her multitude will go down,
her revelers and he who p exults in her.
15 q Man is humbled, and each one is brought low,
and the eyes of the haughty 23 are brought low.
16 r But the Lord of hosts is exalted 24 in justice,
and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
17 Then shall the lambs graze s as in their pasture,
and t nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.

18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with u cords of falsehood,
who draw sin as with cart ropes,
19 who say: v "Let him be quick,
let him speed his work
that we may see it;
let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near,
and let it come, that we may know it!"
20 Woe to w those who call evil good
and good evil,
x who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are y wise in their own eyes,
and shrewd in their own sight!
22 Woe to those who are z heroes at drinking wine,
and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
23 who a acquit the guilty for a bribe,
and deprive the innocent of his right!

24 Therefore, b as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so c their root will be d as rottenness,
and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have e rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
and have f despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore g the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them,
and h the mountains quaked;
and their corpses were i as refuse
in the midst of the streets.
j For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.

26 He will k raise a signal for nations far away,
and l whistle for them m from the ends of the earth;
and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
27 n None is weary, none stumbles,
none slumbers or sleeps,
not a waistband is loose,
not a sandal strap broken;
28 o their arrows are sharp,
all their bows bent,
their horses' hoofs seem like flint,
and their wheels p like the whirlwind.
29 Their roaring is like a lion,
like young lions they roar;
they growl and q seize their prey;
they carry it off, and none can rescue.
30 They will growl over it on that day,
like the growling of the sea.
And if one looks to the land,
behold, r darkness and distress;
and the light is darkened by its clouds.

Isaiah 6

Isaiah's Vision of the Lord

1 In the year that s King Uzziah died I t saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train 25 of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had u six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

3 And one called to another and said:
u "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
v the whole earth is full of his glory!" 26

4 And w the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and x the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: "Woe is me! y For I am lost; z for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the a King, the Lord of hosts!"

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 And he b touched my mouth and said: "Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for."

Isaiah's Commission from the Lord

8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for c us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me."

9 And he said, "Go, and say to this people:
d "'Keep on hearing, 27 but do not understand;
keep on seeing, 28 but do not perceive.'
10 e Make the heart of this people f dull, 29
and their ears heavy,
and blind their eyes;
g lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed."
11 Then I said, h "How long, O Lord?"
And he said:
"Until i cities lie waste
without inhabitant,
and houses without people,
and the land is a desolate waste,
12 and the Lord removes people far away,
and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
13 j And though a tenth remain in it,
it will be burned 30 again,
like a terebinth or an oak,
whose stump k remains
when it is felled."
l The holy seed 31 is its stump.

Isaiah 7

Isaiah Sent to King Ahaz

1 In the days of m Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, n Rezin the king of Syria and n Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it. 2 When the house of David was told, o "Syria is in league with 32 p Ephraim," the heart of Ahaz 33 and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.

3 And the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out to meet Ahaz, you and q Shear-jashub 34 your son, at the end of r the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field. 4 And say to him, s 'Be careful, t be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two u smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and v the son of Remaliah. 5 Because Syria, with Ephraim and v the son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying, 6 "Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it 35 for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,"

7 thus says the Lord God:
w "'It shall not stand,
and it shall not come to pass.
8 For the head of Syria is x Damascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin.
And within sixty-five years
Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
and the head of Samaria is y the son of Remaliah.
z If you 36 are not firm in faith,
you will not be firm at all.'"

The Sign of Immanuel

10 Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, 11 "Ask a a sign of the Lord your 37 God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven." 12 But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not put the Lord to the test." 13 And he 38 said, "Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you b weary my God also? 14 Therefore the c Lord himself will give you a sign. d Behold, the e virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name f Immanuel. 39 15 He shall eat g curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good. 16 h For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be i deserted. 17 j The Lord will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house such days as have not come since the day that k Ephraim departed from Judah - the king of Assyria."

18 In that day the Lord will l whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and m in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures. 40

20 In that day n the Lord will o shave with a razor that is p hired beyond q the River - with the king of Assyria - the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.

21 r In that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep, 22 and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eat s curds and honey.

23 In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels 41 of silver, will become t briers and thorns. 24 u With bow and arrows a man will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns. 25 v And as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear t of briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.

Isaiah 8

The Coming Assyrian Invasion

1 Then the Lord said to me, "Take a large tablet w and write on it in common characters, 42 'Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.' 43 2 And x I will get reliable witnesses, y Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me."

3 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, z "Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz; 4 a for before the boy knows how to cry 'My father' or 'My mother,' the a wealth of b Damascus and the spoil of b Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria."

5 The Lord spoke to me again: 6 "Because this people has refused the waters of c Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over d Rezin and the son of Remaliah, 7 therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them e the waters of f the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it g will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks, 8 and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, h reaching even to the neck, and its i outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, j O Immanuel."

9 Be broken, 44 you peoples, and k be shattered; 45
give ear, all you far countries;
strap on your armor and be shattered;
strap on your armor and be shattered.
10 Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
speak a word, l but it will not stand,
for God m is with us. 46

Fear God, Wait for the Lord

11 For the Lord spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and n warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying: 12 "Do not call o conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and p do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. 13 But the Lord of hosts, q him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 14 And he will become a r sanctuary and s a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many t shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken."

16 Bind up u the testimony; v seal the teaching 47 among my disciples. 17 I will w wait for the Lord, who is x hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him. 18 y Behold, I and z the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion. 19 And when they say to you, "Inquire of the a mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter," should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of b the dead on behalf of the living? 20 c To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no d dawn. 21 They will pass through the land, 48 greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against 49 their king and their God, and turn their faces upward. 22 e And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into f thick darkness.

Isaiah 9

For to Us a Child Is Born

1 50 But there will be no g gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he h brought into contempt the land of i Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he j has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. 51

2 52 i The people k who walked in darkness
have seen a great light;
those who dwelt in a land of l deep darkness,
on them has light shined.
3 m You have multiplied the nation;
you have increased its joy;
they rejoice before you
as with n joy at the harvest,
as they o are glad p when they divide the spoil.
4 q For the yoke of his burden,
r and the staff for his shoulder,
the rod of his oppressor,
you have broken as s on the day of Midian.
5 t For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult
and every garment rolled in blood
will be burned as fuel for the fire.
6 u For to us a child is born,
to us v a son is given;
w and the government shall be x upon 53 his shoulder,
and his name shall be called 54
Wonderful y Counselor, z Mighty God,
a Everlasting b Father, Prince of c Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and of peace
d there will be no end,
on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
to establish it and to uphold it
e with justice and with righteousness
from this time forth and forevermore.
f The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

Judgment on Arrogance and Oppression

8 The Lord has sent a word against Jacob,
and it will fall on Israel;
9 and all the people will know,
g Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,
who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:
10 "The bricks have fallen,
but we will build with dressed stones;
the sycamores have been cut down,
but we will put cedars in their place."
11 But the Lord raises the adversaries of Rezin against him,
and stirs up his enemies.
12 h The Syrians on the east and i the Philistines on the west
devour Israel with open mouth.
j For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.

13 The people k did not turn to him who struck them,
nor inquire of the Lord of hosts.
14 So the Lord cut off from Israel l head and tail,
palm branch and reed in one day -
15 m the elder and honored man is the head,
and n the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;
16 for those who guide this people have been leading them astray,
and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.
17 Therefore the Lord does not o rejoice over their young men,
and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows;
for everyone is p godless and an evildoer,
and every mouth speaks q folly. 55
j For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.

18 For wickedness burns like r a fire;
it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts
the land is scorched,
and s the people are like fuel for the fire;
t no one spares another.
20 u They slice meat on the right, but are still hungry,
and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied;
v each devours the flesh of his own arm,
21 Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh;
together they are w against Judah.
x For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 10

1 Woe to those who y decree iniquitous decrees,
and the writers who z keep writing oppression,
2 to turn aside the needy from justice
and a to rob the poor of my people of their right,
that widows may be their spoil,
and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
3 What will you do on b the day of punishment,
in the ruin that will come c from afar?
To whom will you flee for help,
and where will you leave your wealth?
4 Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners
or fall among the slain.
d For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.

Judgment on Arrogant Assyria

5 Ah, Assyria, e the rod of my anger;
the staff in their hands is my fury!
6 Against a f godless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take g spoil and seize plunder,
and to h tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 But he i does not so intend,
and his heart does not so think;
but it is in his heart to destroy,
and to cut off nations not a few;
8 for he says:
j "Are not my commanders all kings?
9 k Is not l Calno like m Carchemish?
Is not n Hamath like o Arpad?
p Is not q Samaria like Damascus?
10 As my hand has reached to r the kingdoms of the idols,
whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11 shall I not do to Jerusalem and s her idols
t as I have done to Samaria and her images?"

12 u When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, v he 56 will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.

13 w For he says:
"By the strength of my hand I have done it,
and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I remove the boundaries of peoples,
and plunder their treasures;
like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
14 My hand has found like a nest
the wealth of the peoples;
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
so I have gathered all the earth;
and there was none that moved a wing
or opened the mouth or chirped."

15 Shall x the axe boast over him who hews with it,
or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?
As if a rod should wield him who lifts it,
or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
16 Therefore the Lord God of hosts
will send wasting sickness among his y stout warriors,
and under his glory z a burning will be kindled,
like the burning of fire.
17 a The light of Israel will become a fire,
and b his Holy One a flame,
and c it will burn and devour
his thorns and briers d in one day.
18 The glory of e his forest and of his f fruitful land
the Lord will destroy, both soul and body,
and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
19 The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few
that a child can write them down.

The Remnant of Israel Will Return

20 g In that day h the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more i lean on him who struck them, but j will lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. 21 A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, k to the mighty God. 22 l For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, m only a remnant of them will return. n Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness. 23 For the Lord God of hosts will make a full end, as decreed, in the midst of all the earth.

24 Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: "O my people, o who dwell in Zion, p be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as q the Egyptians did. 25 For r in a very little while my fury will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction. 26 And s the Lord of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck t Midian u at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it v as he did in Egypt. 27 And in that day w his burden will depart from your shoulder, and x his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat." 57

28 He has come to Aiath;
he has passed through y Migron;
at Michmash he stores z his baggage;
29 they have crossed over a the pass;
at b Geba they lodge for the night;
c Ramah trembles;
d Gibeah of Saul has fled.
30 Cry aloud, O daughter of e Gallim!
Give attention, O Laishah!
O poor f Anathoth!
31 Madmenah is in flight;
the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.
32 This very day he will halt at g Nob;
he will shake his fist
at the mount of h the daughter of Zion,
the hill of Jerusalem.

33 Behold, the Lord God of hosts
i will lop j the boughs with terrifying power;
the great in height will be hewn down,
and the lofty will be brought low.
34 He will cut down j the thickets of the forest with an axe,
and k Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One.

Isaiah 11

The Righteous Reign of the Branch

1 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of l Jesse,
and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
2 And m the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,
the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and might,
the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
3 And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
n He shall not judge by o what his eyes see,
or decide disputes by o what his ears hear,
4 but p with righteousness he shall judge the poor,
and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
and he shall q strike the earth with the rod of his mouth,
and r with the breath of his lips s he shall kill the wicked.
5 Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist,
and t faithfulness the belt of his loins.

6 u The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together;
and a little child shall lead them.
7 The cow and the bear shall graze;
their young shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra,
and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
9 u They shall not hurt or destroy
in all v my holy mountain;
w for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.

10 In that day x the root of y Jesse, who shall stand as z a signal for the peoples - of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.

11 a In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, b from Assyria, b from Egypt, from c Pathros, from d Cush, 58 from e Elam, from f Shinar, from g Hamath, and from h the coastlands of the sea.

12 He will raise z a signal for the nations
and will assemble i the banished of Israel,
and gather the dispersed of Judah
from the four corners of the earth.
13 j The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart,
and those who harass Judah shall be cut off;
Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah,
and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
14 k But they shall swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines in the west,
and together they shall plunder l the people of the east.
They shall put out their hand m against n Edom and o Moab,
and p the Ammonites shall obey them.
15 And the Lord will utterly destroy 59
q the tongue of the Sea of Egypt,
and will wave his hand over r the River
with his scorching breath, 60
and strike it into seven channels,
and he will lead people across in sandals.
16 And there will be s a highway from Assyria
for the remnant that remains of his people,
t as there was for Israel
when they came up from the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 12

The Lord Is My Strength and My Song

1 You 61 will say u in that day:
"I will give thanks to you, O Lord,
for though you were angry with me,
v your anger turned away,
that you might comfort me.

2 "Behold, God is my salvation;
I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for w the Lord God 62 is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation."

3 x With joy you 63 will draw water from the wells of salvation.

4 y And you will say in that day:
z "Give thanks to the Lord,
call upon his name,
a make known his deeds among the peoples,
proclaim b that his name is exalted.

5 c "Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously;
let this be made known 64 in all the earth.
6 Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
for great d in your 65 midst is e the Holy One of Israel."

Isaiah 13

The Judgment of Babylon

1 The oracle concerning f Babylon which g Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

2 On a bare hill h raise a signal;
cry aloud to them;
wave the hand for i them to enter
the gates of the nobles.
3 I myself have commanded my consecrated ones,
and have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger,
my proudly exulting ones. 66

4 The sound j of a tumult is on the mountains
as of a great multitude!
The sound of an uproar of kingdoms,
of nations gathering together!
k The Lord of hosts is mustering
a host for battle.
5 l They come from a distant land,
from the end of the heavens,
the Lord and the weapons of his indignation,
to destroy the whole land. 67

6 m Wail, for n the day of the Lord is near;
as destruction from the Almighty 68 it will come!
7 Therefore all hands will be feeble,
and every human heart o will melt.
8 They will be dismayed:
p pangs and agony will seize them;
q they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at one another;
their faces will be aflame.

9 Behold, n the day of the Lord comes,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,
to make the land a desolation
and r to destroy its sinners from it.
10 s For the stars of the heavens and their constellations
will not give their light;
t the sun will be dark at its rising,
and the moon will not shed its light.
11 I will punish u the world for its evil,
and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will v put an end to the pomp of the arrogant,
w and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.
12 I will make x people more rare than fine gold,
and mankind than the y gold of Ophir.
13 Therefore z I will make the heavens tremble,
and the earth will be shaken out of its place,
at the wrath of the Lord of hosts
in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And like a hunted gazelle,
or like sheep with none to gather them,
a each will turn to his own people,
and each will flee to his own land.
15 Whoever is found will be thrust through,
and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.
16 b Their infants will be dashed in pieces
before their eyes;
their houses will be plundered
and their wives ravished.

17 Behold, c I am stirring up the Medes against them,
who have no regard for silver
and do not delight in gold.
18 d Their bows will slaughter 69 the young men;
they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
their eyes will not pity children.
19 And Babylon, e the glory of kingdoms,
the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans,
will be f like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.
20 g It will never be inhabited
or lived in for all generations;
no h Arab will pitch his tent there;
no i shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
21 But j wild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there k ostriches 70 will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.
22 Hyenas 71 will cry in its towers,
and l jackals in m the pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
and its days will not be prolonged.

Isaiah 14

The Restoration of Jacob

1 n For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and o will set them in their own land, and p sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob. 2 And q the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord's land r as male and female slaves. s They will take captive those who were their captors, t and rule over those who oppressed them.

Israel's Remnant Taunts Babylon

3 When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,

4 you will take up this u taunt against the king of Babylon:
"How the oppressor has ceased,
v the insolent fury 72 ceased!
5 The Lord has broken the w staff of the wicked,
the w scepter of rulers,
6 x that struck the peoples in wrath
with unceasing blows,
that ruled the nations in anger
with unrelenting persecution.
7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
y they break forth into singing.
8 z a The cypresses rejoice at you,
b the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
'Since you were laid low,
no woodcutter comes up against us.'
9 Sheol beneath is stirred up
to meet you when you come;
it rouses the shades to greet you,
all who were leaders of the earth;
it raises from their thrones
all who were kings of the nations.
10 c All of them will answer
and say to you:
'You too have become as weak as we!
You have become like us!'
11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
the sound of your harps;
maggots are laid as a bed beneath you,
and worms are your covers.

12 "How d you are fallen from heaven,
O Day Star, e son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!
13 You said in your heart,
f 'I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
g I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
in the far reaches of the north; 73
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.'
15 h But you are brought down to Sheol,
to the far reaches of the pit.
16 Those who see you will stare at you
and ponder over you:
'Is this i the man who made the earth tremble,
who shook kingdoms,
17 who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
j who did not let his prisoners go home?'
18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
each in his own tomb; 74
19 but you are cast out, away from your grave,
like a loathed branch,
k clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword,
who go down to the stones of the pit,
like a dead body trampled underfoot.

20 You will not be joined with them in burial,
because you have destroyed your land,
you have slain your people.
"May l the offspring of evildoers
nevermore be named!
21 Prepare slaughter for his sons
m because of the guilt of their fathers,
lest they rise and possess the earth,
and fill the face of the world with cities."

22 "I will rise up against them," declares the Lord of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and n remnant, o descendants and posterity," declares the Lord. 23 "And I will make it a possession of the p hedgehog, 75 and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," declares the Lord of hosts.

An Oracle Concerning Assyria

24 The Lord of hosts has sworn:
q "As I have planned,
so shall it be,
and as I have purposed,
so shall it stand,
25 that r I will break the Assyrian in my land,
and on my mountains trample him underfoot;
and s his yoke shall depart from them,
and s his burden from their shoulder."

26 This is the purpose that is purposed
concerning the whole earth,
and this is t the hand that is stretched out
over all the nations.
27 u For the Lord of hosts has purposed,
and who will annul it?
t His hand is stretched out,
and who will turn it back?

An Oracle Concerning Philistia

28 In the year that v King Ahaz died came this w oracle:

29 Rejoice not, x O Philistia, all of you,
that y the rod that struck you is broken,
for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder,
and its fruit will be a z flying fiery serpent.
30 And the firstborn of a the poor will graze,
and a the needy lie down in safety;
but I will kill your root with famine,
and your remnant it will slay.
31 b Wail, O c gate; cry out, O city;
melt in fear, x O Philistia, all of you!
d For smoke comes out of the north,
and there is no straggler in his ranks.

32 What will one answer the messengers of the nation?
e "The Lord has founded Zion,
and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."

Isaiah 15

An Oracle Concerning Moab

1 An w oracle concerning f Moab.
Because g Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night,
Moab is undone;
because h Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night,
Moab is undone.
2 He has gone up to the temple, 76 and to i Dibon,
to the high places 77 to weep;
over j Nebo and over i Medeba
Moab k wails.
On every head is l baldness;
every beard is shorn;
3 in the streets they wear sackcloth;
on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.
4 m Heshbon and m Elealeh cry out;
their voice is heard as far as n Jahaz;
therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;
his soul trembles.
5 My heart cries out for Moab;
her fugitives flee to Zoar,
to n Eglath-shelishiyah.
For at the o ascent of Luhith
they go up weeping;
on the road to o Horonaim
they raise a cry of destruction;
6 the waters of p Nimrim
are a desolation;
the grass is withered, the vegetation fails,
the greenery is no more.
7 q Therefore the abundance they have gained
and what they have laid up
they carry away
over the Brook of the Willows.
8 For a cry has gone
around the land of Moab;
her wailing reaches to Eglaim;
her wailing reaches to Beer-elim.
9 For the waters of r Dibon 78 are full of blood;
for I will bring upon Dibon even more,
s a lion for those of Moab who escape,
for the remnant of the land.

Isaiah 16

1 t Send the lamb to the ruler of the land,
from u Sela, by way of the desert,
to the mount of the daughter of Zion.
2 Like fleeing birds,
like a scattered nest,
so are the daughters of Moab
at v the fords of the Arnon.

3 "Give counsel;
grant justice;
w make your shade like night
at the height of noon;
shelter the outcasts;
do not reveal the fugitive;
4 let x the outcasts of Moab
sojourn among you;
be a shelter to them 79
from the destroyer.
When the oppressor is no more,
and destruction has ceased,
and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land,
5 y then a throne will be established in steadfast love,
and on it will sit in faithfulness
in the tent of David
one who judges and seeks justice
and is swift to do righteousness."

6 z We have heard of the pride of Moab -
how proud he is! -
a of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence;
in his idle boasting he is not right.
7 Therefore let Moab wail for Moab,
b let everyone wail.
Mourn, utterly stricken,
for the c raisin cakes of d Kir-hareseth.

8 For the fields of Heshbon languish,
and e the vine of Sibmah;
the lords of the nations
have struck down its branches,
which reached to Jazer
and strayed to the desert;
its shoots spread abroad
and passed over the sea.
9 Therefore f I weep with e the weeping of Jazer
for the vine of Sibmah;
I drench you with my tears,
O Heshbon and Elealeh;
for over g your summer fruit and your harvest
the shout has ceased.
10 h And joy and gladness are taken away from i the fruitful field,
and in the vineyards no j songs are sung,
no cheers are raised;
no k treader treads out wine l in the presses;
I have put an end to the shouting.
11 Therefore m my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab,
and my inmost self for Kir-hareseth.

12 And when Moab presents himself, when n he wearies himself on o the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.

13 This is the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab p in the past. 14 But now the Lord has spoken, saying, "In three years, q like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who remain will be r very few and feeble."

Isaiah 17

An Oracle Concerning Damascus

1 An s oracle concerning t Damascus.
Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city
and will become a heap of ruins.
2 The cities of u Aroer are deserted;
they will be for flocks,
which will lie down, and v none will make them afraid.
3 The fortress will disappear from w Ephraim,
and the kingdom from w Damascus;
and the remnant of Syria will be
like x the glory of the children of Israel,
declares the Lord of hosts.

4 And in that day x the glory of Jacob will be brought low,
and y the fat of his flesh will grow lean.
5 And it shall be z as when the reaper gathers standing grain
and his arm harvests the ears,
and as when one gleans the ears of grain
in a the Valley of Rephaim.
6 b Gleanings will be left in it,
as when an olive tree is beaten -
two or three berries
in the top of the highest bough,
four or five
on the branches of a fruit tree,
declares the Lord God of Israel.

7 c In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel. 8 d He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the e Asherim or the altars of incense.

9 f In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.

10 For g you have forgotten the God of your salvation
and have not remembered the h Rock of your refuge;
therefore, though you plant pleasant plants
and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,
11 though you make them grow 80 on the day that you plant them,
and make them blossom in the morning that you sow,
yet the harvest will flee away 81
in a day of grief and incurable pain.

12 Ah, i the thunder of many peoples;
they thunder like the thundering of the sea!
Ah, the roar of nations;
they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!
13 j The nations roar like the roaring of many waters,
k but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased l like chaff on the mountains before the wind
and m whirling dust before the storm.
14 n At evening time, behold, terror!
Before morning, they are no more!
This is the portion of those who loot us,
and the lot of those who plunder us.

Isaiah 18

An Oracle Concerning Cush

1 Ah, land of o whirring wings
that is beyond the rivers of p Cush, 82
2 which q sends ambassadors by the sea,
in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
to a nation, r tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
a nation s mighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide.

