Isaiah 65:12

New English Translation

I predestine you to die by the sword, all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block, because I called to you, and you did not respond, I spoke and you did not listen. You did evil before me; you chose to do what displeases me.”

Cross References

Isaiah 1:16

Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning!

Isaiah 1:20

But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” Know for certain that the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 10:4

You will have no place to go, except to kneel with the prisoners, or to fall among those who have been killed. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

Isaiah 27:1

At that time the Lord will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.

Isaiah 3:25

Your men will fall by the sword, your strong men will die in battle.

Isaiah 34:2

For the Lord is angry at all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will annihilate them and slaughter them.

Isaiah 34:5

He says, “Indeed, my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers. Look, it now descends on Edom, on the people I will annihilate in judgment.”

Isaiah 34:6

The Lord’s sword is dripping with blood, it is covered with fat; it drips with the blood of young rams and goats and is covered with the fat of rams’ kidneys. For the Lord is holding a sacrifice in Bozrah, a bloody slaughter in the land of Edom.

Isaiah 41:28

I look, but there is no one, among them there is no one who serves as an adviser, that I might ask questions and receive answers.

Isaiah 50:2

Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? Is my hand too weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water.

Isaiah 59:15

Honesty has disappeared; the one who tries to avoid evil is robbed. The Lord watches and is displeased, for there is no justice.

Isaiah 63:6

I trampled nations in my anger, I made them drunk in my rage, I splashed their blood on the ground.”

Isaiah 65:3

These people continually and blatantly offend me as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards and burn incense on brick altars.

Isaiah 66:16

For the Lord judges all humanity with fire and his sword; the Lord will kill many.

Jeremiah 16:17

For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it.

Jeremiah 18:21

So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.

Jeremiah 34:17

So I, the Lord, say: “You have not really obeyed me and granted freedom to your neighbor and fellow countryman. Therefore, I will grant you freedom, the freedom to die in war, or by starvation or disease. I, the Lord, affirm it! I will make all the kingdoms of the earth horrified at what happens to you.

Jeremiah 35:17

So I, the Lord, the God who rules over all, the God of Israel, say: “I will soon bring on Judah and all the citizens of Jerusalem all the disaster that I threatened to bring on them. I will do this because I spoke to them but they did not listen. I called out to them but they did not answer.”’”

Jeremiah 7:13

You also have done all these things, says the Lord, and I have spoken to you over and over again. But you have not listened! You have refused to respond when I called you to repent!

Jeremiah 7:27

Then the Lord said to me, “When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you. When you call out to them, they will not respond to you.

Leviticus 26:25

I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. Although you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands.

Micah 5:15

I will angrily seek vengeance on the nations that do not obey me.”

Zechariah 7:7

Should you not have obeyed the words that the Lord cried out through the former prophets when Jerusalem was peacefully inhabited and her surrounding cities, the Negev, and the Shephelah were also populated?

Matthew 22:3

He sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, but they would not come.

Matthew 22:7

The king was furious! He sent his soldiers, and they put those murderers to death and set their city on fire.

John 1:11

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

Deuteronomy 32:25

The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.