Isaiah 65:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.

Will i

Did evil

Isaiah 65:3

Isaiah 1:16

Jeremiah 16:17

And did

Isaiah 66:3

Proverbs 1:29

General references

Matthew 24:21

Bible References

Will i

Your men will die violently, while your forces fall in battle

so you won't have to crouch among those in chains or fall among the slain? "Yet for all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike."

I'll bring the sword against you to execute the vengeance of my covenant. When you gather in your cities, I'll send a pestilence. As a result, you'll be delivered into the control of your enemies.

Outside, the sword will cause bereavement; within, there will be terror for the young man and virgin alike, also for the nursing infant and the aged man."

Therefore, make their children undergo famine, and deliver them over to death in time of war. May their women be childless widows! May their men be slaughtered! May their young men be slain by the sword in battle!

"Therefore, this is what the LORD says: "You haven't obeyed me by each of you proclaiming a release for your brothers and neighbors. Now I'm going to proclaim a release for you,' declares the LORD, "a release to the sword, to plague, and to famine, and I'll make you a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms of the earth.

"Or if I were to bring war to that land and say, "Hey, sword! Pass throughout the land so I can destroy both man and beasts in it,'

"I will also stretch out my hand against Judah, and upon all inhabitants of Jerusalem. I'll wipe out every trace of Baal from this place, and the name of the pagan priests, along with my own priests.

Then the king became outraged. He sent his troops, and they destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

Did evil

a people who continually provoke me to my face; they keep sacrificing in gardens and waving their hands over stone altars;

"Wash yourselves, and make yourselves clean; remove your evil behavior from my presence; stop practicing what is evil.

For I am watching all their ways; they are not hidden from my sight. Their iniquity is not concealed from my eyes.

And did

"Whoever slaughters an ox is just like one who kills a human being; whoever sacrifices a lamb is just like one who breaks a dog's neck; whoever makes a grain offering is just like one who offers pig's blood; and whoever makes a memorial offering of frankincense is just like one who blesses an idol. Yes, these have chosen their own ways, and they take delight in their contaminated actions.

"Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD;

General references

because at that time there will be great suffering, the kind that hasn't happened from the beginning of the world until now and certainly won't ever happen again.