Isaiah 8:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.

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  • Isa 9:20 : 20 They devoured on the right, but were still hungry, they ate on the left, but were not satisfied. People even ate the flesh of their own arm!
  • Jer 14:18 : 18 If I go out into the countryside, I see those who have been killed in battle. If I go into the city, I see those who are sick because of starvation. For both prophet and priest– they go peddling in the land but they are not humbled.’”
  • Jer 52:6 : 6 By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.
  • Lam 4:4-5 : 4 ד(Dalet) The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel. 5 ה(He) Those who once feasted on delicacies are now starving to death in the streets. Those who grew up wearing expensive clothes are now dying amid garbage.
  • Lam 4:9-9 : 9 ט(Tet) Those who died by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, those who waste away, struck down from lack of food. 10 י(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.
  • Rev 9:20-21 : 20 The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood– idols that cannot see or hear or walk about. 21 Furthermore, they did not repent of their murders, of their magic spells, of their sexual immorality, or of their stealing.
  • Rev 16:9-9 : 9 Thus people were scorched by the terrible heat, yet they blasphemed the name of God, who has ruling authority over these plagues, and they would not repent and give him glory. 10 Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast so that darkness covered his kingdom, and people began to bite their tongues because of their pain. 11 They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their sufferings and because of their sores, but nevertheless they still refused to repent of their deeds.
  • Exod 22:28 : 28 “You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.
  • Deut 28:33-34 : 33 As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives. 34 You will go insane from seeing all this.
  • Deut 28:53-57 : 53 You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you. 54 The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children. 55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating(since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages. 56 Likewise, the most tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness, will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters, 57 and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children(since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.
  • 2 Kgs 6:33 : 33 He was still talking to them when the messenger approached and said,“Look, the LORD is responsible for this disaster! Why should I continue to wait for the LORD to help?”
  • 2 Kgs 25:3 : 3 By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.
  • Job 1:11 : 11 But extend your hand and strike everything he has, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”
  • Job 2:5 : 5 But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”
  • Job 2:9 : 9 Then his wife said to him,“Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!”
  • Prov 19:3 : 3 A person’s folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the LORD.
  • Isa 8:7-8 : 7 So look, the Lord is bringing up against them the turbulent and mighty waters of the Euphrates River– the king of Assyria and all his majestic power. It will reach flood stage and overflow its banks. 8 It will spill into Judah, flooding and engulfing, as it reaches to the necks of its victims. He will spread his wings out over your entire land, O Immanuel.”

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    15 They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.

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    30 At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.

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    16 So their land will become an object of horror. People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision.

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    8 The 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.

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    18 They lost their appetite for all food, and they drew near the gates of death.

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    17 They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in.

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    39 As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering.

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