Isaiah 9:14 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 9:14

So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day.

KJV

Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Vers. 14 seqq.) And the Lord will scatter from Israel the head and the tail, the bend and the corrupt in one day. The venerable and honorable, he is the head; and the Prophet teaching falsehood, he is the tail. And there will be those who call this people blessed, deceiving, and those who are called blessed, being cast down. Therefore, the Lord will not rejoice over his young men, and will not have mercy on his orphans and widows, for every hypocrite is wicked, and every mouth has spoken foolishness.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail,.... The former of these is afterwards interpreted of "the ancient and honourable", men in high places, civil magistrates, judges, governors, and elders of the people, the king as supreme, and all subordinate officers; and so the Targum, "the Lord will destroy from Israel the prince and the ruler;'' and the latter is interpreted of the false prophet.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

In one day - Thirteen MSS. of Kennicott and De Rossi read ביום beyond in a day; and another has a rasure in the place of the letter ב beth.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּכְרֵ֨ת	vai.yakh.Ret	and he cut off	H3772 →
יְהוָ֜ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֗ל	mi.Yis.ra.'El	from Israel	H3478 →
רֹ֧אשׁ	rosh	head	H7218 →
וְזָנָ֛ב	ve.za.Nav	and tail	H2180 →
כִּפָּ֥ה	ki.Pah	palm branch	H3712 →
וְאַגְמ֖וֹן	ve.'ag.Mon	and bulrush	H100 →
י֥וֹם	Yom	day	H3117 →
אֶחָֽד׃	'e.Chad	one	H259 →

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
Revelation 18:8
Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
leads to
- Revelation 17:16
  And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 50:34
  Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of Hosts is His name. He will fervently plead their case so that He may bring rest to the earth, but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.
- Jeremiah 50:31
  “Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, “for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.
- Revelation 18:9–10
  Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.
- Jeremiah 51:58
  This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will…
Through
Amos 3:12
This is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having…
leads to
- 1 Samuel 17:34–37
  David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,
- Romans 11:4–5
  And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
Through
Revelation 18:17
For in a single hour such fabulous wealth has been destroyed!” Every shipmaster, passenger, and sailor, and all who make their living from the sea, will stand at a distance
leads to
- Isaiah 23:14
  Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed!

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