Isaiah 24:21 Cross References - NSB

²¹ That day Jehovah will punish the host of heaven on high and the kings of the earth below.

¹² He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is awesome to the kings of the earth.

⁶ Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands ⁷ to take vengeance on the nations, to punish the people of the world, ⁸ to put their kings in chains and their leaders in iron shackles, ⁹ to carry out the judgment that is written against them. This is an honor that belongs to all his God-like ones. Praise Jehovah!

¹² »It will happen when Jehovah has performed all his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem. He will say: I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty appearance.

²⁵ »Very soon my anger against you will end and my wrath will be directed to their destruction. ²⁶ »Jehovah of Hosts will stir up enemies against you as when he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb. His wrath will come by way of the sea, as he did in Egypt. ²⁷ »In that day your burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat.«

¹ Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob and again choose Israel. He will resettle them in their own country. Foreigners will join them and unite with the descendants of Jacob. ² People will take them and bring them to their own place. The nation of Israel will possess nations as male and female slaves in Jehovah’s land. They will take their captors captive and rule their oppressors.

¹⁰ Jehovah’s power will be on this mountain. Moab will be trampled beneath him like straw that is trampled in a pile of manure. ¹¹ The Moabites will stretch out their hands in the manure like swimmers who stretch out their hands to swim. Jehovah will humble those arrogant people despite the movements of their hands. ¹² He will bring down Moab's high-fortified walls, level them, and throw them into the dust on the ground.

² JEHOVAH IS ANGRY WITH ALL THE NATIONS. He is furious with all their armies. He has condemned them for destruction. He has handed them over to be slaughtered. ³ Their dead bodies will be thrown out. A stench will rise from their corpses. The mountains will be laid waste with their blood. ⁴ All the stars in the sky will dissolve. The heavens will be rolled up like a scroll. The stars will fade away like leaves fall from a vine or fruit from a tree. ⁵ My sword is covered with blood in the heavens. It will fall on EDOM and on the people I have claimed for destruction. ⁶ Jehovah’s sword is covered with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of rams' kidneys. Jehovah will receive a sacrifice in Bozrah, a huge slaughter in the land of Edom. ⁷ Wild oxen will be killed with them, young bulls along with rams. Their land will be drenched with blood. Their dust will be covered with fat. ⁸ Jehovah will have a day of vengeance! He will have a year of retribution (recompense) in defense of Zion. ⁹ Edom's streams will be turned to tar. Its soil will be turned to burning sulfur. Its land will become blazing tar. ¹⁰ They will not be extinguished day or night, and smoke will always go up from them. Edom will lie in ruins for generations. No one will ever travel through it. ¹¹ Pelicans and herons will take possession of the land. Porcupines and crows will live there. He will stretch the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of destruction over it. ¹² There are no nobles to rule a kingdom. All of its princes have disappeared. ¹³ Its palaces are covered with thorns. Its fortresses have nettles and thistles. It will become a home for jackals and a place for ostriches. ¹⁴ Hyenas will meet with jackals. Male goats will call to their mates. Screech owls will rest there and find a resting place for themselves. ¹⁵ Arrow snakes will make their nests there, lay eggs, and hatch them. They will gather their young under their shadow. Vultures also will gather there, each one with its mate. ¹⁶ Search Jehovah’s book and read it out loud. Not one of these animals will be missing. Not one will lack a mate, because Jehovah has commanded it, and his Spirit will gather them together. ¹⁷ He is the one who casts the lot for them, and his hand divides up the land for them with a measuring line. They will possess it permanently and live there for generations.

