Isaiah 9:8
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
Isaiah 9:8 in other translations
| BSB | The Lord has sent a message against Jacob, and it has fallen upon Israel. |
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| WEB | The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it falls on Israel. |
| ASV | The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. |
| YLT | A word hath the Lord sent into Jacob, And it hath fallen in Israel. |
| DARBY | The Lord sent a word unto Jacob, and it lighteth upon Israel. |
| BBE | The Lord has sent a word to Jacob, and it has come on Israel; |
| Webster | The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. |
What does Isaiah 9:8 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 9:8-21
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Isaiah 9:8 in the original Hebrew
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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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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,
Isaiah 9:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El Señor envió palabra á Jacob, y cayó en Israel. |
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| 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. |