Cross references

Isaiah 24:1

Behold, the LORD lays waste the earth

and leaves it in ruins.

He will twist its surface

and scatter its inhabitants—

Isaiah 24:1 BSB

Isaiah 24:1 has 32 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 8 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 2:19 (6 votes) and Nahum 2:10 (6 votes). 40 other verses point back to it. It links with 17 other books, from Genesis 7 to James 1.

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Which verses does Isaiah 24:1 point to?

The 20 strongest of 32, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. 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 His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

  2. Nahum 2:106 votes

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

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

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

  5. I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.

  6. Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged, until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken.

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

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

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

  10. Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

  11. Isaiah 5:63 votes
  12. For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.

  13. and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry. For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—

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

Which verses point to Isaiah 24:1?

The 10 strongest of 40.