Bible Cross References
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Isaiah 10:1-34
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You are doomed! You make unjust laws that oppress my people.
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That is how you keep the poor from having their rights and from getting justice. That is how you take the property that belongs to widows and orphans.
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What will you do when God punishes you? What will you do when he brings disaster on you from a distant country? Where will you run to find help? Where will you hide your wealth?
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You will be killed in battle or dragged off as prisoners. Yet even so the LORD's anger will not be ended; his hand will still be stretched out to punish.
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The LORD said, "Assyria! I use Assyria like a club to punish those with whom I am angry.
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I sent Assyria to attack a godless nation, people who have made me angry. I sent them to loot and steal and trample the people like dirt in the streets."
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But the Assyrian emperor has his own violent plans in mind. He is determined to destroy many nations.
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He boasts, "Every one of my commanders is a king!
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I conquered the cities of Calno and Carchemish, the cities of Hamath and Arpad. I conquered Samaria and Damascus.
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I reached out to punish those kingdoms that worship idols, idols more numerous than those of Jerusalem and Samaria.
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I have destroyed Samaria and all its idols, and I will do the same to Jerusalem and the images that are worshiped there."
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But the Lord says, "When I finish what I am doing on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will punish the emperor of Assyria for all his boasting and all his pride."
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The emperor of Assyria boasts, "I have done it all myself. I am strong and wise and clever. I wiped out the boundaries between nations and took the supplies they had stored. Like a bull I have trampled the people who live there.
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The nations of the world were like a bird's nest, and I gathered their wealth as easily as gathering eggs. Not a wing fluttered to scare me off; no beak opened to scream at me!"
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But the LORD says, "Can an ax claim to be greater than the one who uses it? Is a saw more important than the one who saws with it? A club doesn't lift up a person; a person lifts up a club."
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The LORD Almighty is going to send disease to punish those who are now well-fed. In their bodies there will be a fire that burns and burns.
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God, the light of Israel, will become a fire. Israel's holy God will become a flame, which in a single day will burn up everything, even the thorns and thistles.
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The rich forests and farmlands will be totally destroyed, in the same way that a fatal sickness destroys someone.
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There will be so few trees left that even a child will be able to count them.
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A time is coming when the people of Israel who have survived will not rely any more on the nation that almost destroyed them. They will truly put their trust in the LORD, Israel's holy God.
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A few of the people of Israel will come back to their mighty God.
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Even though now there are as many people of Israel as there are grains of sand by the sea, only a few will come back. Destruction is in store for the people, and it is fully deserved.
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Yes, throughout the whole country the Sovereign LORD Almighty will bring destruction, as he said he would.
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The Sovereign LORD Almighty says to his people who live in Zion, "Do not be afraid of the Assyrians, even though they oppress you as the Egyptians used to do.
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In only a little while I will finish punishing you, and then I will destroy them.
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I, the LORD Almighty, will beat them with my whip as I did the people of Midian at Oreb Rock. I will punish Assyria as I punished Egypt.
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When that time comes, I will free you from the power of Assyria, and their yoke will no longer be a burden on your shoulders."
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The enemy army has captured the city of Ai! They have passed through Migron! They left their supplies at Michmash!
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They have crossed the pass and are spending the night at Geba! The people in the town of Ramah are terrified, and the people in King Saul's hometown of Gibeah have run away.
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Shout, people of Gallim! Listen, people of Laishah! Answer, people of Anathoth!
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The people of Madmenah and Gebim are running for their lives.
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Today the enemy are in the town of Nob, and there they are shaking their fists at Mount Zion, at the city of Jerusalem.
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The LORD Almighty will bring them crashing down like branches cut off a tree. The proudest and highest of them will be cut down and humiliated.
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The LORD will cut them down as trees in the heart of the forest are cut down with an ax, as even the finest trees of Lebanon fall!
Isaiah 15:1-16
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This is a message about Moab. The cities of Ar and Kir are destroyed in a single night, and silence covers the land of Moab.
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The people of Dibon climb the hill to weep at the shrine. The people of Moab wail in grief over the cities of Nebo and Medeba; they have shaved their heads and their beards in grief.
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The people in the streets are dressed in sackcloth; in the city squares and on the rooftops people mourn and cry.
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The people of Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, and their cry can be heard as far away as Jahaz. Even the soldiers tremble; their courage is gone.
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My heart cries out for Moab! The people have fled to the town of Zoar, and to Eglath Shelishiyah. Some climb the road to Luhith, weeping as they go; some escape to Horonaim, grieving loudly.
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Nimrim Brook is dry, the grass beside it has withered, and nothing green is left.
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The people go across the Valley of Willows, trying to escape with all their possessions.
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Everywhere at Moab's borders the sound of crying is heard. It is heard at the towns of Eglaim and Beerelim.
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At the town of Dibon the river is red with blood, and God has something even worse in store for the people there. Yes, there will be a bloody slaughter of everyone left in Moab.
