Isaiah 24:16 Cross References - LEB

¹⁶ We hear songs from the _⌊edge_⌋* of the earth: "Glory to the righteous one!" But I say, "Ruin to me! Ruin to me! Woe to me! The treacherous ones deal treacherously, and the treacherous ones deal treacherously with treachery!"

¹¹ Who is like you among the gods, Yahweh? Who is like you—glorious in holiness, awesome in praiseworthy actions, doing wonders?*

⁸ Ask from me and I will make the nations your heritage, and your possession the ends of the earth.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Yahweh. All the families of the nations will worship before you. ²⁸ Because the kingship belongs to Yahweh, and he rules over the nations. ²⁹ All the _⌊healthy ones_⌋* of the earth will eat and worship. Before him all of those descending into the dust will kneel, even he who cannot keep his soul alive. ³⁰ Descendants* will serve him. Regarding the Lord, it will be told to the next generation. ³¹ They will come and tell his saving* deeds to a people yet to be born, that he has done it.

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

⁷ God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth will fear him.

⁸ And may he rule from sea up to sea, and from the River* to the edges of the land. ⁹ Let the desert dwellers bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust. ¹⁰ Let the kings of Tarshish and the islands bring tribute. Let the kings of Sheba and Seba present gifts, ¹¹ and let all kings bow down to him. Let all nations serve him.

³ He has remembered his loyal love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation* of our God.

¹⁵ So he gave to them their request, but he sent leanness into their souls.*

¹ Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loyal love is forever. ² Let the redeemed of Yahweh declare* it, those whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy ³ and gathered from the lands, from east and from west, from north and from south.* ⁴ They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert. They could find no way* to a city to inhabit. ⁵ Hungry and thirsty, their soul grew faint within them. ⁶ Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble. He delivered them from their distresses ⁷ and led them by a straight way to get to a city to inhabit. ⁸ Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love, and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind, ⁹ for he satisfies the longing soul,* and the hungry soul he fills with good. ¹⁰ Those who sat in darkness and gloom, prisoners of misery and iron— ¹¹ because they rebelled against the words of God and spurned the counsel of the Most High, ¹² he therefore humbled their heart with trouble. They stumbled and there was no helper. ¹³ Then they called to Yahweh for help in their trouble; he saved them from their distresses. ¹⁴ He brought them out of darkness and gloom, and tore off their bonds. ¹⁵ Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind, ¹⁶ for he shatters the doors of bronze, and cuts through the bars of iron. ¹⁷ Fools, because of their rebellious way and their iniquities, were afflicted. ¹⁸ Their soul abhorred all food, and they approached the gates of death. ¹⁹ Then they called to Yahweh for help in their trouble. He saved them from their distresses. ²⁰ He sent his word and healed them, and he delivered them from their pits.* ²¹ Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love, and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind, ²² and let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his works with rejoicing. ²³ Those who went down to the sea into ships, doing business on the _⌊high seas_⌋,* ²⁴ they saw the works of Yahweh, and his wonderful deeds in the deep. ²⁵ For he spoke and raised up a stormy wind, and it whipped up its waves. ²⁶ They rose to the heavens; they plunged to the depths. Their soul melted in their calamity. ²⁷ They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and _⌊they were at their wits' end_⌋.* ²⁸ Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distresses. ²⁹ He made the storm be still and their waves became calm. ³⁰ Then they were glad because they grew silent, so he guided them to their desired harbor. ³¹ Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind, ³² and let them exalt him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders. ³³ He turns rivers into a wilderness and springs of water into thirsty ground, ³⁴ a fruitful land into a salty place, because of the evil of its inhabitants. ³⁵ He turns a wilderness into a pool of water and a dry land into springs of water. ³⁶ And he settles the hungry there, so that they may establish a city to inhabit, ³⁷ and sow fields and plant vineyards, _⌊that they may yield fruit at harvest_⌋.* ³⁸ And he blesses them and they multiply greatly, and he does not let their cattle become few. ³⁹ When they become few and they are bent down from the oppression of calamity and grief, ⁴⁰ he pours contempt on princes and causes them to wander in a trackless waste. ⁴¹ But he protects* the needy from misery, and he makes their families like a flock. ⁴² The upright see it and are glad, and all wickedness shuts its mouth. ⁴³ Whoever is wise, then let him observe these things, and let them consider Yahweh's acts of loyal love.

