Isaiah 24:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters abroad its inhabitants.

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  • Isa 42:15 : 15 I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
  • Nah 2:10 : 10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees strike together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather paleness.
  • Luke 21:24 : 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
  • Jer 4:7 : 7 The lion has come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the nations is on his way; he has gone forth from his place to make your land desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
  • Jer 9:16 : 16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
  • Ezek 5:2 : 2 You shall burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and you shall take a third part, and strike around it with a knife: and a third part you shall scatter to the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
  • Ezek 5:14 : 14 Moreover I will make you a waste, and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.
  • Ezek 6:6 : 6 In all your dwelling places, the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
  • Ezek 12:20 : 20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
  • Ezek 24:11 : 11 Then set it empty on its coals, that its bronze may be hot and may burn, and that its filthiness may be melted in it, that its scum may be consumed.
  • Ezek 35:14 : 14 Thus says the Lord GOD: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
  • Deut 4:27 : 27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the heathen, where the LORD shall lead you.
  • Deut 28:64 : 64 And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even wood and stone.
  • Deut 32:26 : 26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
  • 2 Kgs 21:13 : 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
  • Neh 1:8 : 8 Remember, I beg You, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, If you transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
  • Ps 146:9 : 9 The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
  • Isa 1:7-9 : 7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom, and we would have been like Gomorrah.
  • Isa 2:19 : 19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD and for the glory of His majesty, when He arises to shake the earth terribly.
  • Isa 5:6 : 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dug; but briers and thorns shall come up: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
  • Isa 6:11-12 : 11 Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are laid waste without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate, 12 And the LORD has removed men far away, and there is a great forsaking in the midst of the land.
  • Isa 7:17-25 : 17 The LORD shall bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon your father's house, days that have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall call for the fly that is in the farthest part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. 20 In that same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by those beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep; 22 And it shall come to pass, because of the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall everyone eat who is left in the land. 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns. 24 With arrows and with bows shall men come there; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. 25 And on all hills that shall be dug with the mattock, there shall not come the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
  • Isa 24:20 : 20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and its transgression shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
  • Isa 27:10 : 10 Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches.
  • Isa 29:16 : 16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay; for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
  • Isa 32:13-14 : 13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: 14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the bustle of the city shall be abandoned; the forts and towers shall become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;
  • Isa 33:9 : 9 The earth mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and withered; Sharon is like a wilderness, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.
  • Jer 40:15 : 15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray you, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: why should he kill you, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven them away: first the king of Assyria has devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
  • Acts 17:6 : 6 And when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers to the rulers of the city, crying, These who have turned the world upside down have come here too;
  • Jas 1:1 : 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greetings.
  • Zech 13:7-9 : 7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is my fellow, says the LORD of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn my hand upon the little ones. 8 And it shall come to pass that in all the land, says the LORD, two-thirds shall be cut off and die, but one-third shall be left in it. 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them as gold is tested; they shall call on my name, and I will hear them; I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

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