Isaiah 24:1

Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—

Cross References (32)

  • Nahum 2:10 (6)

    She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale

  • Isaiah 2:19 (6)

    Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of H

  • Isaiah 42:15 (5)

    I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain

  • Isaiah 24:20 (5)

    The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise

  • Ezekiel 12:20 (4)

    The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Ezekiel 35:14 (4)

    This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

  • Isaiah 6:11–12 (4)

    Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses

  • 2 Kings 21:13 (3)

    I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of A

  • Psalms 146:9 (3)

    The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

  • Ezekiel 5:2 (3)

    When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a th

  • Ezekiel 6:6 (3)

    Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be lai

  • Jeremiah 9:16 (3)

    I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them

  • Isaiah 33:9 (3)

    The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off the

  • Nehemiah 1:8 (3)

    Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter y

  • Isaiah 7:17–25 (3)

    The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim se

  • Isaiah 32:13–14 (3)

    and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelr

  • Isaiah 29:16 (3)

    You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed i

  • Isaiah 27:10 (3)

    For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there the

  • Ezekiel 5:14 (3)

    I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.

  • Deuteronomy 4:27 (3)

    Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD

  • Luke 21:24 (3)

    They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by t

  • Deuteronomy 28:64 (3)

    Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship

  • Deuteronomy 32:26 (3)

    I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

  • Isaiah 5:6 (3)

    I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds

  • Isaiah 1:7–9 (3)

    Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolishe

  • Ezekiel 24:11 (2)

    Set the empty pot on its coals until it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt within; its rust w

  • Jeremiah 40:15 (2)

    Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said

  • Zechariah 13:7–9 (2)

    Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepher

  • Acts 17:6 (1)

    But when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting, “Thes

  • Jeremiah 4:7 (1)

    A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land

  • Jeremiah 50:17 (1)

    Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush hi

  • James 1:1 (1)

    James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes of the Dispersion: Greetings.