Isaiah 9:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 49:26 : 26 And the flesh of your attackers will be taken by themselves for food; and they will take their blood for drink, as if it was sweet wine: and all men will see that I the Lord am your saviour, even he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.
  • Jer 19:9 : 9 I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.
  • Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Lev 26:26-29 : 26 When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough. 27 And if, after all this, you do not give ear to me, but go against me still, 28 Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins. 29 Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;
  • Isa 8:21 : 21 And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 9:21
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    21Manasseh was making a meal of Ephraim, and Ephraim of Manasseh; and together they were attacking Judah. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Mic 6:14
    77%

    14You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

  • Isa 9:19
    77%

    19The land was dark with the wrath of the Lord of armies: the people were like those who take men's flesh for food.

  • Jer 19:9
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    9I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.

  • Mic 3:3
    75%

    3Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.

  • Job 18:12
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    12His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

  • Zech 14:12-13
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    12And this will be the disease which the Lord will send on all the peoples which have been warring against Jerusalem: their flesh will be wasted away while they are on their feet, their eyes will be wasted in their heads and their tongues in their mouths.

    13And it will be on that day that a great fear will be sent among them from the Lord; and everyone will take his neighbour's hand, and every man's hand will be lifted against his neighbour's.

  • Deut 28:53-55
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    75%

    53And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters.

    54That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;

    55And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

  • Lev 26:29
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    29Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;

  • Isa 9:12
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    12Aram on the east, and the Philistines on the west, who have come against Israel with open mouths. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Zech 11:9
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    9And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.

  • Job 20:21-23
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    74%

    21He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

    22Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.

    23God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

  • Jer 5:17
    74%

    17They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • Dan 11:26
    74%

    26And his fears will overcome him and be the cause of his downfall, and his army will come to complete destruction, and a great number will be put to the sword.

  • Lev 26:38
    72%

    38And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.

  • Ezek 4:17
    72%

    17So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.

  • Isa 8:21
    72%

    21And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;

  • Jer 30:16
    72%

    16For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your goods by force will undergo the same themselves.

  • Isa 13:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.

    15Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword.

  • Lam 4:9-10
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    72%

    9Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.

    10The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Eccl 4:5
    71%

    5The foolish man, folding his hands, takes the flesh of his body for food.

  • Ezek 5:10
    71%

    10For this cause fathers will take their sons for food among you, and sons will make a meal of their fathers; and I will be judge among you, and all the rest of you I will send away to every wind.

  • Job 33:21
    71%

    21His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...

  • Isa 5:17
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    17Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.

  • Ezek 39:18
    71%

    18The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and your drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of sheep and lambs, of he-goats, of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.

  • Ps 21:9
    71%

    9You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

  • Deut 28:51
    71%

    51He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

  • 1 Sam 2:16
    70%

    16And if the man said to him, First let the fat be burned, then take as much as you will; then the servant would say, No, you are to give it to me now, or I will take it by force.

  • Job 5:5
    70%

    5Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

  • Rev 19:18
    70%

    18So that you may take for your food the flesh of kings, and of captains, and of strong men, and of horses and of those who are seated on them, and the flesh of all men, free and unfree, small and great.

  • Isa 29:8
    70%

    8And it will be like a man desiring food, and dreaming that he is feasting; but when he is awake there is nothing in his mouth: or like a man in need of water, dreaming that he is drinking; but when he is awake he is feeble and his soul is full of desire: so will all the nations be which make war on Mount Zion.

  • Isa 49:26
    70%

    26And the flesh of your attackers will be taken by themselves for food; and they will take their blood for drink, as if it was sweet wine: and all men will see that I the Lord am your saviour, even he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.

  • Job 24:10
    70%

    10Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

  • Isa 13:7
    70%

    7For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;

  • Prov 13:25
    70%

    25The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.

  • Jer 12:12
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    12Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.

  • Ezek 21:16
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    16Be pointed to the right, to the left, wherever your edge is ordered.

  • Zech 11:16
    70%

    16For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.

  • Isa 5:25
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    25For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead bodies were like waste in the open places of the town.

  • Prov 30:14
    70%

    14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.

  • Jer 18:21
    70%

    21For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

  • Isa 10:18
    70%

    18And he will put an end to the glory of his woods and of his planted fields, soul and body together; and it will be as when a man is wasted by disease.

  • Ezek 12:19
    70%

    19And say to the people of the land, This is what the Lord has said about the people of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will take their food with care and their drink with wonder, so that all the wealth of their land may be taken from it because of the violent ways of the people living in it.