Isaiah 51:20

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.

Cross-reference

Isaiah 51:17 introduces the cup of wrath imagery that prepares for the 'full of the wrath of the LORD' statement here, setting the context within the same passage.

Isaiah 51:21 directly continues the thought, identifying the afflicted sons as 'drunk, but not with wine,' linking to the wrath they are full of.

Isaiah 29:9 Parallel

Isaiah 29:9 speaks of staggering and blindness from God — a parallel state of being overcome by divine judgment.

Isaiah 8:21 Related theme

In Isaiah 8:21, similar distress and hunger under judgment are described, though without the net imagery; both depict people overwhelmed by divine punishment.

In Lamentations 1:15, the Lord crushes young men—the same divine wrath against Jerusalem's sons described here.

In Lamentations 2:11, little ones and infants faint in the streets—nearly identical imagery of sons collapsing in the city during siege.

In Lamentations 2:12, children faint like wounded men in the streets—the same vivid scene of people collapsing publicly from starvation.

Ezekiel 12:13 uses the same 'spread my net' image for capturing the king, directly echoing the antelope-in-a-net metaphor of divine capture here.

Ezekiel 17:20 repeats the net imagery of divine capture for the king, reinforcing the same metaphor of being ensnared by God's judgment.

Revelation 14:10 describes drinking the wine of God's fury — the same concept of being filled with His wrath, now poured on the wicked.

Deuteronomy 28:20 lists 'rebuke' as a covenant curse — here the same rebuke fills God's children, directly linking to the curse.

Lamentations 2:19 repeats the image of children fainting at every street head from hunger, directly paralleling the fainting sons here.

Psalm 88:16 Parallel

Psalm 88:16 explicitly speaks of God's wrath sweeping over the psalmist, directly echoing the 'full of the wrath of the LORD' image in this verse.

Nahum 1:2 Contrast

Nahum 1:2 declares God's vengeance and wrath on enemies, while here it falls on His own people—same attribute, different objects.

Psalm 88:15 Parallel

Psalm 88:15 describes being afflicted and close to death under God's terrors, a personal parallel to the corporate suffering and fainting here.