Isaiah 1:21 Cross References

Isaiah 1:21

21: See how Jerusalem, once so faithful, has become a prostitute. Once the home of justice and righteousness, she is now filled with murderers.

Isaiah 48:2

  1. even though you call yourself the holy city and talk about depending on the God of Israel, whose name is the LORD Almighty.

Zephaniah 3:1

  1. How terrible it will be for rebellious, polluted Jerusalem, the city of violence and crime.
  2. It proudly refuses to listen even to the voice of the LORD. No one can tell it anything; it refuses all correction. It does not trust in the LORD or draw near to its God.
  3. Its leaders are like roaring lions hunting for their victims--out for everything they can get. Its judges are like ravenous wolves at evening time, who by dawn have left no trace of their prey.

Nehemiah 11:1

  1. Now the leaders of the people were living in Jerusalem, the holy city, at this time. A tenth of the people from the other towns of Judah and Benjamin were chosen by sacred lots to live there, too, while the rest stayed where they were.

Luke 13:34

  1. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God's messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn't let me.

Ezekiel 16:1

  1. Then another message came to me from the LORD:
  2. "Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her loathsome sins.
  3. Give her this message from the Sovereign LORD: You are nothing but a Canaanite! Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite!
  4. When you were born, no one cared about you. Your umbilical cord was left uncut, and you were never washed, rubbed with salt, and dressed in warm clothing.
  5. No one had the slightest interest in you; no one pitied you or cared for you. On the day you were born, you were dumped in a field and left to die, unwanted.

2 Samuel 8:15

  1. David reigned over all Israel and was fair to everyone.

Psalms 48:8

  1. We had heard of the city's glory, but now we have seen it ourselves--the city of the LORD Almighty. It is the city of our God; he will make it safe forever.

Lamentations 1:8

  1. Jerusalem has sinned greatly, so she has been tossed away like a filthy rag. All who once honored her now despise her, for they have seen her stripped naked and humiliated. All she can do is groan and hide her face.
  2. She defiled herself with immorality with no thought of the punishment that would follow. Now she lies in the gutter with no one to lift her out. "LORD, see my deep misery," she cries. "The enemy has triumphed."

Hebrews 12:22

  1. No, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to thousands of angels in joyful assembly.

Jeremiah 2:20

  1. Long ago I broke your yoke and tore away the chains of your slavery, but still you would not obey me. On every hill and under every green tree, you have prostituted yourselves by bowing down to idols.
  2. "How could this happen? When I planted you, I chose a vine of the purest stock--the very best. How did you grow into this corrupt wild vine?

Revelation 11:8

  1. And their bodies will lie in the main street of Jerusalem, the city which is called "Sodom" and "Egypt," the city where their Lord was crucified.

Zechariah 8:3

  1. And now the LORD says: I am returning to Mount Zion, and I will live in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City; the mountain of the LORD Almighty will be called the Holy Mountain.

Psalms 48:1

  1. How great is the LORD, and how much we should praise him in the city of our God, which is on his holy mountain!

Isaiah 5:7

  1. This is the story of the LORD's people. They are the vineyard of the LORD Almighty. Israel and Judah are his pleasant garden. He expected them to yield a crop of justice, but instead he found bloodshed. He expected to find righteousness, but instead he heard cries of oppression.

Revelation 11:2

  1. But do not measure the outer courtyard, for it has been turned over to the nations. They will trample the holy city for 42 months.

2 Chronicles 19:9

  1. These were his instructions to them: "You must always act in the fear of the LORD, with integrity and with undivided hearts.

Micah 3:2

  1. but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
  2. You eat my people's flesh, cut away their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.

Hosea 11:12

  1. Israel surrounds me with lies and deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.

Isaiah 57:3

  1. "But you--come here, you witches' children, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
  2. Whom do you mock, making faces and sticking out your tongues? You children of sinners and liars!
  3. You worship your idols with great passion beneath every green tree. You slaughter your children as human sacrifices down in the valleys, under overhanging rocks.
  4. Your gods are the smooth stones in the valleys. You worship them with drink offerings and grain offerings. They, not I, are your inheritance. Does all this make me happy?
  5. You have committed adultery on the mountaintops by worshiping idols there, and so you have been unfaithful to me.

Psalms 46:4

  1. A river brings joy to the city of our God, the sacred home of the Most High.

Acts 7:52

  1. Name one prophet your ancestors didn't persecute! They even killed the ones who predicted the coming of the Righteous One--the Messiah whom you betrayed and murdered.

Ezekiel 22:1

  1. Now this message came to me from the LORD:
  2. "Son of man, are you ready to judge Jerusalem? Are you ready to judge this city of murderers? Denounce her terrible deeds in public,
  3. and give her this message from the Sovereign LORD: O city of murderers, doomed and damned--city of idols, filthy and foul--
  4. you are guilty of both murder and idolatry. Your day of destruction has come! You have reached the end of your years. I will make you an object of mockery throughout the world.
  5. O infamous city, filled with confusion, you will be mocked by people both far and near.

Jeremiah 3:1

  1. "If a man divorces a woman and she marries someone else, he is not to take her back again, for that would surely corrupt the land. But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, says the LORD. Yet I am still calling you to come back to me.
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