Isaiah 24:2 Cross References - NSB

² The people will be like the one officiating, the servant like his master, the maid like her mistress, the buyer like the seller, the lender like the borrower, the creditor like the debtor.

⁵⁰ Before the year of famine came, there were born to Joseph two sons, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

³⁶ »‘Do not collect interest or make any profit from him. Respect your God by respecting other Israelites' lives. ³⁷ »‘Do not collect any interest on your money or on the food you give them.

¹⁹ »Do not charge interest to your brothers, interest on money, food, anything that may be loaned at interest. ²⁰ »You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your brother (countrymen) you shall not charge interest. That way Jehovah your God will bless you in all that you undertake in the land you are about to possess.

¹⁴ All the officials, the priests, and the people became increasingly unfaithful and followed all the disgusting practices of the nations. Although Jehovah made the Temple in Jerusalem holy, they made the Temple unclean. ¹⁵ Jehovah the God of their ancestors repeatedly sent messages through his prophets because he wanted to spare his people and his dwelling place. ¹⁶ They mocked God’s messengers. They despised his words, and made fun of his prophets until Jehovah became angry with his people. He could no longer heal them. ¹⁷ So he had the Babylonian king attack them and execute their best young men in their holy temple. He did not spare the best men or the unmarried women, the old people or the sick people. God handed all of them over to him.

²⁰ The survivors were taken to Babylonia as prisoners. They served as slaves of the king and his sons, until Persia became a powerful nation.

⁹ Man has been humbled. Everyman has been humiliated. Do not forgive them.

² He will take their heroes and soldiers, judges and prophets, fortunetellers and statesmen, ³ military leaders and civilian leaders, counselors, skilled workers, and experts in magic. ⁴ I will make boys their leaders. Childish tyrants will govern them. ⁵ People will oppress each other. Everyone will harass his neighbor. The young will tyrannize the old. The common people will taunt their superiors. ⁶ A person will grab one of his relatives from his father's family and say: »You have a coat. You will be our leader. This pile of ruins will be under your control.« ⁷ Then the relative will cry out: »I am not a healer! I do not have any food or a coat in my home. Do not make me a leader of the people.« ⁸ Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because what they say and what they do is against Jehovah! They are defiant in his honored presence.

¹⁵ People will be brought down. Everyone will be humiliated and the eyes of arrogant people will be abased (humbled).

¹⁴ So Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed (rush) in one day. ¹⁵ Elders and dignitaries are the head, and prophets who teach lies are the tail. ¹⁶ Those who led this people led them astray. And those who were led by them were left in confusion. ¹⁷ That is why Jehovah did not rejoice in their young people, nor show compassion to their orphans and widows. Everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth spoke wickedness (foolishness) (vileness). In all this his anger has not turned away. His hand is stretched out still (ready to apply his power).

³ Jehovah looks for faithfulness. He struck you, but you paid no attention. He crushed you, but you refused to learn. You were stubborn and would not turn from your sins. ⁴ I thought: »These are only the poor and ignorant. They are foolish. They do not know what their God requires, what Jehovah wants them to do. ⁵ »I will go to the great men (leaders) and talk with them. Surely they know what their God requires, what Jehovah wants them to do. But all of them have rejected Jehovah’s authority and refuse to obey him.« ⁶ That is why lions from the forest will kill them. Wolves from the desert will tear them to pieces, and leopards will prowl through their towns. If those people go out, they will be torn apart because their sins are numerous and time after time they have turned from God.

¹¹ »The prophets and priests are godless. Even in my Temple I have found them doing evil,« declares Jehovah. ¹² »That is why their own way will become like a slippery path in the dark. They will be chased away, and they will fall down in the dark. I will bring disaster on them. It is time for them to be punished,« proclaims Jehovah. ¹³ »Say this about the prophets of Samaria: ‘I saw something disgusting. The prophets of Samaria prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.’

² Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him got up, drew their swords, and killed Gedaliah, son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan. So they assassinated the man whom the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the land.

¹⁸ »Jehovah, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as my anger and fury were poured out on the people of Jerusalem, so my fury will be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will be a horrifying sight. People will make fun of you and use your name as a curse. You will never see this place again.’

¹¹ »I Jehovah, the God of Israel, will turn against you and destroy all Judah. ¹² »As for the people of Judah who are left and are determined to go and live in Egypt, I will see to it that all of them are destroyed. All of them, great and small will die in Egypt, either in war or of starvation. They will be a horrifying sight. People will make fun of them and use their name as a curse. ¹³ »I will punish those who live in Egypt, just as I punished Jerusalem with the sword (war), starvation, and disease.

²⁴ The captain of the guard took the chief priest Seraiah, the second priest Zephaniah, and the three doorkeepers. ²⁵ From the city he also took an army commander, seven men who had access to the king whom he found in the city, the scribe who was in charge of the militia, and sixty common people whom he found in the city. ²⁶ Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. ²⁷ The king of Babylon executed them at Riblah in the territory of Hamath. So the people of Judah were captives as they left their land. ²⁸ These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar took captive: In his seventh year as king, he took three thousand and twenty-three Jews. ²⁹ In his eighteenth year, Nebuchadnezzar took eight hundred and thirty-two people from Jerusalem. ³⁰ In Nebuchadnezzar's twenty-third year as king, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took away seven hundred and forty-five Jews. In all, four thousand six hundred people were taken away.

¹³ It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil doing of her priests. They have drained the blood of the upright out from her.

¹² They put princes to death by hanging. The elders are not honored. ¹³ The young men crushed the grain, and the boys fell under the wood. ¹⁴ The old men are no longer seated in the doorway. The music of the young men has come to an end.

¹² ‘»The time is coming. The day is near. Buyers will not rejoice, and sellers will not mourn, because my fury will be against the whole crowd. ¹³ ‘»Sellers will not live long enough to buy back what they have sold. The visions against that crowd will not change. Because of their sins, none of the people will live.

⁸ ‘»I will set my face against him (reject him), and I will make an example of him. I will exclude him from my people. Then you will know that I am Jehovah.’« ⁹ »‘If a prophet is tricked into giving a prophecy, it is I, Jehovah, who tricked the prophet. I will use my power against you and destroy you from among my people Israel. ¹⁰ ‘»Both of you will suffer for your sins. The prophet will be as guilty as you are when you ask for his help.

⁵ »We have sinned. We have dealt perversely. We have acted wickedly and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances. ⁶ »We have not listened to your servants the prophets who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. ⁷ »O Jehovah, righteousness belongs to you! Shame belongs to us this day! To the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you. ⁸ »O Jehovah, to us belongs shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

⁹ It will be like people, like the priests. I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their actions.

⁸ You know that whatever good thing each person does, the same shall he receive again from God, whether he be slave or free. ⁹ You masters, do the same things to them. Do not threaten! You know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven. There is no favoritism with him.