Isaiah 24:1

Good News Translation

The Lord is going to devastate the earth and leave it desolate. He will twist the earth's surface and scatter its people.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:13

I will punish Jerusalem as I did Samaria, as I did King Ahab of Israel and his descendants. I will wipe Jerusalem clean of its people, as clean as a plate that has been wiped and turned upside down.

Nehemiah 1:8

Remember now what you told Moses: ‘If you people of Israel are unfaithful to me, I will scatter you among the other nations.

Psalm 146:9

He protects the strangers who live in our land; he helps widows and orphans, but takes the wicked to their ruin.

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 13:5

They are coming from far-off countries at the ends of the earth. In his anger the Lord is coming to devastate the whole country.

Isaiah 2:19

People will hide in caves in the rocky hills or dig holes in the ground to try to escape from the Lord's anger and to hide from his power and glory, when he comes to shake the earth.

Isaiah 24:19

The earth will crack and shatter and split open.

Isaiah 24:20

The earth itself will stagger like a drunk, sway like a hut in a storm. The world is weighed down by its sins; it will collapse and never rise again.

Isaiah 27:10

The fortified city lies in ruins. It is deserted like an empty wilderness. It has become a pasture for cattle, where they can rest and graze.

Isaiah 29:16

They turn everything upside down. Which is more important, the potter or the clay? Can something you have made say, “You didn't make me”? Or can it say, “You don't know what you are doing”?

Isaiah 29:2

and then God will bring disaster on the city that is called “God's altar.” There will be weeping and wailing, and the whole city will be like an altar covered with blood.

Isaiah 30:32

As the Lord strikes them again and again, his people will keep time with the music of drums and harps. God himself will fight against the Assyrians.

Isaiah 32:12

Beat your breasts in grief because the fertile fields and the vineyards have been destroyed,

Isaiah 33:9

The land lies idle and deserted. The forests of Lebanon have withered, the fertile valley of Sharon is like a desert, and in Bashan and on Mount Carmel the leaves are falling from the trees.

Isaiah 34:10

It will burn day and night, and smoke will rise from it forever. The land will lie waste age after age, and no one will ever travel through it again.

Isaiah 34:2

The Lord is angry with all the nations and all their armies. He has condemned them to destruction.

Isaiah 42:15

I will destroy the hills and mountains and dry up the grass and trees. I will turn the river valleys into deserts and dry up the pools of water.

Isaiah 5:6

I will let it be overgrown with weeds. I will not trim the vines or hoe the ground; instead, I will let briers and thorns cover it. I will even forbid the clouds to let rain fall on it.”

Jeremiah 4:7

Like a lion coming from its hiding place, a destroyer of nations has set out. He is coming to destroy Judah. The cities of Judah will be left in ruins, and no one will live in them.

Jeremiah 40:15

Then Johanan said privately to him, “Let me go and kill Ishmael, and no one will know who did it. Why should he be allowed to murder you? That would cause all the Jews who have gathered around you to be scattered, and it would bring disaster on all the people who are left in Judah.”

Jeremiah 50:17

The Lord says, “The people of Israel are like sheep, chased and scattered by lions. First, they were attacked by the emperor of Assyria, and then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia gnawed on their bones.

Jeremiah 51:34

The king of Babylonia cut Jerusalem up and ate it. He emptied the city like a jar; like a monster he swallowed it. He took what he wanted and threw the rest away.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have heard about, and I will send armies against them until I have completely destroyed them.”

Ezekiel 12:20

Cities that are now full of people will be destroyed, and the country will be made a wilderness. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 24:11

Now set the empty bronze pot on the coals and let it get red-hot. Then the pot will be ritually pure again after the corrosion is burned off,

Ezekiel 35:14

The Sovereign Lord says, “I will make you so desolate that the whole world will rejoice at your downfall,

Ezekiel 5:14

Everyone from the nations around you who passes by will sneer at you and keep their distance.

Ezekiel 5:2

Burn up a third of it in the city when the siege is over. Take another third and chop it up with your sword as you move around outside the city. Scatter the remaining third to the winds, and I will pursue it with my sword.

Ezekiel 6:14

Yes, I will reach out and destroy their country. I will make it a wasteland from the southern desert to the city of Riblah in the north, not sparing any place where the Israelites live. Then everyone will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 6:6

All the cities of Israel will be destroyed, so that all their altars and their idols will be smashed to pieces, their incense altars will be shattered, and everything they made will disappear.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time is coming. The day is near when buying and selling will have no more meaning, because God's punishment will fall on everyone alike.

Ezekiel 7:14

The trumpet blows, and everyone gets ready. But no one goes off to war, for God's anger will fall on everyone alike.

Nahum 1:5

Mountains quake in the presence of the Lord; hills melt before him. The earth shakes when the Lord appears; the world and all its people tremble.

Nahum 2:10

Nineveh is destroyed, deserted, desolate! Hearts melt with fear; knees tremble, strength is gone; faces grow pale.

Luke 21:24

Some will be killed by the sword, and others will be taken as prisoners to all countries; and the heathen will trample over Jerusalem until their time is up.

Acts 17:6

But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before the city authorities and shouted, “These men have caused trouble everywhere! Now they have come to our city,

Deuteronomy 28:64

“The Lord will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I would have destroyed them completely, so that no one would remember them.

Deuteronomy 4:27

The Lord will scatter you among other nations, where only a few of you will survive.

James 1:1

From James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ: Greetings to all God's people scattered over the whole world.