Isaiah 66:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ For by fire will the Lord execute judgment, and by his sword on all flesh; and those slain by the Lord shall be many.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ For by fire and by His sword will the Lord execute judgment upon all flesh, and the slain of the Lord will be many.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ For by fire will Jehovah execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ With fire and with sword the LORD will judge all humanity; many will be slain by the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ For the Lord will divide with fire, and with his sword among all flesh, and those slain by the Lord will be many.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ For the Lord shall judge by fire, and by his sword unto all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.

Isaiah 66:16 Cross References

Isaiah 10:4

so as not to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain? For all this his anger has not turned away; his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 27:1

On that day the Lord with his cruel and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

Isaiah 3:13

The Lord rises to argue his case; he stands to judge the peoples.

Isaiah 30:30

And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and tempest and hailstones.

Isaiah 31:8

“Then the Assyrian shall fall by a sword not of mortals, and a sword not of humans shall devour him; he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor.

Isaiah 34:2

For the Lord is enraged against all the nations and furious against all their hordes; he has doomed them, has given them over for slaughter.

Isaiah 65:12

I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter; because, when I called, you did not answer, when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my sight and chose what I did not delight in.

Jeremiah 25:31

The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the Lord has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the guilty he will put to the sword, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 25:33

Those slain by the Lord on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented or gathered or buried; they shall become dung on the surface of the ground.

Jeremiah 45:5

And you, do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them, for I am going to bring disaster upon all flesh, says the Lord, but I will give you your life as a prize of war in every place to which you may go.”

Jeremiah 46:15

Why has Apis fled? Why did your bull not stand? Because the Lord thrust him down.

Ezekiel 28:18

By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade, you profaned your sanctuaries. So I brought out fire from within you; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all who saw you.

Ezekiel 38:17

Thus says the Lord God: Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?

Ezekiel 5:15

You shall be a mockery and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations around you when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury and with furious punishments—I, the Lord, have spoken—

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 account of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations. They have divided my land

Amos 7:4

This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord God was calling for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.

Nahum 3:15

There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper!

Nahum 3:3

Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, piles of dead, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over the bodies!

Zechariah 14:5

And you shall flee by the valley of the Lord’s mountain, for the valley between the mountains shall reach to Azal, and you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come and all the holy ones with him.