Isaiah 9:17

New Century Version

So the Lord is not happy with the young people, nor will he show mercy to the orphans and widows. All the people are separated from God and are very evil; they all speak lies. But the Lord is still angry; his hand is still raised to strike down the people.

Cross References

Job 15:34

People without God can produce nothing. Fire will destroy the tents of those who take money to do evil,

Psalm 109:12

Let no one show him love or have mercy on his orphaned children.

Psalm 147:10

He is not impressed with the strength of a horse or with human might.

Isaiah 1:4

How terrible! Israel is a nation of sin, a people loaded down with guilt, a group of children doing evil, children who are full of evil. They have left the Lord; they hate God, the Holy One of Israel, and have turned away from him as if he were a stranger.

Isaiah 10:2

They are not fair to the poor, and they rob my people of their rights. They allow people to steal from widows and to take from orphans what really belongs to them.

Isaiah 10:4

You will have to bow down among the captives or fall down among the dead bodies. But the Lord is still angry; his hand is still raised to strike down the people.

Isaiah 10:6

I send it to fight against a nation that is separated from God. I am angry with those people, so I command Assyria to fight against them, to take their wealth from them, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.

Isaiah 13:18

Their soldiers will shoot the young men with arrows; they will show no mercy on children, nor will they feel sorry for little ones.

Isaiah 14:20

You will not be buried with those bodies, because you ruined your own country and killed your own people. The children of evil people will never be mentioned again.

Isaiah 24:5

The people of the earth have ruined it, because they do not follow God’s teachings or obey God’s laws or keep their agreement with God that was to last forever.

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 3:8

This will happen because Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen. The things they say and do are against the Lord; they turn against him.

Isaiah 31:2

But he is wise and can bring them disaster. He does not change his warnings. He will rise up and fight against the evil people and against those who try to help evil people.

Isaiah 31:3

The Egyptians are only people and are not God. Their horses are only animals and are not spirit. The Lord will stretch out his arm, and the one who helps will stumble, and the people who wanted help will fall. All of them will be destroyed together.

Isaiah 33:11

You people do useless things that are like hay and straw. A destructive wind will burn you like fire.

Isaiah 33:12

People will be burned until their bones become like lime; they will burn quickly like dry thornbushes.”

Isaiah 40:30

Even children become tired and need to rest, and young people trip and fall.

Isaiah 5:24

They will be destroyed just as fire burns straw or dry grass. They will be destroyed like a plant whose roots rot and whose flower dies and blows away like dust. They have refused to obey the teachings of the Lord All-Powerful and have hated the message from the Holy God of Israel.

Isaiah 5:25

So the Lord has become very angry with his people, and he has raised his hand to punish them. Even the mountains are frightened. Dead bodies lie in the streets like garbage. But the Lord is still angry; his hand is still raised to strike down the people.

Isaiah 62:5

As a young man marries a woman, so your children will marry your land. As a man rejoices over his new wife, so your God will rejoice over you.

Isaiah 65:19

Then I will rejoice over Jerusalem and be delighted with my people. There will never again be heard in that city the sounds of crying and sadness.

Isaiah 9:12

The Arameans came from the east and the Philistines from the west, and they ate up Israel with their armies. But the Lord was still angry; his hand was still raised to punish the people.

Isaiah 9:21

The people of Manasseh will fight against the people of Ephraim, and Ephraim will fight against Manasseh. Then both of them will turn against Judah. But the Lord is still angry; his hand is still raised to strike down the people.

Jeremiah 18:21

So now, let their children starve, and let their enemies kill them with swords. Let their wives lose their children and husbands. Let the men from Judah be put to death and the young men be killed with swords in battle.

Jeremiah 5:1

The Lord says, “Walk up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look around and discover these things. Search the public squares of the city. If you can find one person who does honest things, who searches for the truth, I will forgive this city.

Ezekiel 20:33

As surely as I live, says the Lord God, I will use my great power and strength and anger to rule over you.

Amos 4:10

“I sent disasters against you, as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with swords, and your horses were taken from you. I made you smell the stink from all the dead bodies, but still you did not come back to me,” says the Lord.

Amos 8:13

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

Micah 7:2

All of the faithful people are gone; there is not one good person left in this country. Everyone is waiting to kill someone; everyone is trying to trap someone else.

Zechariah 9:17

They will be so pretty and beautiful. The young men will grow strong on the grain and the young women on new wine.

Matthew 12:34

You snakes! You are evil people, so how can you say anything good? The mouth speaks the things that are in the heart.

Matthew 16:3

And in the morning you say that it will be a rainy day, because the sky is dark and red. You see these signs in the sky and know what they mean. In the same way, you see the things that I am doing now, but you don’t know their meaning.