Isaiah 34:1
Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
Cross-reference
Isaiah 1:2 similarly summons heaven and earth as witnesses to God's indictment, reinforcing the courtroom imagery used here.
Isaiah 41:1 directly parallels this courtroom summons, calling islands and peoples to come near for judgment.
Isaiah 43:9 gathers nations together for a trial, echoing the universal call to hear here.
Isaiah 33:13 also summons hearers to listen, though to God's deeds rather than to judgment. Same rhetorical call.
Isaiah 49:1 opens with 'Listen, O isles' but the speaker is the servant, shifting from divine summons to servant's call.
Deuteronomy 4:26 calls heaven and earth as witnesses to covenant blessings and curses, a legal motif Isaiah adopts.
Deuteronomy 32:1 opens Moses' song with a call to heaven and earth to hear, directly paralleling Isaiah's summons to creation.
Psalm 49:1 calls all people and inhabitants of the world to hear — almost identical language to this summons.
Psalm 50:1 depicts God calling the earth from east to west, a parallel divine summons of the whole world.
Jeremiah 22:29 cries out to the earth to hear the LORD's word, matching Isaiah's summons to earth and its inhabitants.
Micah 6:1 summons the mountains as witnesses in a covenant lawsuit, similar to Isaiah's call for all creation to hear judgment.
Micah 6:2 continues calling the earth's foundations to hear God's accusation, directly paralleling Isaiah's universal summons.
In 1 Corinthians 10:26, Paul quotes 'the earth is the Lord's and its fullness,' echoing the universal scope of God's sovereignty over all nations.
Revelation 19:17 summons birds to feast on the slain, a graphic parallel to the judgment against nations proclaimed here.
Psalm 24:1 declares the earth and its fullness belong to the LORD, grounding Isaiah's summons to all creation to hear His judgment.
Mark 16:15 echoes the universal call, shifting from summoning nations to judgment to commanding disciples to preach salvation.