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Isaiah 27:7

in Isaiah 27

Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?

BSB

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?

This verse in Isaiah 27

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah · Written before 420.

(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

A commentator

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Isaiah · Written before 1274.

proposed

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

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

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?....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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 & Brown

1802–1910

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

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 words

Every 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.

  • 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 stops

Each 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 3:19

    There 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.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 50:40

    As 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.

Where this verse is studied

About Isaiah

The Destruction of Leviathan — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Destruction of Leviathan — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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.