Israel’s Light will become a fire, and its Holy One, a flame. In one day it will burn and consume Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
Isaiah 9:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised So the Lord cut off Israel’s head and tail, palm branch and reed in a single day. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail [the highest and the lowest]–[high] palm branch and [low] rush in one day; American Standard Version (1901) Therefore Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in one day. Common English Bible So the LORD cut off head and tail, palm branch and reed from Israel in one day. Catholic Public Domain Version And so, the Lord will disperse, away from Israel, the head and the tail, he who bows down and he who refrains, in one day. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the Lord shall destroy out of Israel the head and the tail, him that bendeth down, and him that holdeth back, in one day. |
Israel’s Light will become a fire, and its Holy One, a flame. In one day it will burn and consume Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
No head or tail, palm or reed, will be able to do anything for Egypt.
this iniquity of yours will be like a crumbling gap, a bulge in a high wall whose collapse will come in an instant #– #suddenly!
Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am going to place stumbling blocks before these people; fathers and sons together will stumble over them; friends and neighbours will also perish.
Were they ashamed when they acted so detestably? They weren’t at all ashamed. They can no longer feel humiliation. Therefore, they will fall among the fallen. When I punish them, they will collapse,’ says the Lord.
The Lord himself has scattered them; he no longer watches over them. The priests are not respected; the elders find no favour.
Then the Lord said to him: Name him Jezreel, , for in a little while I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu and put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
She conceived again and gave birth to a daughter, and the Lord said to him: Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel. I will certainly take them away.
Then the Lord said: Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not my people, and I will not be your God. ,
So it will be done to you, Bethel, because of your extreme evil. At dawn the king of Israel will be totally destroyed.
Therefore, they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing-floor, or like smoke from a window.
You will stumble by day; the prophet will also stumble with you by night. And I will destroy your mother.
Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like discarded pottery.
The Lord says: As the shepherd snatches two legs or a piece of an ear from the lion’s mouth, so the Israelites who live in Samaria will be rescued with only the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch. ,
For the Lord commands: The large house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.
Therefore, this is what the Lord says: Your wife will be a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be divided up with a measuring line. You yourself will die on pagan soil, and Israel will certainly go into exile from its homeland.
They will stand far off in fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! For in a single hour your judgement has come.
for in a single hour such fabulous wealth was destroyed! And every shipmaster, seafarer, the sailors, and all who do business by sea, stood far off
For this reason her plagues will come in just one day – death and grief and famine. She will be burned up with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is mighty.