Isaiah 8:14

World English Bible (2000)

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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  • 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
  • Luke 2:34 : 34 and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, "Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.
  • Rom 9:32-33 : 32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone; 33 even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed."
  • Isa 28:16 : 16 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
  • Ezek 11:16 : 16 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they are come.
  • Ps 46:1-2 : 1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we won't be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;
  • Ps 69:22 : 22 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
  • Prov 18:10 : 10 The name of Yahweh is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
  • Matt 13:57 : 57 They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house."
  • Ps 11:6 : 6 On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
  • Rom 11:9-9 : 9 David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them. 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always." 11 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
  • Rom 11:35 : 35 "Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?"
  • Luke 21:35 : 35 For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.
  • Isa 4:6 : 6 There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
  • Isa 24:17-18 : 17 Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabitant the earth. 18 It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
  • Isa 26:20 : 20 Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

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  • Isa 8:15
    88%

    15 Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured."

  • 1 Pet 2:6-8
    3 verses
    81%

    6 Because it is contained in Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed."

    7 For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,"

    8 and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

  • Rom 9:32-33
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    78%

    32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

    33 even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed."

  • Isa 28:16
    74%

    16 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

  • Isa 8:13
    74%

    13 Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.

  • Isa 57:14
    73%

    14 He will say, "Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people."

  • Jer 6:21
    73%

    21 Therefore thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend shall perish."

  • Zech 12:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem.

    3 It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.

  • Mic 3:12
    72%

    12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

  • Matt 21:44
    72%

    44 He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust."

  • Luke 20:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17 But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?'

    18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust."

  • 1 Kgs 9:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7 then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

    8 Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, 'Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?'

  • Acts 4:11
    69%

    11 He is 'the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.'

  • Isa 31:9
    69%

    9 His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner," says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

  • Mark 14:27
    69%

    27 Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'

  • Mark 12:10
    69%

    10 Haven't you even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner.

  • Job 18:8
    69%

    8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

  • Isa 28:13
    69%

    13 Therefore the word of Yahweh will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

  • 2 Chr 7:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20 then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

    21 This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, 'Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?'

  • Isa 30:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

    14 He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."

  • Job 18:10
    68%

    10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

  • Isa 13:14
    68%

    14 It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.

  • Lam 2:7
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    7 The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

  • Obad 1:17
    68%

    17 But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.

  • Isa 5:7
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    7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

  • Ps 118:22
    68%

    22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.

  • Zech 3:9
    68%

    9 For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,' says Yahweh of Armies, 'and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

  • Jer 51:26
    68%

    26 They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh.

  • Rom 11:9
    68%

    9 David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

  • Matt 21:42
    68%

    42 Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?'

  • Hos 9:8
    68%

    8 A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler's snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

  • Isa 10:32
    68%

    32 This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

  • Mic 1:5
    67%

    5 "All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the disobedience of Jacob? Isn't it Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Aren't they Jerusalem?

  • Jer 14:8
    67%

    8 You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

  • Zech 14:4
    67%

    4 His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

  • Isa 3:8
    67%

    8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

  • Matt 26:31
    67%

    31 Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

  • 2 Chr 29:8
    67%

    8 Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • Lev 14:45
    67%

    45 He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house's mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.

  • Isa 17:9
    67%

    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.

  • Isa 2:1
    67%

    1 This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 19:8
    67%

    8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.