Bible Cross References
Egypt
Isaiah 11:15
The LORD will dry up the Gulf of Suez, and he will bring a hot wind to dry up the Euphrates, leaving only seven tiny streams, so that anyone can walk across.
Isaiah 19:1-15
1
This is a message about Egypt. The LORD is coming to Egypt, riding swiftly on a cloud. The Egyptian idols tremble before him, and the people of Egypt lose their courage.
2
The LORD says, "I will stir up civil war in Egypt and turn brother against brother and neighbor against neighbor. Rival cities will fight each other, and rival kings will struggle for power.
3
I am going to frustrate the plans of the Egyptians and destroy their morale. They will ask their idols to help them, and they will go and consult mediums and ask the spirits of the dead for advice.
4
I will hand the Egyptians over to a tyrant, to a cruel king who will rule them. I, the LORD Almighty, have spoken."
5
The water will be low in the Nile, and the river will gradually dry up.
6
The channels of the river will stink as they slowly go dry. Reeds and rushes will wither,
7
and all the crops planted along the banks of the Nile will dry up and be blown away.
8
Everyone who earns a living by fishing in the Nile will groan and cry; their hooks and their nets will be useless.
9
Those who make linen cloth will be in despair;
10
weavers and skilled workers will be broken and depressed.
11
The leaders of the city of Zoan are fools! Egypt's wisest people give stupid advice! How do they dare to tell the king that they are successors to the ancient scholars and kings?
12
King of Egypt, where are those clever advisers of yours? Perhaps they can tell you what plans the LORD Almighty has for Egypt.
13
The leaders of Zoan and Memphis are fools. They were supposed to lead the nation, but they have misled it.
14
The LORD has made them give confusing advice. As a result, Egypt does everything wrong and staggers like a drunk slipping on his own vomit.
15
No one in Egypt, rich or poor, important or unknown, can offer help.
Zechariah 10:10
From Egypt and Assyria I will bring them home and settle them in their own country. I will settle them in Gilead and Lebanon also; the whole land will be filled with people.
Zechariah 14:18
If the Egyptians refuse to celebrate the Festival of Shelters, then they will be struck by the same disease that the LORD will send on every nation that refuses to go.
Zechariah 14:19
This will be the punishment that will fall on Egypt and on all the other nations if they do not celebrate the Festival of Shelters.
Edom
Isaiah 34:1-17
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Come, people of all nations! Gather around and listen. Let the whole earth and everyone living on it come here and listen.
2
The LORD is angry with all the nations and all their armies. He has condemned them to destruction.
3
Their corpses will not be buried, but will lie there rotting and stinking; and the mountains will be red with blood.
4
The sun, moon, and stars will crumble to dust. The sky will disappear like a scroll being rolled up, and the stars will fall like leaves dropping from a vine or a fig tree.
5
The LORD has prepared his sword in heaven, and now it will strike Edom, those people whom he has condemned to destruction.
6
His sword will be covered with their blood and fat, like the blood and fat of lambs and goats that are sacrificed. The LORD will offer this sacrifice in the city of Bozrah; he will make this a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7
The people will fall like wild oxen and young bulls, and the earth will be red with blood and covered with fat.
8
This is the time when the LORD will rescue Zion and take vengeance on her enemies.
9
The rivers of Edom will turn into tar, and the soil will turn into sulfur. The whole country will burn like tar.
10
It will burn day and night, and smoke will rise from it forever. The land will lie waste age after age, and no one will ever travel through it again.
11
Owls and ravens will take over the land. The LORD will make it a barren waste again, as it was before the creation.
12
There will be no king to rule the country, and the leaders will all be gone.
13
Thorns and thistles will grow up in all the palaces and walled towns, and jackals and owls will live in them.
14
Wild animals will roam there, and demons will call to each other. The night monster will come there looking for a place to rest.
15
Owls will build their nests, lay eggs, hatch their young, and care for them there. Vultures will gather there, one after another.
16
Search in the LORD's book of living creatures and read what it says. Not one of these creatures will be missing, and not one will be without its mate. The LORD has commanded it to be so; he himself will bring them together.
17
It is the LORD who will divide the land among them and give each of them a share. They will live in the land age after age, and it will belong to them forever.
Isaiah 63:1-6
1
"Who is this coming from the city of Bozrah in Edom? Who is this so splendidly dressed in red, marching along in power and strength?" It is the LORD, powerful to save, coming to announce his victory.
2
"Why is his clothing so red, like that of someone who tramples grapes to make wine?"
3
The LORD answers, "I have trampled the nations like grapes, and no one came to help me. I trampled them in my anger, and their blood has stained all my clothing.
4
I decided that the time to save my people had come; it was time to punish their enemies.
5
I was amazed when I looked and saw that there was no one to help me. But my anger made me strong, and I won the victory myself.
6
In my anger I trampled whole nations and shattered them. I poured out their lifeblood on the ground."
Jeremiah 49:17
The LORD said, "The destruction that will come on Edom will be so terrible that everyone who passes by will be shocked and terrified.
Lamentations 4:21
Laugh on, people of Edom and Uz; be glad while you can. Your disaster is coming too; you too will stagger naked in shame.
Ezekiel 25:1-17
2
"Mortal man," he said, "denounce the country of Ammon.
3
Tell them to listen to what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: You were delighted to see my Temple profaned, to see the land of Israel devastated, to see the people of Judah go into exile.
4
Because you were glad, I will let the tribes from the eastern desert conquer you. They will set up their camps in your country and settle there. They will eat the fruit and drink the milk that should have been yours.
5
I will turn the city of Rabbah into a place to keep camels, and the whole country of Ammon will become a place to keep sheep, so that you will know I am the LORD.
