Isaiah 14:17

New English Translation

Is this the one who made the world like a desert, who ruined its cities, and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?”’

Cross References

Isaiah 14:16

Those who see you stare at you, they look at you carefully, thinking: “Is this the man who shook the earth, the one who made kingdoms tremble?

Isaiah 14:18

As for all the kings of the nations, all of them lie down in splendor, each in his own tomb.

Isaiah 45:13

It is me – I stir him up and commission him; I will make all his ways level. He will rebuild my city; he will send my exiled people home, but not for a price or a bribe,” says the Lord who commands armies.

Isaiah 58:6

No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.

Isaiah 64:10

Your chosen cities have become a desert; Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.

Jeremiah 50:33

The Lord who rules over all says, “The people of Israel are oppressed. So too are the people of Judah. All those who took them captive are holding them prisoners. They refuse to set them free.

Ezekiel 32:23

Their graves are located in the remote slopes of the pit. Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 6:14

I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”

Joel 2:3

Like fire they devour everything in their path; a flame blazes behind them. The land looks like the Garden of Eden before them, but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness – for nothing escapes them!

Habakkuk 1:7

They are frightening and terrifying; they decide for themselves what is right.