3 All you inhabitants of the world,
you who dwell on the earth,
when t a signal is raised on the mountains, look!
When a trumpet is blown, hear!
4 For thus the Lord said to me:
"I will quietly look u from my dwelling
like clear heat in sunshine,
like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."
5 v For before the harvest, when the blossom is over,
and the flower becomes a ripening grape,
he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks,
and the spreading branches he lops off and clears away.
6 v They shall all of them be left
to the birds of prey of the mountains
and to the beasts of the earth.
And the birds of prey will summer on them,
and all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.

7 w At that time tribute will be brought to the Lord of hosts
from a people x tall and smooth,
from a people feared near and far,
a nation mighty and conquering,
whose land the rivers divide,
to y Mount Zion, the place of the z name of the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 19

An Oracle Concerning Egypt

1 An a oracle concerning b Egypt.
Behold, the Lord c is riding on a swift cloud
and comes to Egypt;
and d the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence,
and the heart of the Egyptians will e melt within them.
2 And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians,
f and they will fight, each against another
and each against his neighbor,
city against city, kingdom against kingdom;
3 and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out,
and I will confound 83 their g counsel;
and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers,
and h the mediums and the necromancers;
4 and I will give over the Egyptians
into the hand of i a hard master,
and a fierce king will rule over them,
declares the Lord God of hosts.

5 And the waters of the sea will be dried up,
and the river will be dry and parched,
6 and its canals will become foul,
and the branches of Egypt's Nile will diminish and dry up,
reeds and rushes will rot away.
7 There will be bare places by the Nile,
on the brink of the Nile,
and all that is sown by the Nile will be parched,
will be driven away, and will be no more.
8 The j fishermen will mourn and lament,
all who cast a hook in the Nile;
and they will languish
who spread nets on the water.
9 The workers in k combed flax will be in despair,
and the weavers of white cotton.
10 Those who are the l pillars of the land will be crushed,
and all who m work for pay will be grieved.

11 The princes of n Zoan are utterly foolish;
the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel.
How can you say to Pharaoh,
"I am a son of the wise,
a son of ancient kings"?
12 Where then are your o wise men?
Let them tell you
that they might know what the Lord of hosts has purposed against Egypt.
13 The princes of n Zoan have become fools,
and the princes of p Memphis are deluded;
those who are the q cornerstones of her tribes
have made Egypt stagger.
14 The Lord has mingled within her r a spirit of confusion,
and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds,
s as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
15 And there will be nothing for Egypt
that t head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.

Egypt, Assyria, Israel Blessed

16 In that day the Egyptians will be u like women, and v tremble with fear before the hand that the Lord of hosts shakes over them. 17 And the land of Judah will become a terror to the Egyptians. Everyone to whom it is mentioned will fear because of the purpose that the Lord of hosts has purposed against them.

18 w In that day there will be x five cities in the land of Egypt that y speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord of hosts. One of these will be called the City of Destruction. 84

19 In that day there will be an z altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a a pillar to the Lord at its border. 20 a It will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry to the Lord because of oppressors, b he will send them a savior and defender, and deliver them. 21 c And the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day d and worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make vows to the Lord and perform them. 22 e And the Lord will strike Egypt, striking and healing, and they will return to the Lord, and he will listen to their pleas for mercy and heal them.

23 f In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, g and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

24 In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, h a blessing in the midst of the earth, 25 whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, "Blessed be Egypt i my people, and Assyria j the work of my hands, and k Israel my inheritance."

Isaiah 20

A Sign Against Egypt and Cush

1 In the year that l the commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to m Ashdod and fought against it and captured it - 2 at that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet," and he did so, walking n naked and barefoot.

3 Then the Lord said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years o as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush, 85 4 so shall the p king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt. 5 q Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast. 6 And the inhabitants of r this coastland will say in that day, 'Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and s to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?'"

Isaiah 21

Fallen, Fallen Is Babylon

1 The t oracle concerning the wilderness of u the sea.
v As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on,
it comes from the wilderness,
from a terrible land.
2 A stern vision is told to me;
w the traitor betrays,
and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, O x Elam;
lay siege, O y Media;
all the z sighing she has caused
I bring to an end.
3 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish;
a pangs have seized me,
like the pangs of a woman in labor;
I am bowed down so that I cannot hear;
I am dismayed so that I cannot see.
4 My heart staggers; horror has appalled me;
b the twilight I longed for
has been turned for me into trembling.
5 c They prepare the table,
they spread the rugs, 86
they eat, they drink.
Arise, O princes;
d oil the shield!
6 For thus the Lord said to me:
"Go, set a watchman;
let him announce what he sees.
7 When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs,
riders on donkeys, riders on camels,
let him listen diligently,
very diligently."
8 Then he who saw cried out: 87
e "Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord,
continually by day,
and at my post I am stationed
whole nights.
9 And behold, here come riders,
horsemen in pairs!"
f And he answered,
g "Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
h and all the carved images of her gods
he has shattered to the ground."
10 O i my threshed and winnowed one,
what I have heard from the Lord of hosts,
the God of Israel, I announce to you.

11 The j oracle concerning k Dumah.
One is calling to me from l Seir,
"Watchman, what time of the night?
Watchman, what time of the night?"
12 The watchman says:
"Morning comes, and also m the night.
If you will inquire, n inquire;
come back again."

13 The o oracle concerning p Arabia.
In the thickets in p Arabia you will lodge,
O q caravans of p Dedanites.
14 To the thirsty bring water;
meet the fugitive with bread,
O inhabitants of the land of r Tema.
15 For they have fled from the swords,
from the drawn sword,
from the bent bow,
and from the press of battle.

16 For thus the Lord said to me, "Within a year, s according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of t Kedar will come to an end. 17 And the remainder of the archers of the mighty men of the sons of t Kedar will be few, u for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken."

Isaiah 22

An Oracle Concerning Jerusalem

1 The v oracle concerning w the valley of vision.
What do you mean that you have gone up,
all of you, to the housetops,
2 you who are full of shoutings,
tumultuous city, x exultant town?
Your slain are y not slain with the sword
or dead in battle.
3 z All your leaders have fled together;
without the bow they were captured.
All of you who were found were captured,
though they had fled far away.
4 Therefore I said:
"Look away from me;
a let me weep bitter tears;
do not labor to comfort me
concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people."

5 b For the Lord God of hosts has c a day
of tumult and d trampling and e confusion
in w the valley of vision,
a battering down of walls
and a shouting to the mountains.
6 And f Elam bore the quiver
with chariots and horsemen,
and g Kir uncovered the shield.
7 Your choicest valleys were full of chariots,
and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.

8 He has taken away h the covering of Judah.
In that day you looked to i the weapons of the House of the Forest,
9 and you saw that j the breaches of the city of David were many. k You collected the waters of the lower pool, 10 and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. 11 k You made a reservoir between l the two walls for the water of m the old pool. But n you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago.

12 In that day o the Lord God of hosts
called for weeping and mourning,
for p baldness and q wearing sackcloth;
13 and behold, joy and gladness,
killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
eating flesh and drinking wine.
r "Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die."
14 The Lord of hosts s has revealed himself in my ears:
"Surely t this iniquity will not be atoned for you u until you die,"
says the Lord God of hosts.

15 Thus says the Lord God of hosts, "Come, go to this steward, to v Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him: 16 What have you to do here, and whom have you here, w that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you x who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock? 17 Behold, the Lord will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. y He will seize firm hold on you 18 and whirl you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you shall die, and there shall be z your glorious chariots, you shame of your master's house. 19 a I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your station. 20 In that day I will call my servant b Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, 21 and b I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be c a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. 22 And I will place d on his shoulder e the key of the house of David. f He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 23 And I will fasten him g like a peg in a secure place, and he will become h a throne of honor to his father's house. 24 And they will hang on him the whole honor of his father's house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons. 25 In that day, declares the Lord of hosts, g the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken."

Isaiah 23

An Oracle Concerning Tyre and Sidon

1 The i oracle concerning j Tyre.
Wail, O k ships of Tarshish,
for Tyre is laid waste, l without house or harbor!
From m the land of Cyprus 88
it is revealed to them.
2 Be still, O inhabitants of the coast;
the merchants of n Sidon, who cross the sea, have filled you.
3 And on many waters
your revenue was the grain of Shihor,
the harvest of the Nile;
you were o the merchant of the nations.
4 Be ashamed, O n Sidon, for the sea has spoken,
the stronghold of the sea, saying:
"I have neither labored nor given birth,
I have neither reared young men
nor brought up young women."
5 When the report comes to Egypt,
they will be in anguish 89 over the report about Tyre.
6 p Cross over to Tarshish;
wail, O inhabitants of the coast!
7 Is this your exultant city
q whose origin is from days of old,
whose feet carried her
to settle far away?
8 Who has purposed this
against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants were princes,
whose traders were the honored of the earth?
9 The Lord of hosts has purposed it,
r to defile the pompous pride of all glory, 90
to dishonor all the honored of the earth.
10 Cross over your land like the Nile,
O daughter of Tarshish;
there is no restraint anymore.
11 s He has stretched out his hand over the sea;
he has shaken the kingdoms;
the Lord has given command concerning Canaan
to destroy its strongholds.
12 And he said:
"You will no more exult,
O oppressed virgin daughter of t Sidon;
arise, u cross over to v Cyprus,
even there you will have no rest."

13 Behold the land of w the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not; 91 Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected x their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.

14 y Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
for your stronghold is laid waste.

15 In that day Tyre will be forgotten for z seventy years, like the days 92 of one king. At the end of z seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

16 "Take a harp;
go about the city,
O forgotten prostitute!
Make sweet melody;
sing many songs,
that you may be remembered."

17 At the end of a seventy years, the Lord will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages and b will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. 18 Her merchandise and her wages will be holy to the Lord. It will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the Lord.

Isaiah 24

Judgment on the Whole Earth

1 Behold, c the Lord will empty the earth 93 and make it desolate,
and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
2 d And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;
as with the slave, so with his master;
as with the maid, so with her mistress;
e as with the buyer, so with the seller;
as with the lender, so with the borrower;
f as with the creditor, so with the debtor.
3 g The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered;
h for the Lord has spoken this word.

4 i The earth mourns and withers;
the world languishes and withers;
the highest people of the earth languish.
5 The earth lies j defiled
under its inhabitants;
for k they have transgressed the laws,
violated the statutes,
broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore l a curse devours the earth,
and its inhabitants m suffer for their guilt;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched,
and few men are left.
7 n The wine mourns,
the vine languishes,
all the merry-hearted sigh.
8 o The mirth of the tambourines is stilled,
the noise of the jubilant has ceased,
the mirth of the lyre is stilled.
9 No more do they drink wine p with singing;
strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
10 q The wasted city is broken down;
r every house is shut up so that none can enter.
11 s There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine;
t all joy has grown dark;
the gladness of the earth is banished.
12 Desolation is left in the city;
the gates are battered into ruins.
13 For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth
among the nations,
u as when an olive tree is beaten,
as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is done.

14 They lift up their voices, they sing for joy;
over the majesty of the Lord they shout from the west. 94
15 v Therefore in the east 95 give glory to the Lord;
in the coastlands of the sea, give glory to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
16 w From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise,
of glory to x the Righteous One.
But I say, "I waste away,
I waste away. Woe is me!
For y the traitors have betrayed,
with betrayal the traitors have betrayed."

17 z Terror and the pit and the snare 96
are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth!
18 z He who flees at the sound of the terror
shall fall into the pit,
and he who climbs out of the pit
shall be caught in the snare.
For a the windows of heaven are opened,
and b the foundations of the earth tremble.
19 The earth is utterly broken,
the earth is split apart,
the earth is violently shaken.
20 The earth c staggers like a drunken man;
it sways like a hut;
d its transgression lies heavy upon it,
and it falls, and will not rise again.

21 On that day the Lord will punish
the host of heaven, in heaven,
and e the kings of the earth, on the earth.
22 f They will be gathered together
as prisoners in a pit;
they will be shut up in a prison,
and after many days g they will be punished.
23 h Then the moon will be confounded
and the sun ashamed,
for i the Lord of hosts reigns
on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
and his glory will be before his elders.

Isaiah 25

God Will Swallow Up Death Forever

1 O Lord, j you are my God;
k I will exalt you; I will praise your name,
for you have done wonderful things,
l plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
2 For you have made the city m a heap,
the fortified city a ruin;
the foreigners' palace is a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.
3 n Therefore strong peoples will glorify you;
cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
4 o For you have been a stronghold to the poor,
a stronghold to the needy in his distress,
p a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat;
q for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
5 r like heat in a dry place.
You subdue the noise of the foreigners;
as heat by the shade of a cloud,
so the song of the ruthless is put down.

6 s On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine,
t of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
7 And he will swallow up s on this mountain
the covering that is cast over all peoples,
u the veil that is spread over all nations.
8 v He will swallow up death forever;
and w the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,
and x the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth,
y for the Lord has spoken.
9 It will be said on that day,
"Behold, this is our God; z we have waited for him, that he might save us.
This is the Lord; we have waited for him;
a let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation."
10 For the hand of the Lord will rest s on this mountain,
and b Moab shall be trampled down in his place,
as straw is trampled down in a dunghill. 97
11 c And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it
as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim,
but the Lord d will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill 98 of his hands.
12 And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down,
lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.

Isaiah 26

You Keep Him in Perfect Peace

1 In that day e this song will be sung in the land of Judah:
"We have a strong city;
he sets up f salvation
as walls and bulwarks.
2 g Open the gates,
that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
3 h You keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in you.
4 Trust in the Lord forever,
for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
5 i For he has humbled
the inhabitants of the height,
the lofty city.
He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,
casts it to the dust.
6 The foot tramples it,
the feet of j the poor,
the steps of j the needy."

7 The path of the righteous is level;
k you make level the way of the righteous.
8 In the path of your judgments,
O Lord, we wait for you;
l your name and l remembrance
are the desire of our soul.
9 My soul yearns for you in the night;
my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
m For when your judgments are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
10 n If favor is shown to the wicked,
he does not learn righteousness;
in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly
and does not see the majesty of the Lord.
11 O Lord, o your hand is lifted up,
but p they do not see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed.
Let q the fire for your adversaries consume them.
12 O Lord, you will ordain r peace for us,
for you have indeed done for us all our works.
13 O Lord our God,
s other lords besides you have ruled over us,
t but your name alone we bring to remembrance.
14 They are dead, they will not live;
they are shades, they will not arise;
to that end you have visited them with destruction
and wiped out all remembrance of them.
15 u But you have increased the nation, O Lord,
you have increased the nation; you are glorified;
v you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

16 O Lord, w in distress they sought you;
they poured out a whispered prayer
when your discipline was upon them.
17 x Like a pregnant woman
who writhes and cries out in her pangs
when she is near to giving birth,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
18 x we were pregnant, we writhed,
but we have given birth to wind.
We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth,
and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
19 y Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.
You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
For z your dew is a dew of light,
and the earth will give birth to the dead.

20 Come, my people, enter your chambers,
and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves a for a little while
until the fury has passed by.
21 b For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place
to punish the inhabitants of c the earth for their iniquity,
and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
and will no more cover its slain.

Isaiah 27

The Redemption of Israel

1 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong d sword will punish e Leviathan the fleeing serpent, e Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay f the dragon that is in the sea.

2 In that day,
g "A pleasant vineyard, 99 h sing of it!
3 I, the Lord, am its keeper;
every moment I water it.
Lest anyone punish it,
I keep it night and day;
4 I have no wrath.
i Would that I had thorns and briers to battle!
I would march against them,
I would burn them up together.
5 Or let them lay hold of my protection,
let them make peace with me,
let them make peace with me."

6 j In days to come 100 Jacob shall take root,
Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots
and fill the whole world with fruit.

7 k Has he struck them l as he struck those who struck them?
Or have they been slain m as their slayers were slain?
8 n Measure by measure, 101 by exile you contended with them;
o he removed them with his fierce breath 102 in the day of the east wind.
9 Therefore by this p the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: 103
q when he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no r Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
10 s For the fortified city is solitary,
a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness;
there the calf grazes;
there it lies down and strips its branches.
11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
t For this is a people without discernment;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.

12 In that day u from the river Euphrates to the Brook of Egypt the Lord will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel. 13 And in that day v a great trumpet will be blown, w and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt x will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

Isaiah 28

Judgment on Ephraim and Jerusalem

1 Ah, the proud crown of y the drunkards of Ephraim,
and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!
2 Behold, the Lord has z one who is mighty and strong;
like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest,
like a a storm of mighty, overflowing waters,
he casts down to the earth with his hand.
3 b The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim
will be trodden underfoot;
4 c and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
which is on the head of the rich valley,
will be like d a first-ripe fig before the summer:
when someone sees it, he swallows it
as soon as it is in his hand.

5 e In that day the Lord of hosts will be a crown of glory, 104
and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people,
6 and f a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment,
and g strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

7 h These also reel with wine
and i stagger with strong drink;
the priest and j the prophet reel with strong drink,
they are swallowed by 105 wine,
they stagger with strong drink,
they reel in vision,
they stumble in giving judgment.
8 For all tables are full of filthy vomit,
with no space left.

9 k "To whom will he teach knowledge,
and to whom will he explain the message?
Those who are weaned from the milk,
those taken from the breast?
10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little."

11 l For by people of strange lips
and with a foreign tongue
the Lord will speak to this people,
12 to whom he has said,
m "This is rest;
give rest to the weary;
and this is repose";
yet they would not hear.
13 And the word of the Lord will be to them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,
n that they may go, and fall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.

A Cornerstone in Zion

14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you o scoffers,
who rule this people in Jerusalem!
15 Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death,
and with Sheol we have an agreement,
when the p overwhelming whip passes through
it will not come to us,
for we have made q lies our refuge,
and in falsehood we have taken shelter";
16 therefore thus says the Lord God,
r "Behold, I am the one who has laid 106 as a foundation s in Zion,
a stone, a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation:
'Whoever believes will not be in haste.'
17 And I will make justice t the line,
and righteousness t the plumb line;
and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
and waters will overwhelm the shelter."
18 Then u your covenant with death will be annulled,
and your agreement with Sheol will not stand;
when the overwhelming scourge passes through,
you will be beaten down by it.
19 As often as it passes through it will take you;
v for morning by morning it will pass through,
by day and by night;
and it will be w sheer terror to understand the message.
20 For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on,
and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in.
21 For the Lord will rise up x as on Mount Perazim;
y as in the Valley of z Gibeon he will be roused;
to do his deed - strange is his deed!
and to work his work - alien is his work!
22 Now therefore do not a scoff,
lest your bonds be made strong;
for I have heard b a decree of destruction
from the Lord God of hosts against the whole land.

23 Give ear, and hear my voice;
give attention, and hear my speech.
24 Does he who plows for sowing plow continually?
Does he continually open and harrow his ground?
25 c When he has leveled its surface,
does he not scatter dill, sow cumin,
and put in wheat in rows
and barley in its proper place,
and emmer 107 as the border?
26 d For he is rightly instructed;
his God teaches him.

27 Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin,
but dill is beaten out with a stick,
and cumin with a rod.
28 Does one crush grain for bread?
No, he does not thresh it forever; 108
when he drives his cart wheel over it
with his horses, he does not crush it.
29 This also comes from the Lord of hosts;
he is e wonderful in counsel
and excellent in wisdom.

Isaiah 29

The Siege of Jerusalem

1 Ah, Ariel, Ariel,
the city f where David encamped!
Add year to year;
let the feasts run their round.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel,
and there shall be moaning and lamentation,
and she shall be to me like an Ariel. 109
3 g And I will encamp against you all around,
and will besiege you h with towers
and I will raise siegeworks against you.
4 i And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak,
and from the dust your speech will be bowed down;
your voice shall come from the ground like j the voice of a ghost,
and from the dust your speech shall whisper.

5 But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like k small dust,
and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff.
l And in an instant, suddenly,
6 m you will be visited by the Lord of hosts
with thunder and with earthquake and great noise,
with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
7 And n the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel,
all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her,
shall be o like a dream, a vision of the night.
8 p As when a hungry man dreams he is eating
and awakes with his hunger not satisfied,
or as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking
and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched,
so shall the multitude of all the nations be
that fight against Mount Zion.

9 Astonish yourselves 110 and be astonished;
blind yourselves and be blind!
Be drunk, but not with wine;
r stagger, but not with strong drink!
10 s For the Lord has poured out upon you
a spirit of deep sleep,
and has closed your eyes (the prophets),
and covered your heads (the seers).

11 And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is t sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, "Read this," he says, "I cannot, for it is sealed." 12 And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, "Read this," he says, "I cannot read."

13 And the Lord said:
"Because u this people v draw near with their mouth
and honor me with their lips,
while their hearts are far from me,
and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,
14 therefore, behold, w I will again
do wonderful things with this people,
with wonder upon wonder;
and x the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden."

15 Ah, y you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel,
whose deeds are z in the dark,
and who say, "Who sees us? Who knows us?"
16 a You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay,
that the thing made should say of its maker,
"He did not make me";
or the thing formed say of him who formed it,
"He has no understanding"?

17 Is it not yet a very little while
b until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
18 In that day c the deaf shall hear
d the words of a book,
and out of their gloom and darkness
e the eyes of the blind shall see.
19 f The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord,
and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
20 For the ruthless shall come to nothing
and g the scoffer cease,
and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,
21 who by a word make a man out to be an offender,
and h lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,
and with an empty plea i turn aside him who is in the right.

22 Therefore thus says the Lord, j who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob:
"Jacob shall no more be ashamed,
no more shall his face grow pale.
23 For when he sees his children,
k the work of my hands, in his midst,
they will sanctify my name;
l they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob
and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
24 And those m who go astray in spirit will come to understanding,
and those who murmur will accept instruction."

Isaiah 30

Do Not Go Down to Egypt

1 "Ah, n stubborn children," declares the Lord,
o "who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make p an alliance, 111 but not of my Spirit,
that they may add sin to sin;
2 q who set out to go down to Egypt,
without asking for my direction,
to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh
and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
3 r Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame,
and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
4 For though his officials are at s Zoan
and t his envoys reach u Hanes,
5 everyone comes to shame
through v a people that cannot profit them,
that brings neither help nor profit,
but shame and disgrace."

6 An w oracle on x the beasts of y the Negeb.
Through a land of trouble and anguish,
from where come the lioness and the lion,
the adder and the z flying fiery serpent,
they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys,
and their treasures on the humps of camels,
to a people that cannot profit them.
7 Egypt's a help is worthless and empty;
therefore I have called her
b "Rahab who sits still."

A Rebellious People

8 And now, go, c write it before them on a tablet
and inscribe it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come
as a witness forever. 112
9 d For they are a rebellious people,
lying children,
children unwilling to hear
the instruction of the Lord;
10 e who say to f the seers, "Do not see,"
and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us g smooth things,
prophesy illusions,
11 leave the way, turn aside from the path,
let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel."
12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,
"Because you despise this word
and trust in h oppression and perverseness
and rely on them,
13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you
i like a breach in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse,
whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;
14 and its breaking is j like that of a potter's vessel
that is smashed so ruthlessly
that among its fragments not a shard is found
with which to take fire from the hearth,
or to dip up water out of the cistern."

