Isaiah 47:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I was angry at my people; I defiled my special possession and handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you even placed a very heavy burden on old people.

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Referenced Verses

  • Zech 1:15 : 15 But I am greatly displeased with the nations that take my grace for granted. I was a little displeased with them, but they have only made things worse for themselves.
  • 2 Chr 28:9 : 9 Oded, a prophet of the LORD, was there. He went to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them:“Look, because the LORD God of your ancestors was angry with Judah he handed them over to you. You have killed them so mercilessly that God has taken notice.
  • Ps 69:26 : 26 For they harass the one whom you discipline; they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish.
  • Isa 14:17 : 17 Is this the one who made the world like a wilderness, who ruined its cities, and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?”’
  • Deut 28:50 : 50 a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young.
  • Obad 1:10 : 10 Edom’s Treachery Against Judah“Because you violently slaughtered your relatives, the people of Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be destroyed forever.
  • Obad 1:16 : 16 For just as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink, and they will gulp down; they will be as though they had never been.
  • 2 Sam 24:14 : 14 David said to Gad,“I am very upset! I prefer that we be attacked by the LORD, for his mercy is great; I do not want to be attacked by men!”
  • Matt 7:2 : 2 For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive.
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 For judgment is merciless for the one who has shown no mercy. But mercy triumphs over judgment.
  • Isa 42:24-25 : 24 Who handed Jacob over to the robber? Who handed Israel over to the looters? Was it not the LORD, against whom we sinned? They refused to follow his commands; they disobeyed his law. 25 So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation of war. Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; it burned against them, but they did not take it to heart.
  • Isa 43:28 : 28 So I defiled your holy princes, and handed Jacob over to destruction, and subjected Israel to humiliating abuse.”
  • Lam 2:2 : 2 ב(Bet) The Lord destroyed mercilessly all the homes of Jacob’s descendants. In his anger he tore down the fortified cities of Daughter Judah. He knocked to the ground and humiliated the kingdom and its rulers.
  • Ezek 24:21 : 21 Say to the house of Israel,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary– the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life’s passion. Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die by the sword.
  • Ezek 28:16 : 16 In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned; so I defiled you and banished you from the mountain of God– the guardian cherub expelled you from the midst of the stones of fire.
  • Isa 10:6 : 6 I sent him against a godless nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.
  • Isa 13:16 : 16 Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives raped.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:62
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    62He delivered his people over to the sword, and was angry with his chosen nation.

  • Ezek 21:31
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    31I will pour out my anger on you; the fire of my fury I will blow on you. I will hand you over to brutal men, who are skilled in destruction.

  • Jer 17:3-4
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    3and on the mountains and in the fields. I will give your wealth and all your treasures away as plunder. I will give it away as the price for the sins you have committed throughout your land.

    4You will lose your hold on the land which I gave to you as a permanent possession. I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For you have made my anger burn like a fire that will never be put out.”

  • Isa 63:6
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    6I trampled nations in my anger, I made them drunk in my rage, I splashed their blood on the ground.”

  • Ps 106:40
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    40So the LORD was angry with his people and despised the people who belong to him.

  • Jer 44:6
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    6So my anger and my wrath were poured out and burned like a fire through the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. That is why they have become the desolate ruins that they are today.’

  • Isa 47:7
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    7You said,‘I will rule forever as permanent queen!’ You did not think about these things; you did not consider how it would turn out.

  • Neh 9:30
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    30You prolonged your kindness with them for many years, and you solemnly admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they paid no attention, so you delivered them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.

  • Hos 13:11
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    11I granted you a king in my anger, and I will take him away in my wrath!

  • Jer 2:7
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    7I brought you into a fertile land so you could enjoy its fruits and its rich bounty. But when you entered my land, you defiled it; you made the land I call my own loathsome to me.

  • Ezek 36:18
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    18So I poured my anger on them because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it.

  • Jer 15:6
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    6I, the LORD, say:‘You people have deserted me! You keep turning your back on me.’ So I have unleashed my power against you and have begun to destroy you. I have grown tired of feeling sorry for you!”

