Isaiah 5:6

Modern English Version

And I will lay it waste: It shall not be pruned or dug, but briers and thorns shall come up. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.

Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives before whom I stand, there will not be dew or rain these years except by my word.”

1 Kings 8:35

“When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You, if they pray toward this place and call upon Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them,

Job 31:40

let thistles grow instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

Proverbs 24:31

and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns, and nettles had covered its surface, and its stone wall was broken down.

Isaiah 24:12

Desolation is left in the city, and the gate is battered to destruction.

Isaiah 30:23

Then He shall give you rain for the seed which you shall sow in the ground and bread of the increase of the earth. And it shall be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle shall feed in large pastures.

Isaiah 32:10

Within a year and a few days you shall be troubled, you careless daughters; for the vintage is ended and the fruit gathering shall not come.

Isaiah 49:19

For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.

Isaiah 55:13

Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; and it shall be to the Lord for a memorial, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 7:19

They shall come, and all of them shall rest in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and on all thorns, and on all bushes.

Jeremiah 14:1

The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the idols of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O  Lord our God? Therefore, we will wait upon You, for You have done all these things.

Jeremiah 25:11

This whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jeremiah 45:4

Thus you shall say to him, “Thus says the Lord: Behold, what I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

Lamentations 2:6

He has violently taken away His tabernacle as if it were a garden; He has destroyed His place of assembly; the Lord has caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion. In his fierce indignation He has despised the king and the priest.

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites will remain many days without a king and without a prince, without a sacrifice and without a standing stone, and without an ephod and teraphim.

Hosea 9:6

For behold, they are gone because of destruction. Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver, and thorns will be in their tents.

Joel 1:7

It has despoiled my vine, and splintered my fig tree; it has stripped off its bark and cast it away, leaving its branches white.

Amos 4:7

I also withheld the rain from you, when there were still three months to the harvest. I would send rain on one town, and send no rain on another town. One field would receive rain, but another field without rain would wither.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and will be led away captive to all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Deuteronomy 29:23

“The whole land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and wrath.”

Revelation 11:6

They have power to shut heaven, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every plague as often as they desire.