Isaiah 30:16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

You say, ‘No! We will escape on horses’ – therefore you will escape! – and, ‘We will ride on fast horses’ – but those who pursue you will be faster.

Cross References

Isaiah 31:1

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and who depend on horses! They trust in the abundance of chariots and in the large number of horsemen. They do not look  to the Holy One of Israel, and they do not seek the  Lord.

Isaiah 31:3

Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the Lord raises his hand to strike, the helper will stumble and the one who is helped will fall; both will perish together.

Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses are swifter  than leopards and fiercer  than wolves of the night. Their horsemen charge ahead; their horsemen come from distant lands. They fly like eagles, swooping to devour.

Micah 1:13

Harness the horses to the chariot, you residents of Lachish. This was the beginning of sin for Daughter Zion because Israel’s acts of rebellion  can be traced to you.

Amos 9:1

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar,  and he said: Strike the capitals of the pillars so that the thresholds shake; knock them down on the heads of all the people. Then I will kill the rest of them with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.

Lamentations 4:19

Those who chased us were swifter than eagles in the sky; they relentlessly pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.

Jeremiah 52:7

Then the city was breached, and all the warriors fled. They left the city at night by way of the city gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. They made their way along the route to the Arabah.

Jeremiah 4:13

Look, he advances like clouds; his chariots are like a storm. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth,  to swoop down on you like an eagle,  a nation whose language you won’t understand,

Deuteronomy 28:25

The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions.  You will be an object of horror  to all the kingdoms of the earth.

2 Kings 25:5

the Chaldean army pursued him and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah’s entire army left him and scattered.

Isaiah 2:7

Their  , land is full of silver and gold, and there is no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, and there is no limit to their chariots.

Jeremiah 39:4

When King Zedekiah of Judah and all the fighting men saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden  through the city gate between the two walls. They left along the route to the Arabah.

Jeremiah 46:6

The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the bank of the River Euphrates, they stumble and fall.

Job 39:11

Can you depend on it because its strength is great? Would you leave it to do your hard work?