Isaiah 27:7
in Isaiah 27Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them?
KJV
Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
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This verse in Isaiah 27
Commentary
8 notes on this verse(Verse 7.) Did he strike him according to the blow of the one striking himself: or as he killed his killers, so was he killed? This place is understood in two ways. Either against Jerusalem, so that he may say that she was not struck by God in the same way that she struck Christ and his Apostles: or against the multitude of the Gentiles, so that the Apostles and apostolic men, despite being persecuted and shedding Christian blood, nevertheless had care for their salvation and reconciled them to God.
This site's exposition
Has the LORD struck Israel
on Isaiah 27:7-9
Verse 7 asks, "Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors?" and the answer is no, for "By warfare and exile You contended with her". Verse 9 names the purpose: "Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for" when he makes "all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk".
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
624. And he sets out the supplementing of the punishment as to the ungrateful: has he struck him according to the stroke of him that struck him? Here he reproaches the benefit of the moderated punishment: he has not dealt with us according to our …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
If God find any thing amiss among them, he will lay them under the tokens of his displeasure for it. Judgment shall begin at the house of God, and those whom God has known of all the families of the earth he will punish in the first place.
Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him?....
6 . [2.] As sharing together in the calamities of this present time. They are both smitten, both slain, and both by the hand of God; for there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked. But is Jacob smitten as his enemies are?
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Has God punished His people as severely as He has those enemies whom He employed to chastise Israel? Israel, after trials, He will restore; Israel's enemies He will utterly destroy at last. the slaughter of them that are slain by him--rather, "Is Israel slain according to the slaughter of the enemy slain?" the slaughter wherewith the enemy is slain [MAURER].
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote them? - Has God punished his people in the same manner and to the same extent as he has their enemies? It is implied by this question that he had not. He had indeed punished them for their sins, but he had I not destroyed them. Their enemies he had utterly destroyed.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הַכְּמַכַּ֥ת | hakemakat | ¿ like [the] striking? of | H4347 → | 48 times |
| מַכֵּ֖הוּ | makehu | [the] [one who] struck it | H5221 → | 499 times |
| הִכָּ֑הוּ | hikahu | has he struck it | H5221 → | 499 times |
| אִם־ | ʾim- | or? | H518 → | 1069 times |
| כְּהֶ֥רֶג | kehereg | like [the] slaughter of | H2027 → | |
| הֲרֻגָ֖יו | harugav | slain [ones] its | H2026 → | 167 times |
| הֹרָֽג׃ | horag | has it been slain | H2026 → | 167 times |
הַכְּמַכַּ֥ת¿ like [the] striking? of
hakemakatH4347 →48 times
מַכֵּ֖הוּ[the] [one who] struck it
makehuH5221 →499 times
הִכָּ֑הוּhas he struck it
hikahuH5221 →499 times
אִם־or?
ʾim-H518 →1069 times
כְּהֶ֥רֶגlike [the] slaughter of
keheregH2027 →
הֲרֻגָ֖יוslain [ones] its
harugavH2026 →167 times
הֹרָֽג׃has it been slain
horagH2026 →167 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Nahum 3:19There is no healing for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news of you applaud your downfall, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?
it leads to
- Micah 1:9
For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.
- Lamentations 2:15
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the…
- Isaiah 37:18
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all these countries and their lands.
- Job 27:23
It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.
- Micah 1:9
Through
Jeremiah 50:40As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.
it leads to
- Genesis 19:24–25
Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
- Jeremiah 49:18
As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.
- Jude 1:7
In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal…
- Isaiah 13:19–20
And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Genesis 19:24–25
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About Isaiah

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Calvin, Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.
