Isaiah 10 · Verse 21

Isaiah 10:21

The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
Isaiah 10:21, King James Version

Isaiah 10:21 in other translations

BSBA remnant will return—a remnant of Jacob— to the Mighty God.
WEBA remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
ASVA remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
YLTA remnant returneth--a remnant of Jacob, Unto the Mighty God.
DARBYThe remnant shall return, the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
BBEThe rest, even the rest of Jacob, will come back to the Strong God.
WebsterThe remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

What does Isaiah 10:21 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 10:20-22

20-22. The effect on the "remnant" (contrasted with the Assyrian remnant, Is 10:19); namely, those who shall be left after the invasion of Sennacherib, will be a return from dependence on external idolatrous nations, as Assyria and Egypt (2Ki 18:21; 16:7-9), to the God of the theocracy; fulfilled in part in the pious Hezekiah's days; but from the future aspect under which Paul, in Ro 9:27, 28 (compare "short work"…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 21 The remnant shalt return - unto the mighty God - אל גבור El gibbor, the mighty or conquering God; the Messiah, the same person mentioned in Isa 10:6 of the preceding chapter.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 10:20-34

By our afflictions we may learn not to make creatures our confidence. Those only can with comfort stay upon God, who return to him in truth, not in pretence and profession only. God will justly bring this wasting away on a provoking people, but will graciously set bounds to it. It is against the mind and will of God, that his people, whatever happens, should give way to fear. God's anger against his people is but…

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Isaiah 10:21 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

שְׁאָ֥רshe.'Ara remnantH7605
יָשׁ֖וּבya.Shuvit will returnH7725
שְׁאָ֣רshe.'Ar[the] remnant ofH7605
יַעֲקֹ֑בya.'a.KoJacobH3290
אֶל\־'el-toH413
אֵ֖ל'el[the] GodH410
גִּבּֽוֹר\׃gi.BormightyH1368

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 10:21

  • Isaiah 9:6

    For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

  • 2 Corinthians 3:14-16

    But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.

  • Hosea 6:1

    Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

  • Acts 26:20

    But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.

  • Isaiah 65:8-9

    Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all. And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

  • Hosea 7:16

    They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

  • Isaiah 9:13

    For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.

  • Isaiah 19:22

    And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the Lord, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.

  • Isaiah 7:3

    Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear–jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field;

  • Hosea 14:1

    O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

  • Isaiah 55:7

    Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

  • Hosea 7:10

    And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this.

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7:3; 9:13; 19:22; 55:7; 65:8,9; Ho 6:1; 7:10,16; 14:1; Ac 26:20
2Co 3:14-16
the mighty God.
9:6

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Context

  • Isaiah 10:20

    And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

  • Isaiah 10:21

    The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

  • Isaiah 10:22

    For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

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Isaiah 10:21 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Las reliquias se convertirán, las reliquias de Jacob, al Dios fuerte.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Le résidu reviendra, le résidu de Jacob, au ✶Dieu fort;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Der Überrest wird umkehren, der Überrest Jakobs zu dem starken Gott.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Reliquiæ convertentur; reliquiæ, inquam, Jacob ad Deum fortem.