Isaiah 24:16 Cross References - ISV

¹⁶ From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise: ‘Glory to the Righteous One!’ “But I say, ‘I am pining away, I’m pining away. How terrible things are for me! For treacherous people betray— treacherous people are betraying with treachery!’”

¹¹ “Who is like you among the gods, LORD? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in splendor, and working wonders?

⁸ Ask of me, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as your possession.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD; all the families of the nations will bow in submission to the LORD. ²⁸ Indeed, the kingdom belongs to the LORD; he rules over the nations. ²⁹ All the prosperous people will eat and bow down in submission. All those who are about to go down to the grave will bow down in submission, along with the one who can no longer keep himself alive. ³⁰ Our descendants will serve him, and that generation will be told about the Lord. ³¹ They will come and declare his righteousness to a people yet to be born; indeed, he has accomplished it!

¹⁰ The righteous person will rejoice when he sees your vengeance; when he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked.

⁷ May God truly bless us so that all the peoples of the earth will fear him.

⁸ May he rule from sea to sea, from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth. ⁹ May the nomads bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust. ¹⁰ May the kings of Tarshish and of distant shores bring gifts, and may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer tribute. ¹¹ May all kings bow down to him, and all nations serve him.

³ He has remembered his gracious love; his faithfulness toward the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth saw our God’s deliverance.

¹⁵ God granted them their request, but sent leanness into their lives.

¹ Gratitude for God’s Deliverance Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good! His gracious love exists forever. ² Let those who have been redeemed by the LORD declare it— those whom he redeemed from the power of the enemy, ³ those whom he gathered from other lands— from the east, west, north, and south. ⁴ They wandered in desolate wilderness; they found no road to a city where they could live. ⁵ Hungry and thirsty, their spirits failed. ⁶ Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. ⁷ He led them in a straight way to find a city where they could live. ⁸ Let them give thanks to the LORD for his gracious love and his awesome deeds for mankind. ⁹ He has satisfied the one who thirsts, filling the hungry with what is good. ¹⁰ Some sat in deepest darkness, shackled with cruel iron, ¹¹ because they had rebelled against the command of God, despising the advice of the Most High. ¹² He humbled them through suffering, as they stumbled without a helper. ¹³ Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; he delivered them from their distress. ¹⁴ And he brought them out from darkness and the shadow of death, shattering their chains. ¹⁵ Let them give thanks to the LORD for his gracious love, and for his awesome deeds to mankind. ¹⁶ For he shattered bronze gates and cut through iron bars. ¹⁷ Because of their rebellious ways, fools suffered for their iniquities. ¹⁸ They loathed all food, and even reached the gates of death. ¹⁹ Yet when they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, he delivered them from certain destruction. ²⁰ He issued his command and healed them; he delivered them from their destruction. ²¹ Let them give thanks to the LORD for his gracious love, and for his awesome deeds for mankind. ²² Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and talk about his works with shouts of joy. ²³ Those who go down to the sea in ships, who work in the great waters, ²⁴ witnessed the works of the LORD— his awesome deeds in the ocean’s depth. ²⁵ He spoke and stirred up a windstorm that made its waves surge. ²⁶ The people ascended skyward and descended to the depths, their courage melting away in their peril. ²⁷ They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, as all their wisdom became useless. ²⁸ Yet when they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, the LORD brought them out of their distress. ²⁹ He calmed the storm and its waves quieted down. ³⁰ So they rejoiced that the waves became quiet, and he led them to their desired haven. ³¹ Let them give thanks to the LORD for his gracious love and for his awesome deeds on behalf of mankind. ³² Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people and praise him in the counsel of the elders. ³³ He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into dry ground, ³⁴ and a fruitful land into a salty waste, due to the wickedness of its inhabitants. ³⁵ He turns a desert into a pool of water, dry land into springs of water. ³⁶ There he settled the hungry, where they built a city to live in. ³⁷ They sowed fields and planted vineyards that yielded a productive harvest. ³⁸ Then he blessed them, and they became numerous; he multiplied their cattle. ³⁹ But they became few in number, and humiliated by continued oppression, agony, and sorrow. ⁴⁰ Having poured contempt on their nobles, causing them to err aimlessly in the way. ⁴¹ Yet he lifted the needy from affliction and made them families like a flock. ⁴² The upright see it and rejoice, but the mouth of an evil person is shut. ⁴³ Let whoever is wise observe these things, that they may comprehend the gracious love of the LORD.

¹⁶ Therefore, the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s sturdy warriors, and under its glory a conflagration will be kindled, like a blazing bonfire.