15 For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel,
"In k returning 113 and l rest you shall be saved;
in quietness and in trust shall be your strength."
But you were unwilling,
16 and you said,
"No! We will flee upon m horses";
therefore you shall flee away;
and, "We will ride upon swift steeds";
therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
17 n A thousand shall flee at the threat of one;
at the threat of five you shall flee,
till you are left
like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain,
like a signal on a hill.

The Lord Will Be Gracious

18 Therefore the Lord o waits to be gracious to you,
and therefore he p exalts himself to show mercy to you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
q blessed are all those who wait for him.

19 For a people shall dwell r in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you. 20 And though the Lord give you the s bread of adversity and the s water of affliction, t yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. 21 u And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is v the way, walk in it," when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. 22 Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. w You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, "Be gone!"

23 x And he will give y rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. z In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures, 24 and a the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork. 25 And b on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, c when the towers fall. 26 d Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when e the Lord binds up f the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.

27 Behold, the name of the Lord comes from afar,
burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; 114
his lips are full of fury,
and his tongue is like a devouring fire;
28 g his breath is h like an overflowing stream
that reaches up to the neck;
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction,
and to place on the jaws of the peoples i a bridle that leads astray.

29 You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, j as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to k the mountain of the Lord, to l the Rock of Israel. 30 And the Lord m will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger n and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst o and storm and hailstones. 31 The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord, p when he strikes with his rod. 32 And every stroke of the appointed staff that the Lord lays on them q will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. r Battling with brandished arm, he will fight with them. 33 For s a burning place 115 has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, t its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; u the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

Isaiah 31

Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt

1 Woe to v those who go down to Egypt for help
and rely on horses,
who w trust in chariots because they are many
and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but x do not look to the Holy One of Israel
or consult the Lord!
2 And y yet he is wise and brings disaster;
z he does not call back his words,
but a will arise against the house of the evildoers
and against the helpers of b those who work iniquity.
3 The Egyptians are man, and not God,
and their horses c are flesh, and not spirit.
When the Lord stretches out his hand,
the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall,
and they will all perish together.

4 For thus the Lord said to me,
d "As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey,
and when a band of shepherds is called out against him
he is not terrified by their shouting
or daunted at their noise,
e so the Lord of hosts will come down
to fight 116 on Mount Zion and on its hill.
5 f Like birds hovering, so the Lord of hosts
will protect Jerusalem;
he will protect and deliver it;
he will spare and rescue it."

6 g Turn to him from whom people 117 have h deeply revolted, O children of Israel. 7 For in that day i everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.

8 j "And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man;
and a sword, not of man, shall devour him;
and he shall flee from the sword,
and his young men shall be k put to forced labor.
9 l His rock shall pass away in terror,
and his officers desert the standard in panic,"
declares the Lord, whose m fire is in Zion,
and whose n furnace is in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 32

A King Will Reign in Righteousness

1 Behold, o a king will reign in righteousness,
and princes will rule in justice.
2 p Each will be like a hiding place from the wind,
a shelter from the storm,
q like streams of water in a dry place,
like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
3 r Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed,
and the ears of those who hear will give attention.
4 The heart of the hasty will understand and know,
s and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly.
5 t The fool will no more be called noble,
nor the scoundrel said to be honorable.
6 For u the fool speaks folly,
and his heart is busy with iniquity,
to practice ungodliness,
to utter error concerning the Lord,
v to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied,
and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
7 As for the scoundrel - w his devices are evil;
he plans wicked schemes
to ruin the poor with lying words,
even when the plea of the needy is right.
8 But he who is noble plans noble things,
and on noble things he stands.

Complacent Women Warned of Disaster

9 x Rise up, you women y who are at ease, hear my voice;
you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.
10 In little more than a year
you will shudder, you complacent women;
for the grape harvest fails,
the fruit harvest will not come.
11 Tremble, you women y who are at ease,
shudder, you complacent ones;
z strip, and make yourselves bare,
a and tie sackcloth around your waist.
12 b Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine,
13 c for the soil of my people
growing up in thorns and briers,
d yes, for all the joyous houses
in the exultant city.
14 For the palace is forsaken,
the populous city deserted;
the hill and the watchtower
will become dens forever,
e a joy of wild donkeys,
a pasture of flocks;
15 until f the Spirit is poured upon us from on high,
and g the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.
16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness,
and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.
17 h And the effect of righteousness will be peace,
and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust 118 forever.
18 My people will abide in a peaceful habitation,
in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
19 i And it will hail when the forest falls down,
j and the city will be utterly laid low.
20 k Happy are you who sow beside all waters,
who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.

Isaiah 33

O Lord, Be Gracious to Us

1 l Ah, you destroyer,
who yourself have not been destroyed,
you traitor,
whom none has betrayed!
When you have ceased to destroy,
you will be destroyed;
and when you have finished betraying,
they will betray you.

2 O Lord, be gracious to us; m we wait for you.
Be our arm every morning,
our salvation in the time of trouble.
3 n At the tumultuous noise peoples flee;
when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered,
4 and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers;
o as locusts leap, it is leapt upon.

5 p The Lord is exalted, for he dwells on high;
he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,
6 q and he will be the stability of your times,
abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge;
the fear of the Lord is Zion's 119 treasure.

7 Behold, their heroes cry in the streets;
r the envoys of peace weep bitterly.
8 s The highways lie waste;
the traveler ceases.
t Covenants are broken;
cities 120 are despised;
there is no regard for man.
9 u The land mourns and languishes;
Lebanon is confounded and withers away;
Sharon is like a desert,
and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

10 v "Now I will arise," says the Lord,
"now I will lift myself up;
now I will be exalted.
11 w You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble;
your breath is x a fire that will consume you.
12 And the peoples will be as if burned to lime,
x like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire."

13 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;
and you who are near, acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling has seized the godless:
y "Who among us can dwell z with the consuming fire?
Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?"
15 a He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
who despises the gain of oppressions,
who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe,
who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed
b and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,
16 he will dwell on the heights;
his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks;
c his bread will be given him; his water will be sure.

17 d Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty;
e they will see a land that stretches afar.
18 f Your heart will muse on the terror:
"Where is he who counted, where is g he who weighed the tribute?
Where is h he who counted the towers?"
19 i You will see no more the insolent people,
the people j of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend,
stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand.
20 Behold Zion, the city of our appointed feasts!
k Your eyes will see Jerusalem,
an untroubled habitation, an l immovable tent,
whose stakes will never be plucked up,
nor will any of its cords be broken.
21 But there the Lord in majesty will be for us
a place of m broad rivers and streams,
n where no galley with oars can go,
nor majestic ship can pass.
22 For the Lord is our o judge; the Lord is our p lawgiver;
the Lord is our q king; he will save us.

23 Your cords hang loose;
they cannot hold the mast firm in its place
or keep the sail spread out.
r Then prey and spoil in abundance will be divided;
even s the lame will take the prey.
24 And no inhabitant will say, t "I am sick";
u the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.

Isaiah 34

Judgment on the Nations

1 Draw near, v O nations, to hear,
and give attention, O peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that fills it;
the world, and all that comes from it.
2 For the Lord is enraged against all the nations,
and furious against all their host;
he has w devoted them to destruction, 121 has given them over for slaughter.
3 Their slain shall be cast out,
and x the stench of their corpses shall rise;
y the mountains shall flow with their blood.
4 z All the host of heaven shall rot away,
and the skies roll up like a scroll.
All their host shall fall,
as leaves fall from the vine,
like leaves falling from the fig tree.

5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
behold, it descends for judgment upon a Edom,
upon the people b I have devoted to destruction.
6 The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
it is gorged with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
c For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 d Wild oxen shall e fall with them,
and f young steers with f the mighty bulls.
Their land shall drink its fill of blood,
and their soil shall be gorged with fat.

8 g For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 h And the streams of Edom 122 shall be turned into pitch,
and her soil into sulfur;
her land shall become burning pitch.
10 Night and day i it shall not be quenched;
j its smoke shall go up forever.
k From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 l But the hawk and the porcupine 123 shall possess it,
the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
m He shall stretch the line of n confusion 124 over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.
12 Its nobles - there is no one there to call it a kingdom,
and all its princes shall be nothing.

13 o Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,
nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of p jackals,
an abode for ostriches. 125
14 q And wild animals shall meet with hyenas;
the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
indeed, there the night bird 126 settles
and finds for herself a resting place.

15 There the owl nests and lays
and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow;
indeed, there r the hawks are gathered,
each one with her mate.
16 Seek and read from the book of the Lord:
Not one of these shall be missing;
none shall be without her mate.
For the mouth of the Lord has commanded,
and his Spirit has gathered them.
17 s He has cast the lot for them;
his hand has portioned it out to them with the line;
they shall possess it forever;
from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.

Isaiah 35

The Ransomed Shall Return

1 t The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;
u the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus;
2 it shall blossom abundantly
and rejoice with joy and singing.
v The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it,
the majesty of w Carmel and x Sharon.
y They shall see the glory of the Lord,
the majesty of our God.

3 z Strengthen the weak hands,
and make firm the feeble knees.
4 Say to those who have an anxious heart,
"Be strong; fear not!
a Behold, your God
will come with vengeance,
with the recompense of God.
He will come and save you."

5 b Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf unstopped;
6 b then shall the lame man leap like a deer,
and the tongue of the mute sing for joy.
c For waters break forth in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert;
7 d the burning sand shall become a pool,
and the thirsty ground springs of water;
in the haunt of e jackals, where they lie down,
the grass shall become reeds and rushes.

8 f And a highway shall be there,
and it shall be called the Way of Holiness;
g the unclean shall not pass over it.
It shall belong to those who walk on the way;
even if they are fools, they shall not go astray. 127
9 No lion shall be there,
nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it;
they shall not be found there,
but the redeemed shall walk there.
10 h And the ransomed of the Lord shall return
and come to Zion with singing;
i everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
they shall obtain gladness and joy,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah 36

Sennacherib Invades Judah

1 j In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, k Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 2 l And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh 128 from m Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem, with a great army. And he stood n by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field. 3 And there came out to him o Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and o Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.

4 And the Rabshakeh said to them, "Say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the p great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours? 5 Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me? 6 q Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 7 But if you say to me, "We trust in the Lord our God," is it not he r whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, "You shall worship before this altar"? 8 Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. 9 How then can you repulse s a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when t you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 10 Moreover, is it without the Lord that I have come up against this land to destroy it? u The Lord said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it.'"

11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants v in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall." 12 But the Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?"

13 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 14 Thus says the king: w 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you. 15 Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord by saying, "The Lord will surely deliver us. This city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." 16 Do not listen to Hezekiah. For thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me 129 and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern, 17 until x I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18 Beware lest Hezekiah mislead you by saying, "The Lord will deliver us." Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 y Where are the gods of z Hamath and z Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? a Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 20 b Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'"

21 But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, "Do not answer him." 22 c Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.

Isaiah 37

Hezekiah Seeks Isaiah's Help

1 d As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord. 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet e Isaiah the son of Amoz. 3 They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a f day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; g children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth. 4 h It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for i the remnant that is left.'"

5 When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, 6 Isaiah said to them, "Say to your master, 'Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the young men of the king of Assyria have reviled me. 7 Behold, j I will put a spirit in him, so that k he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and l I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.'"

8 The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against m Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left m Lachish. 9 Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of n Cush, 130 "He has set out to fight against you." And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10 "Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: o 'Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered? 12 p Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, q Gozan, r Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? 13 p Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?'"

Hezekiah's Prayer for Deliverance

14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord. 15 And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: 16 "O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, s enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; t you have made heaven and earth. 17 u Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear v all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. 18 Truly, O Lord, w the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands, 19 and have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed. 20 So now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord."

Sennacherib's Fall

21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,

22 this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:
"'She despises you, she scorns you -
x the virgin daughter of Zion;
she wags her head behind you -
the daughter of Jerusalem.

23 "'Whom have you mocked and reviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
Against y the Holy One of Israel!
24 By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, z With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon,
a to cut down its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses,
to come to its remotest height,
its most fruitful forest.
25 I dug wells
and drank waters,
to dry up with the sole of my foot
all b the streams c of Egypt.

26 d "'Have you not heard
that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
crash into heaps of ruins,
27 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
blighted 131 before it is grown.

28 "'I know your sitting down
and your going out and coming in,
and your raging against me.
29 e Because you have raged against me
and your complacency has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,
and f I will turn you back on the way
by which you came.'

30 "And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah g shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 32 h For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. i The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

33 "Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there or come before it with a shield or j cast up a siege mound against it. 34 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord. 35 k For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for l the sake of my servant David."

36 m And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 37 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at n Nineveh. 38 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword. And after they escaped into the land of o Ararat, p Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

Isaiah 38

Hezekiah's Sickness and Recovery

1 q In those days Hezekiah became r sick and was at the point of death. And s Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the Lord: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover." 132 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 3 and said, "Please, O Lord, remember how t I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah: 5 "Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add u fifteen years to your life. 133 6 v I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city.

7 "This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has promised: 8 w Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps." So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined. 134

9 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:

10 I said, x In the middle 135 of my days
I must depart;
I am consigned to the gates of Sheol
for the rest of my years.
11 I said, I shall not see the Lord,
the Lord y in the land of the living;
I shall look on man no more
among the inhabitants of the world.
12 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
z like a shepherd's tent;
a like a weaver b I have rolled up my life;
c he cuts me off from the loom;
d from day to night you bring me to an end;
13 e I calmed myself 136 until morning;
like a lion f he breaks all my bones;
from day to night you bring me to an end.

14 Like g a swallow or a crane I chirp;
h I moan like a dove.
i My eyes are weary with looking upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed; j be my pledge of safety!
15 What shall I say? For he has spoken to me,
and he himself has done it.
k I walk slowly all my years
because of the bitterness of my soul.

16 l O Lord, by these things men live,
and in all these is the life of my spirit.
Oh restore me to health and make me live!
17 m Behold, it was for my welfare
that I had great bitterness;
n but in love you have delivered my life
from the pit of destruction,
n for you have cast all my sins
behind your back.
18 o For Sheol does not thank you;
death does not praise you;
those who go down to the pit do not hope
for your faithfulness.
19 The living, the living, he thanks you,
as I do this day;
p the father makes known to the children
your faithfulness.

20 The Lord will save me,
and we will play my music on stringed instruments
all the days of our lives,
q at the house of the Lord.

21 r Now Isaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover." 22 Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?"

Isaiah 39

Envoys from Babylon

1 s At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, t sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered. 2 And Hezekiah welcomed them gladly. And he showed them his treasure house, u the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his whole armory, all that was found in his storehouses. v There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them. 3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, "What did these men say? And from where did they come to you?" Hezekiah said, "They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon." 4 He said, "What have they seen in your house?" Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them."

5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the Lord of hosts: 6 w Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord. 7 x And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon." 8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, "The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good." For he thought, y "There will be peace and security in my days."

