Isaiah 48:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² For they call themselves after the holy city and lean on the God of Israel; the Lord of hosts is his name.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For they call themselves [citizens] of the holy city and depend on the God of Israel–the Lord of hosts is His name.

American Standard Version (1901)

² (for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; Jehovah of hosts is his name):

Common English Bible

² They are known as residents of the holy city, those who depend upon the God of Israel— the LORD of heavenly forces is his name.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² For they have been called from the holy city, and they have been founded upon the God of Israel. The Lord of hosts is his name.

Isaiah 48:2 Cross References

Micah 3:11

Its rulers give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets give oracles for money; yet they lean upon the Lord and say, “Surely the Lord is with us! No harm shall come upon us.”

Romans 2:17

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relation to God

Isaiah 52:1

Awake; awake; put on your strength, O Zion! Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city, for the uncircumcised and the unclean shall enter you no more.

Isaiah 10:20

On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer lean on the one who struck them but will lean on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

Matthew 27:53

After his resurrection they came out of the tombs and entered the holy city and appeared to many.

Jeremiah 21:2

“Please inquire of the Lord on our behalf, for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon is making war against us; perhaps the Lord will perform a wonderful deed for us, as he has often done, and Nebuchadrezzar will withdraw.”

Revelation 22:19

if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away that person’s share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

Revelation 21:2

And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Revelation 11:2

but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.

Matthew 4:5

Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple,

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city: to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

Jeremiah 10:16

The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the Lord of hosts is his name.

Isaiah 51:13

You have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You fear continually all day long because of the fury of the oppressor, who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?

Isaiah 47:4

Our Redeemer—the Lord of hosts is his name— is the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 87:3

Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah

Psalm 48:1

Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God. His holy mountain,

Nehemiah 11:18

All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.

Nehemiah 11:1

Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city Jerusalem, while nine-tenths remained in the other towns.

Judges 17:13

Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me because the Levite has become my priest.”

Jeremiah 44:26

Therefore hear the word of the Lord, all you Judeans who live in the land of Egypt: I swear by my great name, says the Lord, that my name shall no longer be pronounced on the lips of any of the people of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, ‘As the Lord God lives.’

Isaiah 51:15

For I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord of hosts is his name.