Isaiah 47:8

New Century Version

“Now, listen, you lover of pleasure. You think you are safe. You tell yourself, ‘I am the only important person. I will never be a widow or lose my children.’

Cross References

Isaiah 14:14

I will go up above the tops of the clouds. I will be like God Most High.”

Isaiah 32:11

Women, you are calm now, but you should shake with fear. Women, you feel safe now, but you should tremble. Take off your nice clothes and put rough cloth around your waist to show your sadness.

Isaiah 32:9

You women who are calm now, stand up and listen to me. You women who feel safe now, hear what I say.

Isaiah 45:18

The Lord created the heavens. He is the God who formed the earth and made it. He did not want it to be empty, but he wanted life on the earth. This is what the Lord says: “I am the Lord. There is no other God.

Isaiah 45:5

I am the Lord. There is no other God; I am the only God. I will make you strong, even though you don’t know me,

Isaiah 45:6

so that everyone will know there is no other God. From the east to the west they will know I alone am the Lord.

Isaiah 47:10

You do evil things, but you feel safe and say, ‘No one sees what I do.’ Your wisdom and knowledge have fooled you. You say to yourself, ‘I am God, and no one is equal to me.’

Jeremiah 49:31

“Get up! Attack the nation that is comfortable, that is sure no one will defeat it,” says the Lord. “It does not have gates or fences to protect it. Its people live alone.

Jeremiah 50:11

“Babylon, you are excited and happy, because you took my land. You dance around like a young cow in the grain. Your laughter is like the neighing of male horses.

Jeremiah 51:53

Even if Babylon grows until she touches the sky, and even if she makes her highest cities strong, I will send people to destroy her,” says the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:49

“ ‘This was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were proud and had plenty of food and lived in great comfort, but she did not help the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 28:2

“Human, say to the ruler of Tyre: ‘This is what the Lord God says: Because you are proud, you say, “I am a god. I sit on the throne of a god in the middle of the seas.” You think you are as wise as a god, but you are a human, not a god.

Ezekiel 30:9

“ ‘At that time I will send messengers in ships to frighten Cush, which now feels safe. The people of Cush will tremble with fear when Egypt is punished. And that time is sure to come.

Daniel 11:36

“The king of the North will do whatever he wants. He will brag about himself and praise himself and think he is even better than a god. He will say things against the God of gods that no one has ever heard. And he will be successful until all the bad things have happened. Then what God has planned to happen will happen.

Daniel 4:22

O king, you are that tree! You have become great and powerful, like the tall tree that touched the sky. Your power reaches to the far parts of the earth.

Daniel 4:27

So, O king, please accept my advice. Stop sinning and do what is right. Stop doing wicked things and be kind to the poor. Then you might continue to be successful.”

Daniel 4:30

he said, “I have built this great Babylon as my royal home. I built it by my power to show my glory and my majesty.”

Daniel 4:4

I, Nebuchadnezzar, was happy and successful at my palace,

Daniel 5:23

Instead, you have set yourself against the Lord of heaven. You ordered the drinking cups from the Temple of the Lord to be brought to you. Then you and your royal guests, your wives, and your slave women drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone that are not really gods; they cannot see or hear or understand anything. You did not honor God, who has power over your life and everything you do.

Daniel 5:30

That very same night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonian people, was killed.

Nahum 1:10

Those people will be like tangled thorns or like people drunk from their wine; they will be burned up quickly like dry weeds.

Nahum 3:4

The city was like a prostitute; she was charming and a lover of magic. She made nations slaves with her prostitution and her witchcraft.

Habakkuk 1:7

They scare and frighten people. They do what they want to do and are good only to themselves.

Zephaniah 2:15

This is the happy and safe city that thinks there is no one else as strong as it is. But what a ruin it will be, a place where wild animals live. All those who pass by will make fun and shake their fists.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He will be against and put himself above any so-called god or anything that people worship. And that Man of Evil will even go into God’s Temple and sit there and say that he is God.

Judges 18:27

Then the Danites took what Micah had made and his priest and went on to Laish. They attacked those peaceful people and killed them with their swords and then burned the city.

Judges 18:7

So the five men left. When they came to the city of Laish, they saw that the people there lived in safety, like the people of Sidon. They thought they were safe and had plenty of everything. They lived a long way from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone else.