Isaiah 24:6

Catholic Public Domain Version

Because of this, a curse will devour the earth, and its inhabitants will sin. And for this reason, its caretakers will become crazed, and few men will be left behind.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:12

And Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his leaders, and his eunuchs. And the king of Babylon received him, in the eighth year of his reign.

2 Kings 25:12

But he left behind some vinedressers and farmers from the poor of the land.

Isaiah 1:31

And your strength will be like the embers from stubble, and your work will be like a spark, and both will burn together, and there will be no one to extinguish it.

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord of hosts had not bequeathed us offspring, we would have been like Sodom, and we would have been comparable to Gomorrah.

Isaiah 34:5

"For my sword in heaven has been inebriated. Behold, it will descend upon Idumea, and upon the people of my slaughter, unto judgment."

Isaiah 43:28

And so, I have defiled the holy leaders. I have handed over Jacob to slaughter, and Israel to calumny.

Isaiah 5:24

Because of this, as the tongue of fire devours stubble, and as the heat of a flame burns it completely, so will their root become like glowing embers, and so will their offshoot ascend like dust. For they have cast aside the law of the Lord of hosts, and they have blasphemed the eloquence of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 9:19

The earth has been shaken by the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and the people will become like fuel for the fire. A man will not spare his own brother.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long shall the earth mourn? And how long shall the plants of every field whither because of the wickedness of the inhabitants within them? It has consumed the wild animals and the birds. For they said: "He will not see our very end."

Jeremiah 5:14

Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: "Since you have spoken this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth like fire and this people like wood, and it will devour them.

Ezekiel 5:3

And you shall take from there a small number. And you shall bind them in the end of your cloak.

Leviticus 26:22

And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the field, which will consume you and your cattle, and which will reduce everything to paucity, and cause your roadways to become desolate.

Malachi 2:2

If you will refuse to listen, and if you will refuse to take it to heart, so as to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, I will send destitution upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yes, I will curse them. For you have not taken it to heart.

Malachi 3:9

And you have been cursed with privation, and you greatly afflict me, even your entire people.

Malachi 4:1

For, behold, the day will arrive, kindled like a furnace, and all the arrogant and all those who act impiously will be stubble. And the approaching day will inflame them, says the Lord of hosts; it will leave behind for them neither root, nor sprout.

Malachi 4:6

And he will turn the heart of the fathers to the sons, and the heart of the sons to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with anathema.

Matthew 27:25

And the entire people responded by saying, "May his blood be upon us and upon our children."

Matthew 7:14

How narrow is the gate, and how straight is the way, which leads to life, and few there are who find it!

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah cried out on behalf of Israel: "When the number of the sons of Israel is like the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

Deuteronomy 28:62

And you will remain few in number, though you were before like the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 4:27

And he will scatter you among all the nations, and few of you will remain among those nations, to which the Lord will lead you.

2 Peter 3:10

Then the day of the Lord shall arrive like a thief. On that day, the heavens shall pass away with great violence, and truly the elements shall be dissolved with heat; then the earth, and the works that are within it, shall be completely burned up.