Isaiah 21:4 Cross References

Isaiah 21:4

4: My mind reels; my heart races. The sleep I once enjoyed at night is now a faint memory. I lie awake, trembling.

His enemies, tangled up like thorns, staggering like drunks, will be burned like dry straw in a field.

"Watch out! Don't let me find you living in careless ease and drunkenness, and filled with the worries of this life. Don't let that day catch you unaware,
as in a trap. For that day will come upon everyone living on the earth.
Keep a constant watch. And pray that, if possible, you may escape these horrors and stand before the Son of Man."

Absalom told his men, "Wait until Amnon gets drunk; then at my signal, kill him! Don't be afraid. I'm the one who has given the command. Take courage and do it!"
So at Absalom's signal they murdered Amnon. Then the other sons of the king jumped on their mules and fled.

In the morning you will say, `If only it were night!' And in the evening you will say, `If only it were morning!' You will say this because of your terror at the awesome horrors you see around you.

"I will make drunk her officials, wise men, rulers, captains, and warriors," says the King, whose name is the LORD Almighty. "They will fall asleep and never wake up again!"

A number of years later, King Belshazzar gave a great feast for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them.

And while they lie inflamed with all their wine, I will prepare a different kind of feast for them. I will make them drink until they fall asleep, never again to waken," says the LORD.

At that very moment they saw the fingers of a human hand writing on the plaster wall of the king's palace, near the lampstand. The king himself saw the hand as it wrote,

Esther replied, "This wicked Haman is our enemy." Haman grew pale with fright before the king and queen.
Then the king jumped to his feet in a rage and went out into the palace garden. But Haman stayed behind to plead for his life with Queen Esther, for he knew that he was doomed.
In despair he fell on the couch where Queen Esther was reclining, just as the king returned from the palace garden. "Will he even assault the queen right here in the palace, before my very eyes?" the king roared. And as soon as the king spoke, his attendants covered Haman's face, signaling his doom.
Then Harbona, one of the king's eunuchs, said, "Haman has set up a gallows that stands seventy-five feet tall in his own courtyard. He intended to use it to hang Mordecai, the man who saved the king from assassination.Then hang Haman on it!" the king ordered.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had set up for Mordecai, and the king's anger was pacified.

Destruction is certain for you who get up early to begin long drinking bouts that last late into the night.
You furnish lovely music and wine at your grand parties; the harps, lyres, tambourines, and flutes are superb! But you never think about the LORD or notice what he is doing.
So I will send my people into exile far away because they do not know me. The great and honored among them will starve, and the common people will die of thirst.
The grave is licking its chops in anticipation of Jerusalem, this delicious morsel. Her great and lowly will be swallowed up, with all her drunken crowds.

Then Haman added, "And that's not all! Queen Esther invited only me and the king himself to the banquet she prepared for us. And she has invited me to dine with her and the king again tomorrow!"

When Abigail arrived home, she found that Nabal had thrown a big party and was celebrating like a king. He was very drunk, so she didn't tell him anything about her meeting with David until the next morning.
The next morning when he was sober, she told him what had happened. As a result he had a stroke, and he lay on his bed paralyzed.
About ten days later, the LORD struck him and he died.

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