Isaiah 9 · Verse 8

Isaiah 9:8

The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
Isaiah 9:8, King James Version

Isaiah 9:8 in other translations

BSBThe Lord has sent a message against Jacob, and it has fallen upon Israel.
WEBThe Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it falls on Israel.
ASVThe Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
YLTA word hath the Lord sent into Jacob, And it hath fallen in Israel.
DARBYThe Lord sent a word unto Jacob, and it lighteth upon Israel.
BBEThe Lord has sent a word to Jacob, and it has come on Israel;
WebsterThe Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

What does Isaiah 9:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
8. Heading of the prophecy; (Is 9:8-12), the first strophe. unto Jacob--against the ten tribes [Lowth]. lighted upon--fallen from heaven by divine revelation (Da 4:31).

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 8 Lord "Jehovah" - For אדני Adonai, thirty MSS. of Kennicott's, and many of De Rossi's, and three editions, read יהוה Yehovah.

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 in trouble, and see no way out; and when men's ways displease the Lord, he makes even their friends to be at war with them. God would take away those they thought to have help from. Their rulers were the head. Their false prophets were the tail and the rush, the most despicable. In these civil contests, men preyed on near relations who were as their own flesh. The people turn not to Him who smites them, therefore he continues to smite: for when God judges, he will overcome; and the proudest, stoutest sinner shall either bend or break.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Isaiah 9:8 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.

דָּבָ֛רda.Vara wordH1697
שָׁלַ֥חsha.Lachhe has sentH7971
אֲדֹנָ֖י'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136
בְּיַעֲקֹ֑בbe.ya.'a.Koin JacobH3290
וְנָפַ֖לve.na.Faland it will fallH5307
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל\׃be.Yis.ra.'Elon IsraelH3478

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

Cross references for Isaiah 9:8

  • Isaiah 7:7-8

    Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.

  • Zechariah 5:1-4

    Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits. Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it. I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

  • Isaiah 8:4-8

    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. The Lord spake also unto me again, saying, Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son; Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: …

  • Micah 1:1-9

    The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place. …

  • Zechariah 1:6

    But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
sent a word.
7:7,8; 8:4-8; Mic 1:1-9; Zec 1:6; 5:1-4; Mt 24:35

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Isaiah 9:7

    Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

  • Isaiah 9:8

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

  • Isaiah 9:9

    And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

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Isaiah 9:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
El Señor envió palabra á Jacob, y cayó en Israel.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et le peuple tout entier le saura, Éphraïm et celui qui habite la Samarie, qui disent avec orgueil et avec hauteur de cœur:
German
Elberfelder 1871
Der Herr hat ein Wort gesandt wider Jakob, und es steigt hernieder in Israel.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Verbum misit Dominus in Jacob, et cecidit in Israël.