Isaiah 24:6 Cross References - Thomson

⁶ therefore a curse devoureth the land. Because they who dwell therein have sinned, therefore the inhabitants of the land shall be distressed, and few are the men who shall be left.

²² I will send against you the wild beasts of the earth, and they shall devour you, and destroy your cattle; and I will make you few in number, and your high ways shall be desolate.

²⁷ And the Lord will scatter you among all the nations, and you shall be left few in number, among all the nations, to which the Lord will bring you.

¹⁵ But in case thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God to keep all his commandments which I this day give thee in charge, all these evils shall come upon thee and overtake thee: ¹⁶ Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed thou in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be thy granaries, and thy stores. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the offspring of thy body, and the products of thy land, thy herds and thy flocks. ¹⁹ Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed thou when thou goest out. ²⁰ The Lord send upon thee want, and famine, and destruction on all the labour of thy hands, until he utterly root thee out, and until he destroy thee quickly, on the account of thy wicked devices. Seeing thou hast forsaken me,

⁶² And you shall be left few in number, instead of being, as you were, like the stars of heaven for multitude. Because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God,

²² And when the generations to come; your children who shall rise up after yon, and the stranger who may come from a far distant country, will say; when they shall see the plagues of that land, and the diseases thereof, which the Lord hath sent upon it; ²³ brimstone and burnt salt; when through the whole land there shall be no sowing; no natural productions, no verdure on it, a destruction like that of Sodom and Gomorra, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew with wrath and indignation; ²⁴ When all the nations shall say, Why hath the Lord dealt thus with this land? What hath occasioned this great fierceness of indignation? ²⁵ Then they will say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, ²⁶ and went and served strange gods, which they did not know, and which he had not arranged for them, ²⁷ therefore the Lord was provoked to wrath against this land, to bring upon it all the curses which are written in the book of the law; ²⁸ and the Lord rooted them out from their land, with wrath, and anger, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land, as at this day.

¹⁸ I announce to thee this day, that you shall surely perish, and shall not prolong your lives in the land, to which you are about to cross the Jordan, to take possession of it. ¹⁹ I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that I have set Life and Death, the Blessing and the Curse before you. Chuse thou life, that thou and thy seed may live,

¹⁵ Now as all the good things, which the Lord hath spoken respecting you, have come to you, so the Lord God will bring upon you all the evil things, until he destroy you from this good land, which the Lord hath given you, ¹⁶ when you transgress the covenant of the Lord our God, which he hath commanded us, and go and serve other gods and worship them.

³¹ and their strength shall be like tow; and their works like sparks of fire: and the lawless and sinful shall be burned up together; and there shall be no extinguisher."

²⁴ for which he hath given Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to them who plundered him. Hath not God, against whom they sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey; ²⁵ hath not he brought upon them his fierce anger? [J] Though war prevailed over them, and they who were burning them up were all around, yet they did not, any of them know, nor lay it to heart.

³ But of this parcel thou shalt take a few in number and tie them up in thy mantle.

³ Whereupon he said to me, This is the curse which is going forth over the face of the whole earth. Since every thief on the one hand is to be punished with death, and every false swearer on the other hand is to be punished; ⁴ therefore I will bring it out saith the Lord Almighty; and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who sweareth by my name to a falsehood; and it shall lodge in his house, and destroy it with the timber and the stones thereof.

² If you will not hearken and if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, saith the Lord Almighty, I will send that curse against you and curse your blessing. I will curse it; and disperse your blessing and it shall not be among you because you do not lay this to heart.

⁹ and you view them again and again and supplant me. The year is ended and you have carried the products into [a] The objection, [b] The answer. your stores.

¹ For behold a day is coming, heated like an oven, which shall set them on fire. And all aliens and all workers of iniquity shall be like stubble. The day which is coming shall blaze upon them, saith the Lord Almighty, and of them neither root nor branch shall be left.

⁶ who will turn the heart of father to son and the heart of one man to another that I may not come and smite the land with utter destruction.

¹⁴ because the gate is strait and the way narrow, which leadeth to life, therefore there are few who find it.

²⁵ Upon which all the people, answering, said, His blood be upon us and upon our children.

²⁷ Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, this remnant shall be saved."

¹⁰ Now the day of the Lord will come, as a thief at night, when the heavens with a crashing roar shall pass away, and the elements shall be dissolved by fire, and the earth, and all the works thereon, shall be burned up.