Skip to content
mannafest.faith
Read

Isaiah 5:30

In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.

KJV

And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

⋯

Commentary

1 voice

Voices on this verse

loading…

Original language & word study

14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְיִנְהֹ֥םve.yin.Homand it may growlH5098 →
עָלָ֛יו'a.Lavover itH5921 →
בַּיּ֥וֹםbai.Yomin the dayH3117 →
הַה֖וּאha.Hu'<the> thatH1931 →
כְּנַהֲמַת־ke.na.ha.mat-like [the] growling ofH5100 →
יָ֑םYam[the] seaH3220 →
וְנִבַּ֤טve.ni.Batand someone will lookH5027 →
לָאָ֙רֶץ֙la.'A.retzto the landH776 →
וְהִנֵּה־ve.hi.neh-and there!H2009 →
חֹ֔שֶׁךְCho.shekhdarknessH2822 →
צַ֣רtzardistressH6862 →
וָא֔וֹרva.'orand lightH216 →
חָשַׁ֖ךְcha.Shakhit has become darkH2821 →
בַּעֲרִיפֶֽיהָ׃ פba.'a.ri.Fei.haby clouds itsH6183 →

The walk

Related verses

18 strongest cross-references

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Jeremiah 4:23I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.Isaiah 8:22Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.Joel 2:10Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.Luke 21:25There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.Ecclesiastes 12:2before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,Jeremiah 4:23–28I looked at the earth, and it was formless and void; I looked to the heavens, and they had no light.Amos 5:18Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.Revelation 16:10–11And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness, and men began to gnaw their tongues in anguishJeremiah 4:28Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”Ezekiel 26:3therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.Isaiah 59:9Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.Matthew 24:29Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’Isaiah 13:10For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.Luke 21:25–26There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.Psalms 93:3–4The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.Jeremiah 6:23They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Zion.”Revelation 6:12And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,

Featured studies on this passage

The Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard — Rembrandt

Walks through Isaiah 5

The Vine & the Vineyard

Open the study →

Walks through Isaiah 5

Wordplay: the Puns of the Prophets

Open the study →

About Isaiah

The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Isaiah: the study guide →Read chapter 5 →The featured study →
Continue: Isaiah 5 →