  1. Cross References
    Isaiah 6:1
    In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.
  2. Cross References
    Hosea 1:1
    The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
    Micah 1:1
    The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
  3. Cross References
    2 Kings 15:1
    In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
    2 Kings 15:7
    And Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham his son reigned in his place.
    2 Chronicles 26:1
    And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
  4. Cross References
    2 Kings 15:32 - 38
    In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
    2 Chronicles 27:1
    Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.
  5. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:1
    In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of U...
    Isaiah 7:3
    And the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out to meet Ah...
    Isaiah 7:10
    Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz.
    Isaiah 7:12
    But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not ...
    Isaiah 14:28
    In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle:
    2 Kings 16:1
    In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Rem...
    2 Chronicles 28:1
    Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reig...
  6. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:2 - 39:8
    And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.
    2 Kings 18:1 - 20:1
    In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign.
    2 Chronicles 29:1 - 32:1
    Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah.
  7. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:1
    Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
    Deuteronomy 4:26
    I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.
  8. Cross References
    Micah 1:2
    Hear, you peoples, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord God be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
    Micah 6:2
    Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth, for the Lord has an indictment against his people, and he will contend with Israel.
  9. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:6
    Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
    Deuteronomy 32:10
    He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
    Deuteronomy 32:15
    But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
  10. Cross References
    Jeremiah 8:7
    Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the Lord.
  11. Cross References
    Jeremiah 8:7
    Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the Lord.
  12. Cross References
    Matthew 3:7
    But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
  13. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:24
    Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
  14. Cross References
    Isaiah 31:1
    Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the Lord!
  15. Cross References
    Ezekiel 14:5
    That I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, who are all estranged from me through their idols.
  16. Cross References
    Jeremiah 5:3
    O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.
    Isaiah 9:13
    The people did not turn to him who struck them, nor inquire of the Lord of hosts.
  17. Cross References
    Isaiah 31:6
    Turn to him from whom people have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
  18. Cross References
    Psalms 38:3
    There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.
  19. Cross References
    Jeremiah 8:22
    Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
  20. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:5
    And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.
    Isaiah 6:11 - 12
    Then I said, "How long, O Lord?" And he said: "Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is a desolate waste.
    Deuteronomy 28:51 - 52
    It shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
  21. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:32
    This very day he will halt at Nob; he will shake his fist at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
    Isaiah 37:22
    This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: "'She despises you, she scorns you - the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you - the daughter of Jerusalem.
    Zechariah 2:10
    Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell in your midst, declares the Lord.
    Zechariah 9:9
    Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
  22. Cross References
    Job 27:18
    He builds his house like a moth's, like a booth that a watchman makes.
  23. Cross References
    Lamentations 3:22
    The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end.
  24. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:21 - 22
    A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
    Romans 9:29
    And as Isaiah predicted, "If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah.
  25. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:19
    And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
    Genesis 19:24 - 25
    Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
  26. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:19
    And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
    Genesis 19:24 - 25
    Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
  27. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:46
    And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.
    Ezekiel 16:48 - 49
    As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
    Ezekiel 16:55
    As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state.
    Isaiah 3:9
    For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
    Revelation 11:8
    And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.
  28. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:32
    For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter.
  29. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:32
    For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter.
  30. Cross References
    Proverbs 15:8
    The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
    Jeremiah 6:20
    What use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.
    Malachi 1:10
    Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hand.
    Isaiah 66:3
    He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog's neck; he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig's blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
    1 Samuel 15:22
    And Samuel said, "Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
  31. Cross References
    Exodus 23:17
    Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.
    Exodus 34:23
    Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.
  32. Cross References
    Numbers 28:11
    At the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord : two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish.
    1 Chronicles 23:31
    And whenever burnt offerings were offered to the Lord on Sabbaths, new moons, and feast days, according to the number required of them, regularly before the Lord.
  33. Cross References
    Exodus 12:16
    On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.
    Leviticus 23:36
    For seven days you shall present food offerings to the Lord. On the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly; you shall not do any ordinary work.
  34. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:9 - 10
    Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known.
  35. Cross References
    Joel 2:15 - 17
    Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly.
  36. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:13
    Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations - I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly.
  37. Cross References
    1 Kings 8:22
    Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.
  38. Cross References
    Proverbs 1:28
    Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
    Micah 3:4
    Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.
  39. Cross References
    Isaiah 59:3
    For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness.
  40. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:22
    Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord God.
  41. Cross References
    1 Peter 3:11
    Let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.
  42. Cross References
    Jeremiah 22:3
    Thus says the Lord : Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
  43. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:23
    Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.
    James 1:27
    Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
  44. Cross References
    Micah 6:2
    Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the Lord, and you enduring foundations of the earth, for the Lord has an indictment against his people, and he will contend with Israel.
    Isaiah 43:26
    Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
  45. Cross References
    Psalms 51:7
    Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
    Revelation 7:14
    I said to him, "Sir, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
  46. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 30:15 - 16
    See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.
  47. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:2
    Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the...
    Isaiah 24:3
    The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly pl...
    Isaiah 40:5
    And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, an...
    Isaiah 58:14
    Then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I ...
    Micah 4:4
    But they shall sit every man under his vine and...
    Numbers 23:19
    God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of...
  48. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:20
    For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, 'I will not serve.' Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore.
    Exodus 34:15
    Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice.
  49. Cross References
    Jeremiah 31:23
    Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: "Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I restore their fortunes: "'The Lord bless you, O habitation of righteousness, O holy hill!
  50. Cross References
    Jeremiah 6:30
    Rejected silver they are called, for the Lord has rejected them.
    Ezekiel 22:18
    Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver.
  51. Cross References
    Micah 7:3
    Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
    Exodus 23:8
    And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
  52. Cross References
    Jeremiah 5:28
    They have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
    Zechariah 7:10
    Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.
    Isaiah 1:17
    Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.
  53. Cross References
    Isaiah 3:1
    For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water.
    Isaiah 10:33
    Behold, the Lord God of hosts will lop the boughs with terrifying power; the great in height will be hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low.
  54. Cross References
    Psalms 132:2
    How he swore to the Lord and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob.
  55. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:41
    If I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.
  56. Cross References
    Psalms 81:14
    I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.
    Amos 1:8
    I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; I will turn my hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish," says the Lord God.
    Isaiah 5:25
    Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them, and the mountains quaked; and their corpses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
  57. Cross References
    Ezekiel 22:20
    As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.
    Malachi 3:3
    He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.
  58. Cross References
    Jeremiah 33:7
    I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and rebuild them as they were at first.
    Jeremiah 33:11
    The voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord : "'Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!' For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the Lord.
  59. Cross References
    Zechariah 8:3
    Thus says the Lord : I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain.
  60. Cross References
    Jeremiah 22:3 - 4
    Thus says the Lord : Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.
  61. Cross References
    Job 31:3
    Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity?
    Psalms 1:6
    For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
  62. Cross References
    Hosea 4:19
    A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
  63. Cross References
    Isaiah 57:5
    You who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
    Hosea 4:13
    They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and your brides commit adultery.
  64. Cross References
    Isaiah 65:3
    A people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and making offerings on bricks.
    Isaiah 66:17
    Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating pig's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the Lord.
  65. Cross References
    Jeremiah 17:8
    He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.
  66. Cross References
    Judges 16:9
    Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner chamber. And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he snapped the bowstrings, as a thread of flax snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.
  67. Cross References
    Isaiah 66:24
    "And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."
  68. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:2 - 4
    It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it.
    Micah 4:1 - 3
    It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it.
  69. Cross References
    Isaiah 14:13
    You said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north.
    Isaiah 25:6
    On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
  70. Cross References
    Isaiah 56:7
    These I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
  71. Cross References
    Zechariah 8:20 - 23
    Thus says the Lord of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities.
  72. Cross References
    Luke 24:47
    And that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
    John 4:22
    You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
  73. Cross References
    Joel 3:10
    Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a warrior.
  74. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:7
    Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
    Psalms 72:3
    Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness!
    Psalms 72:7
    In his days may the righteous flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be no more!
    Hosea 2:18
    And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.
    Zechariah 9:10
    I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
  75. Cross References
    Isaiah 60:1 - 2
    Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
    Ephesians 5:8
    For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
  76. Cross References
    2 Kings 16:10 - 11
    When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details.
  77. Cross References
    Micah 5:12
    And I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes.
  78. Cross References
    2 Kings 1:2
    Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, "Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.
  79. Cross References
    2 Kings 16:7 - 8
    So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me.
  80. Cross References
    Isaiah 39:2
    And Hezekiah welcomed them gladly. And he showed them his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his whole armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.
    Isaiah 22:8
    He has taken away the covering of Judah. In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest.
    Isaiah 22:11
    You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago.
    Deuteronomy 17:17
    And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.
  81. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:16
    And you said, "No! We will flee upon horses"; therefore you shall flee away; and, "We will ride upon swift steeds"; therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
    Deuteronomy 17:16
    Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, 'You shall never return that way again.
    Micah 5:10
    And in that day, declares the Lord, I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots.
  82. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:18
    And the idols shall utterly pass away.
    Isaiah 2:20
    In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats.
    Isaiah 10:10 - 11
    As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria.
    Jeremiah 2:28
    But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you, in your time of trouble; for as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah.
  83. Cross References
    Isaiah 44:9 - 17
    All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.
  84. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:15
    Man is humbled, and each one is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are brought low.
  85. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:15
    Man is humbled, and each one is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are brought low.
  86. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:19
    And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
    Isaiah 2:21
    To enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
    Revelation 6:15 - 16
    Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
  87. Cross References
    2 Thessalonians 1:9
    They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might.
  88. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:17
    And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
    Psalms 18:27
    For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down.
    Micah 2:3
    Therefore thus says the Lord : behold, against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster.
    2 Corinthians 10:5
    We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.
  89. Cross References
    Job 40:11 - 12
    Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on everyone who is proud and abase him.
    Malachi 4:1
    For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
  90. Cross References
    Isaiah 14:8
    The cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, 'Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.
    Judges 9:15
    And the bramble said to the trees, 'If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
  91. Cross References
    Ezekiel 27:6
    Of oaks of Bashan they made your oars; they made your deck of pines from the coasts of Cyprus, inlaid with ivory.
    Zechariah 11:2
    Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled!
  92. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:25
    And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
  93. Cross References
    Isaiah 60:9
    For the coastlands shall hope for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your children from afar, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the Lord your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.
    1 Kings 10:22
    For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
  94. Cross References
    Psalms 18:27
    For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down.
    Micah 2:3
    Therefore thus says the Lord : behold, against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster.
    2 Corinthians 10:5
    We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.
  95. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:8
    Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
  96. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:10
    Enter into the rock and hide in the dust from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty.
    Hosea 10:8
    The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, "Cover us," and to the hills, "Fall on us.
    Luke 23:30
    Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us,' and to the hills, 'Cover us.
    Revelation 6:16
    Calling to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
  97. Cross References
    Psalms 76:8 - 9
    From the heavens you uttered judgment; the earth feared and was still.
    Habakkuk 3:6
    He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.
  98. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:22
    Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, "Be gone!
    Isaiah 31:7
    For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.
  99. Cross References
    Leviticus 11:19
    The stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
    Deuteronomy 14:18
    The stork, the heron of any kind; the hoopoe and the bat.
  100. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:19
    And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
  101. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:19
    And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
  102. Cross References
    Psalms 146:3
    Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
  103. Cross References
    Job 27:3
    As long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils.
    James 4:14
    Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
  104. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:24
    Therefore the Lord declares, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will get relief from my enemies and avenge myself on my foes.
  105. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:26
    When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
    Ezekiel 4:16
    Moreover, he said to me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.
  106. Cross References
    2 Kings 24:14
    He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, except the poorest people of the land.
    Ezekiel 17:13 - 14
    And he took one of the royal offspring and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath ( the chief men of the land he had taken away).
  107. Cross References
    Isaiah 3:12
    My people - infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.
    Ecclesiastes 10:16
    Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!
  108. Cross References
    Micah 7:3 - 6
    Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.
  109. Cross References
    Isaiah 4:1
    And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach.
  110. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:6
    From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.
  111. Cross References
    Psalms 73:9 - 11
    They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
  112. Cross References
    Isaiah 65:3
    A people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and making offerings on bricks.
  113. Cross References
    Genesis 13:13
    Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.
    Genesis 18:20
    Then the Lord said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave.
    Ezekiel 16:46
    And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.
    Ezekiel 16:48 - 49
    As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
  114. Cross References
    Romans 6:23
    For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  115. Cross References
    Ecclesiastes 8:12
    Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him.
    Deuteronomy 28:1 - 14
    And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
  116. Cross References
    Psalms 128:2
    You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.
  117. Cross References
    Ecclesiastes 8:13
    But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
    Deuteronomy 28:15 - 68
    But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
  118. Cross References
    Isaiah 3:4
    And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them.
  119. Cross References
    Isaiah 28:14 - 22
    Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem!
  120. Cross References
    Psalms 7:6
    Arise, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.
    Hosea 4:1
    Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land.
  121. Cross References
    Micah 3:1
    And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice? -
  122. Cross References
    Psalms 14:4
    Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord ?
  123. Cross References
    Amos 3:10
    "They do not know how to do right," declares the Lord, "those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds."
  124. Cross References
    Psalms 94:5
    They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage.
  125. Cross References
    Isaiah 32:9 - 11
    Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.
  126. Cross References
    Isaiah 4:4
    When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning.
    Song of Solomon 3:11
    Go out, O daughters of Zion, and look upon King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the gladness of his heart.
  127. Cross References
    Isaiah 3:18
    In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents.
  128. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:60
    And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.
  129. Cross References
    Isaiah 3:16
    The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet.
  130. Cross References
    Isaiah 3:16
    The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet.
  131. Cross References
    1 Peter 3:3
    Do not let your adorning be external - the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear -
  132. Cross References
    Judges 8:21
    Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise yourself and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength." And Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.
    Judges 8:26
    And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels.
  133. Cross References
    Exodus 39:28
    And the turban of fine linen, and the caps of fine linen, and the linen undergarments of fine twined linen.
    Ezekiel 24:17
    Sigh, but not aloud; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban, and put your shoes on your feet; do not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
  134. Cross References
    Genesis 24:47
    Then I asked her, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arms.
    Ezekiel 16:12
    And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.
  135. Cross References
    Luke 15:22
    But the father said to his servants, 'Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.
  136. Cross References
    Esther 2:12
    Now when the turn came for each young woman to go in to King Ahasuerus, after being twelve months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their beautifying, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and ointments for women -
  137. Cross References
    Proverbs 31:24
    She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchant.
  138. Cross References
    1 Peter 3:3
    Do not let your adorning be external - the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear -
  139. Cross References
    Isaiah 15:2
    He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness; every beard is shorn.
    Isaiah 22:12
    In that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth.
    Ezekiel 27:31
    They make themselves bald for you and put sackcloth on their waist, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.
    Amos 8:10
    I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
    Micah 1:16
    Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile.
  140. Cross References
    Isaiah 15:3
    In the streets they wear sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares everyone wails and melts in tears.
    Genesis 37:34
    Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
    Lamentations 2:10
    The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
  141. Cross References
    Leviticus 19:28
    You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.
  142. Cross References
    Jeremiah 14:2
    Judah mourns, and her gates languish; her people lament on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
    Lamentations 1:4
    The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the festival; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her virgins have been afflicted, and she herself suffers bitterly.
  143. Cross References
    Job 2:13
    And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.
    Lamentations 2:10
    The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
  144. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:12
    I will make people more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.
  145. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:12
    I will make people more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.
  146. Cross References
    Isaiah 3:6
    For a man will take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying: "You have a cloak; you shall be our leader, and this heap of ruins shall be under your rule".
  147. Cross References
    Genesis 30:23
    She conceived and bore a son and said, "God has taken away my reproach.
  148. Cross References
    Jeremiah 23:5
    Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
    Jeremiah 33:15
    In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
    Zechariah 3:8
    Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch.
    Zechariah 6:12
    And say to him, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, "Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: for he shall branch out from his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord.
  149. Cross References
    Isaiah 27:6
    In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit.
  150. Cross References
    Isaiah 6:13
    And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains when it is felled." The holy seed is its stump.
    Isaiah 10:20
    In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean on him who struck them, but will lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
  151. Cross References
    Obadiah 1:17
    But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
  152. Cross References
    Exodus 32:32
    But now, if you will forgive their sin - but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.
    Luke 10:20
    Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
    Hebrews 12:23
    And to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect.
    Psalms 69:28
    Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
  153. Cross References
    Ezekiel 36:25
    I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
  154. Cross References
    Isaiah 3:16
    The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet.
  155. Cross References
    Isaiah 33:14
    The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: "Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?
    Malachi 3:2
    But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.
    Matthew 3:11
    I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
    Luke 3:17
    His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
  156. Cross References
    Exodus 13:21
    And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night.
  157. Cross References
    Revelation 7:15
    Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.
  158. Cross References
    Isaiah 25:4
    For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall.
  159. Cross References
    Psalms 27:5
    For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.
  160. Cross References
    Isaiah 25:4
    For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall.
  161. Cross References
    Psalms 80:8
    You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
    Matthew 21:33
    Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.
    Mark 12:1
    And he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.
    Luke 20:9
    And he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while.
    Hosea 9:10
    Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved.
  162. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:21
    Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?
  163. Cross References
    Matthew 21:19
    And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, "May no fruit ever come from you again!" And the fig tree withered at once.
    Mark 11:13
    And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
    Luke 13:6
    And he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.
  164. Cross References
    Micah 6:3 - 4
    O my people, what have I done to you? How have I wearied you? Answer me!
  165. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:2
    He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
  166. Cross References
    Jeremiah 5:10
    Go up through her vine rows and destroy, but make not a full end; strip away her branches, for they are not the Lord 's.
  167. Cross References
    Psalms 80:12
    Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
    Proverbs 24:31
    And behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
  168. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:23 - 25
    In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns.
  169. Cross References
    1 Kings 17:1
    Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.
    Jeremiah 14:1
    The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
    Jeremiah 14:22
    Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.
  170. Cross References
    Isaiah 3:14
    The Lord will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
    Psalms 80:8 - 11
    You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
  171. Cross References
    Micah 2:2
    They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
  172. Cross References
    Isaiah 6:12
    And the Lord removes people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
  173. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:26
    When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
    Haggai 1:6
    You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
    Haggai 2:16
    How did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.
  174. Cross References
    Ezekiel 45:11
    The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure.
  175. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:22
    Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink.
    Proverbs 23:29 - 30
    Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
    Ecclesiastes 10:16 - 17
    Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!
  176. Cross References
    Amos 6:5 - 6
    Who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David invent for themselves instruments of music.
  177. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:11
    O Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed. Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.
  178. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:3
    The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.
    Hosea 4:6
    My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
  179. Cross References
    Lamentations 4:2
    The precious sons of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are regarded as earthen pots, the work of a potter's hands!
    Lamentations 4:7 - 8
    Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, the beauty of their form was like sapphire.
  180. Cross References
    Habakkuk 2:5
    "Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples."
  181. Cross References
    Psalms 141:7
    As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
  182. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:12
    They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts, but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands.
    Job 1:18 - 19
    While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house.
  183. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:9
    So man is humbled, and each one is brought low - do not forgive them!
  184. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:11
    The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
    Isaiah 2:17
    And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
  185. Cross References
    Micah 2:12
    I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob; I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men.
  186. Cross References
    Judges 6:3
    For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
  187. Cross References
    Proverbs 5:22
    The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
  188. Cross References
    Ezekiel 12:22
    Son of man, what is this proverb that you have about the land of Israel, saying, 'The days grow long, and every vision comes to nothing'?
    2 Peter 3:4
    They will say, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.
  189. Cross References
    Amos 5:7
    O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!
  190. Cross References
    Job 17:12
    They make night into day: 'The light,' they say, 'is near to the darkness.
    Matthew 6:22 - 23
    The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
    Luke 11:34 - 35
    Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.
  191. Cross References
    Proverbs 3:7
    Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
    Romans 12:16
    Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
  192. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:11
    Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them!
  193. Cross References
    Exodus 23:8
    And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.
    Proverbs 17:15
    He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
  194. Cross References
    Isaiah 47:14
    Behold, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!
    Joel 2:5
    As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle.
    Exodus 15:7
    In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble.
  195. Cross References
    Job 18:16
    His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.
  196. Cross References
    Hosea 5:12
    But I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like dry rot to the house of Judah.
  197. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:9
    For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord.
  198. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:4
    Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
  199. Cross References
    2 Kings 22:13
    "Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us."
    2 Kings 22:17
    Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.
  200. Cross References
    Jeremiah 4:24
    I looked on the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro.
    Psalms 97:5
    The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth.
    Habakkuk 3:6
    He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.
  201. Cross References
    2 Kings 9:37
    And the corpse of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.'
    Jeremiah 36:30
    Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night.
  202. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:12
    The Syrians on the east and the Philistines on the west devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
    Isaiah 9:17
    Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
    Isaiah 9:21
    Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh; together they are against Judah. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
    Isaiah 10:4
    Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
  203. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:12
    He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
    Isaiah 13:2
    On a bare hill raise a signal; cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles.
    Isaiah 18:3
    All you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth, when a signal is raised on the mountains, look! When a trumpet is blown, hear!
  204. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:18
    In that day the Lord will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
    Zechariah 10:8
    I will whistle for them and gather them in, for I have redeemed them, and they shall be as many as they were before.
  205. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:3
    What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?
    Deuteronomy 28:49
    The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand.
  206. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:28 - 31
    He has come to Aiath; he has passed through Migron; at Michmash he stores his baggage.
  207. Cross References
    Psalms 7:12 - 13
    If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow.
  208. Cross References
    Isaiah 21:1
    The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
  209. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:13 - 16
    In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
  210. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:22
    And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness.
  211. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:1
    The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
    2 Chronicles 26:16 - 21
    But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.
  212. Cross References
    John 12:41
    Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him.
  213. Cross References
    Revelation 4:8
    And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!
  214. Cross References
    Isaiah 6:2
    Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
  215. Cross References
    Psalms 72:19
    Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and Amen!
  216. Cross References
    Amos 9:1
    I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: "Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape.
  217. Cross References
    1 Kings 8:10 - 11
    And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, a cloud filled the house of the Lord.
    Revelation 15:8
    And the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.
    Exodus 19:18
    Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly.
  218. Cross References
    Judges 13:22
    And Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, for we have seen God.
  219. Cross References
    Luke 5:8
    But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
  220. Cross References
    Isaiah 33:17
    Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar.
    Jeremiah 10:10
    But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
    1 Samuel 12:12
    And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, 'No, but a king shall reign over us,' when the Lord your God was your king.
  221. Cross References
    Jeremiah 1:9
    Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
    Daniel 10:16
    And behold, one in the likeness of the children of man touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, "O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and I retain no strength.
  222. Cross References
    Genesis 1:26
    Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
  223. Cross References
    Matthew 13:14 - 15
    Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: "'You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.
    Acts 28:26 - 27
    'Go to this people, and say, You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.
    Mark 4:12
    So that "they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven.
    Luke 8:10
    He said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
    Romans 11:8
    As it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.
  224. Cross References
    John 12:40
    "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them."
  225. Cross References
    Psalms 119:70
    Their heart is unfeeling like fat, but I delight in your law.
  226. Cross References
    Jeremiah 5:21
    Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.
  227. Cross References
    Psalms 79:5
    How long, O Lord ? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
    Psalms 89:46
    How long, O Lord ? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
  228. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:7
    Your country lies desolate; your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence foreigners devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
    Isaiah 27:10
    For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; there the calf grazes; there it lies down and strips its branches.
  229. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:22
    For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
  230. Cross References
    Job 14:7
    For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.
  231. Cross References
    Ezra 9:2
    For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.
  232. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:1
    The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
  233. Cross References
    2 Kings 15:37
    In those days the Lord began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
    2 Kings 16:5
    Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz but could not conquer him.
  234. Cross References
    2 Kings 15:37
    In those days the Lord began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
    2 Kings 16:5
    Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz but could not conquer him.
  235. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:12
    Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread.
  236. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:9
    And all the people will know, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:
  237. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:3
    And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, "Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
    Isaiah 8:18
    Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
  238. Cross References
    Isaiah 36:2
    And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem, with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field.
    2 Kings 18:17
    And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer's Field.
  239. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:12
    Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread.
  240. Cross References
    Exodus 14:13
    And Moses said to the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.
  241. Cross References
    Amos 4:11
    I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me," declares the Lord.
    Zechariah 3:2
    And the Lord said to Satan, "The Lord rebuke you, O Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?
  242. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:1
    In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it.
  243. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:4
    And say to him, 'Be careful, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah.
  244. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:10
    Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.
  245. Cross References
    Genesis 14:15
    And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.
  246. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:1
    In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it.
  247. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 20:20
    And they rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the Lord your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed.
  248. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:29
    And this shall be the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
  249. Cross References
    Isaiah 43:24
    You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.
