Isaiah 24:3

New American Bible - revised edition

The earth shall be utterly laid waste, utterly stripped, for the Lord has decreed this word.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:21

All this was to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah: Until the land has retrieved its lost sabbaths, during all the time it lies waste it shall have rest while seventy years are fulfilled. Decree of Cyrus.

Isaiah 21:17

Few of Kedar’s stalwart archers shall remain, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.

Isaiah 22:25

On that day, says the Lord of hosts, the peg fixed in a firm place shall give way, break off and fall, and the weight that hung on it shall be done away with; for the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 24:1

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

Isaiah 24:2

People and priest shall fare alike: servant and master, Maid and mistress, buyer and seller, Lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

Isaiah 24:4

The earth mourns and fades, the world languishes and fades; both heaven and earth languish.

Isaiah 42:22

This is a people plundered and despoiled, all of them trapped in holes, hidden away in prisons. They are taken as plunder, with no one to rescue them, as spoil, with no one to say, “Give back!”

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.

Isaiah 6:11

“How long, O Lord?” I asked. And he replied: Until the cities are desolate, without inhabitants, Houses, without people, and the land is a desolate waste.

Jeremiah 13:15

Listen and give ear, do not be arrogant, for the Lord speaks.

Ezekiel 36:4

therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, plundered and mocked by the nations remaining around you:

Micah 2:4

On that day you shall be mocked, and there will be bitter lament: “Our ruin is complete, our fields are divided among our captors, The fields of my people are measured out, and no one can get them back!”

Micah 4:4

They shall all sit under their own vines, under their own fig trees, undisturbed; for the Lord of hosts has spoken.

Deuteronomy 29:23

they and all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord dealt thus with this land? Why this great outburst of wrath?”

Deuteronomy 29:28

The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things are for us and for our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.