Bible Cross References
cruel
Isaiah 13:15-18
15
Anyone who is caught will be stabbed to death.
16
While they look on helplessly, their babies will be battered to death, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be raped."
17
The LORD says, "I am stirring up the Medes to attack Babylon. They care nothing for silver and are not tempted by gold.
18
With their bows and arrows they will kill the young men. They will show no mercy to babies and take no pity on children.
Isaiah 47:10-15
10
"You felt sure of yourself in your evil; you thought that no one could see you. Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray, and you said to yourself, 'I am God--- there is no one else like me.'
11
Disaster will come upon you, and none of your magic can stop it. Ruin will come on you suddenly--- ruin you never dreamed of !
12
Keep all your magic spells and charms; you have used them since you were young. Perhaps they will be of some help to you; perhaps you can frighten your enemies.
13
You are powerless in spite of the advice you get. Let your astrologers come forward and save you--- those people who study the stars, who map out the zones of the heavens and tell you from month to month what is going to happen to you.
14
"They will be like bits of straw, and a fire will burn them up! They will not even be able to save themselves--- the flames will be too hot for them, not a cozy fire to warm themselves by.
15
That is all the good they will do you--- those astrologers you've consulted all your life. They all will leave you and go their own way, and none will be left to save you."
Jeremiah 6:22
The LORD says, "People are coming from a country in the north; a mighty nation far away is preparing for war.
Jeremiah 6:23
They have taken up their bows and swords; they are cruel and merciless. They sound like the roaring sea, as they ride their horses. They are ready for battle against Jerusalem."
Jeremiah 50:40-42
40
The same thing will happen to Babylon that happened to Sodom and Gomorrah, when I destroyed them and the nearby towns. No one will ever live there again. I, the LORD, have spoken.
41
"People are coming from a country in the north, a mighty nation far away; many kings are preparing for war.
42
They have taken their bows and swords; they are cruel and merciless. They sound like the roaring sea, as they ride their horses. They are ready for battle against Babylonia.
Jeremiah 51:35-58
35
Let the people of Zion say, "May Babylonia be held responsible for the violence done to us!" Let the people of Jerusalem say, "May Babylonia be held responsible for what we have suffered!"
36
And so the LORD said to the people of Jerusalem, "I will take up your cause and will make your enemies pay for what they did to you. I will dry up the source of Babylonia's water and make its rivers go dry.
37
That country will become a pile of ruins where wild animals live. It will be a horrible sight; no one will live there, and all who see it will be terrified.
38
The Babylonians all roar like lions and growl like lion cubs.
39
Are they greedy? I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk and happy. They will go to sleep and never wake up.
40
I will take them to be slaughtered, like lambs, goats, and rams. I, the LORD, have spoken."
41
The LORD says about Babylon: "The city that the whole world praised has been captured! What a horrifying sight Babylon has become to the nations!
42
The sea has rolled over Babylon and covered it with roaring waves.
43
The towns have become a horrifying sight and are like a waterless desert, where no one lives or even travels.
44
I will punish Bel, the god of Babylonia, and make him give up his stolen goods; the nations will not worship him any more. "Babylon's walls have fallen.
45
People of Israel, run away from there! Run for your life from my fierce anger.
46
Do not lose courage or be afraid because of the rumors you hear. Every year a different rumor spreads---rumors of violence in the land and of one king fighting another.
47
And so the time is coming when I will deal with Babylonia's idols. The whole country will be put to shame, and all its people will be killed.
48
Everything on earth and in the sky will shout for joy when Babylonia falls to the people who come from the north to destroy it.
49
Babylonia caused the death of people all over the world, and now Babylonia will fall because it caused the death of so many Israelites. I, the LORD, have spoken."
50
The LORD says to his people in Babylonia: "You have escaped death! Now go! Don't wait! Though you are far from home, think about me, your LORD, and remember Jerusalem.
51
You say, 'We've been disgraced and made ashamed; we feel completely helpless because foreigners have taken over the holy places in the Temple.'
52
So then, I say that the time is coming when I will deal with Babylon's idols, and the wounded will groan throughout the country.
53
Even if Babylon could climb to the sky and build a strong fortress there, I would still send people to destroy it. I, the LORD, have spoken."
54
The LORD says, "Listen to the sound of crying in Babylon, of mourning for the destruction in the land.
55
I am destroying Babylon and putting it to silence. The armies rush in like roaring waves and attack with noisy shouts.
56
They have come to destroy Babylon; its soldiers are captured, and their bows are broken. I am a God who punishes evil, and I will treat Babylon as it deserves.
57
I will make its rulers drunk--- men of wisdom, leaders, and soldiers. They will go to sleep and never wake up. I, the king, have spoken; I am the LORD Almighty.
58
The walls of mighty Babylon will be thrown to the ground, and its towering gates burned down. The work of the nations is all for nothing; their efforts go up in flames. I, the LORD Almighty, have spoken."
Nahum 1:2
The LORD God tolerates no rivals; he punishes those who oppose him. In his anger he pays them back.
Nahum 1:6
When he is angry, who can survive? Who can survive his terrible fury? He pours out his flaming anger; rocks crumble to dust before him.
Malachi 4:1
The LORD Almighty says, "The day is coming when all proud and evil people will burn like straw. On that day they will burn up, and there will be nothing left of them.
Revelation 17:16
The ten horns you saw and the beast will hate the prostitute; they will take away everything she has and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and destroy her with fire.
Revelation 17:17
For God has placed in their hearts the will to carry out his purpose by acting together and giving to the beast their power to rule until God's words come true.
Revelation 18:8
Because of this, in one day she will be struck with plagues--- disease, grief, and famine. And she will be burned with fire, because the Lord God, who judges her, is mighty."
Revelation 19:17-21
17
Then I saw an angel standing on the sun. He shouted in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair: "Come and gather together for God's great feast!
18
Come and eat the flesh of kings, generals, and soldiers, the flesh of horses and their riders, the flesh of all people, slave and free, great and small!"
19
Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered to fight against the one who was riding the horse and against his army.
20
The beast was taken prisoner, together with the false prophet who had performed miracles in his presence. (It was by those miracles that he had deceived those who had the mark of the beast and those who had worshiped the image of the beast.) The beast and the false prophet were both thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
21
Their armies were killed by the sword that comes out of the mouth of the one who was riding the horse; and all the birds ate all they could of their flesh.
he shall
Psalm 104:35
May sinners be destroyed from the earth; may the wicked be no more. Praise the LORD, my soul! Praise the LORD!
Proverbs 2:22
But God will snatch the wicked from the land and pull sinners out of it like plants from the ground.