Isaiah 19:1-25
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This is a message about Egypt. The LORD is coming to Egypt, riding swiftly on a cloud. The Egyptian idols tremble before him, and the people of Egypt lose their courage.
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The LORD says, "I will stir up civil war in Egypt and turn brother against brother and neighbor against neighbor. Rival cities will fight each other, and rival kings will struggle for power.
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I am going to frustrate the plans of the Egyptians and destroy their morale. They will ask their idols to help them, and they will go and consult mediums and ask the spirits of the dead for advice.
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I will hand the Egyptians over to a tyrant, to a cruel king who will rule them. I, the LORD Almighty, have spoken."
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The water will be low in the Nile, and the river will gradually dry up.
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The channels of the river will stink as they slowly go dry. Reeds and rushes will wither,
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and all the crops planted along the banks of the Nile will dry up and be blown away.
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Everyone who earns a living by fishing in the Nile will groan and cry; their hooks and their nets will be useless.
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Those who make linen cloth will be in despair;
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weavers and skilled workers will be broken and depressed.
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The leaders of the city of Zoan are fools! Egypt's wisest people give stupid advice! How do they dare to tell the king that they are successors to the ancient scholars and kings?
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King of Egypt, where are those clever advisers of yours? Perhaps they can tell you what plans the LORD Almighty has for Egypt.
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The leaders of Zoan and Memphis are fools. They were supposed to lead the nation, but they have misled it.
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The LORD has made them give confusing advice. As a result, Egypt does everything wrong and staggers like a drunk slipping on his own vomit.
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No one in Egypt, rich or poor, important or unknown, can offer help.
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A time is coming when the people of Egypt will be as timid as women. They will tremble in terror when they see that the LORD Almighty has stretched out his hand to punish them.
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The people of Egypt will be terrified of Judah every time they are reminded of the fate that the LORD Almighty has prepared for them.
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When that time comes, the Hebrew language will be spoken in five Egyptian cities. The people there will take their oaths in the name of the LORD Almighty. One of the cities will be called, "City of the Sun."
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When that time comes, there will be an altar to the LORD in the land of Egypt and a stone pillar dedicated to him at the Egyptian border.
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They will be symbols of the LORD Almighty's presence in Egypt. When the people there are oppressed and call out to the LORD for help, he will send someone to rescue them.
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The LORD will reveal himself to the Egyptian people, and then they will acknowledge and worship him, and bring him sacrifices and offerings. They will make solemn promises to him and do what they promise.
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The LORD will punish the Egyptians, but then he will heal them. They will turn to him, and he will hear their prayers and heal them.
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When that time comes, there will be a highway between Egypt and Assyria. The people of these two countries will travel back and forth between them, and the two nations will worship together.
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When that time comes, Israel will rank with Egypt and Assyria, and these three nations will be a blessing to all the world.
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The LORD Almighty will bless them and say, "I will bless you, Egypt, my people; you, Assyria, whom I created; and you, Israel, my chosen people."
Isaiah 37:11-13
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You have heard what an Assyrian emperor does to any country he decides to destroy. Do you think that you can escape?
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My ancestors destroyed the cities of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and killed the people of Betheden who lived in Telassar, and none of their gods could save them.
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Where are the kings of the cities of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?"
Isaiah 37:24-26
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You sent your servants to boast to me that with all your chariots you had conquered the highest mountains of Lebanon. You boasted that there you cut down the tallest cedars and the finest cypress trees, and that you reached the deepest parts of the forests.
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You boasted that you dug wells and drank water in foreign lands, and that the feet of your soldiers tramped the Nile River dry.
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"Have you never heard that I planned all this long ago? And now I have carried it out. I gave you the power to turn fortified cities into piles of rubble.
Isaiah 37:36-26
Jeremiah 25:9-11
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'I am going to send for all the peoples from the north and for my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. I am going to bring them to fight against Judah and its inhabitants and against all the neighboring nations. I am going to destroy this nation and its neighbors and leave them in ruins forever, a terrible and shocking sight. I, the LORD, have spoken.
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I will silence their shouts of joy and gladness and the happy sounds of wedding feasts. They will have no oil for their lamps, and there will be no more grain.
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This whole land will be left in ruins and will be a shocking sight, and the neighboring nations will serve the king of Babylonia for seventy years.
Jeremiah 25:18-26
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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.
Nahum 2:1-3
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Nineveh, you are under attack! The power that will shatter you has come. Prepare the defenses! Guard the road! Prepare for battle!
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(The LORD is about to restore the glory of Israel, as it was before her enemies plundered her.)
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The enemy soldiers carry red shields and wear uniforms of red. They are preparing to attack! Their chariots flash like fire! Their horses prance!
1 Corinthians 10:6
Now, all of this is an example for us, to warn us not to desire evil things, as they did,
1 Corinthians 10:11
All these things happened to them as examples for others, and they were written down as a warning for us. For we live at a time when the end is about to come.