Isaiah 7:20

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

On that day the Lord will shave with a razor hired beyond the River—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will take off the beard as well.

Cross References

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you seek further beatings? Why do you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Isaiah 10:15

Shall the ax vaunt itself over the one who wields it, or the saw magnify itself against the one who handles it? As if a rod should raise the one who lifts it up, or as if a staff should lift the one who is not wood!

Isaiah 11:15

And the Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the sea of Egypt; and will wave his hand over the River with his scorching wind; and will split it into seven channels, and make a way to cross on foot;

Isaiah 36:1

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, King Sennacherib of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

Isaiah 8:7

therefore, the Lord is bringing up against it the mighty flood waters of the River, the king of Assyria and all his glory; it will rise above all its channels and overflow all its banks;

Isaiah 9:13

The people did not turn to him who struck them, or seek the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 2:18

What then do you gain by going to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria, to drink the waters of the Euphrates?

Ezekiel 29:18

Mortal, King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare; yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had expended against it.

Ezekiel 29:20

I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he labored, because they worked for me, says the Lord God.