Isaiah 30:26
in Isaiah 30The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that Jehovah bindeth up the hurt of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
KJV
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
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This verse in Isaiah 30
Commentary
14 notes on this verseShall be sevenfold - The text adds כאור שבעת הימים keor shibath haiyamayim, “as the light of seven days, “a manifest gloss, taken in from the margin; it is not in most of the copies of the Septuagint. It interrupts the rhythmical construction, and obscures the sense by a false, or at least an unnecessary, interpretation. By moon, sun, light, are to be understood the abundance of spiritual and temporal felicity with which God should bless them in the days of the Messiah, which should be sevenfold, i.e. vastly exceed all that they had ever before possessed.
This site's exposition
He will send rain for the seed
on Isaiah 30:23-26
The blessing is drawn from farm life: "rain for the seed that you have sown", food "rich and plentiful", cattle in "open pastures". Streams flow from every high hill "in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall", and the sun’s light becomes "seven times brighter".
This site's exposition
seven times brighter
Seven marks completeness, so the light stands for a joy that lacks nothing. Adam Clarke took the words like the light of seven days as a margin note, for most copies of the Septuagint lack them. The wounds He heals are the ones He inflicted.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
Does not Scripture say universally of all the things that were created by God, "Behold, everything that God made was very good"? … The things that belong to the present, then, are not declared good in a merely minimal sense but are emphatically "very good." For, in fact, they are useful for us while we are living in this world, whether to sustain life or as medicine for the body or on account of some benefit unknown to us. Or else they are very good in that they let us "see the invisible things of God, his eternal power and his divinity, from the creation of the world, through things that have been made graspable"23—that is, from the great and well-ordered construction and arrangement of the world—and let us contemplate them from the existence of everything that is in it. Yet all of these will be unable to maintain their title to goodness if they are compared with the future age, where no mutability in good things and no corruption of true blessedness is to be feared. The blessedness of this world is described as follows: "The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." The things that are great, then, and splendid and marvelous to behold will immediately seem empty if they are compared with the future promises in faith.
(Verse 26) And there will be the light of the moon, like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, on the day when the Lord binds up the wounds of his people and heals the bruises inflicted by his blow. LXX: And the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, on the day when the Lord heals the brokenness of his people and cures the pain of your wound.
The Medieval Church3 voices
Moreover, when the day of judgment has been completed and the glory of the future life has become evident with the new heaven and the new earth, then will come to pass what the same prophet announced elsewhere: "The light of the moon will be …
Why should the lunar reckoning be calculated from the noontide hours, seeing that the moon had not yet been placed in the heavens or gone forth over the earth? On the contrary, none of the feast days of the law began and ended at noon …
But when there will be a new heaven and a new earth after the judgment—which is not one heaven and earth replacing another but these very same ones which will shine forth, having been renewed by fire and glorified by the power of the resurrection—then, …
6 more voices on this verse
The Medieval Church1 voice
682. Third, the radiance of heaven: and the light of the sun shall be as the light of seven days, that is, as much light in one day as there is now in seven days, as if sevenfold; or as it was in the first …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Light shall increase; that is, knowledge shall increase (when the prophecies are accomplished they shall be fully understood) or rather triumph shall: the light of the joy that is sown for the righteous shall now come up with a great increase.
), and many of these promises are very applicable to gospel grace. A prophecy of the total rout and ruin of the Assyrian army, which should be an occasion of great joy and an introduction to those happy times,
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The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
"Sevenfold" implies the perfection of that felicity, seven being the sacred number. It shall also be literally fulfilled hereafter in the heavenly city (Isa 60:19, 20; 22:5). breach--the wound, or calamity, sent by God on account of their sins (Isa 1:5).
