Isaiah 51:23

New International Reader's Version

Instead, I will give it to those who made you suffer. They said to you, ‘Fall down flat on the ground. Then we can walk all over you.’ And that is exactly what you did. You made your back like a street to be walked on.”

Cross References

Psalm 129:3

They have made deep wounds in my back. It looks like a field a farmer has plowed.

Psalm 66:12

You let our enemies ride their chariots over our heads. We went through fire and water. But you brought us to a place where we have everything we need.

Proverbs 11:8

Those who do right are saved from trouble. But trouble comes on those who do wrong.

Proverbs 21:18

Evil people become the payment for setting godly people free. Those who aren’t faithful are the payment for honest people.

Obadiah 1:16

You Edomites made my holy mountain of Zion impure by drinking and celebrating there. So all the nations will drink from the cup of my anger. And they will keep on drinking from it. They will vanish. It will be as if they had never existed.

Micah 7:10

Our enemies will see it too. And they will be put to shame. After all, they said to us, ‘Where is the Lord your God?’ But we will see them destroyed. Soon they will be stomped on like mud in the streets.”

Zechariah 12:2

“Jerusalem will be like a cup in my hand. It will make all the surrounding nations drunk from the wine of my anger. Judah will be attacked by its enemies. So will Jerusalem.

Joshua 10:24

The men brought them to Joshua. Then he sent for all the men of Israel. He spoke to the army commanders who had come with him. He said, “Come here. Put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So they came forward and placed their feet on the necks of the kings.

Revelation 11:2

But do not measure the outer courtyard. That’s because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will take over the holy city for 42 months.

Revelation 17:18

The woman you saw stands for the great city of Babylon. That city rules over the kings of the earth.”