Isaiah 9:3 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 9:3

You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

KJV

Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

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Commentary

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Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

You have multiplied the nation, you have not magnified the joy: they shall rejoice before you, as they rejoice in the harvest, as conquerors exulting for the spoils, when they divide the spoils. LXX: You have brought down a large portion of the people in your joy, and they shall rejoice in your presence, as they are accustomed to rejoice in the harvest, and as those who divide the spoils. We put both editions in dark places so that the diligent reader may recognize how much the Vulgate translation differs from the Hebrew truth and others.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Thou hast - Thou hast made good thy promise to Abraham concerning the multiplication of his seed, by gathering in the Gentiles to the Jews. Before thee - In thy presence, and in the place of thy worship.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Thou hast multiplied the nation - Thou hast rendered the nation strong, powerful, mighty. Several interpreters, as Calvin, Vitringa, and Le Clerc, suppose that the prophet here, and in the two following verses, speaks in the first instance of the prosperity near at hand, and of the rapid increase of the Israelites after the return from the Babylonian exile, in which the inhabitants of Galilee must have participated, as may be inferred from the accounts of Josephus respecting the great population of that province in his time; see Jewish Wars, i. 20,

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הִרְבִּ֣יתָ	hir.Bi.ta	you will multiply	H7235 →
הַגּ֔וֹי	ha.Goy	the nation	H1471 →
ל֖וֹ	lo	to it
הִגְדַּ֣לְתָּ	hig.Dal.ta	you will magnify	H1431 →
הַשִּׂמְחָ֑ה	ha.sim.Chah	the rejoicing	H8057 →
שָׂמְח֤וּ	sa.me.Chu	they will rejoice	H8055 →
לְפָנֶ֙יךָ֙	le.fa.Nei.kha	<to> before you	H6440 →
כְּשִׂמְחַ֣ת	ke.sim.Chat	like [the] rejoicing	H8057 →
בַּקָּצִ֔יר	ba.ka.Tzir	at the harvest	H7105 →
כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר	ka.'a.Sher	just as	H834 →
יָגִ֖ילוּ	ya.Gi.lu	people are glad	H1523 →
בְּחַלְּקָ֥ם	be.cha.le.Kam	when divide they	H2505 →
שָׁלָֽל׃	sha.Lal	plunder	H7998 →

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
Psalms 119:162
I rejoice in Your promise like one who finds great spoil.
leads to
- Jeremiah 15:16
  Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
- Psalms 119:72
  The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
- Psalms 119:111
  Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
Through
Isaiah 35:10
So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
leads to
- Revelation 21:4
  ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
- Isaiah 30:19
  O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious when you cry for help; when He hears, He will answer you.
- Isaiah 25:8
  He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
- Isaiah 51:10–11
  Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
- Isaiah 65:19
  I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her.

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