Isaiah 24:6

New Living Translation

Therefore, a curse consumes the earth. Its people must pay the price for their sin. They are destroyed by fire, and only a few are left alive.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:12

Then King Jehoiachin, along with the queen mother, his advisers, his commanders, and his officials, surrendered to the Babylonians. In the eighth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.

2 Kings 25:12

But the captain of the guard allowed some of the poorest people to stay behind to care for the vineyards and fields.

Isaiah 1:31

The strongest among you will disappear like straw; their evil deeds will be the spark that sets it on fire. They and their evil works will burn up together, and no one will be able to put out the fire.

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord of Heaven’s Armies had not spared a few of us, we would have been wiped out like Sodom, destroyed like Gomorrah.

Isaiah 34:5

And when my sword has finished its work in the heavens, it will fall upon Edom, the nation I have marked for destruction.

Isaiah 43:28

That is why I have disgraced your priests; I have decreed complete destruction for Jacob and shame for Israel.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, just as fire licks up stubble and dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will rot and their flowers wither. For they have rejected the law of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies; they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 9:19

The land will be blackened by the fury of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. The people will be fuel for the fire, and no one will spare even his own brother.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long must this land mourn? Even the grass in the fields has withered. The wild animals and birds have disappeared because of the evil in the land. For the people have said, “The Lord doesn’t see what’s ahead for us!”

Jeremiah 5:14

Therefore, this is what the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies says: “Because the people are talking like this, my messages will flame out of your mouth and burn the people like kindling wood.

Ezekiel 5:3

Keep just a bit of the hair and tie it up in your robe.

Leviticus 26:22

I will send wild animals that will rob you of your children and destroy your livestock. Your numbers will dwindle, and your roads will be deserted.

Malachi 2:2

Listen to me and make up your minds to honor my name,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “or I will bring a terrible curse against you. I will curse even the blessings you receive. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you have not taken my warning to heart.

Malachi 3:9

You are under a curse, for your whole nation has been cheating me.

Malachi 4:1

The Lord of Heaven’s Armies says, “The day of judgment is coming, burning like a furnace. On that day the arrogant and the wicked will be burned up like straw. They will be consumed—roots, branches, and all.

Malachi 4:6

His preaching will turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise I will come and strike the land with a curse.”

Matthew 27:25

And all the people yelled back, “We will take responsibility for his death—we and our children!”

Matthew 7:14

But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.

Romans 9:27

And concerning Israel, Isaiah the prophet cried out, “Though the people of Israel are as numerous as the sand of the seashore, only a remnant will be saved.

Deuteronomy 28:62

Though you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, few of you will be left because you would not listen to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 4:27

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

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment.