Isaiah 20 Cross References - MLV

¹ In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him and he fought against Ashdod and took it, ² at that time Jehovah spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from your loins and put your shoe from your foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
³ And Jehovah said, Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia, ⁴ so will the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
⁵ And they will be dismayed and confounded because of Ethiopia their confidence and of Egypt their glory. ⁶ And the inhabitant of this coast will say in that day, Behold, such is our trust, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?

¹ Now the Philistines had taken the ark of God and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

¹⁷ And these are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to Jehovah: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one.

¹⁷ And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they came up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the launder's field.

²⁰ and all the mixed people and all the kings of the land of the Uz and all the kings of the Philistines and Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod,

²⁹ For behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name and should you* be utterly unpunished? You* will not be unpunished. For I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, says Jehovah of hosts.
³⁰ Therefore prophesy you against them all these words and say to them, Jehovah will roar from on high and utter his voice from his holy habitation. He will mightily roar against his fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

⁸ And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod and he who holds the scepter from Ashkelon. And I will turn my hand against Ekron and the remnant of the Philistines will perish, says the lord Jehovah.

⁵ And he said, Do not draw near here. Put off your shoes from your feet, because the place on which you stand is holy ground.

¹⁵ And the captain of Jehovah's army said to Joshua, Put off your shoe from your foot, for the place on which you stand is holy. And Joshua did so.

²⁴ And he also stripped off his clothes and he also prophesied before Samuel and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?

²⁰ Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, How glorious was the King of Israel today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!

⁸ And they answered him, He was a hairy man and girt with a belt of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

²⁰ Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell down upon the ground and worshiped. ²¹ And he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb and naked I will return there. Jehovah gave and Jehovah has taken away, praise the name of Jehovah.

¹ The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

¹ Jehovah says thus to me, Go and buy you a linen sash and put it upon your loins and do not put it in water. ² So I bought a sash according to the word of Jehovah and put it upon my loins.
³ And the word of Jehovah came to me the second time, saying, ⁴ Take the sash that you have bought, which is upon your loins and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock. ⁵ So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as Jehovah commanded me.
⁶ And it happened after many days, that Jehovah said to me, Arise, go to the Euphrates and take the sash from there, which I commanded you to hide there. ⁷ Then I went to the Euphrates and dug and took the sash from the place where I had hid it. And behold, the sash was rotten. It was good for nothing.
⁸ Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ⁹ Jehovah says thus, After this manner I will mar the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. ¹⁰ This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and to worship them, will even be as this sash, which is good for nothing.
¹¹ For as the sash clings to the loins of a man, so I have caused to cling to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Jehovah, that they may be to me for a people and for a name and for a praise and for a glory, but they would not hear.

¹ Thus said Jehovah: Go and buy a potter's earthenware and take of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests, ² and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Earthen Vessels Gate and proclaim there the words that I will tell you. ³ And say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle.
⁴ Because they have forsaken me and have estranged this place and have burned incense in it to other gods that they did not know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah and have filled this place with the blood of innocents, ⁵ and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither did it come into my mind, ⁶ therefore behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that this place will no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter.
⁷ And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. And I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life. And I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.
⁸ And I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.
⁹ And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. And they will eat each one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life, will distress them.
¹⁰ Then you will break the earthenware in the sight of the men who go with you, ¹¹ and will say to them, Jehovah of hosts says thus: Even so I will break this people and this city, as a potter's vessel is broken, that cannot be made whole again. And they will bury in Topheth till there is no place to bury.
¹² Thus I will do to this place, says Jehovah and to the inhabitants of it, even making this city as Topheth. ¹³ And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.
¹⁴ Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Jehovah had sent him to prophesy and he stood in the court of Jehovah's house and said to all the people, ¹⁵ Jehovah of hosts says thus, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.

⁵ For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be a number of days to you, even three hundred and ninety days. So you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

¹⁷ Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress upon you and put your shoes upon your feet. And do not cover your lips and do not eat the bread of men.

²³ And your* coverings will be upon your* heads and your* shoes upon your* feet. You* will not mourn nor weep, but you* will pine away in your* iniquities and moan one toward another.

⁸ For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will make a wailing like the jackals and a lamentation like the ostriches.

¹¹ Pass away, O inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan has not come forth. The wailing of Beth-ezel will take from you* the stay of it.

⁴ And it will happen in that day, that the prophets will be ashamed each one of his vision, when he prophesies, nor will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive.

⁴ Now John himself had his outer clothing made of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his loin, and his nourishment was locusts and wild honey.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, If anyone is willing to come after me, let him deny himself and lift up his cross and follow me.

⁷ Therefore, that disciple whom Jesus loved says to Peter, It is the Lord. Therefore Simon Peter having heard, It is the Lord; he girded his outer clothing upon himself (for he was naked) and cast himself into the sea.

¹⁶ And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaping upon them and having mastered, prevailed against them, so-that they fled out of that house, naked and traumatized.

³ And I will be giving to my two witnesses and they will be prophesying one thousand two hundred and sixty days, having been dressed in sackcloth.

³⁴ After the number of the days in which you* spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you* will bear your* iniquities, even forty years and you* will know my alienation.

¹⁸ Behold, I and the children whom Jehovah has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion.

