Isaiah 9:8 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 9:8

The Lord has sent a message against Jacob, and it has fallen upon Israel.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

KJV

The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Lord “Jehovah” - For אדני Adonai, thirty MSS. of Kennicott’s, and many of De Rossi’s, and three editions, read יהוה Yehovah.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The Lord - The prophet, having inserted some consolatory passages for God's faithful people, returns to his former comminution against the rebellious Israelites. And - Hebrew. it fell, that is, it shall fall, in the prophetical style.

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Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
דָּבָ֛ר	da.Var	a word	H1697 →
שָׁלַ֥ח	sha.Lach	he has sent	H7971 →
אֲדֹנָ֖י	'a.do.Nai	[the] Lord	H136 →
בְּיַעֲקֹ֑ב	be.ya.'a.Ko	in Jacob	H3290 →
וְנָפַ֖ל	ve.na.Fal	and it will fall	H5307 →
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃	be.Yis.ra.'El	on Israel	H3478 →

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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The walk

The walk5

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
Zechariah 1:6
But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according…
leads to
- Lamentations 2:17
  The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and…
- Ezekiel 12:25–28
  because I, the LORD, will speak whatever word I speak, and it will be fulfilled without delay. For in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak a message and bring it to pass,…
- Deuteronomy 28:15
  If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
- Matthew 24:35
  Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
- Jeremiah 23:20
  The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this clearly.

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