Isaiah 65:12

New International Reader's Version

So I will make it your fate to be killed by swords. All of you will die in the battle. That’s because I called out to you, but you did not answer me. I spoke to you, but you did not listen. You did what is evil in my sight. You chose to do what does not please me.”

Cross References

Isaiah 1:16

So wash and make yourselves clean. Get your evil actions out of my sight! Stop doing what is wrong!

Isaiah 1:20

But if you are not willing to obey me, you will be killed by swords.” The Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 10:4

All you can do is bow down in fear among the prisoners. All you can do is fall among those who have died in battle. Even then, the Lord is still angry. His hand is still raised against them.

Isaiah 27:1

At that time the Lord will punish Leviathan with his sword. His great, powerful and deadly sword will punish the serpent that glides through the sea. He will kill that twisting sea monster.

Isaiah 3:25

Jerusalem, your men will be killed by swords. Your soldiers will die in battle.

Isaiah 34:2

The Lord is angry with all the nations. His anger is against all their armies. He will totally destroy them. He will have them killed.

Isaiah 34:5

The sword of the Lord will finish its deadly work in the sky. Then it will come down to strike Edom. He will totally destroy that nation.

Isaiah 34:6

His sword will be red with blood. It will be covered with fat. The blood will flow like the blood of lambs and goats being sacrificed. The fat will be like the fat taken from the kidneys of rams. That’s because the Lord will offer a sacrifice in the city of Bozrah. He will kill many people in the land of Edom.

Isaiah 41:28

I look, but there is no one among the gods that can give me advice. None of them can answer when I ask them the simplest question.

Isaiah 50:2

When I came to save you, why didn’t anyone welcome me? When I called out to you, why didn’t anyone answer me? Wasn’t I powerful enough to set you free? Wasn’t I strong enough to save you? I dry up the sea with a single command. I turn rivers into a desert. Then fish rot because they do not have any water. They die because they are thirsty.

Isaiah 59:15

In fact, truth can’t be found anywhere. Those who refuse to do evil are attacked. The Lord sees that people aren’t treating others fairly. That makes him unhappy.

Isaiah 63:6

I walked all over the nations because I was angry with them. I made them drink from the cup of my great anger. I poured out their blood on the ground.”

Isaiah 65:3

They are always making me very angry. They do it right in front of me. They offer sacrifices in the gardens of other gods. They burn incense on altars that are made out of bricks.

Isaiah 66:16

The Lord will judge with fire and with his sword. He will judge all people. He will put many people to death.

Jeremiah 16:17

My eyes see everything these people do. What they do is not hidden from me. I always see their sin.

Jeremiah 18:21

So let their children die of hunger. Let my enemies be killed in war. Let their wives lose their children and husbands. Let their men be put to death. Let their young men be killed in battle.

Jeremiah 34:17

So the Lord says, “You have not obeyed me. You have not set your Hebrew slaves free. So now I will set you free,” announces the Lord. “I will set you free to be destroyed by war, plague and hunger. I will make all the kingdoms on earth displeased with you.

Jeremiah 35:17

So the Lord God who rules over all speaks. The God of Israel says, “Listen! I am going to bring horrible trouble on Judah. I will also bring it on everyone who lives in Jerusalem. I will bring on them every trouble I said I would. I spoke to them. But they did not listen. I called out to them. But they did not answer.”

Jeremiah 7:13

I spoke to you again and again,” announces the Lord. “I warned you while you were doing all these things. But you did not listen. I called out to you. But you did not answer.

Jeremiah 7:27

“Jeremiah, when you tell them all this, they will not listen to you. When you call out to them, they will not answer.

Leviticus 26:25

I will send war against you to punish you for breaking my covenant. When you go back into your cities, I will send a plague among you. You will be handed over to your enemies.

Micah 5:15

I will pay back the nations that have not obeyed me. I will direct my anger against them.”

Zechariah 7:7

Didn’t I tell you the same thing through the earlier prophets? That was when Jerusalem and the towns around it were at rest and enjoyed success. People lived in the Negev Desert and the western hills at that time.’ ”

Matthew 22:3

He sent his slaves to those who had been invited to the dinner. The slaves told them to come. But they refused.

Matthew 22:7

The king became very angry. He sent his army to destroy them. They killed those murderers and burned their city.

John 1:11

He came to what was his own. But his own people did not accept him.

Deuteronomy 32:25

In the streets their children will be killed by swords. Their homes will be filled with terror. The young men and women will die. The babies and old people will die.