Isaiah 8:21

Those who reject God's word will wander in distress and hunger, even cursing rather than repenting.

Cross-references · 17

• Isa 9:20One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:
• Prov 19:3The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.
• Job 2:9Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
• Exod 22:28“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
• Job 1:11But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”
• Lam 4:9–10Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
• Rev 9:20–21The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can’t see, hear, or walk.
• Deut 28:53–57You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
• Jer 14:18If I go out into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’”
• Lam 4:4–5The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.
• Rev 16:9–11People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.
• Deut 28:33–34A nation which you don’t know eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always;
• 2 Kgs 25:3On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
• Jer 52:6In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
• Isa 8:7–8now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.
• Job 2:5But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
• 2 Kgs 6:33While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

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