Bible Cross References
yourselves
Isaiah 41:5
"The people of distant lands have seen what I have done; they are frightened and tremble with fear. So they all assemble and come.
Isaiah 41:6
The skilled workers help and encourage each other.
Isaiah 41:21
The LORD, the king of Israel, has this to say: "You gods of the nations, present your case. Bring the best arguments you have!
Isaiah 43:9
Summon the nations to come to the trial. Which of their gods can predict the future? Which of them foretold what is happening now? Let these gods bring in their witnesses to prove that they are right, to testify to the truth of their words.
escaped
Isaiah 4:2
The time is coming when the LORD will make every plant and tree in the land grow large and beautiful. All the people of Israel who survive will take delight and pride in the crops that the land produces.
Jeremiah 25:15-29
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The LORD, the God of Israel, said to me, "Here is a wine cup filled with my anger. Take it to all the nations to whom I send you, and make them drink from it.
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When they drink from it, they will stagger and go out of their minds because of the war I am sending against them."
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So I took the cup from the LORD's hand, gave it to all the nations to whom the LORD had sent me, and made them drink from it.
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Jerusalem and all the towns of Judah, together with its kings and leaders, were made to drink from it, so that they would become a desert, a terrible and shocking sight, and so that people would use their name as a curse---as they still do.
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Here is the list of all the others who had to drink from the cup: the king of Egypt, his officials and leaders; all the Egyptians and all the foreigners in Egypt; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the Philistine cities of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and what remains of Ashdod; all the people of Edom, Moab, and Ammon; all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; all the kings of the Mediterranean lands; the cities of Dedan, Tema, and Buz; all the people who cut their hair short; all the kings of Arabia; all the kings of the desert tribes; all the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media; all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another. Every nation on the face of the earth had to drink from it. Last of all, the king of Babylonia will drink from it.
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Then the LORD said to me, "Tell the people that I, the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, am commanding them to drink until they are drunk and vomit, until they fall down and cannot get up, because of the war that I am sending against them.
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And if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink from it, then tell them that the LORD Almighty has said that they will still have to drink from it.
29
I will begin my work of destruction in my own city. Do they think they will go unpunished? No, they will be punished, for I am going to send war on all the people on earth. I, the LORD Almighty, have spoken.
Jeremiah 50:28
(Refugees escape from Babylonia and come to Jerusalem, and they tell how the LORD our God took revenge for what the Babylonians had done to his Temple.)
Jeremiah 51:6-9
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Run away from Babylonia! Run for your lives! Do not be killed because of Babylonia's sin. I am now taking my revenge and punishing it as it deserves.
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Babylonia was like a gold cup in my hand, making the whole world drunk. The nations drank its wine and went out of their minds.
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Babylonia has suddenly fallen and is destroyed! Mourn over it! Get medicine for its wounds, and maybe it can be healed.
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Foreigners living there said, 'We tried to help Babylonia, but it was too late. Let's leave now and go back home. God has punished Babylonia with all his might and has destroyed it completely.' "
Ephesians 2:12
At that time you were apart from Christ. You were foreigners and did not belong to God's chosen people. You had no part in the covenants, which were based on God's promises to his people, and you lived in this world without hope and without God.
Ephesians 2:16
By his death on the cross Christ destroyed their enmity; by means of the cross he united both races into one body and brought them back to God.
Revelation 18:3-18
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For all the nations have drunk her wine---the strong wine of her immoral lust. The kings of the earth practiced sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the world grew rich from her unrestrained lust."
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Then I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out, my people! Come out from her! You must not take part in her sins; you must not share in her punishment!
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For her sins are piled up as high as heaven, and God remembers her wicked ways.
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Treat her exactly as she has treated you; pay her back double for all she has done. Fill her cup with a drink twice as strong as the drink she prepared for you.
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Give her as much suffering and grief as the glory and luxury she gave herself. For she keeps telling herself: 'Here I sit, a queen! I am no widow, I will never know grief !'
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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."
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The kings of the earth who took part in her immorality and lust will cry and weep over the city when they see the smoke from the flames that consume her.
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They stand a long way off, because they are afraid of sharing in her suffering. They say, "How terrible! How awful! This great and mighty city Babylon! In just one hour you have been punished!"