⁴ A Time of Weakness for Israel“At that time, Jacob’s glory will have become weakened, and his strong flesh will turn gaunt;

² A dire vision has been announced to me: the traitor betrays, and the plunderer takes loot. Get up, Elam! Attack, Media! I am putting a stop to all the groaning she has caused.

¹⁵ “But you have enlarged the nation, LORD; you have enlarged the nation. You have gained honor; you have extended all the borders of the land.

⁵ At that time, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies will become a glorious crown, a beautiful diadem for the remnant of his people,

¹ God’s Judgment “How terrible it will be for you, destroyer, you who have not been destroyed yourself! And how terrible it will be for you, traitor, one whom people have not betrayed! When you have sunk so low in destroying others, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you.”

²² Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth. For I am God, and there is no other.
²³ Every Knee will BowBy myself I have sworn— from my mouth has gone out integrity, a promise that won’t be revoked: ‘To me every knee will bow, and every tongue will swear. ’ ²⁴ One will say of me, ‘Only in the LORD are victories and might.’ All who raged against him will come to him and will be put to shame. ²⁵ In the LORD all the descendants of Israel will triumph and make their boast.”

⁸ And neither had you heard, nor did you understand, nor did you open your ear long ago. Indeed, I knew that you would act very deceitfully, and they would call you a rebel from birth.

¹⁰ The LORD has bared his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

²¹ Then your people will all be righteous; They’ll possess the land forever. They are the shoot that the LORD planted, the works of his hands, so that I might be glorified.

¹⁹ “I will put up signs among them, and from them I will send survivors to the nations—to Tarshish, Libya, and Lydia, (who draw the bow), to Tubal and Greece, to the far off coastlands that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. Then they will proclaim my glory among the nations. ²⁰ They will bring all—yes, all!— of your kindred from all the nations to my holy mountain Jerusalem as an offering to the LORD—on horses, in chariots, in wagons, and on mules—yes, even on mules!— and on camels,” says the LORD, “just as the Israelis bring a grain offering in a clean vessel to the LORD’s house.

²⁰ Instead, like an unfaithful wife leaves her husband, so you have been unfaithful to me, house of Israel,” declares the LORD.

¹¹ For both the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to me,” declares the LORD.

¹ Jeremiah’s Complaint about Justice You are righteous, LORD, even when I bring a complaint to you. But I want to discuss justice with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper, while all who are treacherous are at ease?

⁶ Indeed, even your brothers and your father’s family conspire against you. Even they cry out after you loudly. Don’t believe them, even though they speak friendly words to you.

² Bitterly she cries in the night, as tears stream down her cheeks. No one consoles her of all her friends. All her neighbors have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

⁷ They have been unfaithful to the LORD, having raised unbelieving children. In the coming month they will be devoured, along with their fields.

⁷ “But like Adam, they broke the covenant; in this they have acted deceitfully against me.

⁴ “Then he will take his stand, shepherding by means of the strength of the LORD, by the power of the name of the LORD his God. And they will be firmly established; indeed, from then on he will become great— to the ends of the earth.

³ Why are you forcing me to look at iniquity and to stare at wickedness? Social havoc and oppression are all around me; there are legal conflicts, and disputes abound.

²⁷ He’ll send out his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.”

⁴⁷ For that is what the Lord ordered us to do: ‘I have made you a light to the gentiles to be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth.’”

³ They sang the song of God’s servant Moses and the song of the lamb: “Your deeds are both spectacular and amazing, Lord God Almighty. Your ways are just and true, King of the nations.

⁵ Then I heard the angel in charge of the water say, “You are just. You are the one who is and who was, the Holy One, because you have judged these things. ⁶ You have given them blood to drink because they spilled the blood of saints and prophets. This is what they deserve.” ⁷ Then I heard the altar reply, “Yes, Lord God Almighty, your judgments are true and just.”

¹ The Vision of WorshipAfter these things, I heard what sounded like the loud voice of a large crowd in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, glory, and power belong to our God. ² His judgments are true and just. He has condemned the notorious prostitute who corrupted the world with her immorality. He has taken revenge on her for the blood of his servants.” ³ A second time they said, “Hallelujah! The smoke goes up from her forever and ever.” ⁴ The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures bowed down and worshipped God, who was sitting on the throne. They said, “Amen! Hallelujah!” ⁵ A voice came from the throne, saying, “Praise our God, all who serve and fear him, from the least important to the most important.”
⁶ The Vision of the Marriage Supper of the LambThen I heard what sounded like the voice of a large crowd, like the sound of raging waters, and like the sound of powerful thunderclaps, saying, “Hallelujah! The Lord our God, the Almighty, is reigning.