Isaiah 24:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The earth shall be utterly laid waste and utterly despoiled, for the Lord has spoken this word.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:21

to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had made up for its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

Isaiah 21:17

and the remaining bows of Kedar’s warriors will be few, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has spoken.”

Isaiah 22:25

On that day, says the Lord of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way; it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will perish, for the Lord has spoken.”

Isaiah 24:1

Now the Lord is about to lay waste the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.

Isaiah 24:2

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the male slave, so with his master; as with the female slave, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

Isaiah 24:4

The earth dries up and withers; the world languishes and withers; the heavens languish together with the earth.

Isaiah 42:22

But this is a people robbed and plundered; all of them are trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become a prey with no one to rescue, a spoil with no one to say, “Restore!”

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Isaiah 6:11

Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said, “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is utterly desolate;

Jeremiah 13:15

Hear and give ear; do not be haughty, for the Lord has spoken.

Ezekiel 36:4

therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted towns, which have become a source of plunder and an object of derision to the rest of the nations all around;

Micah 2:4

On that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and wail with bitter lamentation and say, “We are utterly ruined; the Lord alters the inheritance of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he parcels out our fields.”

Micah 4:4

but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

Deuteronomy 29:23

all its soil burned out by sulfur and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, unable to support any vegetation, like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his fierce anger—

Deuteronomy 29:28

The Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, fury, and great wrath and cast them into another land, as is now the case.’