6
"This is what the Sovereign LORD is saying: You clapped your hands and jumped for joy. You despised the land of Israel.
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Because you did, I will hand you over to other nations who will rob you and plunder you. I will destroy you so completely that you will not be a nation any more or have a country of your own. Then you will know that I am the LORD."
8
The Sovereign LORD said, "Because Moab has said that Judah is like all the other nations,
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I will let the cities that defend the border of Moab be attacked, including even the finest cities---Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim.
10
I will let the tribes of the eastern desert conquer Moab, together with Ammon, so that Moab will no longer be a nation.
11
I will punish Moab, and they will know that I am the LORD."
12
The Sovereign LORD said, "The people of Edom took cruel revenge on Judah, and that revenge has brought lasting guilt on Edom.
13
Now I announce that I will punish Edom and kill every person and animal there. I will make it a wasteland, from the city of Teman to the city of Dedan, and the people will be killed in battle.
14
My people Israel will take revenge on Edom for me, and they will make Edom feel my furious anger. Edom will know what it means to be the object of my revenge." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
15
The Sovereign LORD said, "The Philistines have taken cruel revenge on their agelong enemies and destroyed them in their hate.
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And so I am announcing that I will attack the Philistines and wipe them out. I will destroy everyone left living there on the Philistine Plain.
17
I will punish them severely and take full revenge on them. They will feel my anger. Then they will know that I am the LORD."
Ezekiel 35:1-15
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"Mortal man," he said, "denounce the country of Edom.
3
Tell the people what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: "I am your enemy, mountains of Edom! I will make you a desolate wasteland.
4
I will leave your cities in ruins And your land desolate; Then you will know that I am the LORD.
5
"You were Israel's constant enemy and let her people be slaughtered in the time of her disaster, the time of final punishment for her sins.
6
So then---as surely as I, the Sovereign LORD, am the living God---death is your fate, and you cannot escape it. You are guilty of murder, and murder will follow you.
7
I will make the hill country of Edom a wasteland and kill everyone who travels through it.
8
I will cover the mountains with corpses, and the bodies of those who are killed in battle will cover the hills and valleys.
9
I will make you desolate forever, and no one will live in your cities again. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
10
"You said that the two nations, Judah and Israel, together with their lands, belonged to you and that you would possess them, even though I, the LORD, was their God.
11
So then, as surely as I, the Sovereign LORD, am the living God, I will pay you back for your anger, your jealousy, and your hate toward my people. They will know that I am punishing you for what you did to them.
12
Then you will know that I, the LORD, heard you say with contempt that the mountains of Israel were desolate and that they were yours to devour.
13
I have heard the wild, boastful way you have talked against me."
14
The Sovereign LORD says, "I will make you so desolate that the whole world will rejoice at your downfall,
15
just as you rejoiced at the devastation of Israel, my own possession. The mountains of Seir, yes, all the land of Edom, will be desolate. Then everyone will know that I am the LORD."
Amos 1:11
The LORD says, "The people of Edom have sinned again and again, and for this I will certainly punish them. They hunted down their relatives, the Israelites, and showed them no mercy. Their anger had no limits, and they never let it die.
Amos 1:12
So I will send fire upon the city of Teman and burn down the fortresses of Bozrah."
Obadiah 1:1
This is the prophecy of Obadiah---what the Sovereign LORD said about the nation of Edom. The LORD has sent his messenger to the nations, and we have heard his message: "Get ready! Let us go to war against Edom!"
Obadiah 1:10-14
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"Because you robbed and killed your relatives, the descendants of Jacob, you will be destroyed and dishonored forever.
11
You stood aside on that day when enemies broke down their gates. You were as bad as those strangers who carried off Jerusalem's wealth and divided it among themselves.
12
You should not have gloated over the misfortune of your relatives in Judah. You should not have been glad on the day of their ruin. You should not have laughed at them in their distress.
13
You should not have entered the city of my people to gloat over their suffering and to seize their riches on the day of their disaster.
14
You should not have stood at the crossroads to catch those trying to escape. You should not have handed them over to the enemy on the day of their distress.
Malachi 1:3
and have hated Esau and his descendants. I have devastated Esau's hill country and abandoned the land to jackals."
Malachi 1:4
If Esau's descendants, the Edomites, say, "Our towns have been destroyed, but we will rebuild them," then the LORD will reply, "Let them rebuild---I will tear them down again. People will call them 'The evil country' and 'The nation with whom the LORD is angry forever.' "
for
Psalm 137:7
Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did the day Jerusalem was captured. Remember how they kept saying, "Tear it down to the ground!"
Jeremiah 51:35
Let the people of Zion say, "May Babylonia be held responsible for the violence done to us!" Let the people of Jerusalem say, "May Babylonia be held responsible for what we have suffered!"
Obadiah 1:10-16
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"Because you robbed and killed your relatives, the descendants of Jacob, you will be destroyed and dishonored forever.
11
You stood aside on that day when enemies broke down their gates. You were as bad as those strangers who carried off Jerusalem's wealth and divided it among themselves.
12
You should not have gloated over the misfortune of your relatives in Judah. You should not have been glad on the day of their ruin. You should not have laughed at them in their distress.
13
You should not have entered the city of my people to gloat over their suffering and to seize their riches on the day of their disaster.
14
You should not have stood at the crossroads to catch those trying to escape. You should not have handed them over to the enemy on the day of their distress.
15
"The day is near when I, the LORD, will judge all nations. Edom, what you have done will be done to you. You will get back what you have given.
16
My people have drunk a bitter cup of punishment on my sacred hill. But all the surrounding nations will drink a still more bitter cup of punishment; they will drink it all and vanish away.
2 Thessalonians 1:6
God will do what is right: he will bring suffering on those who make you suffer,