Isaiah 8:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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;

Cross References

Genesis 6:17

For my part, I am going to bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.

2 Kings 19:32

“Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, shoot an arrow there, come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege ramp against it.

Ezra 4:10

and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River wrote—and now

Psalm 46:4

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.

Psalm 72:8

May he have dominion from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 10:16

Therefore the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts, will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

Isaiah 10:5

Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger— the club in their hands is my fury!

Isaiah 11:15

And the Lord will dry up 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 28:15

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;

Isaiah 28:17

And I will make justice the line and righteousness the plummet; hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter.

Isaiah 28:2

See, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong, like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters; with force he will hurl them down to the earth.

Isaiah 43:2

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

Isaiah 59:19

So those in the west shall fear the name of the Lord, and those in the east, his glory, for he will come like a pent-up stream that the wind of the Lord drives on.

Isaiah 7:17

The Lord will bring on you and on your people and on your ancestral house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria.”

Isaiah 7:20

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.

Jeremiah 47:2

Thus says the Lord: See, waters are rising out of the north and shall become an overflowing torrent; they shall overflow the land and all that fills it, the city and those who live in it. People shall cry out, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.

Jeremiah 51:42

The sea has risen over Babylon; she has been covered by its tumultuous waves.

Ezekiel 26:19

For thus says the Lord God: When I make you a city laid waste, like cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,

Daniel 11:10

“His sons shall wage war and assemble a multitude of great forces that shall advance like a flood and pass through and again shall carry the war as far as his fortress.

Daniel 11:22

Armies shall be utterly swept away and broken before him, and the prince of the covenant as well.

Daniel 9:26

After the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing, and the troops of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.

Amos 8:8

Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who lives in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?

Amos 9:5

The Lord, God of hosts, he who touches the earth and it melts, and all who live in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt,

Micah 1:9

For her wound is incurable. It has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

Micah 5:4

And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God. And they shall live secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth,

Micah 5:5

and he shall be the one of peace. If the Assyrians come into our land and tread upon our soil, we will raise against them seven shepherds and eight rulers.

Nahum 1:8

even in a rushing flood. He will make a full end of his adversaries and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

Luke 6:48

That one is like a man building a house who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when a flood arose, the river burst against that house but could not shake it because it had been well built.

Revelation 17:15

And he said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the whore is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.