Isaiah 21:2

New International Version

A dire vision has been shown to me: The traitor betrays, the looter takes loot. Elam, attack! Media, lay siege! I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.

Cross References

Jeremiah 49:34

This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, early in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah:

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to you, destroyer, you who have not been destroyed! Woe to you, betrayer, you who have not been betrayed! When you stop destroying, you will be destroyed; when you stop betraying, you will be betrayed.

Isaiah 24:16

From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I waste away, I waste away! Woe to me! The treacherous betray! With treachery the treacherous betray!”

Psalm 60:3

You have shown your people desperate times; you have given us wine that makes us stagger.

Revelation 13:10

“If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity they will go. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword they will be killed.” This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of God’s people.

Daniel 5:28

Peres : Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Daniel 8:20

The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia.

Lamentations 1:22

“Let all their wickedness come before you; deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my sins. My groans are many and my heart is faint.”

Jeremiah 51:53

Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, I will send destroyers against her,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:44

I will punish Bel in Babylon and make him spew out what he has swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him. And the wall of Babylon will fall.

Jeremiah 51:11

“Sharpen the arrows, take up the shields! The Lord has stirred up the kings of the Medes, because his purpose is to destroy Babylon. The Lord will take vengeance, vengeance for his temple.

Jeremiah 50:34

Yet their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name. He will vigorously defend their cause so that he may bring rest to their land, but unrest to those who live in Babylon.

Jeremiah 50:14

“Take up your positions around Babylon, all you who draw the bow. Shoot at her! Spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 45:3

You said, ‘Woe to me! The Lord has added sorrow to my pain; I am worn out with groaning and find no rest.’

Jeremiah 31:25

I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.”

Jeremiah 31:20

Is not Ephraim my dear son, the child in whom I delight? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the Lord.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people and desecrated my inheritance; I gave them into your hand, and you showed them no mercy. Even on the aged you laid a very heavy yoke.

Isaiah 35:10

and those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.

Isaiah 22:6

Elam takes up the quiver, with her charioteers and horses; Kir uncovers the shield.

Proverbs 13:15

Good judgment wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful leads to their destruction.

Psalm 79:11

May the groans of the prisoners come before you; with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die.

Psalm 12:5

“Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord. “I will protect them from those who malign them.”

1 Samuel 24:13

As the old saying goes, ‘From evildoers come evil deeds,’ so my hand will not touch you.

2 Kings 17:6

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in the towns of the Medes.

Psalm 25:3

No one who hopes in you will ever be put to shame, but shame will come on those who are treacherous without cause.

Psalm 119:158

I look on the faithless with loathing, for they do not obey your word.

Daniel 5:9

So King Belshazzar became even more terrified and his face grew more pale. His nobles were baffled.

Genesis 10:22

The sons of Shem: Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.

Isaiah 11:11

In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim the surviving remnant of his people from Assyria, from Lower Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from Hamath and from the islands of the Mediterranean.

Isaiah 14:4

you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury has ended!

Isaiah 14:7

All the lands are at rest and at peace; they break into singing.

Jeremiah 25:25

all the kings of Zimri, Elam and Media;

Jeremiah 49:35

This is what the Lord Almighty says: “See, I will break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might.

Daniel 8:2

In my vision I saw myself in the citadel of Susa in the province of Elam; in the vision I was beside the Ulai Canal.