Isaiah 28:2 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 28:2

Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground.

BSB

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ASV

Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.

KJV

Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Behold the Lord hath a mighty and strong one “Behold the mighty one, the exceedingly strong one” - אמץ לאדני ammits ladonai, fortis Domino, i.e., fortissimmus, a Hebraism. For לאדני ladonai, to the Lord, thirty-eight MSS. Of Dr. Kennicott’s and many of De Rossi’s, with some of my own, and two editions, read ליהוה laihovah, to Jehovah.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הִנֵּ֨ה	hi.Neh	there!	H2009 →
חָזָ֤ק	cha.Zak	a mighty [one]	H2389 →
וְאַמִּץ֙	ve.'a.Mitz	and a strong [one]	H533 →
לַֽאדֹנָ֔י	la.do.Nai	[belongs] to [the] Lord	H136 →
כְּזֶ֥רֶם	ke.Ze.rem	like a storm of	H2230 →
בָּרָ֖ד	ba.Rad	hail	H1259 →
שַׂ֣עַר	Sa.'ar	a tempest of	H8178 →
קָ֑טֶב	Ka.tev	destruction	H6986 →
כְּ֠זֶרֶם	Ke.ze.rem	like a storm of	H2230 →
מַ֣יִם	Ma.yim	water	H4325 →
כַּבִּירִ֥ים	ka.bi.Rim	mighty	H3524 →
שֹׁטְפִ֛ים	sho.te.Fim	overflowing	H7857 →
הִנִּ֥יחַ	hi.Ni.ach	he will thrust [it] down	H5117 →
לָאָ֖רֶץ	la.'A.retz	to the ground	H776 →
בְּיָֽד׃	be.Yad	with a hand	H3027 →

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
Isaiah 27:1
In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
leads to
- Ezekiel 29:3
  Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says,…
- Isaiah 51:9
  Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the…
- Isaiah 66:16
  For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.
- Revelation 12:3
  Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.
- Job 26:13
  By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
Through
Nahum 1:8
But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.
leads to
- Ezekiel 13:13
  Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.
Through
Isaiah 30:30
And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
leads to
- Isaiah 29:6
  you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with windstorm and tempest and consuming flame of fire.
- Psalms 18:13–14
  The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded— hailstones and coals of fire.