Isaiah 26:21
For, behold, the LORD cometh 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 hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Job 16:18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no resting place.
Isaiah 13:11And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Isaiah 30:12Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon;
Ezekiel 8:6And he said unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but thou shalt 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 →