Isaiah 21:17

World English Bible (2000)

and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it."

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  • Isa 1:20 : 20 but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."
  • Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
  • Zech 1:6 : 6 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn't they overtake your fathers? "Then they repented and said, 'Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
  • Ps 107:39 : 39 Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
  • Isa 10:18-19 : 18 He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints. 19 The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.
  • Isa 17:4-5 : 4 "It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean. 5 It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.
  • Jer 44:29 : 29 This shall be the sign to you, says Yahweh, that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:

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  • Isa 21:15-16
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    15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the heat of battle.

    16 For the Lord said to me, "Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,

  • 28 Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. Thus says Yahweh: Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.

  • Isa 17:2-4
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    2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

    3 The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel," says Yahweh of Armies.

    4 "It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

  • 21 All his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered toward every wind: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

  • Isa 10:17-19
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    17 The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

    18 He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

    19 The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.

  • 10 For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.

  • 6 Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree," says Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • 17 Gather up your wares out of the land, you who live under siege.

  • Isa 10:21-23
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    21 A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

    22 For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

    23 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, in the midst of all the earth.

  • 16 Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.

  • 7 I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  • 17 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 21 yes, thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:

  • 37 The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

  • 3 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."

  • 2 For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.

  • 15 For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.

  • Jer 50:29-30
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    29 Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her all around; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.

    30 Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all her men of war will be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh.

  • 28 I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass through.

  • 13 The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.

  • 31 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. The zeal of Yahweh will perform this.'

  • 10 You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!" That which I have heard from Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

  • 12 Thus says Yahweh: "Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

  • 9 In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.

  • 32 and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.

  • 3 Against [him who] bends let the archer bend his bow, and against [him who] lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don't spare her young men; utterly destroy all her army.

  • 17 that Yahweh spoke to me, saying,

  • 16 and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day," says Yahweh.

  • 2 Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

  • 13 Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

  • 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh of Armies.

  • 3 and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.

  • 27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh shall lead you away.

  • 13 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even to Dedan shall they fall by the sword.

  • 36 If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.

  • 14 But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, "Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble."

  • 14 I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies. They will become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

  • 13 "Then a remnant of the nobles [and] the people came down. Yahweh came down for me against the mighty.

  • 32 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go forth, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.'

  • 17 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 3 and tell the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

  • 8 "The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labor.