Isaiah 45:10 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 45:10

Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”

BSB

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ASV

Woe unto him that saith unto a father, What begettest thou? or to a woman, With what travailest thou?

KJV

Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

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Commentary

3 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Isaiah (1274)

Second, under the metaphor of a father who begets: woe to him that says to his father, as if to say: I am a father begetting Cyrus and like a mother conceiving him in intention, and therefore you ought not contradict me in this, just …

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The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 9 and following) Woe to those who contradict their maker, a pot made of clay, and say to the one who formed them, 'What are you making?' or 'Your work has no hands.' Woe to those who say to their father, 'What are you begetting?' or to their mother, 'What are you in labor with?' This is what the Lord says, the Holy One of Israel, and its maker: Ask me about the things to come, concerning my children, and about the work of my hands, give me orders.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

If it be wrong for a child, born in less favorable circumstances, to upbraid his parents with having given him birth, a fortiori, it is, to upbraid God for His dealings with us. Rather translate, "a father . . . a woman." The Jews considered themselves exclusively God's children and were angry that God should adopt the Gentiles besides.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ה֛וֹי	Ho	woe to!	H1945 →
אֹמֵ֥ר	'o.Mer	[one who] says	H559 →
לְאָ֖ב	le.'Av	to a father	H1 →
מַה־	mah-	what?	H4100 →
תּוֹלִ֑יד	to.Lid	are you fathering	H3205 →
וּלְאִשָּׁ֖ה	u.le.'i.Shah	and to a woman	H802 →
מַה־	mah-	what?	H4100 →
תְּחִילִֽין׃ ס	te.chi.Lin	are you in labor with !	H2342 →

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

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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
Malachi 1:6
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the…
leads to
- Luke 6:46
  Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?
- Exodus 20:12
  Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 1:2
  Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.
- John 13:13–17
  You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am.
- 1 Peter 2:17–19
  Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
Through
Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?
leads to
- Numbers 16:22
  But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”
- Numbers 27:16
  “May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation
- Isaiah 42:5
  This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to…

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