Isaiah 5:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹³ Therefore my people go into exile for want of knowledge; their honored men are dying of hunger, and their multitude is parched with thirst.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Therefore My people go into captivity [to their enemies] without knowing it and because they have no knowledge [of God]. And their honorable men [their glory] are famished, and their common people are parched with thirst.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.

Common English Bible

¹³ Therefore, my people go into exile since they didn’t understand— their officials are dying of hunger; so many of them are dried up with thirst.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ Because of this, my people have been led away as captives, for they did not have knowledge, and their nobles have passed away from famine, and their multitudes have dried up from thirst.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had not knowledge: and their nobles have perished with famine, and their multitude were dried up with thirst.

Isaiah 5:13 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.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.”

Isaiah 1:7

Your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence aliens devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by aliens.

Isaiah 23:9

The Lord of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth.

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, he that formed them will show them no favor.

Isaiah 3:1

For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;

Isaiah 3:3

the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skilful magician and the expert in charms.

Isaiah 44:19

No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire, I also baked bread on its coals, I roasted flesh and have eaten; and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?”

Isaiah 49:21

Then you will say in your heart: ‘Who has borne me these? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and put away, but who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; whence then have these come?’ ”

Isaiah 65:13

Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out into the field, behold, those slain by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land, and have no knowledge.’ ”

Jeremiah 14:3

Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns, they find no water, they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded and cover their heads.

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 ordinance of the Lord.

Lamentations 4:9

Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who pined away, stricken by want of the fruits of the field.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time has come, the day draws near. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.

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.

Amos 8:13

“In that day the fair virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.

Luke 19:44

and dash you 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.”

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.

2 Peter 3:5

They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago, and an earth formed out of water and by means of water,