Isaiah 26:21
For, behold, LORD comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
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Genesis 4:10And he said, What have thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
Job 16:18O earth, do not cover thou my blood, and let my cry have no [resting] place.
Isaiah 13:11And I will punish the world for the evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Isaiah 30:12Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,
Ezekiel 8:6And he said to me, Son of man, see thou what they do, even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But thou shall again see yet other great abominations.
Ezekiel 10:3Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 26:21
The Sure Refuge. ( b. c. 718.) 20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. 21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. These two verses are supposed not to belong to the song which takes up the rest of the chapter, but to begin a new matter, and to be rather an… Read the whole commentary →