Isaiah 66:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.”
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“For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For by fire will Jehovah execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For by fire and by His sword, Doth Jehovah do judgment with all flesh. And many have been Jehovah's pierced ones.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 66:16 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 27:1In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
- Isaiah 30:30And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
- Isaiah 34:2The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.
- Isaiah 34:5When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
- Ezekiel 28:18By the multitude of your iniquities and the dishonesty of your trading you have profaned your sanctuaries. So I made fire come from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the eyes of all who saw you.
- Ezekiel 38:21And I will summon a sword against Gog on all My mountains, declares the Lord GOD, and every man’s sword will be against his brother.
- Ezekiel 38:22I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
- Ezekiel 39:2I will turn you around, drive you along, bring you up from the far north, and send you against the mountains of Israel.
- Revelation 19:11Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war.
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