Isaiah 24:17

New International Reader's Version

Listen, you people of the earth. Terror, a pit and a trap are waiting for you.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:17

Jehu will put to death anyone who escapes Hazael’s sword. And Elisha will put to death anyone who escapes Jehu’s sword.

Job 18:8

Their feet take them into a net. They wander right into it.

Isaiah 8:14

Then the Lord will be a holy place of safety for you. But that’s not true for many people in Israel and Judah. He will be a stone that causes them to trip. He will be a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare.

Jeremiah 11:11

So I say, ‘I will bring trouble on them. They will not be able to escape it. They will cry out to me. But I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 8:3

Everyone left alive in this evil nation will want to die rather than live. That is what they will long for in the lands where I force them to go.” The Lord who rules over all announces this.

Lamentations 2:22

“You sent for terrors to come against me on every side. It was as if you were inviting people to enjoy a feast day. Because you were angry, no one escaped. No one was left alive. I took good care of my children and brought them up. But my enemies have destroyed them.”

Lamentations 3:47

We are terrified and trapped. We are broken and destroyed.”

Ezekiel 11:8

You are afraid of the swords of war. But I will bring them against you,’ announces the Lord and King.

Ezekiel 12:13

I will spread out my net to catch him. He will be caught in my trap. I will bring him to Babylon. It is the land where the Chaldeans live. But he will not see it. He will die there.

Ezekiel 14:21

The Lord and King says, “It will get much worse. I will punish Jerusalem in four horrible ways. There will be war, hunger, wild animals and plague. They will destroy the people and their animals.

Amos 5:19

It will be like a man running away from a lion only to meet a bear. He enters his house and rests his hand on a wall only to be bitten by a snake.