Isaiah 9:14
Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
Isaiah 9:14 in other translations
| BSB | So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day. |
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| WEB | Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one day. |
| ASV | Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day. |
| YLT | And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch and reed--the same day, |
| DARBY | And Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day: |
| BBE | For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day. |
| Webster | Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. |
What does Isaiah 9:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 9:13-17
13-17. Second strophe. turneth not--the design of God's chastisements; not fulfilled in their case; a new cause for punishment (Jr 2:20; 5:3).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 9:8-21
Those are ripening apace for ruin, whose hearts are unhumbled under humbling providences. For that which God designs, in smiting us, is, to turn us to himself; and if this point be not gained by lesser judgments, greater may be expected. The leaders of the people misled them. We have reason to be afraid of those that speak well of us, when we do ill. Wickedness was universal, all were infected with it. They shall be…
Isaiah 9:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 9:14
- Revelation 18:8
Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
- Isaiah 19:15
Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
- Amos 6:11
For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
- Isaiah 30:13
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
- Hosea 13:3
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
- Revelation 18:10
Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
- Amos 3:12
Thus saith the Lord; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
- Micah 1:6-8
Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof. And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot. Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
- Isaiah 3:2-3
The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
- Hosea 9:11-17
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. …
- 2 Kings 17:6-20
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. …
- Amos 2:14-16
Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself. And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.
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Context
- Isaiah 9:13
For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.
- Isaiah 9:14
Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
- Isaiah 9:15
The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
Isaiah 9:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y Jehová cortará de Israel cabeza y cola, ramo y caña en un mismo día. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | l’ancien et l’homme considéré, lui, est la tête; et le prophète qui enseigne le mensonge, lui, est la queue. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Jehova wird aus Israel Haupt und Schwanz, Palmzweig und Binse ausrotten an einem Tage. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et disperdet Dominus ab Israël caput et caudam, incurvantem et refrenantem, die una. |