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The merchants of the earth also cry and mourn for her, because no one buys their goods any longer;
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no one buys their gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; their goods of linen, purple cloth, silk, and scarlet cloth; all kinds of rare woods and all kinds of objects made of ivory and of expensive wood, of bronze, iron, and marble;
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and cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; wine and oil, flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and carriages, slaves, and even human lives.
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The merchants say to her, "All the good things you longed to own have disappeared, and all your wealth and glamor are gone, and you will never find them again!"
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The merchants, who became rich from doing business in that city, will stand a long way off, because they are afraid of sharing in her suffering. They will cry and mourn,
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and say, "How terrible! How awful for the great city! She used to dress herself in linen, purple, and scarlet, and cover herself with gold ornaments, precious stones, and pearls!
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And in one hour she has lost all this wealth!" All the ships' captains and passengers, the sailors and all others who earn their living on the sea, stood a long way off,
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and cried out as they saw the smoke from the flames that consumed her: "There never has been another city like this great city!"
they
Isaiah 42:17
All who trust in idols, who call images their gods, will be humiliated and disgraced."
Isaiah 42:18
The LORD says, "Listen, you deaf people! Look closely, you that are blind!
Isaiah 44:17-20
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The rest of the wood he makes into an idol, and then he bows down and worships it. He prays to it and says, "You are my god---save me!"
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Such people are too stupid to know what they are doing. They close their eyes and their minds to the truth.
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The maker of idols hasn't the wit or the sense to say, "Some of the wood I burned up. I baked some bread on the coals, and I roasted meat and ate it. And the rest of the wood I made into an idol. Here I am bowing down to a block of wood!"
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It makes as much sense as eating ashes. His foolish ideas have so misled him that he is beyond help. He won't admit to himself that the idol he holds in his hand is not a god at all.
Isaiah 46:7
They lift it to their shoulders and carry it; they put it in place, and there it stands, unable to move from where it is. If any pray to it, it cannot answer or save them from disaster.
Isaiah 48:7
Only now am I making them happen; nothing like this took place in the past. If it had, you would claim that you knew all about it.
1 Kings 18:26-29
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They took the bull that was brought to them, prepared it, and prayed to Baal until noon. They shouted, "Answer us, Baal!" and kept dancing around the altar they had built. But no answer came.
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At noon Elijah started making fun of them: "Pray louder! He is a god! Maybe he is day-dreaming or relieving himself, or perhaps he's gone off on a trip! Or maybe he's sleeping, and you've got to wake him up!"
28
So the prophets prayed louder and cut themselves with knives and daggers, according to their ritual, until blood flowed.
29
They kept on ranting and raving until the middle of the afternoon; but no answer came, not a sound was heard.
Psalm 115:8
May all who made them and who trust in them become like the idols they have made.
Jeremiah 2:27
You will all be disgraced---you that say that a tree is your father and that a rock is your mother. This will happen because you turned away from me instead of turning to me. But when you are in trouble, you ask me to come and save you.
Jeremiah 2:28
"Where are the gods that you made for yourselves? When you are in trouble, let them save you---if they can! Judah, you have as many gods as you have cities.
Jeremiah 10:8
All of them are stupid and foolish. What can they learn from wooden idols?
Jeremiah 10:14
At the sight of this, people feel stupid and senseless; those who make idols are disillusioned, because the gods they make are false and lifeless.
Jeremiah 51:17
At the sight of this, people feel stupid and senseless; those who make idols are disillusioned because the gods they make are false and lifeless.
Jeremiah 51:18
They are worthless and should be despised; they will be destroyed when the LORD comes to deal with them.
Habakkuk 2:18-20
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What's the use of an idol? It is only something that a human being has made, and it tells you nothing but lies. What good does it do for its maker to trust it---a god that can't even talk!
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You are doomed! You say to a piece of wood, "Wake up!" or to a block of stone, "Get up!" Can an idol reveal anything to you? It may be covered with silver and gold, but there is no life in it.
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The LORD is in his holy Temple; let everyone on earth be silent in his presence.
Romans 1:21-23
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They know God, but they do not give him the honor that belongs to him, nor do they thank him. Instead, their thoughts have become complete nonsense, and their empty minds are filled with darkness.
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They say they are wise, but they are fools;
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instead of worshiping the immortal God, they worship images made to look like mortals or birds or animals or reptiles.