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Isaiah 28:22

Isaiah 28:22 is verse 22 of Isaiah chapter 28, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.

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King James Version

Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

World English Bible

Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

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Isaiah 28:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible

20 Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.

21 For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.

22 So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.

23 Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear what I say.

24 Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Isaiah 28:15

For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

2 Chronicles 30:10

And the couriers traveled from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun; but the people scorned and mocked them.

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

Jeremiah 15:17

I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.

Jeremiah 20:7

You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.

Matthew 27:39

And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads

Matthew 27:44

In the same way, even the robbers who were crucified with Him berated Him.

Acts 13:40

Watch out, then, that what was spoken by the prophets does not happen to you:

Acts 13:41

‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”

Acts 17:32

When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock him, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this topic.”

2 Chronicles 33:11

So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

Psalms 107:16

For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

Jeremiah 39:7

Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.

Lamentations 1:14

My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

Revelation 22:18

I testify to everyone who hears the words of prophecy in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.

Revelation 22:19

And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and the holy city, which are described in this book.

Isaiah 10:22

Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

Isaiah 10:23

For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land.

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 24:2

people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

Isaiah 24:3

The earth will be utterly laid waste and thoroughly plundered. For the LORD has spoken this word.

Isaiah 24:4

The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 24:6

Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.

Isaiah 24:7

The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.

Isaiah 24:8

The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.

Isaiah 24:9

They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.

Isaiah 24:10

The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

Isaiah 24:11

In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.

Isaiah 24:12

The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.

Isaiah 24:13

So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

Isaiah 24:14

They raise their voices, they shout for joy; from the west they proclaim the majesty of the LORD.

Isaiah 24:15

Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel in the islands of the sea.

Isaiah 24:16

From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me.” The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery.

Isaiah 24:17

Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.

Isaiah 24:18

Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Isaiah 24:19

The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.

Isaiah 24:20

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

Isaiah 24:21

In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.

Isaiah 24:22

They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.

Isaiah 24:23

The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders with great glory.

Isaiah 32:12

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,

Isaiah 32:13

and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers— even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

Isaiah 32:14

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—

Jeremiah 25:11

And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

Daniel 9:26

Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.

Daniel 9:27

And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

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