Isaiah 8:21
And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
Cross-references
In Isaiah 8:8, the Assyrian invasion overflows Judah, setting the scene for the people's hunger and cursing in 8:21.
In Isaiah 8:7, the Assyrian flood is the judgment that brings about the distress and hunger described in 8:21.
In Isaiah 9:20, hunger leads to cannibalism — a more extreme outcome of the same famine and desperation depicted in 8:21.
In Isaiah 51:20, sons faint in the streets from divine fury — parallel to the physical distress here.
In Deuteronomy 28:33, a foreign nation devours Israel's produce — a covenant curse reflected in the hunger and oppression of 8:21.
Revelation 16:9-11 has men blaspheming God under plagues, directly mirroring the cursing of God and king seen here.
Proverbs 19:3 says a person's own folly leads to ruin yet they rage against the LORD — exactly the response in Isaiah 8:21 where hungry people curse God.
In Job 2:9, Job's wife tells him to curse God, mirroring how the people here curse their God and king during famine.
Exodus 22:28 commands not to curse God or a ruler — a direct contrast to the starving people in Isaiah 8:21 who do exactly that.
In Job 35:10, Elihu notes the afflicted fail to seek God — contrasting with the cursing response here.
In Psalm 59:15, enemies wander for food and howl unsatisfied — directly parallel to the hunger and rage here.
In Ecclesiastes 10:20, we're warned not to curse the king — contrasting with the people's cursing here.
In 2 Kings 25:3, famine during Jerusalem's siege fulfills the kind of distress prophesied in 8:21.
In Deuteronomy 28:53-57, extreme famine leads to cannibalism — a covenant curse related to the severe hunger in 8:21.
Jeremiah 52:6 describes the famine during Babylon's siege — the same severe hunger that in Isaiah 8:21 drives people to curse their king and God.
In 2 Kings 6:33, the king blames God for the siege — similar to Isaiah 8:21 where hungry people curse God and their king.
Lamentations 4:4 shows infants suffering from thirst and hunger — mirroring the extreme deprivation that leads to cursing God in Isaiah 8:21.
In Luke 6:25, Jesus warns the full will hunger — a reversal of the present hunger here, contrasting fullness with emptiness.
1 Samuel 8:18 warns that when Israel cries out under their king, God won't answer — similar to the people here cursing their king and God in distress.
In Deuteronomy 28:34, madness from seeing calamity parallels the fretting and cursing of God in 8:21 during distress.
In Jeremiah 14:18, famine and sword ravage Jerusalem — a later parallel to the hunger and cursing in 8:21.
Lamentations 4:5 depicts former wealthy now starving — the same societal collapse that in Isaiah 8:21 causes people to curse God in their distress.
Lamentations 4:9 says death by starvation is worse than by sword — the same desperate hunger that in Isaiah 8:21 makes people rage against God.