Isaiah 21:1

Good News Translation

This is a message about Babylonia. Like a whirlwind sweeping across the desert, disaster will come from a terrifying land.

Cross References

Job 37:9

The storm winds come from the south, and the biting cold from the north.

Isaiah 13:1

This is a message about Babylon, which Isaiah son of Amoz received from God.

Isaiah 13:13

I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place on that day when I, the Lord Almighty, show my anger.

Isaiah 14:1

The Lord will once again be merciful to his people Israel and choose them as his own. He will let them live in their own land again, and foreigners will come and live there with them.

Isaiah 14:14

You said you would climb to the tops of the clouds and be like the Almighty.

Isaiah 14:23

I will turn Babylon into a marsh, and owls will live there. I will sweep Babylon with a broom that will sweep everything away. I, the Lord Almighty, have spoken.”

Isaiah 17:1

The Lord said, “Damascus will not be a city any longer; it will be only a pile of ruins.

Isaiah 47:1

The Lord says, “Babylon, come down from your throne, and sit in the dust on the ground. You were once like a virgin, a city unconquered, but you are soft and delicate no longer! You are now a slave!

Isaiah 5:28

Their arrows are sharp, and their bows are ready to shoot. Their horses' hoofs are as hard as flint, and their chariot wheels turn like a whirlwind.

Jeremiah 51:1

The Lord says, “I am bringing a destructive wind against Babylonia and its people.

Jeremiah 51:42

The sea has rolled over Babylon and covered it with roaring waves.

Jeremiah 51:51

You say, ‘We've been disgraced and made ashamed; we feel completely helpless because foreigners have taken over the holy places in the Temple.’

Ezekiel 1:4

I looked up and saw a windstorm coming from the north. Lightning was flashing from a huge cloud, and the sky around it was glowing. Where the lightning was flashing, something shone like bronze.

Ezekiel 30:11

He and his ruthless army will come to devastate the land. They will attack Egypt with swords, and the land will be full of corpses.

Ezekiel 31:12

Ruthless foreigners will cut it down and leave it. Its branches and broken limbs will fall on every mountain and valley in the country. All the nations that have been living in its shade will go away.

Ezekiel 38:9

He and his army and the many nations with him will attack like a storm and cover the land like a cloud.”

Daniel 11:40

“When the king of Syria's final hour has almost come, the king of Egypt will attack him, and the king of Syria will fight back with all his power, using chariots, horses, and many ships. He will invade many countries, like the waters of a flood.

Zechariah 9:14

The Lord will appear above his people; he will shoot his arrows like lightning. The Sovereign Lord will sound the trumpet; he will march in the storms from the south.