Isaiah 5:13

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

and so his people know nothing about him. That's why many of you will be dragged off to foreign lands. Your leaders will starve to death, and everyone else will suffer from thirst.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:6

before capturing it in the ninth year of Hoshea's rule. The Assyrian king took the Israelites away to Assyria as prisoners. He forced some of them to live in the town of Halah, others to live near the River Habor in the territory of Gozan, and still others to live in towns where the Median people lived.

Proverbs 10:21

Many are helped by useful instruction, but fools are killed by their own stupidity.

Isaiah 1:3

Oxen and donkeys know who owns and feeds them, but my people won't ever learn.”

Isaiah 1:7

Your country lies in ruins; your towns are in ashes. Foreigners and strangers take and destroy your land while you watch.

Isaiah 23:9

The LORD All-Powerful planned it to bring shame and disgrace to those who are honoured by everyone on earth.

Isaiah 27:11

When broken branches fall to the ground, women pick them up to feed the fire. But these people are so stupid that the God who created them will show them no mercy.

Isaiah 3:1

The mighty LORD All-Powerful is going to take away from Jerusalem and Judah everything you need— your bread and water,

Isaiah 44:19

They don't have enough sense to say to themselves, “I made a fire with half of the wood and cooked my bread and meat on it. Then I made something worthless with the other half. Why worship a block of wood?”

Isaiah 49:21

and Jerusalem will ask, “Am I really their mother? How could I have given birth when I was still mourning in a foreign land? Who raised these children? Where have they come from?”

Isaiah 65:13

I, the LORD God, will give food and drink to my servants, and they will celebrate. But all of you sinners will go hungry and thirsty, overcome with disgrace.

Jeremiah 14:18

In the fields I see the bodies of those killed in battle. And in the towns I see crowds dying of hunger. But the prophets and priests go about their business, without understanding what has happened.”

Jeremiah 14:3

Rulers send their servants to the storage pits for water. But there's none to be found; they return in despair with their jars still empty.

Jeremiah 8:7

Storks, doves, swallows, and thrushes all know when it's time to fly away for the winter and when to come back. But you, my people, don't know what I demand.

Lamentations 4:9

Being killed with a sword is better than slowly starving to death.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time is coming when everyone will be ruined. Buying and selling will stop,

Hosea 4:6

You priests have rejected me, and my people are destroyed by refusing to obey. Now I'll reject you and forget your children, because you have forgotten my Law.

Amos 8:13

Your beautiful young women and your young men will faint from thirst.

Luke 19:44

They will level you to the ground and kill your people. Not one stone in your buildings will be left on top of another. This will happen because you did not see that God had come to save you.

Romans 1:28

Since these people refused even to think about God, he let their useless minds rule over them. That's why they do all sorts of indecent things.

2 Peter 3:5

They will say this because they want to forget that long ago the heavens and the earth were made at God's command. The earth came out of water and was made from water.