  • Jer 15:13-14
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    13I will give away your wealth and your treasures as plunder. I will give it away free of charge for the sins you have committed throughout your land.

    14I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For my anger is like a fire that will burn against you.”

  • Isa 10:5-6
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    5The Lord Turns on Arrogant Assyria Beware, Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.

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  • Mic 6:13
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    13I will strike you brutally and destroy you because of your sin.

  • 2 Chr 36:17
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    17He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered their young men in their temple. He did not spare young men or women, or even the old and aging. God handed everyone over to him.

  • Isa 47:5
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    5“Sit silently! Go to a hiding place, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called‘Queen of kingdoms.’

  • 2 Chr 29:8
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    8The LORD was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.

  • Ezek 22:31
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    31So I have poured my anger on them, and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

  • Mic 2:9
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    9You wrongly evict widows among my people from their cherished homes. You defraud their children of their prized inheritance.

  • Isa 57:17
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    17I was angry because of their sinful greed; I attacked them and angrily rejected them, yet they remained disobedient and stubborn.

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    22This is what your Sovereign LORD, even your God who judges his people says:“Look, I have removed from your hand the cup of intoxicating wine, the goblet full of my anger. You will no longer have to drink it.

    23I will put it into the hand of your tormentors who said to you,‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’ You made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who walked over you.”

  • Ezek 7:21
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    21I will give it to foreigners as loot, to the world’s wicked ones as plunder, and they will desecrate it.

  • Isa 43:28
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    28So I defiled your holy princes, and handed Jacob over to destruction, and subjected Israel to humiliating abuse.”

  • Jer 6:11
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  • Isa 42:25
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    25So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation of war. Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; it burned against them, but they did not take it to heart.

  • 2 Kgs 21:14
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    14I will abandon this last remaining tribe among my people and hand them over to their enemies; they will be plundered and robbed by all their enemies,

  • Jer 34:16
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    16But then you turned right around and showed that you did not honor me. Each of you took back your male and female slaves whom you had freed as they desired, and you forced them to be your slaves again.

  • Zech 1:15
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    15But I am greatly displeased with the nations that take my grace for granted. I was a little displeased with them, but they have only made things worse for themselves.

  • Jer 6:27
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    27The LORD said to me,“I have made you like a metal assayer to test my people like ore. You are to observe them and evaluate how they behave.”

  • Lam 1:18
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    18צ(Tsade)Jerusalem Speaks: The LORD is right to judge me! Yes, I rebelled against his commands. Please listen, all you nations, and look at my suffering! My young women and men have gone into exile.

  • Neh 5:6
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    6I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these complaints.

  • Zeph 3:7
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    7I thought,‘Certainly you will respect me! Now you will accept correction!’ If she had done so, her home would not be destroyed by all the punishments I have threatened. But they eagerly sinned in everything they did.

  • Ezek 25:7
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    7take note, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will hand you over as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands. I will destroy you; then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Ezek 22:7-8
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    7They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the resident foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.

    8You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths!

  • Ezek 5:14
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    14“I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

  • Ezek 16:39
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    39I will give you into their hands and they will destroy your chambers and tear down your pavilions. They will strip you of your clothing and take your beautiful jewelry and leave you naked and bare.

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    3“My people, how have I wronged you? How have I wearied you? Answer me!

  • Isa 52:5
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    5And now, what do we have here?” says the LORD.“Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing, those who rule over them taunt,” says the LORD,“and my name is constantly slandered all day long.

  • Ezek 23:30
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    30I will do these things to you because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

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    24According to their uncleanness and rebellion I have dealt with them, and I hid my face from them.

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    21ש(Sin/Shin) The young boys and old men lie dead on the ground in the streets. My young women and my young men have fallen by the sword. You killed them when you were angry; you slaughtered them without mercy.

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    43ס(Samek) You shrouded yourself with anger and then pursued us; you killed without mercy.