Isaiah 24:1

New American Bible - revised edition

See! The Lord is about to empty the earth and lay it waste; he will twist its surface, and scatter its inhabitants:

Cross References

2 Kings 21:13

I will measure Jerusalem with the same cord as I did Samaria, and with the plummet I used for the house of Ahab. I will wipe Jerusalem clean as one wipes a dish, wiping it inside and out.

Nehemiah 1:8

But remember the admonition which you addressed to Moses, your servant, when you said: If you prove faithless, I will scatter you among the peoples;

Psalm 146:9

The Lord protects the resident alien, comes to the aid of the orphan and the widow, but thwarts the way of the wicked.

Isaiah 13:13

For this I will make the heavens tremble and the earth shall be shaken from its place, At the wrath of the Lord of hosts on the day of his burning anger.

Isaiah 13:5

They come from a far-off country, and from the end of the heavens, The Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy all the land.

Isaiah 2:19

People will go into caves in the rocks and into holes in the earth, At the terror of the Lord and the splendor of his majesty, as he rises to overawe the earth.

Isaiah 24:19

The earth will burst asunder, the earth will be shaken apart, the earth will be convulsed.

Isaiah 24:20

The earth will reel like a drunkard, sway like a hut; Its rebellion will weigh it down; it will fall, never to rise again.”

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city shall be desolate, an abandoned pasture, a forsaken wilderness; There calves shall graze, there they shall lie down, and consume its branches.

Isaiah 29:16

Your perversity is as though the potter were taken to be the clay: As though what is made should say of its maker, “He did not make me!” Or the vessel should say of the potter, “He does not understand.”

Isaiah 29:2

But I will bring distress upon Ariel, and there will be mourning and moaning. You shall be to me like Ariel:

Isaiah 30:32

And every sweep of the rod of his punishment, which the Lord will bring down on him, Will be accompanied by timbrels and lyres, while he wages war against him.

Isaiah 32:12

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine;

Isaiah 33:9

The country languishes in mourning, Lebanon withers with shame; Sharon is like the Arabah, Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

Isaiah 34:10

Night and day it shall not be quenched, its smoke shall rise forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste, never again shall anyone pass through it.

Isaiah 34:2

The Lord is angry with all the nations, enraged against all their host; He has placed them under the ban, given them up to slaughter.

Isaiah 42:15

I will lay waste mountains and hills, all their undergrowth I will dry up; I will turn the rivers into marshes, and the marshes I will dry up.

Isaiah 5:6

Yes, I will make it a ruin: it shall not be pruned or hoed, but will be overgrown with thorns and briers; I will command the clouds not to rain upon it.

Jeremiah 4:7

Up comes the lion from its lair, the destroyer of nations has set out, has left its place, To turn your land into a desolation, your cities into an uninhabited waste.

Jeremiah 40:15

Then Johanan, son of Kareah, said secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah: “Please let me go and kill Ishmael, son of Nethaniah; no one will know it. What if he assassinates you? All the Judahites who have now rallied behind you would scatter and the remnant of Judah would perish.”

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel was a stray sheep that lions pursued; The king of Assyria once devoured him; now Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon gnaws his bones.

Jeremiah 51:34

“He consumed me, defeated me, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon; he left me like an empty vessel, Swallowed me like a sea monster, filled his belly with my delicacies and cast me out.

Jeremiah 9:16

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Inquire, and call the wailing women to come; summon the most skilled of them.

Ezekiel 12:20

Inhabited cities shall be in ruins, the land a desolate place. Then you shall know that I am the Lord. Prophecy Ridiculed.

Ezekiel 24:11

Then set it empty on the coals, to heat up until its copper glows, So its impurities melt, its filth disappears.

Ezekiel 35:14

Thus says the Lord God: Because you rejoiced that the whole land was desolate, so I will do to you.

Ezekiel 5:14

I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations around you, in the sight of every passerby.

Ezekiel 5:2

Set a third on fire within the city, when the days of your siege are completed; place another third around the city and strike it with the sword; the final third scatter to the wind and then unsheathe the sword after it.

Ezekiel 6:14

I will stretch out my hand against them; I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Riblah, wherever they live. Thus they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 6:6

Wherever you live, cities shall be ruined and high places laid waste, in order that your altars be laid waste and devastated, your idols broken and smashed, your incense altars hacked to pieces, and whatever you have made wiped out.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time has come, the day dawns. The buyer must not rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is coming upon all the throng.

Ezekiel 7:14

They will sound the trumpet and get everything ready, but no one will go out to battle, for my wrath weighs upon all the crowd.

Nahum 1:5

The mountains quake before him, and the hills dissolve; The earth is laid waste before him, the world and all who dwell in it.

Nahum 2:10

“Plunder the silver, plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, to wealth in every precious thing!

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken as captives to all the Gentiles; and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. The Coming of the Son of Man.

Acts 17:6

When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city magistrates, shouting, “These people who have been creating a disturbance all over the world have now come here,

Deuteronomy 28:64

The Lord will scatter you among all the peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods, of wood and stone, which you and your ancestors have not known.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I said: I will make an end of them and blot out their name from human memory,

Deuteronomy 4:27

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and there shall remain but a handful of you among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.

James 1:1

James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion, greetings. Perseverance in Trial.