  250. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:30
    And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
    Isaiah 38:7 - 8
    This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has promised:
  251. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:6
    For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
    Matthew 1:23
    Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel" (which means, God with us).
    Luke 1:31
    And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.
    Luke 1:34
    And Mary said to the angel, "How will this be, since I am a virgin?
  252. Cross References
    Genesis 24:43
    Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let the virgin who comes out to draw water, to whom I shall say, "Please give me a little water from your jar to drink.
    Exodus 2:8
    And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the girl went and called the child's mother.
    Psalms 68:25
    The singers in front, the musicians last, between them virgins playing tambourines:
    Proverbs 30:19
    The way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin.
  253. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:8
    And it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
    Isaiah 8:10
    Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.
  254. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:22
    And because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eat curds and honey.
  255. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:4
    For before the boy knows how to cry 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.
  256. Cross References
    Isaiah 6:12
    And the Lord removes people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
  257. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:7
    Therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks.
    2 Chronicles 28:20
    So Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.
  258. Cross References
    1 Kings 12:16
    And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, "What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David." So Israel went to their tents.
  259. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:26
    He will raise a signal for nations far away, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
  260. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:19
    And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
    Jeremiah 13:4
    "Take the loincloth that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock."
    Jeremiah 16:16
    Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the Lord, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
  261. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:1
    Behold, the Lord will empty the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
    2 Kings 18:13 - 16
    In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
  262. Cross References
    Ezekiel 5:1
    And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair.
  263. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:5
    Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!
    Isaiah 10:15
    Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
  264. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:7
    Therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks.
    Isaiah 11:15
    And the Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt, and will wave his hand over the River with his scorching breath, and strike it into seven channels, and he will lead people across in sandals.
  265. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:17
    Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, and nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.
  266. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:15
    He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.
  267. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:6
    I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
  268. Cross References
    Judges 5:11
    To the sound of musicians at the watering places, there they repeat the righteous triumphs of the Lord, the righteous triumphs of his villagers in Israel. "Then down to the gates marched the people of the Lord.
  269. Cross References
    Isaiah 32:13 - 14
    For the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city.
  270. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:23
    In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns.
  271. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:8
    And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.
  272. Cross References
    Isaiah 43:10
    You are my witnesses," declares the Lord, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
  273. Cross References
    2 Kings 16:10 - 11
    When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details.
    2 Kings 16:15 - 16
    And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, "On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering and the king's burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. And throw on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice, but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.
  274. Cross References
    Hosea 1:4
    And the Lord said to him, "Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
  275. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:16
    For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted.
  276. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:16
    For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted.
  277. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:8 - 9
    For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
  278. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:8 - 9
    For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
  279. Cross References
    Nehemiah 3:15
    And Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars. And he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king's garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.
    John 9:7
    And said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
    John 9:11
    He answered, "The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed and received my sight.
  280. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:1
    In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it.
    Isaiah 7:4
    And say to him, 'Be careful, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah.
  281. Cross References
    Isaiah 17:12 - 13
    Ah, the thunder of many peoples; they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of nations; they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!
  282. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:20
    In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired beyond the River - with the king of Assyria - the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.
  283. Cross References
    Jeremiah 46:8
    Egypt rises like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He said, 'I will rise, I will cover the earth, I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.
  284. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:28
    His breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.
  285. Cross References
    Isaiah 36:1
    In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
  286. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:14
    Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
  287. Cross References
    Daniel 2:34 - 35
    As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
  288. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:7
    Thus says the Lord God : "'It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.
  289. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:8
    And it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
    Romans 8:31
    What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
  290. Cross References
    Ezekiel 2:8
    "But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you."
  291. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:2
    When the house of David was told, "Syria is in league with Ephraim," the heart of Ahaz and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.
  292. Cross References
    1 Peter 3:14 - 15
    But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled.
  293. Cross References
    Numbers 20:12
    And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.
  294. Cross References
    Ezekiel 11:16
    Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord God : Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.
  295. Cross References
    Romans 9:33
    As it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.
    1 Peter 2:8
    And "A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
    Isaiah 28:16
    Therefore thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'Whoever believes will not be in haste.
  296. Cross References
    Isaiah 28:13
    And the word of the Lord will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little, that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
    Matthew 21:44
    And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.
    Luke 20:18
    Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.
  297. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:1 - 2
    Then the Lord said to me, "Take a large tablet and write on it in common characters, 'Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
  298. Cross References
    Daniel 12:4
    But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.
  299. Cross References
    Psalms 27:14
    Wait for the Lord ; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
    Psalms 33:20
    Our soul waits for the Lord ; he is our help and our shield.
    Habakkuk 2:3
    For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end - it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
  300. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:15
    When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
    Isaiah 54:8
    In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you," says the Lord, your Redeemer.
    Deuteronomy 31:17
    Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?
  301. Cross References
    Hebrews 2:13
    And again, "I will put my trust in him." And again, "Behold, I and the children God has given me.
  302. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:3
    And the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field.
  303. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:3
    And the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers.
    2 Kings 21:6
    And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
    2 Kings 23:24
    Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
    2 Chronicles 33:6
    And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
    Leviticus 19:31
    Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
  304. Cross References
    Psalms 106:28
    Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
    1 Samuel 28:11 - 14
    Then the woman said, "Whom shall I bring up for you?" He said, "Bring up Samuel for me.
  305. Cross References
    Luke 16:29
    But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.
  306. Cross References
    Isaiah 60:1
    Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
  307. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:30
    They will growl over it on that day, like the growling of the sea. And if one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened by its clouds.
  308. Cross References
    Nahum 1:8
    But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
  309. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:22
    And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness.
  310. Cross References
    2 Kings 15:29
    In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.
    2 Chronicles 16:4
    And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.
  311. Cross References
    Matthew 4:15 - 16
    The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles -
  312. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:15
    But you have increased the nation, O Lord, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
  313. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:1
    But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
  314. Cross References
    Luke 1:79
    To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
    Ephesians 5:8
    For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
    Ephesians 5:14
    For anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
  315. Cross References
    Job 3:5
    Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
  316. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:15
    But you have increased the nation, O Lord, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
  317. Cross References
    Psalms 4:7
    You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.
    John 4:36
    Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
  318. Cross References
    Psalms 119:162
    I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil.
    1 Samuel 30:16
    And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.
  319. Cross References
    Judges 5:30
    'Have they not found and divided the spoil? - A womb or two for every man; spoil of dyed materials for Sisera, spoil of dyed materials embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?'
  320. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:27
    And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.
    Isaiah 14:25
    That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains trample him underfoot; and his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden from their shoulder.
    Nahum 1:13
    And now I will break his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds apart.
    Matthew 11:29
    Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
  321. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:5
    Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!
    Isaiah 10:24
    Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: "O my people, who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.
    Isaiah 14:5
    The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers.
  322. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:26
    And the Lord of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt.
    Psalms 83:9
    Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon.
    Judges 7:19 - 25
    So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch. And they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.
    Judges 8:10 - 21
    Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about 15,000 men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men who drew the sword.
  323. Cross References
    Ezekiel 39:9
    Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, clubs and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years.
  324. Cross References
    Luke 2:11
    For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
    John 3:16
    For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
  325. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:14
    Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
  326. Cross References
    Matthew 28:18
    And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
    1 Corinthians 15:25
    For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
  327. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:22
    And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
  328. Cross References
    Isaiah 28:29
    This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.
  329. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:21
    A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
    Deuteronomy 10:17
    For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.
    Nehemiah 9:32
    Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.
    Jeremiah 32:18
    You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
    Psalms 45:3
    Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your splendor and majesty!
  330. Cross References
    Psalms 72:17
    May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!
  331. Cross References
    Isaiah 63:16
    For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.
    John 14:18
    I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
  332. Cross References
    Psalms 72:7
    In his days may the righteous flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be no more!
    Ephesians 2:14
    For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
    Isaiah 11:6 - 9
    The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them.
  333. Cross References
    Psalms 89:4
    I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.'" Selah
    Luke 1:32 - 33
    He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David.
  334. Cross References
    Jeremiah 23:5
    Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
  335. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:32
    For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
    2 Kings 19:31
    For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord will do this.
    Zechariah 1:14
    So the angel who talked with me said to me, 'Cry out, Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion.
  336. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:2
    When the house of David was told, "Syria is in league with Ephraim," the heart of Ahaz and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.
    Isaiah 7:5
    Because Syria, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying.
    Isaiah 7:8 - 9
    For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
    Isaiah 7:17
    The Lord will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah - the king of Assyria.
  337. Cross References
    2 Kings 16:6
    At that time Rezin the king of Syria recovered Elath for Syria and drove the men of Judah from Elath, and the Edomites came to Elath, where they dwell to this day.
  338. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 28:18
    And the Philistines had made raids on the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there.
  339. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:17
    Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
    Isaiah 9:21
    Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh; together they are against Judah. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
    Isaiah 5:25
    Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them, and the mountains quaked; and their corpses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
    Isaiah 10:4
    Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
  340. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:5
    Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
    Hosea 7:10
    The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him, for all this.
  341. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:15
    And there will be nothing for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.
    Deuteronomy 28:13
    And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them.
  342. Cross References
    Isaiah 3:2 - 3
    The mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder.
  343. Cross References
    Isaiah 28:7
    These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.
    Micah 3:5
    Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry "Peace" when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.
  344. Cross References
    Psalms 147:10 - 11
    His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man.
  345. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:6
    Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
  346. Cross References
    Genesis 34:7
    The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing must not be done.
  347. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:12
    The Syrians on the east and the Philistines on the west devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
  348. Cross References
    Psalms 83:14
    As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze.
    James 3:5
    So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!
  349. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:6
    Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.
  350. Cross References
    Micah 7:2
    The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net.
  351. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:21
    They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward.
  352. Cross References
    Isaiah 49:26
    I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am the Lord your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
    Deuteronomy 28:53 - 57
    And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.
  353. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:13
    The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and those who harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
    2 Chronicles 28:6 - 9
    For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed 120,000 from Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers.
  354. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:12
    The Syrians on the east and the Philistines on the west devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
  355. Cross References
    Psalms 94:20
    Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute?
  356. Cross References
    Jeremiah 8:8
    How can you say, 'We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us'? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.
  357. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:23
    Who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!
  358. Cross References
    Jeremiah 5:29
    Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
    Hosea 9:7
    The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.
    Luke 19:44
    And tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.
  359. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:26
    He will raise a signal for nations far away, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
  360. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:12
    The Syrians on the east and the Philistines on the west devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
  361. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:24
    Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: "O my people, who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.
    Isaiah 9:4
    For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
    Micah 5:1
    Now muster your troops, O daughter of troops; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the judge of Israel on the cheek.
    Micah 6:9
    The voice of the Lord cries to the city - and it is sound wisdom to fear your name: "Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it!
  362. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:17
    Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
  363. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:14 - 16
    And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear." And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
  364. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:5
    And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.
  365. Cross References
    Micah 4:12
    But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord ; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.
  366. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:24
    How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
  367. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:12 - 13
    Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
  368. Cross References
    Genesis 10:10
    The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
    Amos 6:2
    Pass over to Calneh, and see, and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory.
  369. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 35:20
    After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him.
    Jeremiah 46:2
    About Egypt. Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
  370. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:11
    In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
    Amos 6:2
    Pass over to Calneh, and see, and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory.
    Zechariah 9:2
    And on Hamath also, which borders on it, Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.
  371. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:34
    Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
  372. Cross References
    2 Kings 16:9
    And the king of Assyria listened to him. The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir, and he killed Rezin.
    2 Kings 17:6
    In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
  373. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:9
    And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.'
  374. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:17 - 18
    Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands
  375. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:8
    Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
  376. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:34
    Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
  377. Cross References
    Isaiah 29:4 - 5
    And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak, and from the dust your speech will be bowed down; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and from the dust your speech shall whisper.
    Isaiah 30:18
    Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
    2 Kings 19:31
    For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord will do this.
  378. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:35 - 37
    And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
  379. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:23 - 25
    'Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!
    2 Kings 19:22 - 24
    Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!
  380. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:5
    Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!
    Isaiah 29:16
    You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, "He did not make me"; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding"?
    Isaiah 45:9
    Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?' or 'Your work has no handles'?
    Romans 9:17
    For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
  381. Cross References
    Psalms 78:31
    The anger of God rose against them, and he killed the strongest of them and laid low the young men of Israel.
  382. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:33
    For a burning place has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
  383. Cross References
    Obadiah 1:18
    The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.
  384. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:23
    Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!
  385. Cross References
    Isaiah 27:4
    I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would march against them, I would burn them up together.
    Isaiah 9:18
    For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
    Nahum 1:10
    For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
  386. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:14
    So the Lord cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day -
    2 Kings 19:35
    And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
  387. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:33
    Behold, the Lord God of hosts will lop the boughs with terrifying power; the great in height will be hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low.
    Isaiah 2:13
    Against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan.
  388. Cross References
    Psalms 107:33 - 34
    He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into thirsty ground.
  389. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:27
    And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.
    Isaiah 2:11
    The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
  390. Cross References
    Isaiah 4:2
    In that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel.
  391. Cross References
    2 Kings 16:7
    So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me.
    2 Chronicles 28:20 - 21
    So Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.
  392. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:14
    Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord.
  393. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:6
    For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
  394. Cross References
    Romans 9:27 - 28
    And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved.
  395. Cross References
    Isaiah 6:13
    And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains when it is felled." The holy seed is its stump.
  396. Cross References
    Isaiah 28:22
    Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts against the whole land.
  397. Cross References
    Isaiah 31:5
    Like birds hovering, so the Lord of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it; he will spare and rescue it.
  398. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:6
    Isaiah said to them, "Say to your master, 'Thus says the Lord : Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.
  399. Cross References
    Exodus 2:23
    During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.
  400. Cross References
    Isaiah 17:14
    At evening time, behold, terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us, and the lot of those who plunder us.
  401. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:35
    And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
  402. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:4
    For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
  403. Cross References
    Judges 7:25
    And they captured the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. Then they pursued Midian, and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon across the Jordan.
    Isaiah 9:4
    For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
  404. Cross References
    Exodus 14:30
    Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
  405. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:14
    And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear." And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
  406. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:4
    For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
    Nahum 1:13
    And now I will break his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds apart.
  407. Cross References
    1 Samuel 14:2
    Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah in the pomegranate cave at Migron. The people who were with him were about six hundred men.
  408. Cross References
    Judges 18:21
    So they turned and departed, putting the little ones and the livestock and the goods in front of them.
    1 Samuel 17:22
    And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers.
    Acts 21:15
    After these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.
    Isaiah 46:1
    Bel bows down; Nebo stoops; their idols are on beasts and livestock; these things you carry are borne as burdens on weary beasts.
  409. Cross References
    1 Samuel 13:23
    And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
  410. Cross References
    1 Samuel 13:16
    And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people who were present with them stayed in Geba of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
  411. Cross References
    1 Samuel 7:17
    Then he would return to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel. And he built there an altar to the Lord.
  412. Cross References
    1 Samuel 11:4
    When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people, and all the people wept aloud.
  413. Cross References
    1 Samuel 25:44
    Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
  414. Cross References
    Jeremiah 1:1
    The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.
  415. Cross References
    1 Samuel 21:1
    Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David trembling and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?
    1 Samuel 22:19
    And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.
  416. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:8
    And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
    Isaiah 37:22
    This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: "'She despises you, she scorns you - the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you - the daughter of Jerusalem.
  417. Cross References
    Nahum 1:12
    Thus says the Lord, "Though they are at full strength and many, they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
  418. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:18
    The glory of his forest and of his fruitful land the Lord will destroy, both soul and body, and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.
  419. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:33
    Behold, the Lord God of hosts will lop the boughs with terrifying power; the great in height will be hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low.
  420. Cross References
    Ezekiel 31:3
    Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and forest shade, and of towering height, its top among the clouds.
    Amos 2:9
    Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.
  421. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:10
    In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples - of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.
    Acts 13:23
    Of this man's offspring God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised.
  422. Cross References
    Isaiah 61:1
    The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.
    Matthew 3:16
    And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him.
    Mark 1:10
    And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
    Luke 3:22
    And the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.
  423. Cross References
    John 7:24
    Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.
  424. Cross References
    Ecclesiastes 1:8
    All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
  425. Cross References
    Ecclesiastes 1:8
    All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
  426. Cross References
    Psalms 72:2
    May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice!
    Psalms 72:4
    May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!
  427. Cross References
    Psalms 2:9
    You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
    Malachi 4:6
    And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.
  428. Cross References
    Job 4:9
    By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
    2 Thessalonians 2:8
    And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.
  429. Cross References
    Psalms 139:19
    Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me!
  430. Cross References
    Ephesians 6:14
    Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness.
  431. Cross References
    Isaiah 65:25
    The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain," says the Lord.
    Hosea 2:18
    And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.
  432. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:6
    The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them.
  433. Cross References
    Psalms 78:54
    And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.
  434. Cross References
    Habakkuk 2:14
    For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
  435. Cross References
    Romans 15:12
    And again Isaiah says, "The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope.
  436. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:1
    There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
  437. Cross References
    Isaiah 49:22
    Thus says the Lord God : "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
    Exodus 17:15
    And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner.
  438. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:20
    In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean on him who struck them, but will lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
  439. Cross References
    Isaiah 27:13
    And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
    Micah 7:12
    In that day they will come to you, from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
    Zechariah 10:10
    I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria, and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, till there is no room for them.
  440. Cross References
    Isaiah 27:13
    And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
    Micah 7:12
    In that day they will come to you, from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
    Zechariah 10:10
    I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria, and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, till there is no room for them.
  441. Cross References
    Jeremiah 44:1
    The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Judeans who lived in the land of Egypt, at Migdol, at Tahpanhes, at Memphis, and in the land of Pathros.
    Jeremiah 44:15
    Then all the men who knew that their wives had made offerings to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who lived in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah:
    Ezekiel 29:14
    And I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin, and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.
    Ezekiel 30:14
    I will make Pathros a desolation and will set fire to Zoan and will execute judgments on Thebes.
  442. Cross References
    Genesis 10:6 - 12
    The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
  443. Cross References
    Genesis 10:22
    The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
    Genesis 14:1
    In the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim.
    Genesis 14:9
    With Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five.
    Jeremiah 25:25
    All the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media.
    Jeremiah 49:34 - 39
    The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.
  444. Cross References
    Genesis 11:2
    And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
  445. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:9
    Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
  446. Cross References
    Esther 10:1
    King Ahasuerus imposed tax on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.
  447. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:10
    In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples - of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.
  448. Cross References
    Isaiah 56:8
    The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares, "I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered.
    Zechariah 10:6
    I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back because I have compassion on them, and they shall be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the Lord their God and I will answer them.
  449. Cross References
    Ezekiel 37:16 - 17
    "Son of man, take a stick and write on it, 'For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him'; then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.'
    Isaiah 9:21
    Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh; together they are against Judah. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
    Zechariah 11:14
    Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
  450. Cross References
    2 Samuel 8:1
    After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.
    2 Kings 18:8
    He struck down the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.
  451. Cross References
    Judges 6:3
    For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
    Jeremiah 49:28
    Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck down. Thus says the Lord : "Rise up, advance against Kedar! Destroy the people of the east!
  452. Cross References
    Psalms 60:8
    Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph.
  453. Cross References
    2 Samuel 8:14
    Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David's servants. And the Lord gave victory to David wherever he went.
  454. Cross References
    2 Samuel 8:2
    And he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.
  455. Cross References
    2 Samuel 12:26 - 31
    Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.
  456. Cross References
    Zechariah 10:11
    He shall pass through the sea of troubles and strike down the waves of the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall be dried up. The pride of Assyria shall be laid low, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.
  457. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:20
    In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired beyond the River - with the king of Assyria - the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.
  458. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:23
    In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.
    Isaiah 35:8
    And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it. It shall belong to those who walk on the way; even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.
  459. Cross References
    Exodus 14:29
    But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
  460. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:11
    In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
  461. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:4
    Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
  462. Cross References
    Exodus 15:2
    The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.
    Psalms 118:14
    The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
  463. Cross References
    John 4:13 - 14
    Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again.
    John 7:37 - 38
    On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
  464. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:11
    In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
  465. Cross References
    Psalms 105:1
    Oh give thanks to the Lord ; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples!
  466. Cross References
    Psalms 145:4 - 6
    One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.
  467. Cross References
    Psalms 148:13
    Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven.
  468. Cross References
    Exodus 15:1
    Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, "I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
    Psalms 98:1
    Oh sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
  469. Cross References
    Psalms 46:5
    God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.
    Hosea 11:9
    I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.
  470. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:24
    Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
    Isaiah 41:14
    Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I am the one who helps you, declares the Lord ; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
    Isaiah 41:16
    You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the Lord ; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
  471. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:19
    And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
    Isaiah 14:4
    You will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: "How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!
    Isaiah 21:9
    And behold, here come riders, horsemen in pairs!" And he answered, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the carved images of her gods he has shattered to the ground.
    Isaiah 47:1
    Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
    Jeremiah 51:1 - 52:1
    Thus says the Lord : "Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai.
  472. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:1
    The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
  473. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:26
    He will raise a signal for nations far away, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
  474. Cross References
    Isaiah 41:25
    I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, and he shall call upon my name; he shall trample on rulers as on mortar, as the potter treads clay.
  475. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:5
    For the Lord God of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.
  476. Cross References
    Joshua 5:13 - 14
    When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?
  477. Cross References
    Isaiah 46:11
    Calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.
  478. Cross References
    Isaiah 14:31
    Wail, O gate; cry out, O city; melt in fear, O ...
    Isaiah 15:2 - 3
    He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to ...
    Isaiah 15:8
    For a cry has gone around the land of Moab; her...
    Isaiah 16:7
    Therefore let Moab wail for Moab, let everyone ...
    Jeremiah 51:8
    Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wa...
    Ezekiel 30:2
    "Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the L...
  479. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:12
    For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up - and it shall be brought low.
    Joel 1:15
    Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
    Zephaniah 1:7
    Be silent before the Lord God! For the day of the Lord is near; the Lord has prepared a sacrifice and consecrated his guests.
  480. Cross References
    Joshua 2:11
    And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.
  481. Cross References
    Nahum 2:10
    Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale!
  482. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:17
    Like a pregnant woman who writhes and cries out in her pangs when she is near to giving birth, so were we because of you, O Lord.
    Jeremiah 4:31
    For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one giving birth to her first child, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, "Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.
    Jeremiah 6:24
    We have heard the report of it; our hands fall helpless; anguish has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in labor.
    Micah 4:9 - 10
    Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seized you like a woman in labor?
    John 16:21
    When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
  483. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:6
    Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!
  484. Cross References
    Psalms 104:35
    Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more! Bless the Lord, O my soul! Praise the Lord!
  485. Cross References
    Isaiah 34:4
    All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.
  486. Cross References
    Ezekiel 32:7
    When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens a...
    Joel 2:31
    The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the mo...
    Joel 3:15
    The sun and the moon are darkened, and the star...
    Matthew 24:29
    Immediately after the tribulation of those days...
    Mark 13:24
    But in those days, after that tribulation, the ...
    Luke 21:25
    And there will be signs in sun and moon and sta...
  487. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:21
    On that day the Lord will punish the host of heaven, in heaven, and the kings of the earth, on the earth.
  488. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:4
    The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the highest people of the earth languish.
  489. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:11
    The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
    Isaiah 2:17
    And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
