Cross references

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns like a fire

that consumes the thorns and briers

and kindles the forest thickets,

which roll upward in billows of smoke.

Isaiah 9:18 BSB

Isaiah 9:18 has 26 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 83:14 (4 votes) and Malachi 4:1 (4 votes). 16 other verses point back to it. It links with 18 other books, from Numbers 11 to Revelation 14.

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Which verses does Isaiah 9:18 point to?

The 20 strongest of 26, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

  2. “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

  3. Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

  4. For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch. …

  5. Nahum 1:103 votes

    For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.

  6. Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp. And the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down. …

  7. For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

  8. For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged. For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.

  9. But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.

  10. The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.

  11. Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame. And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles. …

  12. For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

  13. Hosea 13:32 votes
  14. Joel 2:202 votes
  15. Amos 7:42 votes

Which verses point to Isaiah 9:18?

The 10 strongest of 16.