Isaiah 9:10 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁰ “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ The bricks have fallen, but we will build [all the better] with hewn stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put [costlier] cedars in their place.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ “Bricks have fallen, but let’s rebuild with stones. Sycamores were cut down, but let’s replace them with cedars.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ "The bricks have fallen, but we will build with squared stones. They have cut down the sycamores, but we will replace them with cedars."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with square stones: they have cut down the sycamores, but we will change them for cedars.

Isaiah 9:10 Cross References

1 Kings 10:27

And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.

2 Kings 16:9

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

Hosea 8:14

For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour his strongholds.

Malachi 1:4

If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of hosts says, “They may build, but I will tear down, till they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever.”

Luke 19:4

So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way.