Isaiah 6:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.

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  • Jer 4:29 : 29 All the land is in flight because of the noise of the horsemen and the bowmen; they have taken cover in the woodland and up on the rocks: every town has been given up, not a man is living in them.
  • Jer 12:7 : 7 I have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.
  • Jer 15:4 : 4 And I will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and what he did in Jerusalem.
  • Jer 52:28-30 : 28 These are the people whom Nebuchadrezzar took away prisoner: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews: 29 And in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he took away as prisoners from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons: 30 In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners seven hundred and forty-five of the Jews: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
  • Lam 5:20 : 20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?
  • Rom 11:1-2 : 1 So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not put away the people of his selection. Or have you no knowledge of what is said about Elijah in the holy Writings? how he says words to God against Israel,
  • Rom 11:15 : 15 For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?
  • Deut 28:64 : 64 And the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other: there you will be servants to other gods, of wood and stone, gods of which you and your fathers had no knowledge.
  • 2 Kgs 25:11 : 11 And the rest of the people who were still in the town, and all those who had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and all the rest of the workmen, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners;
  • 2 Kgs 25:21 : 21 And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken away prisoner from his land.
  • Isa 26:15 : 15 You have made the nation great, O Lord, you have made it great; glory is yours: you have made wide the limits of the land.

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  • Isa 27:10
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