Isaiah 47:6

God had handed his people to Babylon for discipline, but Babylon showed no mercy, even to the aged. Instruments of judgment are still accountable for cruelty.

Cross-references · 17

• 2 Chr 28:9But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.
• Zech 1:15I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
• Deut 28:50a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young,
• Obad 1:10For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.
• Jas 2:13For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• Ps 69:26For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
• Isa 42:24–25Who gave Jacob as plunder, and Israel to the robbers? Didn’t Yahweh, he against whom we have sinned? For they would not walk in his ways, and they disobeyed his law.
• Isa 14:17who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”
• Isa 10:6I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
• Obad 1:16For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.
• Matt 7:2For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
• 2 Sam 24:14David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”
• Isa 13:16Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
• Isa 43:28Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult.”
• Lam 2:2The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
• Ezek 24:21Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.
• Ezek 28:16By the abundance of your traffic they filled your insides with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.

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