Isaiah 50:2

World English Bible (2000)

Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

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  • Num 11:23 : 23 Yahweh said to Moses, "Has Yahweh's hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not."
  • Josh 3:16 : 16 that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over right against Jericho.
  • Isa 59:1 : 1 Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it can't save; neither his ear heavy, that it can't hear:
  • Gen 18:14 : 14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
  • Exod 14:21 : 21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
  • Isa 66:4 : 4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight."
  • Nah 1:4 : 4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
  • Hos 11:2 : 2 They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.
  • John 1:11 : 11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him.
  • Isa 65:12 : 12 I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight."
  • Jer 35:15 : 15 I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and don't go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.
  • Exod 7:18 : 18 The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river."'"
  • Exod 7:21 : 21 The fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians couldn't drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.
  • Ps 106:9 : 9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
  • Isa 59:16 : 16 He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness, it upheld him.
  • Isa 42:15 : 15 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
  • Isa 43:16 : 16 Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
  • Prov 1:24 : 24 Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
  • Isa 19:5 : 5 The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.
  • Isa 36:20 : 20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'"
  • Isa 41:28 : 28 When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
  • Isa 51:10 : 10 Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
  • Isa 63:13 : 13 who led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn't stumble?
  • Ps 107:33 : 33 He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,
  • Ps 114:3-7 : 3 The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs. 5 What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back? 6 You mountains, that you skipped like rams; you little hills, like lambs? 7 Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
  • 2 Chr 32:15 : 15 Now therefore don't let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way, neither believe him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?"
  • Exod 14:29 : 29 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
  • Dan 3:15 : 15 Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don't worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?
  • Dan 3:29 : 29 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak anything evil against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god who is able to deliver after this sort.
  • Dan 6:20 : 20 When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the king spoke and said to Daniel, Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?
  • Dan 6:27 : 27 He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
  • Jer 5:1 : 1 "Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
  • John 3:19 : 19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
  • Hos 11:7 : 7 My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won't exalt them.
  • Mark 4:39 : 39 He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
  • Jer 7:13 : 13 Now, because you have done all these works, says Yahweh, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn't hear; and I called you, but you didn't answer:
  • Jer 8:6 : 6 I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Thus says Yahweh, "Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.

  • Isa 41:17-18
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    17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

    18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

  • 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering."

  • 5 I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my wrath, it upheld me.

  • 24 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.'

  • 24 Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

  • 36 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

  • 10 Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

  • 25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt."

  • 5 The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

  • 4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

  • Isa 42:14-15
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    14 "I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

    15 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.

  • 22 Don't you fear me?' says Yahweh 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'

  • 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

  • 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

  • 1 Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it can't save; neither his ear heavy, that it can't hear:

  • 31 Generation, consider the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, 'We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?'

  • 28 When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.

  • 13 Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

  • 3 Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.

  • 6 You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you have gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.

  • 19 These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?

  • 6 Neither did they say, 'Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?'

  • 27 Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?"

  • 12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

  • 42 They looked, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.

  • 26 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;

  • 16 Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

  • 12 Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.

  • 5 I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

  • 8 So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.

  • 20 I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

  • 13 Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?"

  • 15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

  • 7 There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

  • 13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

  • 15 Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now.

  • 41 They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.

  • 7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

  • 20 Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

  • 27 who says to the deep, 'Be dry,' and 'I will dry up your rivers;'

  • 38 A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.

  • 4 But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God."

  • 15 For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

  • 25 "Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.'

  • 12 I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

  • 16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.

  • 15 Why do you cry for your hurt? Your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.