Isaiah 8:21

New English Translation

They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

2 Kings 6:33

He was still talking to them when the messenger approached and said, “Look, the Lord is responsible for this disaster! Why should I continue to wait for the Lord to help?”

Job 1:11

But extend your hand and strike everything he has, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”

Job 18:12

Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

Job 2:5

But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”

Job 2:9

Then his wife said to him, “Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!”

Exodus 22:28

“You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

Proverbs 19:3

A person’s folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the Lord.

Isaiah 14:30

The poor will graze in my pastures; the needy will rest securely. But I will kill your root by famine; it will put to death all your survivors.

Isaiah 51:19

These double disasters confronted you. But who feels sorry for you? Destruction and devastation, famine and sword. But who consoles you?

Isaiah 59:9

For this reason deliverance is far from us and salvation does not reach us. We wait for light, but see only darkness; we wait for a bright light, but live in deep darkness.

Isaiah 65:13

So this is what the sovereign Lord says: “Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry! Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty! Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!

Isaiah 9:20

They devoured on the right, but were still hungry, they ate on the left, but were not satisfied. People even ate the flesh of their own arm!

Isaiah 9:21

Manasseh fought against Ephraim, and Ephraim against Manasseh; together they fought against Judah. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out into the countryside, I see those who have been killed in battle. If I go into the city, I see those who are sick because of starvation. For both prophet and priest go about their own business in the land without having any real understanding.’”

Jeremiah 52:6

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

Leviticus 24:11

The Israelite woman’s son misused the Name and cursed, so they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

1 Samuel 8:18

In that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord won’t answer you in that day.”