Isaiah 10:3 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 10:3

What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

KJV

And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And what will ye do - The prophet here proceeds to denounce the judgment, or punishment, that would follow the crimes specified in the previous verses. That punishment was the invasion of the land by a foreign force. ‘What will ye do? To whom will you fly? What refuge will them be?’ Implying that the calamity would be so great that there would be no refuge, or escape.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּמַֽה־	u.mah-	and what?	H4100 →
תַּעֲשׂוּ֙	ta.'a.Su	will you do	H6213 →
לְי֣וֹם	le.Yom	to [the] day of	H3117 →
פְּקֻדָּ֔ה	pe.ku.Dah	punishment	H6486 →
וּלְשׁוֹאָ֖ה	u.le.sho.'Ah	and to [the] devastation	H7722 →
מִמֶּרְחָ֣ק	mi.mer.Chak	[which] from a distance	H4801 →
תָּב֑וֹא	ta.Vo'	it will come	H935 →
עַל־	'al-	to	H5921 →
מִי֙	mi	whom?	H4310 →
תָּנ֣וּסוּ	ta.Nu.su	will you flee	H5127 →
לְעֶזְרָ֔ה	le.'ez.Rah	for help	H5833 →
וְאָ֥נָה	ve.'A.nah	and where?	H575 →
תַעַזְב֖וּ	ta.'az.Vu	will you leave	H5800 →
כְּבוֹדְכֶֽם׃	ke.Vod.Khem	abundance your	H3519 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 11:4
Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
leads to
- Ezekiel 7:19
  They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Zephaniah 1:18
  Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He…
- Proverbs 10:2
  Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
- Genesis 7:1
  Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
- 1 Timothy 4:8
  For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.
Through
Luke 19:44
They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
leads to
- Luke 13:34–35
  O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you…
- Luke 21:6
  “As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
Through
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He…
leads to
- Zephaniah 3:8
  Therefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation—all My burning anger.…