Isaiah 24:16 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁶ [c] "Lord the God of Israel! from the outskirts of the earth we have heard of thy wonders: there is hope for the righteous." [p] Let them say also, "Woe to the rebels who reject the law!"

¹¹ Who among the gods is like thee, Lord? Who is like thee? Glorified among Holies; Marvellous among Glories; working miracles!

⁸ "Ask of me, and I will give thee nations for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord; and all the families of the nations shall worship before him: ²⁸ for the kingdom is the Lord's and he ruleth the nations. ²⁹ All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and worshipped: before him shall bow all that go down to the dust. Let my soul therefore live for him. ³⁰ My seed indeed will serve him: a generation which is coming shall be announced for the Lord: ³¹ and they will proclaim his saving mercy to a people that shall be born, whom the Lord made.

¹⁰ The righteous will rejoice when he seeth the punishment of the wicked; he will wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

⁷ May God bless us! And let all the ends of the earth fear him.

⁸ And let him rule from sea to sea; and from the river to the limits of the World. ⁹ Let the Ethiopeans bow down before him; and let his enemies lick the dust. ¹⁰ Let the kings of Tharsis and the isles bring gifts; the kings of the Arabs and Saba offer presents. ¹¹ Let all the kings pay him homage; all the nations serve as vassals.

³ He remembered his mercy for Jacob; and his truth to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

¹⁵ Though he granted them their request, and sent satiety to their soul;

¹ An Alleluia, Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good: for to everlasting his mercy endureth. ² Let this be said by them whom the Lord hath redeemed; whom he hath redeemed from an enemy's hand; ³ whom he hath gathered out of the countries; from the east and west and north and sea. ⁴ They had wandered in the desert in a land without water; they found no way to a city of habitation. ⁵ They were hungry and thirsty. Their soul within them fainted: ⁶ then they cried to the Lord in their affliction; and he delivered them from their distresses: ⁷ and conducted them to a straight road; that they might go to a city of habitation. ⁸ O let them praise the Lord for his mercies; and for his wonderful dealings with the sons of men: ⁹ because he hath satisfied the longing soul; and filled the hungry with good things. ¹⁰ As for them who sat in darkness and the shadow of death; bound with affliction and irons; ¹¹ because they rebelled against the oracles of God; and contemned the counsel of the Most High: ¹² when their heart was brought low by troubles; when they were weak and there was no helper: ¹³ then they cried to the Lord in their affliction; and he saved them from their distresses; ¹⁴ and brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death; and burst their chains asunder. ¹⁵ let them praise the Lord for his mercies, and for his wonderful dealings with the sons of men; ¹⁶ for he hath dashed to shivers the gates of brass, and broken asunder the bars of iron. ¹⁷ He helped them out of the way of their transgression: for on account of their iniquities they were brought low. ¹⁸ Their soul abhorred all manner of food, and they drew near to the gates of death. ¹⁹ Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction, and he saved them from their distresses. ²⁰ He sent forth his word and healed them; and delivered them from their destructions. ²¹ O let them praise the Lord for his mercies, and for his wonderful dealings with the sons of men; ²² and let them offer him a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and publish his works with joy. ²³ As for them who go to sea in ships, and traffick on the mighty waters; ²⁴ they see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. ²⁵ He spake, and up rose a tempestuous wind: and its waves are lifted high; ²⁶ they mount up to the heavens: then down they descend into the depths; with perils, their souls are melted; ²⁷ they reel and stagger like one drunk, and all their skill is swallowed up. ²⁸ Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction, and he brought them out of their distresses. ²⁹ He rebuked the tempest, and it stopt in a still calm; and its waves were lulled to silence. ³⁰ And they were glad, because they were at rest. And he conducted them to their desired port. ³¹ let them praise the Lord for his mercies, and for his Wonderful dealings with the sons of men. ³² Let them extol him in the congregation of the people: and praise him in the assembly of Elders. ³³ He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and outlets of water into a thirsty land; ³⁴ a fruitful country into barrenness: for the wickedness of them who dwell therein. ³⁵ He hath turned a desert into pools of water, and a thirsty soil into water springs: ³⁶ and caused the hungry to dwell there. And they have erected abiding cities: ³⁷ and have sown fields and planted vineyards, which have yielded them the fruits of increase. ³⁸ And he hath blessed them and they have multiplied greatly, and their cattle have not decreased. ³⁹ Again they have been diminished, and brought low by oppressions, afflictions, and sorrow. ⁴⁰ Contempt hath been poured on their princes: and he hath caused them to wander in a trackless desert. ⁴¹ Then out of affliction he hath helped the needy, and hath made families like a flock. ⁴² Let the righteous see and rejoice, and let all iniquity stop its mouth. ⁴³ Whosoever is wise and will observe these things, he will understand the mercies of the Lord.

