Cross references

Isaiah 51:19

These pairs have befallen you:

devastation and destruction,

famine and sword.

Who will grieve for you?

Who can comfort you?

Isaiah 51:19 BSB
  1. a DSS, LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate; MT How can I comfort you?

Isaiah 51:19 has 17 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 47:9 (4 votes) and Amos 7:2 (4 votes). 19 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Job 2 to Revelation 16.

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Which verses does Isaiah 51:19 point to?

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

  1. These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.

  2. Amos 7:24 votes

    And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

  3. Job 2:112 votes

    Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

  4. Job 42:112 votes

    All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

  5. Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.

  6. Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.

  7. Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.

  8. Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

  9. to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,

  10. This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them. Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water. …

Which verses point to Isaiah 51:19?

The 10 strongest of 19.