  490. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:6
    Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.
  491. Cross References
    1 Kings 10:11
    Moreover, the fleet of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir a very great amount of almug wood and precious stones.
    Job 28:16
    It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
  492. Cross References
    Haggai 2:6
    For thus says the Lord of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.
  493. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:16
    Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the one who handles the sickle in time of harvest; because of the sword of the oppressor, every one shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.
    Jeremiah 51:9
    We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country, for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.
    1 Kings 22:36
    And about sunset a cry went through the army, "Every man to his city, and every man to his country!
  494. Cross References
    Psalms 137:9
    Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!
    Nahum 3:10
    Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.
  495. Cross References
    Isaiah 21:2
    A stern vision is told to me; the traitor betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.
    Jeremiah 51:11
    Sharpen the arrows! Take up the shields! The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for his temple.
    Jeremiah 51:28
    Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.
    Daniel 5:28
    Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.
    Daniel 5:31
    And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
  496. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:14
    Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the Lord.
    Jeremiah 50:29
    Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has proudly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
    Jeremiah 51:3
    Let not the archer bend his bow, and let him not stand up in his armor. Spare not her young men; devote to destruction all her army.
  497. Cross References
    Isaiah 47:5
    Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.
  498. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:9
    If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah.
    Genesis 19:24
    Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
    Jeremiah 50:40
    As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the Lord, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.
    Amos 4:11
    I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me," declares the Lord.
  499. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:37
    And Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.
    Jeremiah 51:43
    Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.
  500. Cross References
    Jeremiah 3:2
    Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom.
  501. Cross References
    Jeremiah 33:12
    Thus says the Lord of hosts: In this place that is waste, without man or beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be habitations of shepherds resting their flocks.
  502. Cross References
    Isaiah 34:13 - 14
    Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.
  503. Cross References
    Isaiah 34:13
    Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.
    Jeremiah 50:39
    Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations.
  504. Cross References
    Isaiah 35:7
    The burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the haunt of jackals, where they lie down, the grass shall become reeds and rushes.
    Jeremiah 51:37
    And Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.
  505. Cross References
    Isaiah 25:2
    For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the foreigners' palace is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
    Amos 3:15
    I will strike the winter house along with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end," declares the Lord.
  506. Cross References
    Psalms 102:13
    You will arise and have pity on Zion; it is the time to favor her; the appointed time has come.
    Zechariah 1:17
    Cry out again, Thus says the Lord of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.'
  507. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:22 - 23
    Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
  508. Cross References
    Zechariah 8:22 - 23
    Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the Lord.
    Ephesians 2:12 - 14
    Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
  509. Cross References
    Isaiah 49:22
    Thus says the Lord God : "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
    Isaiah 60:9
    For the coastlands shall hope for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your children from afar, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the Lord your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.
    Isaiah 66:20
    And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the Lord, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord.
  510. Cross References
    Isaiah 61:5
    Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks; foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers.
  511. Cross References
    Joel 3:8
    I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.
  512. Cross References
    Isaiah 60:14
    The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending low to you, and all who despised you shall bow down at your feet; they shall call you the City of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
  513. Cross References
    Micah 2:4
    In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, "We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields.
    Habakkuk 2:6
    Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, "Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own - for how long? - and loads himself with pledges!
  514. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:13
    O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.
    Revelation 18:16
    Alas, alas, for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, with jewels, and with pearls!
  515. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:4
    For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
  516. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:4
    For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
  517. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:23
    How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
  518. Cross References
    Isaiah 44:23
    Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel.
    Isaiah 49:13
    Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.
    Isaiah 54:1
    Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married," says the Lord.
    Isaiah 55:12
    For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
  519. Cross References
    Ezekiel 31:16
    I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the world below.
  520. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:24
    By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon, to cut down its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses, to come to its remotest height, its most fruitful forest.
  521. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:13
    Against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan.
  522. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:48
    Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall sing for joy over Babylon, for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, declares the Lord.
  523. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:21
    On that day the Lord will punish the host of heaven, in heaven, and the kings of the earth, on the earth.
    Isaiah 34:3
    Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood.
  524. Cross References
    Job 38:7
    When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
  525. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:53
    Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, yet destroyers would come from me against her, declares the Lord.
    Amos 9:2
    If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.
    Matthew 11:23
    And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
    Luke 10:15
    And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades.
  526. Cross References
    Daniel 5:22 - 23
    And you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this.
    2 Thessalonians 2:4
    Who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
  527. Cross References
    Ezekiel 32:23
    Whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit; and her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.
    Matthew 11:23
    And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
    Luke 10:15
    And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades.
  528. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:23
    How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
  529. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:33
    Thus says the Lord of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them. All who took them captive have held them fast; they refuse to let them go.
  530. Cross References
    Ezekiel 32:20
    They shall fall amid those who are slain by the sword. Egypt is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and all her multitudes.
  531. Cross References
    Job 18:19
    He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
    Psalms 21:10
    You will destroy their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from among the children of man.
    Psalms 109:13
    May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
  532. Cross References
    Exodus 20:5
    You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.
    Matthew 23:35
    So that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
  533. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:50
    You who have escaped from the sword, go, do not stand still! Remember the Lord from far away, and let Jerusalem come into your mind:
    Jeremiah 51:62
    And say, 'O Lord, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.
  534. Cross References
    Job 18:19
    He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
    Genesis 21:23
    Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned.
  535. Cross References
    Isaiah 34:11
    But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
    Zephaniah 2:14
    Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts; even the owl and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.
  536. Cross References
    Proverbs 19:21
    Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
  537. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:36
    And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
  538. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:4
    For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
    Isaiah 10:27
    And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.
  539. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:4
    For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
    Isaiah 10:27
    And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.
  540. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:34
    Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
  541. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 20:6
    And said, "O Lord, God of our fathers, are you ...
    Job 9:12
    Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back...
    Psalms 33:11
    The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the pla...
    Proverbs 21:30
    No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can ava...
    Daniel 4:31
    While the words were still in the king's mouth,...
    Daniel 4:33
    Immediately the word was fulfilled against Nebu...
    Daniel 4:35
    All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted ...
  542. Cross References
    Isaiah 14:26
    This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
  543. Cross References
    2 Kings 16:20
    And Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
  544. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:1
    The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
  545. Cross References
    Exodus 15:14
    The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
    Psalms 60:8
    Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph.
    Psalms 87:4
    Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush - "This one was born there," they say.
    Psalms 108:9
    Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph.
  546. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:24
    Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: "O my people, who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.
  547. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:6
    An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the adder and the flying fiery serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.
    Numbers 21:6
    Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.
    Jeremiah 46:22
    She makes a sound like a serpent gliding away; for her enemies march in force and come against her with axes like those who fell trees.
  548. Cross References
    Isaiah 29:19
    The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
    Zephaniah 3:12
    But I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord.
  549. Cross References
    Isaiah 29:19
    The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
    Zephaniah 3:12
    But I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord.
  550. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:6
    Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!
  551. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:12
    Desolation is left in the city; the gates are battered into ruins.
  552. Cross References
    Isaiah 14:29
    Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.
  553. Cross References
    Isaiah 20:1
    In the year that the commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and fought against it and captured it -
  554. Cross References
    Psalms 87:1
    On the holy mount stands the city he founded.
    Psalms 87:5
    And of Zion it shall be said, "This one and that one were born in her"; for the Most High himself will establish her.
    Psalms 102:16
    For the Lord builds up Zion; he appears in his glory.
    Psalms 132:13
    For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his dwelling place:
    Isaiah 28:16
    Therefore thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'Whoever believes will not be in haste.
  555. Cross References
    Isaiah 14:28
    In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle:
  556. Cross References
    Jeremiah 48:1
    Concerning Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: "Woe to Nebo, for it is laid waste! Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; the fortress is put to shame and broken down.
    Ezekiel 25:8 - 11
    "Thus says the Lord God : Because Moab and Seir said, 'Behold, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,'
    Amos 2:1 - 3
    Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.
    Zephaniah 2:8 - 9
    I have heard the taunts of Moab and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.
  557. Cross References
    Numbers 21:15
    And the slope of the valleys that extends to the seat of Ar, and leans to the border of Moab.
    Numbers 21:28
    For fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, and swallowed the heights of the Arnon.
  558. Cross References
    Isaiah 16:7
    Therefore let Moab wail for Moab, let everyone wail. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.
    Isaiah 16:11
    Therefore my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab, and my inmost self for Kir-hareseth.
  559. Cross References
    Numbers 21:30
    So we overthrew them; Heshbon, as far as Dibon, perished; and we laid waste as far as Nophah; fire spread as far as Medeba.
  560. Cross References
    Numbers 21:30
    So we overthrew them; Heshbon, as far as Dibon, perished; and we laid waste as far as Nophah; fire spread as far as Medeba.
  561. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 34:1
    Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan.
  562. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:6
    Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!
  563. Cross References
    Isaiah 3:24
    Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a skirt of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.
  564. Cross References
    Numbers 32:37
    And the people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim.
  565. Cross References
    Numbers 32:37
    And the people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim.
  566. Cross References
    Jeremiah 48:34
    From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate.
  567. Cross References
    Isaiah 15:4
    Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voice is heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles.
  568. Cross References
    Jeremiah 48:5
    For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distressed cry of destruction.
  569. Cross References
    Jeremiah 48:5
    For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distressed cry of destruction.
  570. Cross References
    Numbers 32:36
    Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
  571. Cross References
    Jeremiah 48:36
    Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of Kir-hareseth. Therefore the riches they gained have perished.
  572. Cross References
    Isaiah 15:2
    He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness; every beard is shorn.
  573. Cross References
    2 Kings 17:25
    And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the Lord. Therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
    Jeremiah 50:17
    Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has gnawed his bones.
  574. Cross References
    2 Kings 3:4
    Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he had to deliver to the king of Israel 100,000 lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.
  575. Cross References
    Isaiah 42:11
    Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the habitants of Sela sing for joy, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
    2 Kings 14:7
    He struck down ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this day.
  576. Cross References
    Judges 11:18
    Then they journeyed through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.
  577. Cross References
    1 Kings 18:4
    And when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)
  578. Cross References
    1 Samuel 22:3
    And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother stay with you, till I know what God will do for me.
  579. Cross References
    Isaiah 32:1 - 2
    Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.
    Daniel 7:14
    And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.
    Daniel 7:27
    And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; their kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey them.
    Micah 4:7
    And the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.
    Luke 1:33
    And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.
  580. Cross References
    Jeremiah 48:29
    We have heard of the pride of Moab - he is very proud - of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.
    Zephaniah 2:10
    This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts.
  581. Cross References
    Judges 3:14
    And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
    2 Kings 13:20
    So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year.
    2 Chronicles 20:1
    After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.
  582. Cross References
    Isaiah 15:3
    In the streets they wear sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares everyone wails and melts in tears.
  583. Cross References
    2 Samuel 6:19
    And distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins to each one. Then all the people departed, each to his house.
    Isaiah 16:9
    Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; for over your summer fruit and your harvest the shout has ceased.
  584. Cross References
    2 Kings 3:25
    And they overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a stone until it was covered. They stopped every spring of water and felled all the good trees, till only its stones were left in Kir-hareseth, and the slingers surrounded and attacked it.
    Isaiah 15:1
    An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone.
  585. Cross References
    Jeremiah 48:32
    More than for Jazer I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! Your branches passed over the sea, reached to the Sea of Jazer; on your summer fruits and your grapes the destroyer has fallen.
  586. Cross References
    Isaiah 15:5
    My heart cries out for Moab; her fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction.
  587. Cross References
    Isaiah 16:8
    For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its branches, which reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; its shoots spread abroad and passed over the sea.
  588. Cross References
    Isaiah 16:7
    Therefore let Moab wail for Moab, let everyone wail. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.
  589. Cross References
    Jeremiah 48:33
    Gladness and joy have been taken away from the fruitful land of Moab; I have made the wine cease from the winepresses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; the shouting is not the shout of joy.
  590. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:3
    You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
  591. Cross References
    Judges 9:27
    And they went out into the field and gathered the grapes from their vineyards and trod them and held a festival; and they went into the house of their god and ate and drank and reviled Abimelech.
  592. Cross References
    Isaiah 63:3
    I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with me; I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath; their lifeblood spattered on my garments, and stained all my apparel.
    Jeremiah 25:30
    You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: "'The Lord will roar from on high, and from his holy habitation utter his voice; he will roar mightily against his fold, and shout, like those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
  593. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:2
    He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
  594. Cross References
    Isaiah 15:5
    My heart cries out for Moab; her fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction.
    Jeremiah 48:36
    Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of Kir-hareseth. Therefore the riches they gained have perished.
  595. Cross References
    1 Kings 18:29
    And as midday passed, they raved on until the time of the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice. No one answered; no one paid attention.
  596. Cross References
    Isaiah 15:2
    He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness; every beard is shorn.
    Numbers 22:41
    And in the morning Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal, and from there he saw a fraction of the people.
    Numbers 23:14
    And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
    Numbers 23:28
    So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the desert.
  597. Cross References
    Amos 2:1 - 3
    Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.
  598. Cross References
    Isaiah 21:16
    For thus the Lord said to me, "Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.
  599. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:22
    For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
  600. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:1
    The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
  601. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:8
    For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
    Zechariah 9:1
    The burden of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach and Damascus is its resting place. For the Lord has an eye on mankind and on all the tribes of Israel.
    Jeremiah 49:23 - 27
    Concerning Damascus: "Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard bad news; they melt in fear, they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.
    Amos 1:3 - 5
    Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.
  602. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 2:36
    From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The Lord our God gave all into our hands.
    Joshua 13:25
    Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of Rabbah.
  603. Cross References
    Micah 4:4
    But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
  604. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:16
    For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted.
    Isaiah 8:4
    For before the boy knows how to cry 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.
  605. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:16
    For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted.
    Isaiah 8:4
    For before the boy knows how to cry 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.
  606. Cross References
    1 Samuel 4:21
    And she named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel!" because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
  607. Cross References
    Isaiah 17:3
    The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, declares the Lord of hosts.
  608. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:16
    Therefore the Lord God of hosts will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire.
  609. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:1
    Behold, the Lord will empty the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
  610. Cross References
    2 Samuel 5:18
    Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
  611. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:13
    For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is done.
  612. Cross References
    Hosea 8:14
    For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds.
  613. Cross References
    Isaiah 27:9
    Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
    Micah 5:13 - 14
    And I will cut off your carved images and your pillars from among you, and you shall bow down no more to the work of your hands.
  614. Cross References
    Exodus 34:13
    You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim
    Deuteronomy 16:21
    You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God that you shall make.
  615. Cross References
    Isaiah 27:10
    For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; there the calf grazes; there it lies down and strips its branches.
  616. Cross References
    Psalms 106:21
    They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt.
  617. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:4
    Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
    Deuteronomy 32:4
    The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
    Deuteronomy 32:18
    You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
    Deuteronomy 32:31
    For their rock is not as our Rock; our enemies are by themselves.
  618. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:5 - 7
    For the Lord God of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.
  619. Cross References
    Isaiah 33:3
    At the tumultuous noise peoples flee; when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered.
  620. Cross References
    Psalms 9:5
    You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
    Joel 3:2
    I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land.
  621. Cross References
    Psalms 1:4
    The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
  622. Cross References
    Psalms 83:13
    O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.
  623. Cross References
    Psalms 30:5
    For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
  624. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:8
    And it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
    Isaiah 17:12
    Ah, the thunder of many peoples; they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of nations; they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!
  625. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:9
    Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, "Behold, he has set out to fight against you." So he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying.
  626. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:4
    For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes.
  627. Cross References
    Isaiah 18:7
    At that time tribute will be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the Lord of hosts.
  628. Cross References
    2 Samuel 8:2
    And he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.
  629. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:26
    He will raise a signal for nations far away, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
  630. Cross References
    Psalms 11:4
    The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord 's throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.
  631. Cross References
    Ezekiel 31:3
    Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and forest shade, and of towering height, its top among the clouds.
    Ezekiel 31:12 - 13
    Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land, and all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it.
  632. Cross References
    Isaiah 18:5
    For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he lops off and clears away.
  633. Cross References
    Psalms 68:31
    Nobles shall come from Egypt; Cush shall hasten to stretch out her hands to God.
  634. Cross References
    Isaiah 18:2
    Which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
  635. Cross References
    Isaiah 25:10
    For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain, and Moab shall be trampled down in his place, as straw is trampled down in a dunghill.
  636. Cross References
    2 Samuel 7:13
    He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
  637. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:1
    The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
  638. Cross References
    Joel 3:19
    Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
    Jeremiah 46:13 - 26
    The word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt:
    Ezekiel 29:1 - 31:2
    In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
    Ezekiel 31:18 - 32:32
    "Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below. You shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. "This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord God."
  639. Cross References
    Psalms 18:10 - 11
    He rode on a cherub and flew; he came swiftly on the wings of the wind.
    Psalms 104:3
    He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind.
    Matthew 26:64
    Jesus said to him, "You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.
    Revelation 1:7
    Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
  640. Cross References
    Exodus 12:12
    For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.
    1 Samuel 5:3
    And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place.
    Jeremiah 43:12
    I shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive. And he shall clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin, and he shall go away from there in peace.
    Jeremiah 50:2
    "Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: 'Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.'
  641. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:7
    Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every human heart will melt.
    Joshua 2:11
    And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.
  642. Cross References
    Judges 7:22
    When they blew the 300 trumpets, the Lord set every man's sword against his comrade and against all the army. And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.
  643. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:11
    The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?
  644. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:19
    And when they say to you, "Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter," should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?
  645. Cross References
    Isaiah 20:4
    So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.
    Jeremiah 46:26
    I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their life, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. Afterward Egypt shall be inhabited as in the days of old, declares the Lord.
    Ezekiel 29:19
    Therefore thus says the Lord God : Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off its wealth and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army.
  646. Cross References
    Numbers 11:5
    We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
  647. Cross References
    Ezekiel 27:7
    Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail, serving as your banner; blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your awning.
  648. Cross References
    Galatians 2:9
    And when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.
  649. Cross References
    Jeremiah 46:21
    Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like fattened calves; yes, they have turned and fled together; they did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.
  650. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:4
    For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes.
    Numbers 13:22
    They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. ( Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
    Psalms 78:43
    When he performed his signs in Egypt and his marvels in the fields of Zoan.
  651. Cross References
    1 Kings 4:30
    So that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
    Acts 7:22
    And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.
  652. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:11
    The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?
  653. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:16
    Moreover, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have...
    Jeremiah 44:1
    The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all t...
    Jeremiah 46:14
    "Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol; proc...
    Jeremiah 46:19
    Prepare yourselves baggage for exile, O inhabit...
    Ezekiel 30:13
    Thus says the Lord God : "I will destroy the id...
    Ezekiel 30:16
    And I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium shall be...
  654. Cross References
    Zechariah 10:4
    From him shall come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler - all of them together.
  655. Cross References
    1 Kings 22:22
    And the Lord said to him, 'By what means?' And he said, 'I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And he said, 'You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.
  656. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:20
    The earth staggers like a drunken man; it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again.
    Isaiah 29:9
    Astonish yourselves and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink!
  657. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:14
    So the Lord cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day -
  658. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:37
    A sword against her horses and against her chariots, and against all the foreign troops in her midst, that they may become women! A sword against all her treasures, that they may be plundered!
    Jeremiah 51:30
    The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken.
    Nahum 3:13
    Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars.
  659. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:32
    This very day he will halt at Nob; he will shake his fist at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
  660. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:21
    And the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day and worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make vows to the Lord and perform them.
  661. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:17
    A thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.
    2 Kings 7:13
    And one of his servants said, "Let some men take five of the remaining horses, seeing that those who are left here will fare like the whole multitude of Israel who have already perished. Let us send and see.
  662. Cross References
    Zephaniah 3:9
    For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call upon the name of the Lord and serve him with one accord.
  663. Cross References
    2 Kings 5:17
    Then Naaman said, "If not, please let there be given to your servant two mules' load of earth, for from now on your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god but the Lord.
  664. Cross References
    Genesis 28:18
    So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.
  665. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:19
    In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at its border.
  666. Cross References
    Obadiah 1:21
    Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be the Lord 's.
  667. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:25
    Whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.
  668. Cross References
    Zechariah 14:16 - 18
    Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.
    Isaiah 2:2
    It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it.
  669. Cross References
    Jeremiah 46:25 - 26
    The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, said: "Behold, I am bringing punishment upon Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh and Egypt and her gods and her kings, upon Pharaoh and those who trust in him.
  670. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:16
    And there will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant that remains of his people, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.
  671. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:18
    In that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the Lord of hosts. One of these will be called the City of Destruction.
    Isaiah 19:21
    And the Lord will make himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day and worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make vows to the Lord and perform them.
    Zephaniah 3:9
    For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call upon the name of the Lord and serve him with one accord.
  672. Cross References
    Genesis 12:2 - 3
    And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
  673. Cross References
    Hosea 2:23
    And I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, 'You are my people'; and he shall say, 'You are my God.'
  674. Cross References
    Isaiah 29:23
    For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will sanctify my name; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
  675. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:9
    But the Lord 's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.
  676. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:17
    And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer's Field.
  677. Cross References
    1 Samuel 5:1
    When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.
  678. Cross References
    Micah 1:8
    For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
    Micah 1:11
    Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitants of Zaanan do not come out; the lamentation of Beth-ezel shall take away from you its standing place.
    1 Samuel 19:24
    And he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that night. Thus it is said, "Is Saul also among the prophets?
  679. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:18
    Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
  680. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:4
    And I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a hard master, and a fierce king will rule over them, declares the Lord God of hosts.
  681. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:3
    Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
    Isaiah 30:5
    Everyone comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace.
    Isaiah 37:9
    Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, "He has set out to fight against you." And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying.
  682. Cross References
    Jeremiah 47:7
    How can it be quiet when the Lord has given it a charge? Against Ashkelon and against the seashore he has appointed it.
    Isaiah 14:29
    Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.
    Isaiah 14:31
    Wail, O gate; cry out, O city; melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.
  683. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:6
    Isaiah said to them, "Say to your master, 'Thus says the Lord : Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the young men of the king of Assyria have reviled me.
  684. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:1
    The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
  685. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:36
    Therefore thus says the Lord : "Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry.
    Jeremiah 51:42
    The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
  686. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:1
    Thus says the Lord : "Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai.
  687. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:16
    From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, "I waste away, I waste away. Woe is me! For the traitors have betrayed, with betrayal the traitors have betrayed.
    Isaiah 33:1
    Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you.
  688. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:11
    In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
  689. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:17
    Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold.
  690. Cross References
    Ezekiel 9:4
    And the Lord said to him, "Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.
  691. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:8
    They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.
  692. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:67
    In the morning you shall say, 'If only it were evening!' and at evening you shall say, 'If only it were morning!' because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and the sights that your eyes shall see.
  693. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:39
    While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the Lord.
    Jeremiah 51:57
    I will make drunk her officials and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
  694. Cross References
    2 Samuel 1:21
    You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor fields of offerings! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
  695. Cross References
    Habakkuk 2:1
    I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
  696. Cross References
    Habakkuk 2:2
    And the Lord answered me: "Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.
  697. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:8
    Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.
    Revelation 14:8
    Another angel, a second, followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality.
    Revelation 18:2
    And he called out with a mighty voice, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.
  698. Cross References
    Isaiah 46:1
    Bel bows down; Nebo stoops; their idols are on beasts and livestock; these things you carry are borne as burdens on weary beasts.
  699. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:33
    For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come.
    Amos 1:3
    Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.
    Micah 4:13
    Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples; and shall devote their gain to the Lord, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.
  700. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:1
    The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
  701. Cross References
    Genesis 25:14
    Mishma, Dumah, Massa.
    1 Chronicles 1:30
    Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema.
  702. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 2:8
    So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. "And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.
    Ezekiel 35:2
    Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it.
  703. Cross References
    Job 36:20
    Do not long for the night, when peoples vanish in their place.
    Amos 5:8
    He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name.
  704. Cross References
    Psalms 37:36
    But he passed away, and behold, he was no more; though I sought him, he could not be found.
  705. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:1
    The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
  706. Cross References
    Genesis 25:3
    Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
    Jeremiah 25:23 - 24
    Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair.
  707. Cross References
    Genesis 25:3
    Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
    Jeremiah 25:23 - 24
    Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair.
  708. Cross References
    Genesis 25:3
    Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
    Jeremiah 25:23 - 24
    Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair.
  709. Cross References
    Genesis 37:25
    Then they sat down to eat. And looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.
  710. Cross References
    Job 6:19
    The caravans of Tema look, the travelers of Sheba hope.
  711. Cross References
    Isaiah 16:14
    But now the Lord has spoken, saying, "In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who remain will be very few and feeble.
  712. Cross References
    Isaiah 60:7
    All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to yo...
    Genesis 25:13
    These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, nam...
    Psalms 120:5 - 6
    Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dw...
    Song of Solomon 1:5
    I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jeru...
    Jeremiah 2:10
    For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see, or s...
    Jeremiah 49:28
    Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor that...
    Ezekiel 27:21
    Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your f...
  713. Cross References
    Isaiah 21:16
    For thus the Lord said to me, "Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.
  714. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:20
    But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
  715. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:1
    The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
  716. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:5
    For the Lord God of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.
    Jeremiah 21:13
    "Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O rock of the plain, declares the Lord ; you who say, 'Who shall come down against us, or who shall enter our habitations?'
    Joel 3:12
    Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
    Joel 3:14
    Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
  717. Cross References
    Isaiah 32:13
    For the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city.
  718. Cross References
    Lamentations 4:9
    Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who wasted away, pierced by lack of the fruits of the field.
  719. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:10
    Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
  720. Cross References
    Jeremiah 9:1
    Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
    Micah 1:8
    For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
  721. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:12 - 17
    For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up - and it shall be brought low.
  722. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:3
    They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.
  723. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:6
    Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
    Isaiah 18:2
    Which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation, tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.
  724. Cross References
    Micah 7:4
    The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.
  725. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:1
    The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops.
  726. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:11
    In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
  727. Cross References
    2 Kings 16:9
    And the king of Assyria listened to him. The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir, and he killed Rezin.
  728. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:1
    Ah, stubborn children," declares the Lord, "who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin.
  729. Cross References
    1 Kings 10:17
    And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
  730. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:5
    For the Lord God of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.
    Isaiah 22:10
    And you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
    2 Chronicles 32:5
    He set to work resolutely and built up all the wall that was broken down and raised towers upon it, and outside it he built another wall, and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance.
  731. Cross References
    Nehemiah 3:16
    After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, repaired to a point opposite the tombs of David, as far as the artificial pool, and as far as the house of the mighty men.
  732. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:9
    And you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many. You collected the waters of the lower pool.
  733. Cross References
    2 Kings 25:4
    Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.
  734. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:3
    And the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field.
    2 Kings 20:20
    The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and all his might and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
    2 Chronicles 32:3 - 4
    He planned with his officers and his mighty men to stop the water of the springs that were outside the city; and they helped him.
  735. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:12
    They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts, but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands.
  736. Cross References
    Joel 2:17
    Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep and say, "Spare your people, O Lord, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'
  737. Cross References
    Isaiah 3:24
    Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a skirt of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.
  738. Cross References
    2 Samuel 3:31
    Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And King David followed the bier.
  739. Cross References
    Isaiah 56:12
    "Come," they say, "let me get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure."
    1 Corinthians 15:32
    What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
  740. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:9
    The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing: "Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.
  741. Cross References
    Isaiah 27:9
    Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.
    1 Samuel 3:14
    Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever.
  742. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:13
    And behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
  743. Cross References
    Isaiah 36:3
    And there came out to him Eliakim the son of Hi...
    Isaiah 36:11
    Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabs...
    Isaiah 36:22
    Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over t...
    Isaiah 37:2
    And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household...
    2 Kings 18:18
    And when they called for the king, there came o...
    2 Kings 18:26
    Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, a...
    2 Kings 18:37
    Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over t...
    2 Kings 19:2
    And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household...
  744. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 16:14
    They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art, and they made a very great fire in his honor.
  745. Cross References
    Matthew 27:60
    And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away.
  746. Cross References
    Daniel 3:21
    Then these men were bound in their cloaks, their tunics, their hats, and their other garments, and they were thrown into the burning fiery furnace.
  747. Cross References
    Isaiah 36:9
    How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
  748. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:25
    In that day, declares the Lord of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken.
  749. Cross References
    Isaiah 36:3
    And there came out to him Eliakim the son of Hi...
    Isaiah 37:2
    And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household...
    2 Kings 18:18
    And when they called for the king, there came o...
    2 Kings 18:26
    Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, a...
    2 Kings 18:37
    Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over t...
    2 Kings 19:2
    And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household...
  750. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:20
    In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah.
  751. Cross References
    Genesis 45:8
    So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
  752. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:6
    For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
  753. Cross References
    Revelation 3:7
    And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: 'The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.
  754. Cross References
    Job 12:14
    If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
  755. Cross References
    Isaiah 33:20
    Behold Zion, the city of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an untroubled habitation, an immovable tent, whose stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.
    Isaiah 54:2
    Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.
    Ecclesiastes 12:11
    The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd.
  756. Cross References
    Revelation 3:21
    The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
  757. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:23
    And I will fasten him like a peg in a secure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father's house.
  758. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:1
    The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
  759. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:22
    All the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, ...
    Jeremiah 27:2 - 3
    Thus the Lord said to me: "Make yourself straps...
    Ezekiel 26:2 - 28:24
    "Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerus...
    Joel 3:4 - 8
    What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all t...
    Amos 1:9 - 10
    Thus says the Lord : "For three transgressions ...
    Zechariah 9:2 - 4
    And on Hamath also, which borders on it, Tyre a...
  760. Cross References
    Isaiah 23:14
    Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste.
    1 Kings 10:22
    For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
    1 Kings 22:48
    Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
  761. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:10
    The wasted city is broken down; every house is shut up so that none can enter.
  762. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:10
    For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see, or send to Kedar and examine with care; see if there has been such a thing.
    Genesis 10:4
    The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
  763. Cross References
    Isaiah 23:4
    Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken, th...
    Isaiah 23:12
    And he said: "You will no more exult, O oppress...
    Genesis 10:15
    Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth.
    Joshua 19:28
    Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, Kanah, as far as Sidon th...
    Jeremiah 25:22
    All the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, ...
    Jeremiah 27:3
    Send word to the king of Edom, the king of Moab...
    Ezekiel 27:8
    The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your ro...
    Ezekiel 32:30
    The princes of the north are there, all of them...
    Joel 3:4
    What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all t...
    Zechariah 9:2
    And on Hamath also, which borders on it, Tyre a...
  764. Cross References
    Ezekiel 27:3 - 23
    And say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrances to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, thus says the Lord God : "O Tyre, you have said, 'I am perfect in beauty.
  765. Cross References
    Isaiah 23:2
    Be still, O inhabitants of the coast; the merchants of Sidon, who cross the sea, have filled you.
  766. Cross References
    Isaiah 23:12
    And he said: "You will no more exult, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon; arise, cross over to Cyprus, even there you will have no rest.
  767. Cross References
    Genesis 10:15
    Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth.
  768. Cross References
    Ezekiel 28:7
    Therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.
  769. Cross References
    Exodus 14:21
    Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
  770. Cross References
    Isaiah 23:2
    Be still, O inhabitants of the coast; the merchants of Sidon, who cross the sea, have filled you.
  771. Cross References
    Isaiah 23:6
    Cross over to Tarshish; wail, O inhabitants of the coast!
  772. Cross References
    Isaiah 23:1
    The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor! From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.
  773. Cross References
    Isaiah 47:1
    Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
    Isaiah 48:14
    Assemble, all of you, and listen! Who among them has declared these things? The Lord loves him; he shall perform his purpose on Babylon, and his arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
  774. Cross References
    2 Kings 25:1
    And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it.
  775. Cross References
    Isaiah 23:1
    The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor! From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.
  776. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:11
    This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
    Jeremiah 25:22
    All the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across the sea.
  777. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:11
    This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
    Jeremiah 25:22
    All the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across the sea.
  778. Cross References
    Jeremiah 25:11
    This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
    Jeremiah 25:22
    All the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across the sea.
  779. Cross References
    Revelation 17:1 - 2
    Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters.
  780. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:9
    Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it.
  781. Cross References
    Hosea 4:9
    And it shall be like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
    Lamentations 4:16
    The Lord himself has scattered them; he will regard them no more; no honor was shown to the priests, no favor to the elders.
    Isaiah 3:1 - 3
    For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water.
  782. Cross References
    Ezekiel 7:12 - 13
    The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.
  783. Cross References
    Jeremiah 15:10
    Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.
  784. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:1
    Behold, the Lord will empty the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
    Isaiah 24:6
    Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.
  785. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:20
    But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
  786. Cross References
    Isaiah 16:8
    For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its branches, which reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; its shoots spread abroad and passed over the sea.
    Hosea 4:3
    Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, and even the fish of the sea are taken away.
  787. Cross References
    Numbers 35:33
    You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
  788. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:6
    For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
    Isaiah 2:8
    Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
  789. Cross References
    Zechariah 5:3 - 4
    Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side.
  790. Cross References
    Psalms 5:10
    Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.
  791. Cross References
    Joel 1:10
    The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes.
    Joel 1:12
    The vine dries up; the fig tree languishes. Pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up, and gladness dries up from the children of man.
  792. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:34
    And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.
    Hosea 2:11
    And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.
    Amos 8:10
    I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
  793. Cross References
    Amos 6:5 - 6
    Who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David invent for themselves instruments of music.
  794. Cross References
    Isaiah 34:11
    But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
  795. Cross References
    Isaiah 23:1
    The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor! From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.
  796. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:7
    The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.
    Psalms 144:14
    May our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mishap or failure in bearing; may there be no cry of distress in our streets!
    Joel 1:5
    Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
  797. Cross References
    Joel 1:12
    The vine dries up; the fig tree languishes. Pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up, and gladness dries up from the children of man.
  798. Cross References
    Isaiah 17:6
    Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten - two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, declares the Lord God of Israel.
    Micah 7:1
    Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.
  799. Cross References
    Isaiah 45:6
    That people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the Lord, and there is no other.
  800. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:14
    They lift up their voices, they sing for joy; over the majesty of the Lord they shout from the west.
  801. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:2
    Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
    Isaiah 60:21
    Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.
  802. Cross References
    Isaiah 21:2
    A stern vision is told to me; the traitor betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.
    Isaiah 33:1
    Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you.
  803. Cross References
    Jeremiah 48:43 - 44
    Terror, pit, and snare are before you, O inhabitant of Moab! declares the Lord.
    Job 20:24
    He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike him through.
    Amos 5:19
    As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him.
  804. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:17
    Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth!
  805. Cross References
    Genesis 7:11
    In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
  806. Cross References
    Psalms 18:7
    Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry.
  807. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:14
    The Lord has mingled within her a spirit of confusion, and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
    Isaiah 29:9
    Astonish yourselves and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink!
  808. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:5 - 6
    The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
  809. Cross References
    Psalms 76:12
    Who cuts off the spirit of princes, who is to be feared by the kings of the earth.
    Isaiah 10:12
    When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.
    Isaiah 31:8
    And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man; and a sword, not of man, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor.
  810. Cross References
    Micah 4:11 - 12
    Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, "Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.
  811. Cross References
    Isaiah 29:6
    You will be visited by the Lord of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
  812. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:10
    For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.
  813. Cross References
    Psalms 99:1 - 2
    The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!
    Micah 4:7
    And the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.
  814. Cross References
    Exodus 15:2
    The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.
  815. Cross References
    Psalms 107:32
    Let them extol him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
  816. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:25
    Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins.
  817. Cross References
    Isaiah 17:1
    An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.
    Jeremiah 51:37
    And Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.
  818. Cross References
    Isaiah 18:7
    At that time tribute will be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the Lord of hosts.
  819. Cross References
    Nahum 1:7
    The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.
  820. Cross References
    Isaiah 4:6
    There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.
  821. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 32:18
    And they shouted it with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them, in order that they might take the city.
  822. Cross References
    Isaiah 32:2
    Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
  823. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:2 - 3
    It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it.
    Isaiah 11:9
    They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
    Isaiah 24:23
    Then the moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed, for the Lord of hosts reigns on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and his glory will be before his elders.
  824. Cross References
    Psalms 63:5
    My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips.
  825. Cross References
    Isaiah 25:6
    On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
  826. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 3:15
    Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts.
  827. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 15:54
    When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory.
    Hosea 13:14
    Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
  828. Cross References
    Revelation 7:17
    For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
    Isaiah 30:19
    For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you.
  829. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:4
    It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'
  830. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:20
    But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
  831. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:8
    In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.
    Genesis 49:18
    I wait for your salvation, O Lord.
    Psalms 27:14
    Wait for the Lord ; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
  832. Cross References
    Psalms 9:14
    That I may recount all your praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in your salvation.
  833. Cross References
    Isaiah 25:6
    On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
  834. Cross References
    Isaiah 15:1
    An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone.
  835. Cross References
    Isaiah 16:12
    And when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.
  836. Cross References
    Isaiah 16:14
    But now the Lord has spoken, saying, "In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who remain will be very few and feeble.
  837. Cross References
    Isaiah 27:2
    In that day, "A pleasant vineyard, sing of it!
  838. Cross References
    Isaiah 60:18
    Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
  839. Cross References
    Psalms 118:19 - 20
    Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.
  840. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:15
    For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." But you were unwilling.
  841. Cross References
    Isaiah 25:12
    And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down, lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.
  842. Cross References
    Isaiah 25:4
    For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall.
  843. Cross References
    Isaiah 25:4
    For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall.
  844. Cross References
    1 Samuel 2:9
    He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness, for not by might shall a man prevail.
    Psalms 37:23
    The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in his way.
  845. Cross References
    Exodus 3:15
    God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
  846. Cross References
    Exodus 3:15
    God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
  847. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:16
    O Lord, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them.
    2 Chronicles 33:12
    And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
  848. Cross References
    Psalms 73:3 - 11
    For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
  849. Cross References
    Micah 5:9
    Your hand shall be lifted up over your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.
  850. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:12
    They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts, but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands.
  851. Cross References
    Psalms 21:9
    You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.
    Isaiah 33:14
    The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: "Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?
  852. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:7
    Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
    Micah 5:5
    And he shall be their peace. When the Assyrian comes into our land and treads in our palaces, then we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men.
  853. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:8
    Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.
    2 Kings 16:3 - 4
    But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
  854. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:20
    In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats.
    Psalms 20:7
    Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
    2 Kings 18:4 - 6
    He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).
  855. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:3
    You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.
  856. Cross References
    Isaiah 54:2 - 3
    Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.
  857. Cross References
    Hosea 5:15
    I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me.
    Isaiah 37:1 - 4
    As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.
  858. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:8
    They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.
  859. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:17
    Like a pregnant woman who writhes and cries out in her pangs when she is near to giving birth, so were we because of you, O Lord.
  860. Cross References
    Ezekiel 37:12
    Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God : Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land of Israel.
    Daniel 12:2
    And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
    Hosea 13:14
    Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.
  861. Cross References
    Hosea 14:5
    I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon.
  862. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:25
    For in a very little while my fury will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.
  863. Cross References
    Micah 1:3
    For behold, the Lord is coming out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.
  864. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:5
    The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
  865. Cross References
    Jeremiah 47:6
    Ah, sword of the Lord! How long till you are quiet? Put yourself into your scabbard; rest and be still!
  866. Cross References
    Psalms 74:14
    You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
  867. Cross References
    Psalms 74:14
    You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
  868. Cross References
    Isaiah 51:9
    Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord ; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon?
    Ezekiel 29:3
    Speak, and say, Thus says the Lord God : "Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, 'My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.
  869. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:7
    For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
  870. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:1
    In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.
  871. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:17
    The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.
  872. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:31
    And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
    Hosea 14:5 - 6
    I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon.
  873. Cross References
    Hosea 6:1 - 2
    Come, let us return to the Lord ; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
  874. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:36 - 38
    And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
  875. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:18 - 19
    Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands.
  876. Cross References
    Jeremiah 10:24
    Correct me, O Lord, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
  877. Cross References
    Jeremiah 18:17
    Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity.
  878. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:14
    The Lord of hosts has revealed himself in my ears: "Surely this iniquity will not be atoned for you until you die," says the Lord God of hosts.
  879. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:4
    He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).
  880. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 16:21
    You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God that you shall make.
  881. Cross References
    Isaiah 17:9
    In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.
    Isaiah 32:14
    For the palace is forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks.
    Isaiah 32:19
    And it will hail when the forest falls down, and the city will be utterly laid low.
    Hosea 8:14
    For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds.
    Micah 5:11
    And I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds.
  882. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:28
    For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
    Isaiah 30:16 - 18
    And you said, "No! We will flee upon horses"; therefore you shall flee away; and, "We will ride upon swift steeds"; therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
  883. Cross References
    Genesis 15:18
    On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.
  884. Cross References
    Leviticus 25:9
    Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
    Matthew 24:31
    And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
    Revelation 11:15
    Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.
  885. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:11
    In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.
    Isaiah 11:16
    And there will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant that remains of his people, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.
    Micah 7:12
    In that day they will come to you, from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.
  886. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:2
    It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it.
  887. Cross References
    Hosea 7:5
    On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.
  888. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:7
    Therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks.
  889. Cross References
    Isaiah 28:15
    Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter".
    Isaiah 28:18
    Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it.
  890. Cross References
    Isaiah 28:1
    Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!
  891. Cross References
    Amos 8:1 - 2
    This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
  892. Cross References
    Hosea 9:10
    Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved.
    Micah 7:1
    Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.
  893. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:11
    The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
  894. Cross References
    1 Kings 3:28
    And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
  895. Cross References
    Isaiah 38:6
    I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city.
  896. Cross References
    Isaiah 3:12
    My people - infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.
  897. Cross References
    Hosea 4:11
    Whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding.
  898. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:15
    The elder and honored man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
    Isaiah 56:10
    His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
    Isaiah 56:12
    "Come," they say, "let me get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure."
  899. Cross References
    Jeremiah 6:10
    To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn; they take no pleasure in it.
  900. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 14:21
    In the Law it is written, "By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.
    Isaiah 5:26 - 29
    He will raise a signal for nations far away, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
  901. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:15
    For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." But you were unwilling.
    Matthew 11:28 - 29
    Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
  902. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:15
    And many shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.
  903. Cross References
    Isaiah 28:22
    Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts against the whole land.
    Isaiah 29:20
    For the ruthless shall come to nothing and the scoffer cease, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off.
  904. Cross References
    Isaiah 28:2
    Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters, he casts down to the earth with his hand.
    Isaiah 28:18
    Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it.
    Isaiah 8:7 - 8
    Therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks.
  905. Cross References
    Romans 1:25
    Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
  906. Cross References
    Romans 9:33
    As it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.
    1 Peter 2:6
    For it stands in Scripture: "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.
    Psalms 118:22
    The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
    Matthew 21:42
    Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: "'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?
    Acts 4:11
    This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.
  907. Cross References
    Isaiah 14:32
    What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The Lord has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.
  908. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:13
    And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
  909. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:13
    And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
  910. Cross References
    Isaiah 28:15
    Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter".
  911. Cross References
    Isaiah 50:4
    The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
  912. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 32:18
    And they shouted it with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them, in order that they might take the city.
  913. Cross References
    2 Samuel 5:20
    And David came to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. And he said, "The Lord has burst through my enemies before me like a bursting flood." Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.
    1 Chronicles 14:11
    And he went up to Baal-perazim, and David struck them down there. And David said, "God has broken through my enemies by my hand, like a bursting flood." Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.
  914. Cross References
    Joshua 10:10 - 14
    And the Lord threw them into a panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
  915. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 14:16
    And David did as God commanded him, and they struck down the Philistine army from Gibeon to Gezer.
    Joshua 9:3
    But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai.
  916. Cross References
    Isaiah 28:14
    Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem!
  917. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:23
    For the Lord God of hosts will make a full end, as decreed, in the midst of all the earth.
  918. Cross References
    Isaiah 55:10 - 11
    For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater.
  919. Cross References
    Isaiah 21:10
    O my threshed and winnowed one, what I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I announce to you.
  920. Cross References
    Jeremiah 32:19
    Great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
    Isaiah 9:6
    For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
  921. Cross References
    2 Samuel 5:9
    And David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward.
  922. Cross References
    2 Kings 25:1
    And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it.
    Ezekiel 4:2
    And put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.
  923. Cross References
    Ezekiel 21:22
    Into his right hand comes the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth with murder, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build siege towers.
    Ezekiel 26:8
    He will kill with the sword your daughters on the mainland. He will set up a siege wall against you and throw up a mound against you, and raise a roof of shields against you.
  924. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:11 - 12
    The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
  925. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:19
    And when they say to you, "Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter," should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?
  926. Cross References
    Isaiah 17:13
    The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.
    Psalms 18:42
    I beat them fine as dust before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets.
  927. Cross References
    Isaiah 17:14
    At evening time, behold, terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us, and the lot of those who plunder us.
    Isaiah 37:36
    And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
    2 Kings 19:35
    And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
  928. Cross References
    1 Kings 19:11 - 12
    And he said, "Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord." And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
  929. Cross References
    Zechariah 12:9
    And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
    Micah 4:11 - 13
    Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, "Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.
  930. Cross References
    Isaiah 17:14
    At evening time, behold, terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us, and the lot of those who plunder us.
    Job 20:8
    He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
  931. Cross References
    Psalms 73:20
    Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
    Psalms 90:5
    You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:
  932. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:14
    The Lord has mingled within her a spirit of confusion, and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
    Isaiah 24:20
    The earth staggers like a drunken man; it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again.
  933. Cross References
    Isaiah 6:10
    Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.
    Romans 11:8
    As it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.
  934. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:16
    Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching among my disciples.
    Daniel 12:4
    But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.
  935. Cross References
    Matthew 15:8 - 9
    'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
    Mark 7:6 - 7
    And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, "'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
    Ezekiel 33:31
    And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.
  936. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:12
    When you come to appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my courts?
    Isaiah 58:2
    Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
  937. Cross References
    Habakkuk 1:5
    Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.
    Isaiah 3:1 - 4
    For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water.
  938. Cross References
    Jeremiah 49:7
    Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: "Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
    1 Corinthians 1:19
    For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.
  939. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:1
    Ah, stubborn children," declares the Lord, "who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin.
  940. Cross References
    Ezekiel 8:12
    Then he said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of pictures? For they say, 'The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.'
  941. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:15
    Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
  942. Cross References
    Psalms 107:33
    He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into thirsty ground.
    Psalms 107:35
    He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water.
  943. Cross References
    Isaiah 32:3
    Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will give attention.
    Isaiah 35:5
    Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
    Matthew 11:5
    The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
  944. Cross References
    Isaiah 29:12
    And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, "Read this," he says, "I cannot read.
  945. Cross References
    Isaiah 35:5
    Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
    Matthew 11:5
    The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
  946. Cross References
    Isaiah 61:1
    The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.
    Isaiah 14:32
    What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The Lord has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.
    Zephaniah 3:12
    But I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord.
    Matthew 5:3
    Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
  947. Cross References
    Isaiah 28:14
    Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem!
    Isaiah 28:22
    Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts against the whole land.
  948. Cross References
    Amos 5:10
    They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.
    Psalms 127:5
    Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
  949. Cross References
    Amos 5:12
    For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins - you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.
  950. Cross References
    Isaiah 51:2
    Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him.
  951. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:25
    Whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, "Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.
    Isaiah 60:21
    Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.
    Psalms 100:3
    Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
  952. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:13
    But the Lord of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
  953. Cross References
    Isaiah 28:7
    These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.
  954. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:2
    Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: "Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.
    Isaiah 1:4
    Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.
  955. Cross References
    Isaiah 29:15
    Ah, you who hide deep from the Lord your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us? Who knows us?
  956. Cross References
    Isaiah 25:7
    And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.
  957. Cross References
    Isaiah 31:1
    Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the Lord!
    Isaiah 36:6
    Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
  958. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:7
    Egypt's help is worthless and empty; therefore I have called her "Rahab who sits still.
    Isaiah 20:5
    Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast.
  959. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:11
    The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings"?
  960. Cross References
    Ezekiel 17:15
    But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. Will he thrive? Can one escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant and yet escape?
  961. Cross References
    Jeremiah 43:7
    And they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the Lord. And they arrived at Tahpanhes.
  962. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:7
    Egypt's help is worthless and empty; therefore I have called her "Rahab who sits still.
    Jeremiah 2:36
    How much you go about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.
  963. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:1
    The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
  964. Cross References
    Isaiah 51:9
    Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord ; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon?
    Psalms 68:30
    Rebuke the beasts that dwell among the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples. Trample underfoot those who lust after tribute; scatter the peoples who delight in war.
  965. Cross References
    Acts 8:26
    Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." This is a desert place.
  966. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 8:15
    Who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock.
  967. Cross References
    Isaiah 36:6
    Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
  968. Cross References
    Isaiah 51:9
    Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord ; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon?
  969. Cross References
    Habakkuk 2:2
    And the Lord answered me: "Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.
  970. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:1
    Ah, stubborn children," declares the Lord, "who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin.
  971. Cross References
    Amos 2:12
    "But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, 'You shall not prophesy.'
    Amos 7:12 - 13
    And Amaziah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there.
  972. Cross References
    1 Samuel 9:9
    (Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, "Come, let us go to the seer," for today's "prophet" was formerly called a seer.)
  973. Cross References
    1 Kings 22:13
    And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, "Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king. Let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.
    Jeremiah 28:1 - 11
    In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying.
    Ezekiel 13:8 - 16
    Therefore thus says the Lord God : "Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, I am against you, declares the Lord God.
  974. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:8
    Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.
    Isaiah 5:20
    Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
  975. Cross References
    Psalms 62:3
    How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?
  976. Cross References
    Psalms 2:9
    You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
  977. Cross References
    Hosea 14:1
    Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
  978. Cross References
    Exodus 14:14
    The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.
  979. Cross References
    Isaiah 31:1
    Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the Lord!
    Isaiah 31:3
    The Egyptians are man, and not God, and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and they will all perish together.
    Hosea 14:3
    Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, 'Our God,' to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.
  980. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:8
    Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
    Deuteronomy 32:30
