Isaiah 5:6

Good News Translation

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.”

Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

A prophet named Elijah, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to King Ahab, “In the name of the Lord, the living God of Israel, whom I serve, I tell you that there will be no dew or rain for the next two or three years until I say so.”

1 Kings 8:35

“When you hold back the rain because your people have sinned against you, and then when they repent and face this Temple, humbly praying to you,

Job 31:40

then instead of wheat and barley, may weeds and thistles grow. The words of Job are ended.

Proverbs 24:31

They were full of thorn bushes and overgrown with weeds. The stone wall around them had fallen down.

Isaiah 24:12

The city is in ruins, and its gates have been broken down.

Isaiah 30:23

Whenever you plant your crops, the Lord will send rain to make them grow and will give you a rich harvest, and your livestock will have plenty of pasture.

Isaiah 32:10

You may be satisfied now, but this time next year you will be in despair because there will be no grapes for you to gather.

Isaiah 49:19

“Your country was ruined and desolate— but now it will be too small for those who are coming to live there. And those who left you in ruins will be far removed from you.

Isaiah 55:13

Cypress trees will grow where now there are briers; myrtle trees will come up in place of thorns. This will be a sign that will last forever, a reminder of what I, the Lord, have done.”

Isaiah 7:19

They will swarm in the rugged valleys and in the caves in the rocks, and they will cover every thorn bush and every pasture.

Jeremiah 14:1

The Lord said to me concerning the drought,

Jeremiah 14:22

None of the idols of the nations can send rain; the sky by itself cannot make showers fall. We have put our hope in you, O Lord our God, because you are the one who does these things.

Jeremiah 25:11

This whole land will be left in ruins and will be a shocking sight, and the neighboring nations will serve the king of Babylonia for seventy years.

Jeremiah 45:4

“But I, the Lord, am tearing down what I have built and pulling up what I have planted. I will do this to the entire earth.

Lamentations 2:6

He smashed to pieces the Temple where we worshiped him; He has put an end to holy days and Sabbaths. King and priest alike have felt the force of his anger.

Hosea 3:4

In just this way the people of Israel will have to live for a long time without kings or leaders, without sacrifices or sacred stone pillars, without idols or images to use for divination.

Hosea 9:6

When the disaster comes and the people are scattered, the Egyptians will gather them up—gather them for burial there at Memphis! Their treasures of silver and the places where their homes once stood will be overgrown with weeds and thorn bushes.

Joel 1:7

They have destroyed our grapevines and chewed up our fig trees. They have stripped off the bark, till the branches are white.

Amos 4:7

I kept it from raining when your crops needed it most. I sent rain on one city, but not on another. Rain fell on one field, but another field dried up.

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.

Deuteronomy 29:23

The fields will be a barren waste, covered with sulfur and salt; nothing will be planted, and not even weeds will grow there. Your land will be like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed when he was furiously angry.

Revelation 11:6

They have authority to shut up the sky so that there will be no rain during the time they proclaim God's message. They have authority also over the springs of water, to turn them into blood; they have authority also to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.