¹ The word of Jehovah came to me: ² »Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him. ³ The Lord Jehovah said: »I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal. ⁴ »I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws. I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them splendidly attired, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them wielding swords. ⁵ »I will also bring out Persia, Ethiopia and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet; ⁶ »Gomer with all its troops; Beth-togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops and many peoples with you.« ⁷ »‘»Be prepared, and prepare yourself, you and all your companies that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them. ⁸ »‘»After many days you will be summoned. In the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel that had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the nations, and all of them are living securely. ⁹ ‘»You will go up like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land. You your troops will have many peoples with you.«’ ¹⁰ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘It will come about on that day, that thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil plan. ¹¹ »»You will say: »I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will go against those who are securely at rest. They live without walls and have no bars or gates.« ¹² »I will go to capture spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who live at the center of the world. ¹³ ‘»Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will say to you: Have you come to capture spoil? Have you assembled your company to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great spoil?«’ ¹⁴ »Prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog: ‘The Lord Jehovah says: »On that day when my people Israel are living securely, will you not know it? ¹⁵ »‘You will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north, you and many nations with you, all of them riding on horses, a great assembly and a mighty army. ¹⁶ »‘You will come up against my people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It shall come about in the last days that I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I am sanctified through you before their eyes, O Gog.«’ ¹⁷ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days through my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring you against them? ¹⁸ »‘It will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,’ declares the Lord Jehovah, ‘that my fury will mount up in my anger. ¹⁹ »‘In my zeal and in my blazing wrath I proclaim that on that day there will surely be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. ²⁰ »‘The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the beasts of the field, all the creeping things that creep on the earth, and all the people who are on the face of the earth will shake at my presence! The mountains will be thrown down! The steep pathways will collapse and every wall will fall to the ground.’ ²¹ »‘I will call for a sword against Gog on all my mountains,’ declares the Lord Jehovah. ‘Every man's sword will be against his brother. ²² »‘With pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment on him. I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with hailstones, fire and brimstone. ²³ »‘I will magnify myself, sanctify myself, and make myself known in the sight of many nations! Then they will know that I am Jehovah.’ (Matthew 6:9)

⁹ »Proclaim this among the nations! Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near let them come up. ¹⁰ Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears! Let the weak say, I am strong. ¹¹ »Hurry and come all you nations round about. Gather yourselves there and cause your mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah. ¹² »Let the nations be aroused and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat (Jehovah’s Judgment)! I will sit there to judge all the nations round about. ¹³ »Thrust in the sickle for the harvest is ripe! Come and tread for the winepress is full and the vats overflow. Their wickedness is great. ¹⁴ »Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! The day of Jehovah is near in the valley of decision. ¹⁵ »The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars diminish their shining. ¹⁶ »Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem. The heavens and the earth will shake: but Jehovah will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel. ¹⁷ »You will know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy and no strangers will pass through (invade) her any more.

¹⁹ »Egypt will be desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness. This is because of the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

²¹ »Say to Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah: I will shake heaven and earth! ²² »I will overthrow kingdoms and end their power. I will overturn chariots and their drivers; the horses will die, and their riders will kill one another.«

¹² »The plague will be that Jehovah will strike all the peoples that have gone to war against Jerusalem! Their flesh will wither away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes will wither away in their sockets, and their tongue will wither away in their mouth. ¹³ »It will happen! A great tumult (trouble) (disturbance) from Jehovah will fall on them. Everyone of them will lay hold on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor (neighbor will fight against neighbor). ¹⁴ »Judah will also fight at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the nations round about will be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. ¹⁵ »This will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the beasts that will be in those camps, as that plague. ¹⁶ »Every one that is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of Hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. ¹⁷ »There will be no rain on those who do not go to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of Hosts. ¹⁸ »If the family of Egypt does not go it will not be upon them. There will be the plague and Jehovah will strike the nations that do not go to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. ¹⁹ »This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that do not keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

¹⁴ The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled together. Every mountain and island was moved from their places. ¹⁵ The kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the military commanders, and the mighty men, and every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains. ¹⁶ They said to the mountains and rocks: »Fall on us, and hide us from the presence of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: ¹⁷ »For the great day of his wrath has come; and who will be able to stand?«

¹⁴ »They will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome (conquer) them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. Those who are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.«

⁹ »The kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived sensuously with her, will weep and lament over her, when they see the smoke of her burning.

¹⁸ »that you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of military commanders, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.« ¹⁹ I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army. ²⁰ The beast was captured, and with him the false prophet that performed signs before him, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur. ²¹ The rest were killed with the sword that came from the mouth of the one who sat on the horse. All the birds were filled with their flesh.