Isaiah 33:1

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Isaiah 33:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.

2 O LORD, be gracious to us! We wait for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in time of trouble.

3 The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise.

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

Isaiah 10:5

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

Isaiah 10:6

I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Isaiah 17:14

In the evening, there is sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us and the lot of those who plunder us.

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.

2 Kings 18:13

In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

2 Kings 18:14

So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.” And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2 Kings 18:15

Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace.

2 Kings 18:16

At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold with which he had plated the doors and doorposts of the temple of the LORD, and he gave it to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 18:17

Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.

2 Chronicles 28:16

At that time King Ahaz sent for help from the king of Assyria.

2 Chronicles 28:17

The Edomites had again come and attacked Judah and carried away captives.

2 Chronicles 28:18

The Philistines had also raided the cities of the foothills and the Negev of Judah, capturing and occupying Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, as well as Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo with their villages.

2 Chronicles 28:19

For the LORD humbled Judah because Ahaz king of Israel had thrown off restraint in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the LORD.

2 Chronicles 28:20

Then Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came to Ahaz but afflicted him rather than strengthening him.

2 Chronicles 28:21

Although Ahaz had taken a portion from the house of the LORD, from the royal palace, and from the princes and had presented it to the king of Assyria, it did not help him.

Habakkuk 2:5

and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.

Habakkuk 2:6

Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’

Habakkuk 2:7

Will not your creditors suddenly arise and those who disturb you awaken? Then you will become their prey.

Habakkuk 2:8

Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you— because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

Isaiah 10:12

So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.

Isaiah 21:2

A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”

Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

Isaiah 37:37

So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

Isaiah 37:38

One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.

Judges 1:7

Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

Jeremiah 25:12

But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

Jeremiah 25:13

I will bring upon that land all the words I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.

Jeremiah 25:14

For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”

Obadiah 1:10

Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.

Obadiah 1:11

On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.

Obadiah 1:12

But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.

Obadiah 1:13

You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.

Obadiah 1:14

Nor should you stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives, nor deliver up their survivors in the day of their distress.

Obadiah 1:15

For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.

Obadiah 1:16

For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.

Zechariah 14:1

Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.

Zechariah 14:2

For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.

Zechariah 14:3

Then the LORD will go out to fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle.

Matthew 7:2

For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

Revelation 13:10

“If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed.” Here is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints.

Revelation 16:6

For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”

Revelation 17:12

The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but will receive one hour of authority as kings, along with the beast.

Revelation 17:13

These kings have one purpose: to yield their power and authority to the beast.

Revelation 17:14

They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen and faithful ones.”

Revelation 17:17

For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His purpose by uniting to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.