Cross references

Isaiah 21:1

This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea:

Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev,

an invader comes from the desert,

from a land of terror.

Isaiah 21:1 BSB

Isaiah 21:1 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 14:23 (6 votes) and Isaiah 13:1 (5 votes). 16 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Job 37 to Zechariah 9.

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Which verses does Isaiah 21:1 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

  2. This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:

  3. The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.

  4. Then the LORD will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord GOD will sound the ram’s horn and advance in the whirlwinds of the south.

  5. She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there. But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about. …

  6. This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.

  7. Job 37:92 votes

    The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.

  8. Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war. They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country.

  9. Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

  10. At the time of the end, the king of the South will engage him in battle, but the king of the North will storm out against him with chariots, horsemen, and many ships, invading many countries and sweeping through them like a flood.

  11. Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold. Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.

Which verses point to Isaiah 21:1?

The 10 strongest of 16.