Isaiah 13:19

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The city of Babylon is glorious and powerful, the pride of the nation. But it will be like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah after I, the Lord, destroyed them.

Cross References

Genesis 19:24

and the LORD sent burning sulphur down like rain on Sodom and Gomorrah.

Genesis 19:25

He destroyed those cities and everyone who lived in them, as well as their land and the trees and grass that grew there.

Isaiah 13:1

This is the message that I was given about Babylon:

Isaiah 21:9

Now I see column after column of cavalry troops.” Straight away someone shouted, “Babylon has fallen! Every idol in the city lies broken on the ground.”

Isaiah 47:5

Babylon, be silent! Sit in the dark. No longer will nations accept you as their queen.

Isaiah 48:14

Gather around me, all of you! Listen to what I say. Did any of your idols predict this would happen? Did they say that my friend would do what I want done to Babylonia?

Jeremiah 25:12

When that time is up, I will punish the king of Babylonia and his people for everything they have done wrong, and I will turn that country into a wasteland for ever.

Jeremiah 49:18

as bad as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and towns nearby. The towns of Edom will be empty.

Jeremiah 50:40

I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and the nearby towns, and I will destroy Babylon just as completely. No one will live there again.

Jeremiah 51:26

Your stone blocks won't be reused for cornerstones or foundations, and I promise that for ever you will be a desert. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Jeremiah 51:29

The earth twists and turns in torment, because I have decided to make Babylonia a desert where no one can live, and I won't change my mind.

Jeremiah 51:41

All nations now praise Babylon, but when it is captured, those same nations will be horrified.

Jeremiah 51:62

then pray, “Our LORD, you promised to destroy this place and make it into a desert where no people or animals will ever live.”

Amos 4:11

I destroyed many of you, just as I did the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. You were a burning stick I rescued from the fire. Even then you rejected me. I, the LORD, have spoken!

Romans 9:29

Isaiah also said, “If the Lord All-Powerful had not spared some of our descendants, we would have been destroyed like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.”

Deuteronomy 29:23

has become a scorching desert of salt and sulphur, where nothing is planted, nothing sprouts, and nothing grows. It will be as lifeless as the land around the cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, after the LORD became angry and destroyed them.

Revelation 18:11

Every merchant on earth will mourn, because there is no one to buy their goods.

Revelation 18:19

They cried loudly, and in their sorrow they threw dust on their heads, as they said, “Pity the great city of Babylon! Everyone who sailed the seas became rich from her treasures. But in a single hour the city was destroyed.