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Moreover - In addition to all the blessings which are enumerated above. The light of the moon - Light is in the Scriptures an emblem of purity, intelligence, happiness, prosperity; as darkness is an emblem of ignorance, calamity, and sin. This figure is often used by the poets. Thus Horace: Soles melius nitent. Carm. liv.: Od. v. 8. The figure of augmenting light to denote the blessings of religion, and especially of the gospel, is often employed by Isaiah (compare the notes at Isa 2:5; Isa 9:2; Isa 10:17; Isa 13:10; Isa 58:8, Isa 58:10; Isa 60:1, Isa 60:3, Isa 60:19-20). The sense of this passage is, that in those future days the light would shine intensely, and without obscurity; that though they had been walking in the light of the true religion, yet that their light would be greatly augmented, and that they would have much clearer views of the divine character and government. That this refers to the times of the Messiah there can be little or no room to doubt. It is language such as Isaiah commonly employs to describe those times; and there is a fullness and splendor about it which can suit no other period. There is nothing in the connection, moreover, which forbids such an interpretation of the passage. Shall be as the light of the sun - Shall be clear, bright, intense. The sense is, there shall be a great increase of light, as if the light of the moon were suddenly increased to the brightness of the meridian sun. Shall be seven-fold - Seven times as intense and clear as usual, as if the light of seven days were concentrated into one. The word ‘seven’ in the Scriptures often denotes a complete or perfect number; and indicates “completeness” or “perfections.” The phrase ‘as the light of seven days,’ Lowth supposes is a gloss which has been introduced into the text from the margin. […]
The words behind it
21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהָיָ֤ה | vehayah | and it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| אֽוֹר־ | ʾor- | [the] light of | H216 → | 121 times |
| הַלְּבָנָה֙ | halevanah | the moon | H3842 → | |
| כְּא֣וֹר | keor | like [the] light of | H216 → | 121 times |
| הַֽחַמָּ֔ה | hachamah | the sun | H2535 → | 6 times |
| וְא֤וֹר | veor | and [the] light of | H216 → | 121 times |
| הַֽחַמָּה֙ | hachamah | the sun | H2535 → | 6 times |
| יִהְיֶ֣ה | yihyeh | it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| שִׁבְעָתַ֔יִם | shivatayim | sevenfold | H7659 → | |
| כְּא֖וֹר | keor | like [the] light of | H216 → | 121 times |
| שִׁבְעַ֣ת | shivat | seven | H7651 → | 394 times |
| הַיָּמִ֑ים | haiyamim | <the> days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| בְּי֗וֹם | beyom | on [the] day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| חֲבֹ֤שׁ | chavosh | binds up | H2280 → | 33 times |
| יְהוָה֙ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| שֶׁ֣בֶר | shever | [the] fracture of | H7667 → | 45 times |
| עַמּ֔וֹ | amo | people his | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| וּמַ֥חַץ | umachatz | and [the] wound of | H4273 → | |
| מַכָּת֖וֹ | makato | blow his | H4347 → | 48 times |
| יִרְפָּֽא׃ ס | yirpa' | he will heal | H7495 → | 67 times |
וְהָיָ֤הand it will be
vehayahH1961 →3559 times
אֽוֹר־[the] light of
ʾor-H216 →121 times
הַלְּבָנָה֙the moon
halevanahH3842 →
כְּא֣וֹרlike [the] light of
keorH216 →121 times
הַֽחַמָּ֔הthe sun
hachamahH2535 →6 times
וְא֤וֹרand [the] light of
veorH216 →121 times
הַֽחַמָּה֙the sun
hachamahH2535 →6 times
יִהְיֶ֣הit will be
yihyehH1961 →3559 times
שִׁבְעָתַ֔יִםsevenfold
shivatayimH7659 →
כְּא֖וֹרlike [the] light of
keorH216 →121 times
שִׁבְעַ֣תseven
shivatH7651 →394 times
הַיָּמִ֑ים<the> days
haiyamimH3117 →2304 times
בְּי֗וֹםon [the] day
beyomH3117 →2304 times
חֲבֹ֤שׁbinds up
chavoshH2280 →33 times
יְהוָה֙Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
שֶׁ֣בֶר[the] fracture of
sheverH7667 →45 times
עַמּ֔וֹpeople his
amoH5971 →1873 times
וּמַ֥חַץand [the] wound of
umachatzH4273 →
מַכָּת֖וֹblow his
makatoH4347 →48 times
יִרְפָּֽא׃ סhe will heal
yirpa'H7495 →67 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
Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My…
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 2:6
The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Hosea 6:1
Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Job 5:18
For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
- Isaiah 45:5
I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me,
- Isaiah 45:22
Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
- 1 Samuel 2:6
Through
Revelation 21:23And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.
it leads to
- Isaiah 60:19–20
No longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 60:19–20
Through
Job 5:18For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My…
- Psalms 147:3
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
- Deuteronomy 32:39
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About Isaiah
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Isaiah; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, On the Gospel of Mark 4:13.24; Bede, THE RECKONING OF TIME 3:43; Bede, THE RECKONING OF TIME 6:70; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Cassian, CONFERENCE 23:3.2-4; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.