Isaiah 8:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ for before the child knows how to call ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ For before the child knows how to say, My father or my mother, the riches of Damascus [Syria's capital] and the spoil of Samaria [Israel's capital] shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.

American Standard Version (1901)

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 carried away before the king of Assyria.

Common English Bible

⁴ Before the boy knows how to say ‘my father’ and ‘my mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ For before the boy knows how to call to his father and his mother, the strength of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria will be taken away, in the sight of the king of the Assyrians."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ For, before the child know to call his father and his mother, the strength of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of the Assyrians.

Isaiah 8:4 Cross References

2 Kings 15:29

In the days of King Pekah of Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.

2 Kings 16:9

The king of Assyria listened to him; the king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir; then he killed Rezin.

2 Kings 17:3

King Shalmaneser of Assyria came up against him; Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.

Isaiah 17:1

An oracle concerning Damascus. See, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.

Isaiah 17:3

The fortress will disappear from Ephraim and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the people of Israel, says the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 28:4

And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, at the head of the fertile valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer; whoever sees it eats it up as soon as it comes to hand.

Isaiah 8:5

The Lord spoke to me again:

Amos 1:3

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.

Amos 1:5

I will break the gate bars of Damascus and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden, and the people of Aram shall go into exile to Kir, says the Lord.

Jonah 4:11

And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left and also many animals?”

Romans 9:11

even before they had been born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose of election might continue,

Deuteronomy 1:39

And as for your little ones who you thought would become plunder, your children who today do not yet know right from wrong, they shall enter there; to them I will give it, and they shall take possession of it.