Isaiah 24:1

New Living Translation

Look! The Lord is about to destroy the earth and make it a vast wasteland. He devastates the surface of the earth and scatters the people.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:13

I will judge Jerusalem by the same standard I used for Samaria and the same measure I used for the family of Ahab. I will wipe away the people of Jerusalem as one wipes a dish and turns it upside down.

Nehemiah 1:8

“Please remember what you told your servant Moses: ‘If you are unfaithful to me, I will scatter you among the nations.

Psalm 146:9

The Lord protects the foreigners among us. He cares for the orphans and widows, but he frustrates the plans of the wicked.

Isaiah 13:13

For I will shake the heavens. The earth will move from its place when the Lord of Heaven’s Armies displays his wrath in the day of his fierce anger.”

Isaiah 13:5

They come from distant countries, from beyond the farthest horizons. They are the Lord’s weapons to carry out his anger. With them he will destroy the whole land.

Isaiah 2:19

When the Lord rises to shake the earth, his enemies will crawl into holes in the ground. They will hide in caves in the rocks from the terror of the Lord and the glory of his majesty.

Isaiah 24:19

The earth has broken up. It has utterly collapsed; it is violently shaken.

Isaiah 24:20

The earth staggers like a drunk. It trembles like a tent in a storm. It falls and will not rise again, for the guilt of its rebellion is very heavy.

Isaiah 27:10

The fortified towns will be silent and empty, the houses abandoned, the streets overgrown with weeds. Calves will graze there, chewing on twigs and branches.

Isaiah 29:16

How foolish can you be? He is the Potter, and he is certainly greater than you, the clay! Should the created thing say of the one who made it, “He didn’t make me”? Does a jar ever say, “The potter who made me is stupid”?

Isaiah 29:2

Yet I will bring disaster upon you, and there will be much weeping and sorrow. For Jerusalem will become what her name Ariel means— an altar covered with blood.

Isaiah 30:32

And as the Lord strikes them with his rod of punishment, his people will celebrate with tambourines and harps. Lifting his mighty arm, he will fight the Assyrians.

Isaiah 32:12

Beat your breasts in sorrow for your bountiful farms and your fruitful grapevines.

Isaiah 33:9

The land of Israel wilts in mourning. Lebanon withers with shame. The plain of Sharon is now a wilderness. Bashan and Carmel have been plundered.

Isaiah 34:10

This judgment on Edom will never end; the smoke of its burning will rise forever. The land will lie deserted from generation to generation. No one will live there anymore.

Isaiah 34:2

For the Lord is enraged against the nations. His fury is against all their armies. He will completely destroy them, dooming them to slaughter.

Isaiah 42:15

I will level the mountains and hills and blight all their greenery. I will turn the rivers into dry land and will dry up all the pools.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wild place where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed, a place overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.

Jeremiah 4:7

A lion stalks from its den, a destroyer of nations. It has left its lair and is headed your way. It’s going to devastate your land! Your towns will lie in ruins, with no one living in them anymore.

Jeremiah 40:15

Later Johanan had a private conference with Gedaliah and volunteered to kill Ishmael secretly. “Why should we let him come and murder you?” Johanan asked. “What will happen then to the Judeans who have returned? Why should the few of us who are still left be scattered and lost?”

Jeremiah 50:17

“The Israelites are like sheep that have been scattered by lions. First the king of Assyria ate them up. Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon cracked their bones.”

Jeremiah 51:34

“King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has eaten and crushed us and drained us of strength. He has swallowed us like a great monster and filled his belly with our riches. He has thrown us out of our own country.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them around the world, in places they and their ancestors never heard of, and even there I will chase them with the sword until I have destroyed them completely.”

Ezekiel 12:20

The cities will be destroyed and the farmland made desolate. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

Ezekiel 24:11

Now set the empty pot on the coals. Heat it red hot! Burn away the filth and corruption.

Ezekiel 35:14

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The whole world will rejoice when I make you desolate.

Ezekiel 5:14

“So I will turn you into a ruin, a mockery in the eyes of the surrounding nations and to all who pass by.

Ezekiel 5:2

Place a third of it at the center of your map of Jerusalem. After acting out the siege, burn it there. Scatter another third across your map and chop it with a sword. Scatter the last third to the wind, for I will scatter my people with the sword.

Ezekiel 6:14

I will crush them and make their cities desolate from the wilderness in the south to Riblah in the north. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 6:6

Wherever you live there will be desolation, and I will destroy your pagan shrines. Your altars will be demolished, your idols will be smashed, your places of worship will be torn down, and all the religious objects you have made will be destroyed.

Ezekiel 7:12

Yes, the time has come; the day is here! Buyers should not rejoice over bargains, nor sellers grieve over losses, for all of them will fall under my terrible anger.

Ezekiel 7:14

“The trumpet calls Israel’s army to mobilize, but no one listens, for my fury is against them all.

Nahum 1:5

In his presence the mountains quake, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles, and its people are destroyed.

Nahum 2:10

Soon the city is plundered, empty, and ruined. Hearts melt and knees shake. The people stand aghast, their faces pale and trembling.

Luke 21:24

They will be killed by the sword or sent away as captives to all the nations of the world. And Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the period of the Gentiles comes to an end.

Acts 17:6

Not finding them there, they dragged out Jason and some of the other believers instead and took them before the city council. “Paul and Silas have caused trouble all over the world,” they shouted, “and now they are here disturbing our city, too.

Deuteronomy 28:64

For the Lord will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship foreign gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods made of wood and stone!

Deuteronomy 32:26

I would have annihilated them, wiping out even the memory of them.

Deuteronomy 4:27

For the Lord will scatter you among the nations, where only a few of you will survive.

James 1:1

This letter is from James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am writing to the “twelve tribes”—Jewish believers scattered abroad. Greetings!