¹ Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, ² that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, You* go swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people fearful from their beginning onward, a nation mighty and trampled down, whose land the rivers divide!
³ All you* inhabitants of the world and you* dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see you* and when the trumpet is blown, hear you*.
⁴ For thus Jehovah has said to me, I will be still and I will behold in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. ⁵ For before the harvest, when the blossom is over and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks and he will take away and cut down the spreading branches. ⁶ They will be left together to the ravenous birds of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth. And the ravenous birds will summer upon them and all the beasts of the earth will winter upon them.
⁷ In that time a present will be brought to Jehovah of hosts from a people tall and smooth, even from a people fearful from their beginning onward, a nation mighty and tramples down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the Mount Zion.

⁹ And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He has come out to fight against you. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

³ For I am Jehovah your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your stead.

⁵ For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be a number of days to you, even three hundred and ninety days. So you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
⁶ And again, when you have accomplished these, you will lie on your right side and will bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, each day for a year. I have appointed it to you.

² And the courtyard outside the temple cast away outside and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations and they will be trampling on the holy city forty-two months.
³ And I will be giving to my two witnesses and they will be prophesying one thousand two hundred and sixty days, having been dressed in sackcloth.

⁴ So Hanun took David's servants and shaved off the one half of their beards and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks and sent them away.

¹⁷ therefore the Lord will kill* with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.

⁴ And I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. And a fierce king will rule over them, says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

³ Your nakedness will be uncovered, yes, your shame will be seen. I will take vengeance and will spare no man.

²² And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come upon me? For the greatness of your iniquity your skirts are uncovered and your heels suffer violence.

²⁶ Therefore I will also uncover your skirts upon your face and your shame will appear.

²⁶ And I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of his servants. And afterwards it will be inhabited, as in the days of long-ago, says Jehovah.

¹⁸ At Tehaphnehes also the day will withdraw itself when I will break the yokes of Egypt there and the pride of her power will cease in her. As for her, a cloud will cover her and her daughters will go into captivity.

¹⁸ I am counseling together with you to buy gold from me, having been refined out of fire, in order that you may be enriched, and in order that you should dress yourself with white garments and in order that the shame of your nakedness should not be manifested to all, and in order that you may anoint your eyes with eye-salve, in order that you may see.

²¹ Now, behold, you trust upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man leans it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh King of Egypt to all who trust on him.

²² Cease you* from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for how is he to be accounted of?

³ Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your* shame and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your* confusion.

⁵ They will all be ashamed because of a people who cannot profit them, who are not a help nor profit, but a shame and also a reproach.

⁷ For Egypt helps in vain and to no purpose. Therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.

⁶ Behold, you trust upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh King of Egypt to all who trust on him.

²³ Jehovah says thus: Do not let the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man glory in his might. Do not let the rich man glory in his riches, ²⁴ but let he who boasts boast in this, that he has understanding and knows me, that I am Jehovah who exercises loving kindness, justice and righteousness, in the earth. For in these things I delight, says Jehovah.

⁵ Jehovah says thus: Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm and whose heart departs from Jehovah.

⁶ And all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. ⁷ When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders. And when they leaned upon you, you broke and made all their loins to be at a stand still.

²¹ So-then, let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

²⁰ They were put to shame because they had hoped. They came there and were confounded.

³⁰ He will deliver even him who is not innocent. Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.

³ And what will you* do in the day of visitation and in the desolation which will come from far? To whom will you* flee for help? And where will you* leave your* glory?

¹⁷ And I will make justice the line and righteousness the plummet.
And the hail will sweep away the refuge of lies and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

¹ Woe to the rebellious sons, says Jehovah, who take counsel, but not of me and who make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, ² who set out to go down into Egypt and have not asked at my mouth, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!
³ Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your* shame and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your* confusion. ⁴ For their rulers are at Zoan and their ambassadors have come to Hanes. ⁵ They will all be ashamed because of a people who cannot profit them, who are not a help nor profit, but a shame and also a reproach.
⁶ The burden of the beasts of the South.
Through the land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young donkeys and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people who will not profit them. ⁷ For Egypt helps in vain and to no purpose. Therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.

¹⁵ For thus said the lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, You* will be saved in returning and rest. Your* strength will be in quietness and in confidence. And you* would not, ¹⁶ but you* said, No, for we will flee upon horses. Therefore you* will flee. And you * said, We will ride upon the swift. Therefore those who pursue you* will be swift.

¹ Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses and trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek Jehovah! ² Yet he also is wise and will bring evil and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers and against the help of those who work wickedness.
³ Now the Egyptians are men and not God and their horses flesh and not spirit. And when Jehovah will stretch out his hand, both he who helps will stumble and he who is helped will fall and they will all be consumed together.

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.
¹⁶ Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured and all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity. And those who despoil you will be a spoil and all who prey upon you I will give for a prey. ¹⁷ For I will restore health to you and I will heal you of your wounds, says Jehovah, because they have called you an outcast, saying, It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.

⁴ because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains. For Jehovah will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.

³³ Serpents, offspring of vipers! How may you flee from the judgment of hell?

³ For whenever they are saying, Peace and security; then sudden utter-destruction stands by them, just-like the travail a woman has in her womb, and they may never flee away from it.

³ how shall we flee, having neglected so-great a salvation, which having received at the beginning was spoken through the Lord, which was confirmed to us from those who heard it?