Isaiah 3:1

Good News Translation

Now the Lord, the Almighty Lord, is about to take away from Jerusalem and Judah everything and everyone that the people depend on. He is going to take away their food and their water,

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,

Psalm 105:16

The Lord sent famine to their country and took away all their food.

Isaiah 1:24

So now, listen to what the Lord Almighty, Israel's powerful God, is saying: “I will take revenge on you, my enemies, and you will cause me no more trouble.

Isaiah 2:22

Put no more confidence in mortals. What are they worth?

Isaiah 3:16

The Lord said, “Look how proud the women of Jerusalem are! They walk along with their noses in the air. They are always flirting. They take dainty little steps, and the bracelets on their ankles jingle.

Isaiah 36:12

He replied, “Do you think you and the king are the only ones the emperor sent me to say all these things to? No, I am also talking to the people who are sitting on the wall, who will have to eat their excrement and drink their urine, just as you will.”

Isaiah 5:13

and so you will be carried away as prisoners. Your leaders will starve to death, and the common people will die of thirst.

Isaiah 51:22

the Lord your God defends you and says, “I am taking away the cup that I gave you in my anger. You will no longer have to drink the wine that makes you stagger.

Isaiah 9:20

Everywhere in the country people snatch and eat any bit of food they can find, but their hunger is never satisfied. They even eat their own children!

Jeremiah 37:21

So King Zedekiah ordered me to be locked up in the palace courtyard. I stayed there, and each day I was given a loaf of bread from the bakeries until all the bread in the city was gone.

Jeremiah 38:9

“Your Majesty, what these men have done is wrong. They have put Jeremiah in the well, where he is sure to die of starvation, since there is no more food in the city.”

Jeremiah 52:3

The Lord became so angry with the people of Jerusalem and Judah that he banished them from his sight. Zedekiah rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia,

Jeremiah 52:6

On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,

Lamentations 5:4

We must pay for the water we drink; we must buy the wood we need for fuel.

Ezekiel 14:13

“Mortal man,” he said, “if a country sins and is unfaithful to me, I will reach out and destroy its supply of food. I will send a famine and kill people and animals alike.

Leviticus 26:26

I will cut off your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake all the bread they have. They will ration it out, and when you have eaten it all, you will still be hungry.

Amos 4:6

“I was the one who brought famine to all your cities, yet you did not come back to me.

Micah 4:9

Why do you cry out so loudly? Why are you suffering like a woman in labor? Is it because you have no king, and your counselors are dead?