Isaiah 7:16
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
Isaiah 7:16 in other translations
| BSB | For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste. |
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| WEB | For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken. |
| ASV | For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken. |
| YLT | For before the youth doth know To refuse evil, and to fix on good, Forsaken is the land thou art vexed with, because of her two kings. |
| DARBY | For before the child knoweth to refuse the evil and to choose the good, the land whose two kings thou fearest shall be forsaken. |
| BBE | For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now fearing will have become waste. |
| Webster | For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken by both her kings. |
What does Isaiah 7:16 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Is 7:17-25. Fatal Consequences of Ahaz' Assyrian Policy.
Though temporary deliverance (Is 7:16; 8:4) was to be given then, and final deliverance through Messiah, sore punishment shall follow the former. After subduing Syria and Israel, the Assyrians shall encounter Egypt (2Ki 23:29), and Judah shall be the battlefield of both (Is 7:18), and be made tributary to that very Assyria (2Ch 28:20; 2Ki 16:7, 8) now about to be called in as an ally (Is 39:1-6). Egypt, too, should prove a fatal ally (Is 36:6; 31:1, &c.).Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 7:10-16
Secret disaffection to God is often disguised with the colour of respect to him; and those who are resolved that they will not trust God, yet pretend they will not tempt him. The prophet reproved Ahaz and his court, for the little value they had for Divine revelation. Nothing is more grievous to God than distrust, but the unbelief of man shall not make the promise of God of no effect; the Lord himself shall give a…
Isaiah 7:16 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 7:16
- Isaiah 8:4
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
- Deuteronomy 1:39
Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
- 2 Kings 16:9
And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
- Hosea 5:9
Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
- Amos 1:3-5
Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben–hadad. I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the Lord.
- 2 Kings 15:29-30
In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel–beth–maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
- Isaiah 9:11
Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
- Jonah 4:11
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
- Isaiah 17:1-3
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.
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Context
- Isaiah 7:15
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
- Isaiah 7:16
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
- Isaiah 7:17
The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 7:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque antes que el niño sepa desechar lo malo y escoger lo bueno, la tierra que tú aborreces será dejada de sus dos reyes. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car avant que l’enfant sache rejeter le mal et choisir le bien, le pays des deux rois duquel tu as peur sera abandonné. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn ehe der Knabe weiß, das Böse zu verwerfen und das Gute zu erwählen, wird das Land verlassen sein, vor dessen beiden Königen dir graut. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quia antequam sciat puer reprobare malum et eligere bonum, derelinquetur terra quam tu detestaris a facie duorum regum suorum. |