Isaiah 26:20

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“Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.”

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BSBPD

“Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“Come, My people, enter into thy inner chambers, And shut thy doors behind thee, Hide thyself shortly a moment till the indignation pass over.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 26:20 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 7:1Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
  2. Genesis 7:16And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
  3. Exodus 12:22Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
  4. Psalms 17:8Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
  5. Psalms 27:5For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.
  6. Psalms 30:5For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
  7. Psalms 31:20You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.
  8. Psalms 32:7You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
  9. Psalms 57:1Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.
  10. Psalms 57:2I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me.
  11. Psalms 91:1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
  12. Psalms 91:4He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.
  13. Psalms 94:13to grant him relief from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.
  14. Psalms 143:9Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD; I flee to You for refuge.
  15. Proverbs 18:10The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
  16. Isaiah 10:25For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
  17. Isaiah 32:18Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place, in safe and secure places of rest.
  18. Isaiah 51:4Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.
  19. Isaiah 51:16I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”
  20. Isaiah 54:7“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
  21. Jeremiah 7:23but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
  22. Jeremiah 31:14I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,” declares the LORD.
  23. Ezekiel 11:16Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’
  24. Matthew 6:6But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

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