Isaiah 30:16

Modern English Version

and you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”; therefore you shall flee. “And we will ride on swift horses”; therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:5

Then the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his army deserted him.

Job 39:11

Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him?

Psalm 147:10

He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

Psalm 33:17

A horse is a vain hope for safety; it will not deliver by its great strength.

Isaiah 2:7

Their land also is full of silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is also full of horses, and there is no end to their chariots.

Isaiah 31:1

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel nor seek the Lord!

Isaiah 31:3

Now the Egyptians are men and not God; and their horses flesh and not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out His hand, both he who helps shall fall and he who is helped shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

Jeremiah 39:4

When Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them and all the men of war, then they fled and went out of the city by night, by way of the king’s garden, by the gate between the two walls. And he went out the way of the Arabah.

Jeremiah 4:13

Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!

Jeremiah 46:6

Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they will stumble and fall towards the north by the Euphrates River.

Jeremiah 52:7

Then the city was breached, and all the men of war fled and went out of the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city, and they went by way of the Arabah.

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the skies. They pursued us on the mountains; they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

Amos 9:1

I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and He said: Strike the capitals so that the thresholds shake; break them off onto the heads of all of them. Those who remain I will slay with the sword. Not one of them will get away; not one fugitive will survive.

Micah 1:13

Harness the chariot to the steeds, inhabitants of Lachish. It was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, because in you were found the transgressions of Israel.

Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than evening wolves. Their horsemen charge on; their horsemen come from afar; they fly like the eagle that hastens to eat.

Deuteronomy 28:25

The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies, and you will go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them, and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,