Isaiah 28:17 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 28:17

I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.

BSB

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ASV

And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.

KJV

Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Judgment also will I lay to the line - The sense of this is, I will judge them according to the exact rule of law, as an architect frames everything according to the rule which he uses. In other words, there shall be no mercy intermingled. The line is used by a carpenter for measuring; the plummet consists of a piece of lead attached to a string, and is also used by carpenters to obtain a perpendicular line. A carpenter works exactly according to the lines which are thus indicated, or his frame would not be properly adjusted.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְשַׂמְתִּ֤י	ve.sam.Ti	and I will make	H7760 →
מִשְׁפָּט֙	mish.Pat	justice	H4941 →
לְקָ֔ו	le.Kav	<into> a measuring-line	H6957 →
וּצְדָקָ֖ה	u.tze.da.Kah	and righteousness	H6666 →
לְמִשְׁקָ֑לֶת	le.mish.Ka.let	<into> a leveling tool	H4949 →
וְיָעָ֤ה	ve.ya.'Ah	and it will sweep away	H3261 →
בָרָד֙	va.Rad	hail	H1259 →
מַחְסֵ֣ה	mach.Seh	[the] refuge of	H4268 →
כָזָ֔ב	kha.Zav	falsehood	H3577 →
וְסֵ֥תֶר	ve.Se.ter	and [the] shelter	H5643 →
מַ֖יִם	Ma.yim	waters	H4325 →
יִשְׁטֹֽפוּ׃	yish.To.fu	they will overflow	H7857 →

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The walk

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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
Revelation 11:19
Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and an earthquake,…
leads to
- Revelation 16:21
  And great hailstones weighing almost a hundred pounds each rained down on them from above. And men cursed God for the plague of hail, because it was so horrendous.
- Ezekiel 38:22
  I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
- Revelation 15:5–8
  After this I looked, and the temple—the tabernacle of the Testimony—was opened in heaven.
- Revelation 4:5
  From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder. Before the throne burned seven torches of fire. These are the seven Spirits of God.
- Revelation 8:5
  Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; and there were peals of thunder, and rumblings, and flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
Through
Revelation 16:21
And great hailstones weighing almost a hundred pounds each rained down on them from above. And men cursed God for the plague of hail, because it was so horrendous.
leads to
- Revelation 11:19
  Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and an earthquake,…
- Joshua 10:11
  As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by…
Through
2 Kings 21:13
I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping…
leads to
- Amos 7:7–8
  This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.