Isaiah 57:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Israel’s Futile Idolatry
57 The righteous perish,
and no one considers why;
the devout are taken away,
while no one understands
that it is due to evil that the righteous are taken away.(A)
2 Kings 22:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 Therefore, I will gather you to your ancestors, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring on this place.’ ” They took the message back to the king.
Read full chapter
Psalm 12:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Psalm 12
Plea for Help in Evil Times
To the leader: according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
1 Help, O Lord, for there is no longer anyone who is godly;
the faithful have disappeared from humankind.(A)
2 Chronicles 34:28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
28 I will gather you to your ancestors and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring on this place and its inhabitants.’ ” They took the message back to the king.
Read full chapter
Micah 7:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 The faithful have disappeared from the land,
and there is no one left who is upright;
they all lie in wait for blood,
and they hunt each other with nets.(A)
Isaiah 42:25
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
25 So he poured upon him the heat of his anger
and the fury of war;
it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand;
it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.(A)
Isaiah 47:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 You said, “I shall be mistress forever,”
so that you did not lay these things to heart
or remember their end.(A)
Malachi 2:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; indeed, I have already cursed them[a] because you do not lay it to heart.(A)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 2.2 Heb it
2 Chronicles 35:24
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
24 So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in his second chariot[a] and brought him to Jerusalem. There he died and was buried in the tombs of his ancestors. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.(A)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 35.24 Or the chariot of his deputy
2 Chronicles 32:33
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
33 Hezekiah slept with his ancestors, and they buried him on the ascent to the tombs of the descendants of David, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. His son Manasseh succeeded him.(A)
Read full chapter
1 Kings 14:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 All Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam’s family shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something pleasing to the Lord, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.(A)
Read full chapter
Isaiah 57:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 Whom did you dread and fear
so that you lied
and did not remember me
or give me a thought?
Have I not kept silent and closed my eyes,[a]
and so you do not fear me?(A)
Footnotes
- 57.11 Gk Vg: Heb silent even for a long time
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.