Deuteronomy 28:62

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude, you shall be left few in number; because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

Cross References

2 Kings 13:7

For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

2 Kings 24:14

He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, except the poorest people of the land.

Nehemiah 7:4

The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few and no houses had been built.

Nehemiah 9:23

Thou didst multiply their descendants as the stars of heaven, and thou didst bring them into the land which thou hadst told their fathers to enter and possess.

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah.

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.

Isaiah 6:11

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

Isaiah 6:13

And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains standing when it is felled.” The holy seed is its stump.

Jeremiah 42:2

and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let our supplication come before you, and pray to the Lord your God for us, for all this remnant (for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us),

Leviticus 26:22

And I will let loose the wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number, so that your ways shall become desolate.

Amos 5:3

For thus says the Lord God: “The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”

Mark 13:20

And if the Lord had not shortened the days, no human being would be saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.

Deuteronomy 1:10

the Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Deuteronomy 1:11

May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Deuteronomy 4:27

And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.