Isaiah 5:13

New Century Version

So my people will be captured and taken away, because they don’t really know me. All the great people will die of hunger, and the common people will die of thirst.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:6

He defeated Samaria in the ninth year Hoshea was king, and he took the Israelites away to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

Proverbs 10:21

Good people’s words will help many others, but fools will die because they don’t have wisdom.

Isaiah 1:3

An ox knows its master, and a donkey knows where its owner feeds it, but the people of Israel do not know me; my people do not understand.”

Isaiah 1:7

Your land is ruined; your cities have been burned with fire. While you watch, your enemies are stealing everything from your land; it is ruined like a country destroyed by enemies.

Isaiah 23:9

It was the Lord All-Powerful who planned this. He decided to make these proud people unimportant; he decided to disgrace those who were greatly respected.

Isaiah 27:11

The limbs will become dry and break off, so women will use them for firewood. The people refuse to understand, so God will not comfort them; their Maker will not be kind to them.

Isaiah 3:1

Understand this: The Lord God All-Powerful will take away everything Judah and Jerusalem need— all the food and water,

Isaiah 3:3

the military leaders and government leaders, the counselors, the skilled craftsmen, and those who try to tell the future.

Isaiah 44:19

They have not thought about these things; they don’t understand. They have never thought to themselves, “I burned half of the wood in the fire and used the hot coals to bake my bread. I cooked and ate my meat. And I used the wood that was left to make this hateful thing. I am worshiping a block of wood!”

Isaiah 49:21

Then you will say to yourself, ‘Who gave me all these children? I was sad and lonely, defeated and separated from my people. So who reared these children? I was left all alone. Where did all these children come from?’ ”

Isaiah 65:13

So this is what the Lord God says: “My servants will eat, but you evil people will be hungry. My servants will drink, but you evil people will be thirsty. My servants will be happy, but you evil people will be shamed.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go into the country, I see people killed by swords. If I go into the city, I see much sickness, because the people have no food. Both the priests and the prophets have been taken to a foreign land.’ ”

Jeremiah 14:3

The important men send their servants to get water. They go to the wells, but they find no water. So they return with empty jars. They are ashamed and embarrassed and cover their heads in shame.

Jeremiah 8:7

Even the birds in the sky know the right times to do things. The storks, doves, swifts, and thrushes know when it is time to migrate. But my people don’t know what the Lord wants them to do.

Lamentations 4:9

Those who were killed in the war were better off than those killed by hunger. They starve in pain and die, because there is no food from the field.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time has come; the day has arrived. Don’t let the buyer be happy or the seller be sad, because my burning anger is against the whole crowd.

Hosea 4:6

My people will be destroyed, because they have no knowledge. You have refused to learn, so I will refuse to let you be priests to me. You have forgotten the teachings of your God, so I will forget your children.

Amos 8:13

At that time the beautiful young women and the young men will become weak from thirst.

Luke 19:44

They will destroy you and all your people, and not one stone will be left on another. All this will happen because you did not recognize the time when God came to save you.”

Romans 1:28

People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed them to have their own worthless thinking and to do things they should not do.

2 Peter 3:5

But they do not want to remember what happened long ago. By the word of God heaven was made, and the earth was made from water and with water.