Isaiah 21:4

Isaiah's heart races with horror, and the rest he longed for becomes dread. It matters because it conveys the terror of impending judgment even on God's enemies.

Cross-references · 14

• Luke 21:34–36“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
• Deut 28:67In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.
• Job 21:11–13They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
• Esth 5:12Haman also said, “Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king.
• Dan 5:5In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
• Esth 7:6–10Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
• Nah 1:10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
• Jer 51:39When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.
• 2 Sam 13:28–29Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”
• 1 Sam 25:36–38Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, until the morning light.
• Isa 5:11–14Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!
• Jer 51:57I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
• Dan 5:1Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
• Dan 5:30In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

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