Isaiah 66:16

Easy To Read Version

The Lord will judge the people. Then the Lord will destroy the people with fire and with his sword. The Lord will destroy many people.

Cross References

Isaiah 10:4

You will have to bow down like a prisoner. You will fall down like a dead person. But that will not help you! God will still be angry. God will still be ready to punish you.

Isaiah 27:1

At that time, the Lord will judge\par Leviathan, {\cf2\super [246]} the crooked snake.\par The Lord will use his great sword,\par his hard and powerful sword, to punish\par Leviathan, the coiled snake.\par The Lord will kill\par the large creature in the sea. {\cf2\super [247]} \par

Isaiah 3:13

The Lord will stand to judge the people.

Isaiah 30:30

The Lord will cause all people to hear his great voice. The Lord will cause all people to see his powerful arm come down with anger. That arm will be like a great fire that burns everything. The Lord’s power will be like a great storm with much rain and hail.

Isaiah 31:8

It is true that Assyria {\cf2\super [292]} will be defeated with a sword. But that sword will not be a man’s sword. Assyria will be destroyed. But that destruction will not come from a man’s sword. Assyria will run away from God’s sword. But the young men will be caught and made slaves.

Isaiah 34:2

The Lord is angry at all the nations and their armies. The Lord will destroy them all. He will cause them all to be killed.

Isaiah 65:12

\{But I decide your future.\} And I decided that you will be killed with a sword. You will all be killed. Why? Because I called to you, and you refused to answer me! I spoke to you, and you would not listen. You did the things that I say are evil. You decided to do the things that I don’t like.”

Jeremiah 25:31

The noise spreads to all the people on earth.\par What is all the noise about?\par The Lord is punishing the people\par from all the nations.\par The Lord told his arguments\par against the people.\par He judged the people.\par And now he is killing the evil people\par with a sword.’”\par This message is from the Lord.\par

Jeremiah 25:33

The dead bodies of those people will reach from one end of the country to the other. No person will cry for those dead people. No person will gather up their bodies and bury them. They will be left lying on the ground like dung.

Jeremiah 45:5

Baruch, you are looking for great things for yourself. But don’t look for those things. Don’t look for them, because I will make terrible things happen to all the people.’ The Lord said these things. ‘You will have to go many places. But I will let you escape alive wherever you go.’”

Jeremiah 46:15

Egypt, your strong soldiers will be killed.\par They won’t be able to stand\par because the Lord will push them down.\par

Ezekiel 28:18

You did many wrong things.\par You were a very crooked businessman.\par In this way, you made the holy places unclean.\par So I brought fire from inside you.\par It burned you!\par You burned to ashes on the ground.\par Now everyone can see your shame.\par

Ezekiel 38:17

The Lord my Master says these things, “\{At that time, people will remember\} that I spoke about you in the past. They will remember that I used my servants the prophets of Israel. They will remember that the prophets of Israel spoke for me in the past and said that I would bring you to fight against them.”

Joel 3:2

I will also gather all the nations together. I will bring all these nations down into Jehoshaphat Valley. {\cf2\super [24]} There I will judge them. Those nations scattered my people, Israel. They forced them to live in other nations. So I will punish those nations. Those nations divided up my land.

Amos 7:4

The Lord my Master showed these things to me: \{I\} saw the Lord God calling for judgment by fire. The fire destroyed the Great Deep. The fire was beginning to eat up the land.

Nahum 3:15

You can do all those things, but the fire will still destroy you completely! And the sword will kill you. Your land will look like a swarm of grasshoppers came and ate everything.

Nahum 3:3

Soldiers on horses are attacking,\par their swords are shining,\par their spears are gleaming!\par There are many dead people,\par dead bodies piled up,\par too many bodies to count!\par People are tripping over all the dead bodies.\par

Zechariah 14:5

You will try to run away as that mountain valley comes closer and closer to you. You will run away like the time you ran from the earthquake during the time of Uzziah, king of Judah. But the Lord my God will come, and all his holy ones will be with him.