Isaiah 5:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

1 Kings 8:35

“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you and then they pray toward this place, confess your name, and turn from their sin because you punish them,

Job 31:40

let thorns grow instead of wheat and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.

Proverbs 24:31

and see, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

Isaiah 24:12

Desolation is left in the city; the gates are battered into ruins.

Isaiah 30:23

He will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plenteous. On that day your cattle will graze in broad pastures,

Isaiah 32:10

In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent ones, for the vintage will fail; the fruit harvest will not come.

Isaiah 49:19

For your wastelands, your desolate places, and your devastated land— now you will be too crowded for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

Isaiah 55:13

Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle, and it shall be to the Lord for a memorial, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 7:19

And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the clefts of the rocks and on all the thornbushes and on all the watering holes.

Jeremiah 14:1

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

Jeremiah 14:22

Can any idols of the nations bring rain, or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for it is you who do all this.

Jeremiah 25:11

This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jeremiah 45:4

Thus you shall say to him, “Thus says the Lord: I am going to break down what I have built and pluck up what I have planted—that is, the whole land.

Lamentations 2:6

He has broken down his booth like a garden; he has destroyed his tabernacle; the Lord has abolished in Zion festival and Sabbath and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites shall remain many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or teraphim.

Hosea 9:6

For even if they escape destruction, Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.

Joel 1:7

It has laid waste my vines and splintered my fig trees; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches have turned white.

Amos 4:7

And I also withheld the rain from you when there were still three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city and send no rain on another city; one field would be rained upon, and the field on which it did not rain withered;

Luke 21:24

they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captives among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the times of the nations are fulfilled.

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—

Revelation 11:6

They have authority to shut the sky, so that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.