Isaiah 50:2

God's Word

Why was no one here when I came? Why was no one here to answer when I called? Am I too weak to reclaim you? Don’t I have the power to rescue you? I dry up the sea with my command, and I turn rivers into deserts. Their fish stink because there is no water, and people die of thirst.

Cross References

Genesis 18:14

Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will come back to you next year at this time, and Sarah will have a son.”

2 Chronicles 32:15

Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you or persuade you like this. Don’t believe him. No god of any nation or kingdom could save his people from me or my ancestors. Certainly, your God will not rescue you from me!”

Psalm 106:9

He angrily commanded the Red Sea, and it dried up. He led them through deep water as though it were a desert.

Psalm 107:33

He changes rivers into a desert, springs into thirsty ground,

Exodus 14:21

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. All that night the Lord pushed back the sea with a strong east wind and turned the sea into dry ground. The water divided,

Exodus 14:29

Meanwhile, the Israelites had gone through the sea on dry ground while the water stood like a wall on their right and on their left.

Exodus 7:18

The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink. The Egyptians will not be able to drink any water from the Nile.’ ”

Exodus 7:21

The fish in the Nile died, and it smelled so bad that the Egyptians couldn’t drink any water from the river. There was blood everywhere in Egypt.

Proverbs 1:24

“I called, and you refused to listen. I stretched out my hands to you, and no one paid attention.

Isaiah 11:15

The Lord will dry up the gulf of the Egyptian Sea. He will wave his hand over the Euphrates River with his scorching wind and divide it into seven streams so that people can walk over it in their sandals.

Isaiah 19:5

The water in the Nile River will be dried up, and the river will be dry and empty.

Isaiah 23:11

The Lord has stretched his hand over the sea to shake kingdoms. He has commanded that Canaan’s fortifications be destroyed.

Isaiah 36:20

Did the gods of these countries rescue them from my control? Could the Lord then rescue Jerusalem from my control?”

Isaiah 41:28

When I look, there is no one. There is no one to advise them. When I ask them a question, will they give an answer?

Isaiah 42:15

I will lay waste to mountains and hills. I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn rivers into islands. I will dry up ponds.

Isaiah 43:16

The Lord makes a path through the sea and a road through the strong currents.

Isaiah 44:27

He says to the deep water, “Dry up.” So I will dry up your rivers.

Isaiah 51:10

Didn’t you dry up the sea, the water of the great ocean? You made a road in the depths of the sea so that the people reclaimed ⌞by the Lord⌟ might pass through it.

Isaiah 54:6

“The Lord has called you as if you were a wife who was abandoned and in grief, a wife who married young and was rejected,” says your God.

Isaiah 59:1

The Lord is not too weak to save or his ear too deaf to hear.

Isaiah 59:16

He sees that there’s no one to help. He’s astounded that there’s no one to intercede. So with his own power he wins a victory. His righteousness supports him.

Isaiah 63:13

Where is the one who led them through the deep water? Like horses in the wilderness, they didn’t stumble.

Isaiah 64:6

We’ve all become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us shrivel like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.

Isaiah 65:12

Now I will destine you for death. All of you will bow to be slaughtered. I called, but you didn’t answer. I spoke, but you didn’t listen. You did what I consider evil. You chose what I don’t like.

Isaiah 66:4

So I will choose harsh treatment for them and bring on them what they fear. I called, but no one answered. I spoke, but they didn’t listen. They did what I consider evil. They chose what I don’t like.

Jeremiah 14:9

Why should you be like someone taken by surprise, like a strong man who cannot help? You, O Lord, are among us. We are called by your name. Don’t leave us!

Jeremiah 35:14

Jonadab, Rechab’s son, ordered his descendants not to drink wine. This order has been carried out. His descendants have not drunk any wine to this day, because they have obeyed their ancestor’s order. I have spoken to you again and again, but you have refused to listen to me.

Jeremiah 35:15

I have sent all my servants the prophets to you again and again. They said, “Turn from your evil ways, do what is right, and don’t follow other gods in order to serve them. Then you will live in the land that I gave you and your ancestors.” However, you refused to listen to me or obey me.

Jeremiah 5:1

Walk around the streets of Jerusalem. Look around, and think about these things. Search the city squares. See if you can find anyone who does what is right and seeks the truth. Then I will forgive Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 7:13

You have done the same things the people did at Shiloh,’ ” declares the Lord. “ ‘Although I spoke to you again and again, you did not listen. When I called you, you did not answer.

Jeremiah 7:27

“Jeremiah, you will say all these things to them, but they will not obey you. You will call to them, but they will not respond to you.

Jeremiah 8:6

I have paid attention and listened, but they weren’t honest. They don’t turn away from their wickedness and ask, “What have we done?” They go their own ways like horses charging into battle.

Daniel 3:15

When you hear the sound of the rams’ horns, flutes, lyres, harps, and three-stringed harps playing at the same time with all other kinds of instruments, will you bow down and worship the gold statue I made? If you don’t worship it, you will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace. What god can save you from my power then?”

Daniel 3:29

So I order that people from every province, nation, or language who say anything slanderous about the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego will be torn limb from limb. Their houses will be turned into piles of rubble. No other god can rescue like this.”

Daniel 6:20

As he came near the den where Daniel was, the king called to Daniel with anguish in his voice, “Daniel, servant of the living God! Was God, whom you always worship, able to save you from the lions?”

Daniel 6:27

He saves, rescues, and does miraculous signs and amazing things in heaven and on earth. He saved Daniel from the lions.

Hosea 11:2

The more I called them, the farther they went away. They sacrificed to other gods—the Baals, and they burned incense to idols.

Hosea 11:7

My people are determined to turn away from me. Even if they call to the Most High, he will not pardon them.

Nahum 1:4

He yells at the sea and makes it dry. He dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither. The flowers of Lebanon wither.

Habakkuk 3:8

The Lord is not angry with the rivers, is he? If you are angry with the rivers, if you are furious with the sea, ⌞why⌟ do you ride your horses, your chariots of salvation?

Numbers 11:23

The Lord asked Moses, “Is there a limit to the Lord’s power? Now you will see whether or not my words come true.”

Mark 4:39

Then he got up, ordered the wind to stop, and said to the sea, “Be still, absolutely still!” The wind stopped blowing, and the sea became very calm.

John 1:11

He went to his own people, and his own people didn’t accept him.

John 3:19

This is why people are condemned: The light came into the world. Yet, people loved the dark rather than the light because their actions were evil.

Joshua 3:16

the water, the water stopped flowing from upstream. The water rose up like a dam as far away as the city of Adam near Zarethan. The water flowing down toward the Sea of the Plains (the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. Then the people crossed from the east side ⌞of the Jordan River⌟ directly opposite Jericho.