Isaiah 24:13 Cross References - NSB

¹³ So will it be on the earth and among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.

⁹ If Jehovah of Hosts had not left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.

¹³ »Even if one out of ten people are left it will be destroyed (burned) again. When a strong tree or an oak is cut down, a stump is left. The holy seed is the stump.«

²⁰ In that day the remnant of Israel, the survivors of the house of Jacob, will no longer rely on the one who defeated them. They will truly rely on Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel. ²¹ A remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty (Powerful) God. Yes, a remnant will return! ²² Your people, O Israel, are like the sand of the sea. Yet only a remnant within them will return. Overwhelming and righteous destruction has been decreed.

⁵ It will be like reapers gathering the standing grain. Their arms harvest the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim. ⁶ Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten: two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, declares Jehovah the God of Israel.

²⁸ »But a few of you will escape death and return from Egypt to Judah. Then the survivors will know whose words have come true, mine or theirs.

⁸ ‘»However, I will let some people live. Some people will escape the battle among the nations and be scattered throughout the countries. ⁹ »Then those who escape will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive. I was hurt by their adulterous hearts, which turned away from me, and by their eyes, which lusted after idols. They will hate themselves for the evil and disgusting things that they have done. ¹⁰ »Then you will know that I am Jehovah and that the disaster I promised was not an empty threat.«’ ¹¹ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and say, ‘How sad!’ The people of Israel have done evil and disgusting things. So they will die in wars, famines, and plagues.

¹⁶ ‘»Some will escape to the mountains like doves frightened from the valleys. All of them will moan over their sins.

⁴ »Go through the whole city of Jerusalem and put a mark (signature) on the forehead of everyone who is distressed and troubled because of all the disgusting things being done in the city.« ⁵ I heard God say to the other men: »Follow him through the city and kill. Spare no one! Have mercy on no one. ⁶ »Kill the old men, young men, young women, mothers, and children. But do not touch anyone who has the mark on his forehead. Start here at my Temple.« So they began with the elders who were standing there at the Temple.

¹⁶ »Therefore say: ‘Thus says the Lord Jehovah: »Though I had removed them far away among the nations and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary (holy place) (shelter) (protection) for them a little while in the countries where they had gone.«’ ¹⁷ »Therefore say, ‘The Lord Jehovah says: »I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries among which you have been scattered. I will give you the land of Israel. ¹⁸ ‘»When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it. ¹⁹ ‘»I will give them one (united) heart, and put a new spirit within them. I will take the heart of stone (unkind attitude) out of them and give them a heart of flesh (loving disposition). ²⁰ ‘»In this way they may walk in my statutes and obey my ordinances. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

²² ‘»And yet some people will survive. Some of your sons and daughters will be brought out. When they come out to you, you will see how they live. Then you will be comforted after the disasters that I will bring on Jerusalem, after every disaster that I will bring against it.’« ²³ ‘»You will be comforted when you see how they live. Then you will know that everything I have done was done for a reason,’ declares the Lord Jehovah.’«

¹² »I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of you. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel! I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture. They will make great noise because of the crowd of men.

²² »Unless those days are shortened, no flesh will be saved. For the sake of the chosen ones (selected individuals), those days will be shortened.

² God has not rejected his people whom he first knew. Do you remember what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he made intercession to God against Israel? ³ »Jehovah, they have killed your prophets, and torn down your altars. I am left alone, and they seek my life.« (1 Kings 19:14, 18) ⁴ What does God say in answer to him? »I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.« ⁵ Even so at this present time there is a remnant chosen according to God’s grace. ⁶ If it is by grace then it is no longer on the basis of works. Otherwise grace is not grace (undeserved kindness). But if it is of works then it is not by grace. Otherwise works are no longer works.

⁴ »'You have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled (defiled) their garments. They will walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

² »Do not measure the court outside the temple for it is given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months. ³ »I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.«