Isaiah 24:18

New Century Version

Anyone who tries to escape from the sound of terror will fall into a hole. Anyone who climbs out of the hole will be caught in a trap. The clouds in the sky will pour out rain, and the foundations of the earth will shake.

Cross References

Genesis 19:24

The Lord sent a rain of burning sulfur down from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah

Genesis 7:11

When Noah was six hundred years old, the flood started. On the seventeenth day of the second month of that year the underground springs split open, and the clouds in the sky poured out rain.

2 Kings 7:2

Then the officer who was close to the king answered Elisha, “Even if the Lord opened windows in the sky, that couldn’t happen.” Elisha said, “You will see it with your eyes, but you will not eat any of it.”

Job 20:24

The wicked may run away from an iron weapon, but a bronze arrow will stab them.

Psalm 18:15

Lord, you spoke strongly. The wind blew from your nose. Then the valleys of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the earth were seen.

Psalm 18:7

The earth trembled and shook. The foundations of the mountains began to shake. They trembled because the Lord was angry.

Psalm 18:8

Smoke came out of his nose, and burning fire came out of his mouth. Burning coals went before him.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

No one knows what will happen next. Like a fish caught in a net, or a bird caught in a trap, people are trapped by evil when it suddenly falls on them.

Isaiah 13:13

I will make the sky shake, and the earth will be moved from its place by the anger of the Lord All-Powerful at the time of his burning anger.

Isaiah 2:19

People will run to caves in the rocky cliffs and will dig holes and hide in the ground from the anger of the Lord and his great power, when he stands to shake the earth.

Isaiah 2:21

Then the people will hide in caves and cracks in the rocks from the anger of the Lord and his great power, when he stands to shake the earth.

Isaiah 42:22

These people have been defeated and robbed. They are trapped in pits or locked up in prison. Like robbers, enemies have taken them away, and there is no one to save them. Enemies carried them off, and no one said, “Bring them back.”

Isaiah 8:14

Then he will be a place of safety for you. But for the two families of Israel, he will be like a stone that causes people to stumble, like a rock that makes them fall. He will be like a trap for the people of Jerusalem, and he will catch them in his trap.

Jeremiah 48:43

Fear, deep pits, and traps wait for you, people of Moab,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 48:44

“People will run from fear, but they will fall into the pits. Anyone who climbs out of the pits will be caught in the traps. I will bring the year of punishment to Moab,” says the Lord.

Lamentations 3:47

We have been frightened and fearful, ruined and destroyed.”

Ezekiel 11:8

You have feared the sword, but I will bring a sword against you, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 12:13

But I will spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my trap. Then I will bring him to Babylon in the land of the Babylonians. He will not see that land, but he will die there.

Ezekiel 15:7

and will turn against them. Although they came through one fire, fire will still destroy them. When I turn against them, you will know that I am the Lord.

Amos 5:18

How terrible it will be for you who want the Lord’s day of judging to come. Why do you want that day to come? It will bring darkness for you, not light.

Amos 5:19

It will be like someone who runs from a lion and meets a bear, or like someone who goes into his house and puts his hand on the wall, and then is bitten by a snake.