Isaiah 31:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ “Then the Assyrian shall fall by a sword not of mortals, and a sword not of humans shall devour him; he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Then the Assyrian shall fall by a sword not of man; and a sword, not of men [but of God], shall devour him. And he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be subjected to forced labor.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become subject to taskwork.

Common English Bible

⁸ Assyria will fall, but not by a human sword— a sword not made by humans will devour them. They will flee before the sword; their young men will become forced laborers.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And Assur will fall by a sword not of man, and a sword not of man will devour him. And he will not flee from the face of the sword, and his young men will be subject to a penalty.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of a man, and the sword, not of a man, shall devour him: and he shall flee, not at the face of the sword. And his young men shall be tributaries.

Isaiah 31:8 Cross References

Genesis 49:15

he saw that a resting place was good and that the land was pleasant, so he bowed his shoulder to the burden and became a slave at forced labor.

2 Chronicles 32:21

And the Lord sent an angel who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned in disgrace to his own land. When he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword.

Isaiah 10:12

When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and his haughty pride.

Isaiah 10:25

For in a very little while my indignation will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.”

Isaiah 14:2

And the nations will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess the nations as male and female slaves in the Lord’s land; they will take captive those who were their captors and rule over those who oppressed them.

Isaiah 14:25

I will break the Assyrian in my land and on my mountains trample him under foot; his yoke shall be removed from them and his burden from their shoulders.

Isaiah 17:13

[[When the nations roar like the roaring of many waters,]] he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and like whirling dust before the storm.

Isaiah 21:15

For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the stress of battle.

Isaiah 27:7

Has he struck them down as he struck down those who struck them? Or have they been killed as their killers were killed?

Isaiah 29:5

But the multitude of your arrogant ones shall be like fine dust and the multitude of tyrants like flying chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to the destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed; you treacherous one, with whom no one has dealt treacherously! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have stopped dealing treacherously, you will be dealt with treacherously.

Isaiah 37:7

I myself will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”]]

Isaiah 66:16

For by fire will the Lord execute judgment, and by his sword on all flesh; and those slain by the Lord shall be many.

Jeremiah 46:10

That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of retribution, to gain vindication from his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated and drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord God of hosts holds a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.

Ezekiel 21:28

As for you, mortal, prophesy, and say: Thus says the Lord God concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach; say: A sword, a sword! Drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning.

Hosea 1:7

But I will have pity on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God; I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.”