Isaiah 31 · Verse 6

Isaiah 31:6

Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
Isaiah 31:6, King James Version

Isaiah 31:6 in other translations

BSBReturn to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.
WEBReturn to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.
ASVTurn ye unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
YLTTurn back to Him from whom sons of Israel Have deepened apostasy.
DARBYTurn unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, ye children of Israel;
BBECome back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.
WebsterTurn ye to him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

What does Isaiah 31:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
6. The power and love of Jehovah, just mentioned, are the strongest incentives for returning to Him (Eze 16:62, 63; Ho 6:1). ye ... Israel--The change of person marks that when they return to the Lord, He will address them in more direct terms of communion in the second person; so long as they were revolters, God speaks of them, as more at a distance, in the third person, rather than to them.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 Have deeply revolted "Have so deeply engaged in revolt" - All the ancient Versions read תעמיקו taamiku, in the second person, instead of העמיקו heemiku, they have deeply revolted, etc.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 31:6-9
They have been backsliding children, yet children; let them return, and their backslidings shall be healed, though they have sunk deep into misery, and cannot easily recover. Many make an idol of their silver and gold, and by the love of that are drawn from God; but those who turn to God, will be ready to part with it. Then, when they have cast away their idols, shall the Assyrian fall by the sword of an angel, who strikes more strongly than a mighty man, yet more secretly than a mean man. God can make the stoutest heart to tremble. But if we keep up the fire of holy love and devotion in our hearts and houses, we may depend upon God to protect us and them.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Isaiah 31:6 in the original Hebrew

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שׁ֗וּבוּShu.vureturnH7725
לַאֲשֶׁ֛רla.'a.Sherto [the one] whomH834
הֶעְמִ֥יקוּhe'.Mi.kuthey have made deepH6009
סָרָ֖הsa.RahrebellionH5627
בְּנֵ֥יbe.Nei[the] people ofH1121
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל\׃Yis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478

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

Cross references for Isaiah 31:6

  • Jeremiah 3:22

    Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God.

  • Jeremiah 3:14

    Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

  • Jeremiah 3:10

    And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord.

  • 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 9:9

    They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

  • Isaiah 1:4-5

    Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

  • 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.

  • Joel 2:12-13

    Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

  • Acts 3:19

    Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

  • Jeremiah 5:23

    But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

  • Jeremiah 31:18-20

    I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.

  • 2 Chronicles 33:9-16

    So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel. And the Lord spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken. Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Turn.
55:7; Jer 3:10,14,22; 31:18-20; Ho 14:1-3; Joe 2:12,13; Ac 3:19
Ac 26:20
deeply.
1:4; 29:15; 48:8; 2Ch 33:9-16; 36:14; Jer 5:23; Ho 9:9

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Context

  • Isaiah 31:5

    As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

  • Isaiah 31:6

    Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

  • Isaiah 31:7

    For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

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Isaiah 31:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Convertíos á aquel contra quien los hijos de Israel profundamente se rebelaron.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Fils d’Israël, revenez à celui de qui vous vous êtes si profondément détournés!
German
Elberfelder 1871
Kehret um, Kinder Israel, zu dem, von welchem ihr so weit abgewichen seid!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Convertimini, sicut in profundum recesseratis, filii Israël.