Isaiah 31:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Yet he is wise and can bring disaster; he does not depart from his words but will rise against the house of the evildoers and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And yet He is wise and brings calamity and does not retract His words; He will arise against the house (the whole race) of evildoers and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

Common English Bible

² But God also knows how to bring disaster; he has not taken back his words. God will rise up against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who do wrong.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Therefore, being wise, he has permitted harm, and he has not removed his words, and he will rise up against the house of the wicked and against those who assist the workers of iniquity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² But he that is the wise one hath brought evil, and hath not removed his words: and he will rise up against the house of the wicked, and against the aid of them that work iniquity.

Isaiah 31:2 Cross References

Job 12:13

“With God are wisdom and strength; he has counsel and understanding.

Job 12:16

With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.

Job 5:13

He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

Isaiah 1:4

Woe, sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, offspring who do evil, children who act corruptly, who have forsaken the Lord, who have despised the Holy One of Israel, [[who are utterly estranged!]]

Isaiah 14:20

You will not be joined with them in burial because you have destroyed your land; you have killed your people. May the descendants of evildoers nevermore be named!

Isaiah 21:17

and the remaining bows of Kedar’s warriors will be few, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.”

Isaiah 22:14

The Lord of hosts has revealed himself in my ears: “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord God of hosts.

Isaiah 28:21

For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim; he will rage as in the valley of Gibeon to do his deed—strange is his deed!— and to work his work—alien is his work!

Isaiah 28:29

This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.

Isaiah 30:3

Therefore the protection of Pharaoh shall become your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt your humiliation.

Isaiah 30:7

For Egypt’s help is worthless and empty; therefore I have called her, “Rahab who sits still.”

Isaiah 31:3

The Egyptians are human and not God; their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and the one helped will fall, and they will all perish together.

Isaiah 32:6

For fools speak folly, and their minds plot iniquity: to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

Isaiah 45:7

I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe; I the Lord do all these things.

Isaiah 9:17

That is why the Lord did not have pity on their young people or compassion on their orphans and widows, for everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth spoke folly. For all this his anger has not turned away; his hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 10:12

It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

Jeremiah 10:7

Who would not fear you, O King of the nations? For that is your due; among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is no one like you.

Jeremiah 36:32

Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the secretary Baruch son of Neriah, who wrote on it at Jeremiah’s dictation all the words of the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah had burned in the fire, and many similar words were added to them.

Ezekiel 29:6

Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because you were a staff of reed to the house of Israel;

Amos 3:6

Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster befall a city unless the Lord has done it?

Zephaniah 3:8

Therefore wait for me, says the Lord, for the day when I arise as a witness. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all the heat of my anger, for in the fire of my passion all the earth shall be consumed.

Zechariah 1:6

But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your ancestors? So they repented and said, ‘The Lord of hosts has dealt with us according to our ways and deeds, just as he planned to do.’ ”

Numbers 10:35

Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Arise, O Lord, let your enemies be scattered and your foes flee before you.”

Numbers 23:19

God is not a human being, that he should lie, or a mortal, that he should change his mind. Has he promised, and will he not do it? Has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Romans 16:27

to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

Joshua 23:15

But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the bad things until he has destroyed you from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.

Jude 1:25

to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.

1 Samuel 2:3

Talk no more so very proudly; let not arrogance come from your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.