    How could one have chased a thousand, and two have put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had given them up?
  981. Cross References
    Habakkuk 2:3
    For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end - it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
  982. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:16
    But the Lord of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
  983. Cross References
    Psalms 2:12
    Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
    Psalms 34:8
    Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
    Proverbs 16:20
    Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.
    Jeremiah 17:7
    Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.
  984. Cross References
    Isaiah 14:32
    What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The Lord has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.
  985. Cross References
    1 Kings 22:27
    And say, 'Thus says the king, "Put this fellow in prison and feed him meager rations of bread and water, until I come in peace."'
    Psalms 127:2
    It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.
    Ezekiel 4:10 - 11
    And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it.
  986. Cross References
    1 Kings 22:27
    And say, 'Thus says the king, "Put this fellow in prison and feed him meager rations of bread and water, until I come in peace."
    Psalms 127:2
    It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.
    Ezekiel 4:10 - 11
    And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it.
  987. Cross References
    Isaiah 3:1 - 2
    For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water.
  988. Cross References
    Jeremiah 31:33 - 34
    But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord : I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
  989. Cross References
    Isaiah 35:8
    And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it. It shall belong to those who walk on the way; even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.
    Acts 9:2
    And asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
  990. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:20
    In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats.
    Isaiah 31:7
    For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.
    Hosea 14:8
    O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit.
  991. Cross References
    Isaiah 32:20
    Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.
    Psalms 144:13 - 14
    May our granaries be full, providing all kinds of produce; may our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
  992. Cross References
    Jeremiah 5:24
    They do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.
  993. Cross References
    Psalms 65:13
    The meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy.
  994. Cross References
    Genesis 45:6
    For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
  995. Cross References
    Isaiah 33:21
    But there the Lord in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor majestic ship can pass.
    Psalms 107:35
    He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water.
    Joel 3:18
    And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord and water the Valley of Shittim.
  996. Cross References
    Isaiah 32:19
    And it will hail when the forest falls down, and the city will be utterly laid low.
    Isaiah 2:15
    Against every high tower, and against every fortified wall.
  997. Cross References
    Isaiah 60:19 - 20
    The sun shall be no more your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give you light; but the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
  998. Cross References
    Hosea 6:1
    Come, let us return to the Lord ; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
  999. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:5 - 6
    Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
  1000. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:4
    But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
    2 Thessalonians 2:8
    And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.
  1001. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:8
    And it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
    Nahum 1:8
    But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
  1002. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:29
    Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.
  1003. Cross References
    1 Samuel 10:5
    After that you shall come to Gibeath-elohim, where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.
    1 Kings 1:40
    And all the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise.
  1004. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:3
    And many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
  1005. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:4
    Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
    Isaiah 44:8
    Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any.
    Deuteronomy 32:18
    You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
  1006. Cross References
    Psalms 18:13
    The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.
  1007. Cross References
    Isaiah 29:6
    You will be visited by the Lord of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
  1008. Cross References
    Isaiah 28:2
    Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters, he casts down to the earth with his hand.
    Joshua 10:11
    And as they fled before Israel, while they were going down the ascent of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died because of the hailstones than the sons of Israel killed with the sword.
  1009. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:4
    For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
    Micah 6:9
    The voice of the Lord cries to the city - and it is sound wisdom to fear your name: "Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it!
  1010. Cross References
    Exodus 15:1
    Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, "I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
  1011. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:15
    And the Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt, and will wave his hand over the River with his scorching breath, and strike it into seven channels, and he will lead people across in sandals.
    Isaiah 19:16
    In that day the Egyptians will be like women, and tremble with fear before the hand that the Lord of hosts shakes over them.
    Isaiah 2:19
    And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
  1012. Cross References
    2 Kings 23:10
    And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech.
    Jeremiah 7:31
    And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.
  1013. Cross References
    Ezekiel 24:9 - 10
    Therefore thus says the Lord God : Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
  1014. Cross References
    Psalms 18:8
    Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.
    Ezekiel 20:48
    All flesh shall see that I the Lord have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.
  1015. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:2
    Who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my direction, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
    Isaiah 36:6
    Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
  1016. Cross References
    Psalms 20:7
    Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
    Isaiah 30:16
    And you said, "No! We will flee upon horses"; therefore you shall flee away; and, "We will ride upon swift steeds"; therefore your pursuers shall be swift.
    Isaiah 36:9
    How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
  1017. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:11
    You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago.
  1018. Cross References
    Psalms 94:8 - 10
    Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?
  1019. Cross References
    Numbers 23:19
    God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
  1020. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:14
    The Lord of hosts has revealed himself in my ears: "Surely this iniquity will not be atoned for you until you die," says the Lord God of hosts.
  1021. Cross References
    Psalms 94:4
    They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.
  1022. Cross References
    Jeremiah 17:5
    Thus says the Lord : "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord.
  1023. Cross References
    Hosea 11:10
    They shall go after the Lord ; he will roar like a lion; when he roars, his children shall come trembling from the west.
    Amos 1:2
    And he said: "The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers.
    Amos 3:8
    The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy?
  1024. Cross References
    Isaiah 42:13
    The Lord goes out like a mighty man, like a man of war he stirs up his zeal; he cries out, he shouts aloud, he shows himself mighty against his foes.
  1025. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:11
    Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions.
    Psalms 91:4
    He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
  1026. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:15
    For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." But you were unwilling.
  1027. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:5
    Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
  1028. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:20
    In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats.
    Isaiah 30:22
    Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, "Be gone!
  1029. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:36
    And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
  1030. Cross References
    Genesis 49:15
    He saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant, so he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant at forced labor.
    Proverbs 12:24
    The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
  1031. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:31
    For their rock is not as our Rock; our enemies are by themselves.
    Isaiah 30:29
    You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.
  1032. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:33
    For a burning place has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
  1033. Cross References
    Psalms 21:9
    You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.
    Malachi 4:1
    For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
  1034. Cross References
    Psalms 72:1 - 2
    Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son!
    Psalms 72:4
    May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!
    Jeremiah 23:5
    Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
    Isaiah 11:1 - 4
    There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
  1035. Cross References
    Isaiah 4:6
    There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.
    Isaiah 25:4
    For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall.
  1036. Cross References
    Isaiah 33:21
    But there the Lord in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor majestic ship can pass.
  1037. Cross References
    Isaiah 29:18
    In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.
  1038. Cross References
    Isaiah 35:6
    Then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
  1039. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:20
    Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
  1040. Cross References
    1 Samuel 24:13
    As the proverb of the ancients says, 'Out of the wicked comes wickedness.' But my hand shall not be against you.
  1041. Cross References
    Isaiah 3:14 - 15
    The Lord will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: "It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
  1042. Cross References
    Micah 2:1 - 2
    Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.
  1043. Cross References
    Isaiah 3:16 - 4:1
    The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet.
  1044. Cross References
    Amos 6:1
    Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel comes!
  1045. Cross References
    Isaiah 32:9
    Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.
  1046. Cross References
    Isaiah 47:2 - 3
    Take the millstones and grind flour, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
  1047. Cross References
    Genesis 37:34
    Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
  1048. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:7
    The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.
  1049. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:23
    In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns.
    Isaiah 34:13
    Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.
    Hosea 9:6
    For behold, they are going away from destruction; but Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.
  1050. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:11 - 12
    There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine; all joy has grown dark; the gladness of the earth is banished.
  1051. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:24
    A wild donkey used to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.
  1052. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:2
    And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
    Joel 2:28
    And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
  1053. Cross References
    Isaiah 35:1 - 2
    The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus.
    Isaiah 29:17
    Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
  1054. Cross References
    James 3:18
    And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
    Isaiah 1:27
    Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.
    Psalms 72:3
    Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness!
    Psalms 119:165
    Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.
  1055. Cross References
    Isaiah 28:2
    Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters, he casts down to the earth with his hand.
    Isaiah 28:17
    And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter.
  1056. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:5
    For he has humbled the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.
  1057. Cross References
    Ecclesiastes 11:1
    Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
    Isaiah 30:23
    And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures.
  1058. Cross References
    Isaiah 21:2
    A stern vision is told to me; the traitor betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.
    Isaiah 17:14
    At evening time, behold, terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us, and the lot of those who plunder us.
  1059. Cross References
    Isaiah 25:9
    It will be said on that day, "Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord ; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
    Isaiah 26:8
    In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.
  1060. Cross References
    Isaiah 17:13
    The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.
    2 Kings 19:7
    Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.'
  1061. Cross References
    Joel 2:4 - 5
    Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like war horses they run.
  1062. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:17
    And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
    Isaiah 5:15 - 16
    Man is humbled, and each one is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are brought low.
  1063. Cross References
    Isaiah 39:8
    Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, "The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good." For he thought, "There will be peace and security in my days.
  1064. Cross References
    Isaiah 36:22
    Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.
    2 Kings 18:37
    Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.
  1065. Cross References
    Judges 5:6
    In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned, and travelers kept to the byways.
  1066. Cross References
    Isaiah 33:1
    Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you.
    2 Kings 18:14 - 17
    And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear." And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
  1067. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:4
    The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the highest people of the earth languish.
    Nahum 1:4
    He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither; the bloom of Lebanon withers.
  1068. Cross References
    Psalms 12:5
    "Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise," says the Lord ; "I will place him in the safety for which he longs."
    Psalms 68:1
    God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered; and those who hate him shall flee before him!
    Isaiah 10:26
    And the Lord of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt.
  1069. Cross References
    Isaiah 59:4
    No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
    Psalms 7:14
    Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.
  1070. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:16 - 17
    Therefore the Lord God of hosts will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire.
    Psalms 80:16
    They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face!
  1071. Cross References
    Isaiah 33:11
    You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.
  1072. Cross References
    Psalms 15:1
    O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill?
    Psalms 24:3
    Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord ? And who shall stand in his holy place?
  1073. Cross References
    Isaiah 66:15
    For behold, the Lord will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
    Hebrews 12:29
    For our God is a consuming fire.
  1074. Cross References
    Psalms 15:2
    He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart.
    Psalms 24:4
    He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
  1075. Cross References
    Psalms 119:37
    Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.
  1076. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:23
    And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures.
    Isaiah 30:25
    And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
  1077. Cross References
    Isaiah 6:5
    And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!
    Zechariah 9:9
    Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
  1078. Cross References
    Isaiah 54:2 - 3
    Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.
  1079. Cross References
    Psalms 37:10
    In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.
  1080. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:14
    And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear." And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
  1081. Cross References
    Psalms 48:12
    Walk about Zion, go around her, number her towers.
  1082. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:32 - 33
    Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.
  1083. Cross References
    Isaiah 28:11
    For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the Lord will speak to this people.
    Deuteronomy 28:49 - 50
    The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand.
  1084. Cross References
    Isaiah 32:18
    My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
  1085. Cross References
    Isaiah 33:6
    And he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the Lord is Zion's treasure.
  1086. Cross References
    Psalms 46:4 - 5
    There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.
  1087. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:16
    Against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the beautiful craft.
    Psalms 48:7
    By the east wind you shattered the ships of Tarshish.
  1088. Cross References
    Judges 2:16
    Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
  1089. Cross References
    James 4:12
    There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
  1090. Cross References
    1 Samuel 12:13
    And now behold the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; behold, the Lord has set a king over you.
  1091. Cross References
    Genesis 49:27
    "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at evening dividing the spoil."
  1092. Cross References
    Psalms 68:12
    The kings of the armies - they flee, they flee!" The women at home divide the spoil -
  1093. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:5 - 6
    Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
  1094. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:25 - 26
    I will turn my hand against you and will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.
    Jeremiah 50:20
    In those days and in that time, declares the Lord, iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none, and sin in Judah, and none shall be found, for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.
  1095. Cross References
    Psalms 49:1
    Hear this, all peoples! Give ear, all inhabitants of the world.
    Joel 3:1 - 2
    For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem.
  1096. Cross References
    Joshua 6:21
    Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.
  1097. Cross References
    Joel 2:20
    I will remove the northerner far from you, and drive him into a parched and desolate land, his vanguard into the eastern sea, and his rear guard into the western sea; the stench and foul smell of him will rise, for he has done great things.
  1098. Cross References
    Ezekiel 39:4
    You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your hordes and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
  1099. Cross References
    Joel 2:31
    The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the mo...
    Joel 3:15
    The sun and the moon are darkened, and the star...
    Matthew 24:29
    Immediately after the tribulation of those days...
    Acts 2:20
    The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moo...
    Revelation 6:13 - 14
    And the stars of the sky fell to the earth as t...
    Psalms 102:26
    They will perish, but you will remain; they wil...
    Hebrews 1:11
    They will perish, but you remain; they will all...
  1100. Cross References
    Isaiah 63:1 - 6
    Who is this who comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments from Bozrah, he who is splendid in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? "It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.
    Jeremiah 49:7 - 22
    Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: "Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
    Obadiah 1:1 - 21
    The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!
    Malachi 1:2 - 4
    I have loved you," says the Lord. But you say, "How have you loved us?" "Is not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the Lord. "Yet I have loved Jacob
  1101. Cross References
    Isaiah 34:2
    For the Lord is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
  1102. Cross References
    Isaiah 63:1
    Who is this who comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments from Bozrah, he who is splendid in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? "It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.
  1103. Cross References
    Numbers 23:22
    God brings them out of Egypt and is for them like the horns of the wild ox.
  1104. Cross References
    Isaiah 47:1
    Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
  1105. Cross References
    Psalms 22:12
    Many bulls encompass me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me.
  1106. Cross References
    Psalms 22:12
    Many bulls encompass me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me.
  1107. Cross References
    Isaiah 61:2
    To proclaim the year of the Lord 's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn.
    Isaiah 63:4
    For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and my year of redemption had come.
    Psalms 137:7
    Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, "Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!
  1108. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 29:23
    The whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath -
  1109. Cross References
    Isaiah 66:24
    "And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."
  1110. Cross References
    Revelation 14:11
    And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.
    Revelation 18:18
    And cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning, "What city was like the great city?
    Revelation 19:3
    Once more they cried out, "Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up forever and ever.
  1111. Cross References
    Malachi 1:4
    If Edom says, "We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins," the Lord of hosts says, "They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called 'the wicked country,' and 'the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.'
  1112. Cross References
    Isaiah 14:23
    And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," declares the Lord of hosts.
    Zephaniah 2:14
    Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts; even the owl and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.
    Revelation 18:2
    And he called out with a mighty voice, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.
  1113. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:13
    And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
    Lamentations 2:8
    The Lord determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion; he stretched out the measuring line; he did not restrain his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together.
    Amos 7:7 - 9
    This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
  1114. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:10
    The wasted city is broken down; every house is shut up so that none can enter.
  1115. Cross References
    Isaiah 32:13
    For the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city.
  1116. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:22
    Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand and its days will not be prolonged.
    Psalms 44:19
    Yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.
    Malachi 1:3
    But Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.
  1117. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:21
    But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there wild goats will dance.
  1118. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 14:13
    The kite, the falcon of any kind.
  1119. Cross References
    Psalms 78:55
    He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
  1120. Cross References
    Isaiah 55:12 - 13
    For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
  1121. Cross References
    Isaiah 32:15
    Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.
  1122. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 5:15
    His legs are alabaster columns, set on bases of gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.
  1123. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 7:5
    Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.
  1124. Cross References
    Isaiah 33:9
    The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
    Song of Solomon 2:1
    I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
  1125. Cross References
    Isaiah 40:5
    And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
  1126. Cross References
    Hebrews 12:12
    Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees.
    Isaiah 40:1
    Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
  1127. Cross References
    Isaiah 40:10 - 11
    Behold, the Lord God comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
  1128. Cross References
    Isaiah 32:3 - 4
    Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will give attention.
  1129. Cross References
    Isaiah 35:5
    Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
  1130. Cross References
    Isaiah 35:1
    The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus.
    Isaiah 41:18
    I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
    Isaiah 43:19
    Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
    Isaiah 44:3 - 4
    For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.
    John 7:38 - 39
    Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'
  1131. Cross References
    Isaiah 48:20 - 21
    Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it out to the end of the earth; say, "The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!
    Isaiah 49:10
    They shall not hunger or thirst, neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them, for he who has pity on them will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them.
  1132. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:22
    Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand and its days will not be prolonged.
  1133. Cross References
    Isaiah 40:3
    A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord ; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
  1134. Cross References
    Isaiah 52:1
    Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.
  1135. Cross References
    Isaiah 51:11
    And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
  1136. Cross References
    Isaiah 65:19
    I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress.
    Isaiah 25:8
    He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.
    Revelation 7:17
    For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
    Revelation 21:4
    He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.
  1137. Cross References
    Isaiah 36:1 - 22
    In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
    2 Kings 18:13
    In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
    2 Kings 18:17 - 37
    And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer's Field.
  1138. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 32:1
    After these things and these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah and encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them for himself.
  1139. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 32:9
    After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria, who was besieging Lachish with all his forces, sent his servants to Jerusalem to Hezekiah king of Judah and to all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem, saying.
  1140. Cross References
    Joshua 15:20
    This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans.
    Joshua 15:39
    Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon.
  1141. Cross References
    Isaiah 7:3
    And the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field.
  1142. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:15
    Thus says the Lord God of hosts, "Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him:
    Isaiah 22:20 - 21
    In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah.
  1143. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:15
    Thus says the Lord God of hosts, "Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him:
    Isaiah 22:20 - 21
    In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah.
  1144. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:8
    For he says: "Are not my commanders all kings?
  1145. Cross References
    Ezekiel 29:6 - 7
    Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord. "Because you have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
  1146. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:4
    He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).
    Deuteronomy 12:2 - 5
    You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
  1147. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:8
    For he says: "Are not my commanders all kings?
  1148. Cross References
    Isaiah 20:5
    Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast.
    Isaiah 30:3
    Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
    Isaiah 30:7
    Egypt's help is worthless and empty; therefore I have called her "Rahab who sits still.
    Isaiah 31:1
    Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the Lord!
  1149. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:5 - 6
    Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!
  1150. Cross References
    Ezra 4:7
    In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam and Mithredath and Tabeel and the rest of their associates wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia. The letter was written in Aramaic and translated.
    Daniel 2:4
    Then the Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic, "O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.
  1151. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:10
    Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: 'Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
    2 Chronicles 32:6 - 8
    And he set combat commanders over the people and gathered them together to him in the square at the gate of the city and spoke encouragingly to them, saying.
  1152. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:11
    The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
  1153. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:13
    Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?'
  1154. Cross References
    Jeremiah 49:23
    Concerning Damascus: "Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard bad news; they melt in fear, they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.
  1155. Cross References
    Jeremiah 49:23
    Concerning Damascus: "Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard bad news; they melt in fear, they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.
  1156. Cross References
    2 Kings 17:6
    In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
  1157. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 32:19
    And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.
  1158. Cross References
    Isaiah 36:3
    And there came out to him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.
    Isaiah 33:7
    Behold, their heroes cry in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.
  1159. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:1 - 38
    As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.
    2 Kings 19:1
    As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.
  1160. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:1
    The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
  1161. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:5
    For the Lord God of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.
  1162. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:8
    They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.
    Hosea 13:13
    The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son, for at the right time he does not present himself at the opening of the womb.
  1163. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:28 - 29
    'I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.
  1164. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:9
    If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah.
  1165. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:14
    The Lord has mingled within her a spirit of confusion, and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
  1166. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:9
    Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, "He has set out to fight against you." And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying.
  1167. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:38
    And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword. And after they escaped into the land of Ararat, Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
  1168. Cross References
    Joshua 10:31
    Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Libnah to Lachish and laid siege to it and fought against it.
  1169. Cross References
    Joshua 10:31
    Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Libnah to Lachish and laid siege to it and fought against it.
  1170. Cross References
    Isaiah 18:1 - 2
    Ah, land of whirring wings that is beyond the rivers of Cush.
    Isaiah 20:5
    Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast.
  1171. Cross References
    Isaiah 36:14
    Thus says the king: 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you.
  1172. Cross References
    Isaiah 36:18 - 19
    Beware lest Hezekiah mislead you by saying, "The Lord will deliver us." Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
  1173. Cross References
    2 Kings 17:6
    In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
  1174. Cross References
    Genesis 11:31 - 32
    Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
  1175. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:12
    Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
  1176. Cross References
    Exodus 25:22
    There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.
    Ezekiel 10:1
    Then I looked, and behold, on the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim there appeared above them something like a sapphire, in appearance like a throne.
  1177. Cross References
    Acts 4:24
    And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, "Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.
    Jeremiah 10:11
    Thus shall you say to them: "The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.
  1178. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 6:40
    Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
  1179. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 32:19
    And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.
  1180. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:13 - 14
    For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I remove the boundaries of peoples, and plunder their treasures; like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
  1181. Cross References
    Micah 4:13
    Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples; and shall devote their gain to the Lord, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.
    Isaiah 1:8
    And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
  1182. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:17
    The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.
  1183. Cross References
    Isaiah 8:7 - 8
    Therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks.
  1184. Cross References
    Isaiah 14:8
    The cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, 'Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.
  1185. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:6
    And its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt's Nile will diminish and dry up, reeds and rushes will rot away.
  1186. Cross References
    Isaiah 20:4
    So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.
  1187. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:5
    Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!
    Isaiah 10:15
    Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
    Isaiah 25:1 - 2
    O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
  1188. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:12
    When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.
  1189. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:34
    By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord.
  1190. Cross References
    Isaiah 27:6
    In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit.
  1191. Cross References
    Isaiah 14:32
    What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The Lord has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.
  1192. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:7
    Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
  1193. Cross References
    Habakkuk 1:10
    At kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh. They laugh at every fortress, for they pile up earth and take it.
    Luke 19:43
    For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side
  1194. Cross References
    Isaiah 31:5
    Like birds hovering, so the Lord of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it; he will spare and rescue it.
    Isaiah 38:6
    I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city.
  1195. Cross References
    Isaiah 29:1
    Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round.
  1196. Cross References
    Isaiah 17:14
    At evening time, behold, terror! Before morning...
    Isaiah 30:31
    The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the vo...
    Isaiah 31:8
    And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of ...
    Isaiah 10:33
    Behold, the Lord God of hosts will lop the boug...
    Isaiah 14:25
    That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and ...
    Isaiah 29:5
    But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be...
  1197. Cross References
    Genesis 10:11
    From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and
    Jonah 1:2
    "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me."
    Jonah 3:3
    So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth.
    Jonah 4:11
    And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?
  1198. Cross References
    Genesis 8:4
    And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
  1199. Cross References
    Ezra 4:2
    They approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers' houses and said to them, "Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria who brought us here.
  1200. Cross References
    Isaiah 38:1 - 8
    In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus says the Lord : Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.
    2 Kings 20:1 - 6
    In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, "Thus says the Lord, 'Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.'
    2 Kings 20:9 - 11
    And Isaiah said, "This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?
  1201. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 32:24
    In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death, and he prayed to the Lord, and he answered him and gave him a sign.
  1202. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:1
    The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
  1203. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:5 - 6
    He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel, so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him.
  1204. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:2
    He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.
    2 Kings 18:13
    In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
  1205. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:35
    For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.
  1206. Cross References
    2 Kings 20:9 - 10
    And Isaiah said, "This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?
  1207. Cross References
    Psalms 102:24
    "O my God," I say, "take me not away in the midst of my days - you whose years endure throughout all generations!"
  1208. Cross References
    Psalms 27:13
    I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!
    Psalms 88:5
    Like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand.
  1209. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 5:1
    For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
  1210. Cross References
    Job 7:6
    My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.
  1211. Cross References
    Hebrews 1:12
    Like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end.
  1212. Cross References
    Job 6:9
    That it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
  1213. Cross References
    Job 4:20
    Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
    Psalms 73:14
    For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning.
  1214. Cross References
    Psalms 30:5
    For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
  1215. Cross References
    Psalms 38:3
    There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.
  1216. Cross References
    Jeremiah 8:7
    Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the Lord.
  1217. Cross References
    Isaiah 59:11
    We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
  1218. Cross References
    Psalms 69:3
    I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
  1219. Cross References
    Psalms 119:122
    Give your servant a pledge of good; let not the insolent oppress me.
    Psalms 86:17
    Show me a sign of your favor, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame because you, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.
    Hebrews 7:22
    This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.
  1220. Cross References
    1 Kings 21:27
    And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.
  1221. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 8:3
    And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
  1222. Cross References
    Psalms 119:67
    Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.
    Psalms 119:75
    I know, O Lord, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
  1223. Cross References
    Psalms 103:12
    As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
    Micah 7:19
    He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
  1224. Cross References
    Psalms 103:12
    As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
    Micah 7:19
    He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
  1225. Cross References
    Psalms 88:10 - 12
    Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
    Psalms 115:17
    The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any who go down into silence.
    Ecclesiastes 9:10
    Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
  1226. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:9
    Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children -
    Deuteronomy 6:7
    You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
    Psalms 78:3 - 4
    Things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.
  1227. Cross References
    2 Kings 20:5
    Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.
  1228. Cross References
    2 Kings 20:7 - 8
    And Isaiah said, "Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover.
  1229. Cross References
    Isaiah 39:1 - 8
    At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.
    2 Kings 20:12 - 19
    At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
  1230. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 32:31
    And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.
  1231. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:15 - 16
    And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king's house.
  1232. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 32:25
    But Hezekiah did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem.
  1233. Cross References
    2 Kings 24:13
    And carried off all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the Lord, which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the Lord had foretold.
    2 Kings 25:13 - 17
    And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the Lord, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon.
  1234. Cross References
    Daniel 1:2 - 3
    And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.
    Daniel 1:7
    And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: Daniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach, Mishael he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego.
  1235. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 32:26
    But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
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