¹⁶ indeed the Lord of hosts will send disgrace on thy honour, and on thy glory a burning fire shall be kindled:

⁴ there shall be in that day a diminution of the glory of Jacob; and the fatness of his glory shall be shaken;

² this vision being also dreadful, was revealed to me. The treacherous dealeth treacherously; the transgressor transgresseth; the Elamites are upon me; and the elders of the Persians are coming against me. Am I now to groan and comfort myself?

¹⁵ Heap evils on the vainglorious of the earth.

⁵ In that day the Lord of Hosts will be the crown of hope; the diadem of glory to the remnant of the people.

¹ [p] Woe to them who miserably afflict you; but none can make you miserable. Even the deceiver doth not deceive you. The deceivers shall be taken and delivered up and like a moth on a garment they shall be crushed.

²² Turn to me and ye shall be saved, ye from the farthest part of the earth, I am God and there is none else. ²³ By myself I swear [righteousness shall proceed from my mouth; my words shall not be reversed] that to me every knee shall bow and every tongue shall swear, with respect to God, ²⁴ saying, Righteousness and glory shall come to him, and all that make distinctions among them shall be ashamed. ²⁵ On account of the Lord they shall be acquitted; and in God all the seed of Israel will glory.

⁸ Thou didst neither know nor didst thou believe, nor did I from the beginning open thine ear: for I knew that, being in rebellion, thou wilt continue to rebel and wilt still be called a transgressor from the womb.

¹⁰ let the Lord therefore make bare his holy arm in the sight of all the nations! and let all the ends of the earth see the salvation come from our God.

²¹ And thy people shall be all righteous, they shall inherit the land forever, preserving the plant, the works of their hands, for glory.

¹⁹ And I will leave among them a sign, and those of them who escape I will send to the nations; to Tharsis and Phud and Lud and Mosach and to Thobel and Greece and to the far distant isles. They who have not heard my name nor seen my glory; even they shall proclaim my glory among the nations; ²⁰ and they shall bring your brethren from all the nations, as a gift for the Lord with horses and chariots, in litters borne by mules with umbrellas over them, to the holy city Jerusalem, said the Lord; as the children of Israel brought up their sacrifices for me with songs of praise to the house of the Lord.

²⁰ But as a wife dealeth treacherously with her husband, so the house of Israel dealt treacherously with me, saith the Lord.

¹¹ Because the house of Israel have broken faith with me, saith the Lord, and the house of Juda have given the lie to their Lord and said,

¹ [p] Righteous as thou art, O Lord, can I defend a cause against thee? but let me speak to thee in respect to judgments. Why is the way of wicked men prosperous? Why are they happy who have been all guilty of perfidy?

⁶ since even thy brethren and the house of thy father have dealt perfidiously with thee; when they have raised the cry of war; have assembled in pursuit of thee, wilt thou trust them, because they speak thee fair?

² She wept sore by night and her tears are on her cheeks: and of all her lovers there is none to comfort her. All her friends dealt treacherously with her. They became her enemies.

⁷ Because they have forsaken the Lord, because strange children have been born to them: the canker Worm shall now devour them and their portions.

⁷ As for them, they are like man transgressing a covenant.

⁴ And they will stand and look and the Lord will feed his flock with majesty; and in the glory of the name of the Lord their God they shall subsist; because they shall now be magnified to the ends of the earth;

³ Why hast thou pointed out to me to behold labours and sorrows, misery and impiety? A suit is instituted against me and the judge receiveth [bribes]

²⁷ And then he will send his messengers and gather his chosen ones from the four winds from the remotest part of the earth to the remotest part of heaven.

⁴⁷ for thus the Lord hath commanded us, "I have set thee for the light of nations, that thou mayst be for salvation to the remotest parts of the earth."

³ and they sing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord, God, Almighty; Just and true are thy ways O thou king of the saints;

⁵ And I heard the angel of the waters saying, Righteous art thou, O Lord, who art and who wast and who art to come, because thou hast passed these judgments. ⁶ Because they poured out the blood of thy saints and prophets, therefore thou hast given them blood to drink, for they deserve it. ⁷ And I heard another from the altar, saying, Yes, Lord, God, Almighty, thy judgments are true and righteous.

¹ And after this I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, Alleluia! the salvation and the glory and the honour and the power be to the Lord our God; ² for true and righteous are his judgments; for he hath passed sentence on the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and hath avenged the blood of his servants, at her hand. ³ [And again they said, alleluia!] and the smoke of her goeth up for the ages of the ages. ⁴ And the four and twenty elders and the four animate beings fell down and worshipped God who sat on the throne, saying, Amen. Alleluia. ⁵ And there came out from the throne a voice, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants and ye who fear him, both small and great. ⁶ And I heard as it were a voice of a great multitude and as a sound of many waters, and as it were a peal of mighty thunder saying, Alleluia. Because the Lord God the Omnipotent reigneth,