¹⁶ Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will send leanness among his sturdy warriors, and a burning like the burning of fire will burn under his glory.

⁴ "And this shall happen:
On that day, the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will become lean.

² A hard revelation is told to me;
the treacherous deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; lay siege, Media!
I put an end to all of her sighing.

¹⁵ You have added to the nation, Yahweh. You have added to the nation; you are honored. You have extended all the ends of the land.

⁵ In that day, Yahweh of hosts will become a garland of glory and a diadem of beauty to the remnant of his people,

¹ Ah, destroyer, and yourself not destroyed! And treacherous one, and no one has dealt treacherously with him!* When you _⌊cease_⌋* destroying, you will be destroyed. When you stop dealing treacherously, one will deal treacherously with you.

²² Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none besides me. ²³ I have sworn by myself; a word that* shall not return has gone forth from my mouth in righteousness: 'Every knee shall kneel down to me; every tongue shall swear.' ²⁴ 'Only in Yahweh,' one shall say to me, 'are righteousness and strength.' He shall come to him, and all those who were angry with him shall be ashamed. ²⁵ In Yahweh all the offspring of Israel shall be in the right, and they shall boast."

⁸ Neither have you heard, nor have you known, nor from _⌊of old_⌋* has your ear been opened. For I knew you would deal treacherously, very treacherously, and you are called a rebel from the womb.

¹⁰ Yahweh has bared _⌊his holy arm_⌋* to the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends* of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

²¹ And all your people shall be righteous; they shall take possession of the land forever, the shoot of his* planting, the work of my hands, to show my glory.

¹⁹ And I will set a sign among them, and I will send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow; Tubal and Javan, the faraway coastlands that have not heard of my fame, and have not seen my glory.
And they shall declare my glory among the nations, ²⁰ and bring all your countrymen* from all the nations as an offering to Yahweh on horses and chariots* and in litters and on mules and camels, to* _⌊my holy mountain_⌋,* Jerusalem," says Yahweh, "just as the sons of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of Yahweh.

²⁰ However, as a wife departs treacherously from her lover, so you have dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel," _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh.

¹¹ For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt utterly treacherously with me," _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh.

¹ You will be in the right, O Yahweh, when I complain to you. Even so, let me speak my claims with you. Why does the way of the wicked succeed? All those who deal treacherously with treachery are at ease.

⁶ For even your relatives, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they call _⌊loudly_⌋* after you. You must not trust in them, though they speak kindly to you.

² She weeps bitterly in the night, her tears are on her cheeks; she has no comforter among all her lovers. All her friends have been unfaithful to her; they have become her enemies.

⁷ They have dealt faithlessly with Yahweh because they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

⁷ But like Adam, they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.

⁴ And he will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God. And they will live, for now he will be great unto the ends of the earth.

³ Why do you cause me to see evil while you look at trouble? Destruction and violence happen before me; contention and strife arise.

²⁷ And then he will send out the angels, and will gather the* elect together from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of heaven.

⁴⁷ For so the Lord has commanded us:
'I have appointed you _⌊to be_⌋* a light for the Gentiles, _⌊that you would bring_⌋* salvation to the end of the earth.'*

³ And they were singing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying:
"Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God All-Powerful; righteous and true are your ways, King of the ages!*

⁵ And I heard the angel of the waters saying,
"You are righteous, the one who is and the one who was, the Holy One, because you have judged these things, ⁶ because they have poured out the blood of the saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink; they are deserving!" ⁷ And I heard the altar saying,
"Yes, Lord God All-Powerful, true and righteous are your judgments."

¹ After these things I heard something like the loud sound of a great crowd in heaven saying,
"Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, ² because his judgments are true and righteous, because he has passed judgment on the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and has avenged the blood of his slaves _⌊shed by_⌋* her hand!" ³ And a second time they said,
"Hallelujah!"
And her smoke goes up _⌊forever and ever_⌋*. ⁴ And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who is seated on the throne, saying,
"Amen! Hallelujah!" ⁵ And a voice came out from the throne, saying,
"Praise our God all his slaves, and those who fear him, the small and the great!" ⁶ And I heard something like the sound of a great crowd and something like the sound of many waters and something like the sound of powerful thunder, saying,
"Hallelujah! For the Lord God,* the All-Powerful, reigns!