The light of Yisra'el will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
Isaiah 9:14 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Therefore the LORD will cut off from Yisra'el head and tail, palm branch and reed, in one 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. |
The light of Yisra'el will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.
therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
The anger of the LORD has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn't respect the persons of the Kohanim, they didn't favor the elders.
The LORD said to him, *Call his name Yizre`el; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Yizre`el on the house of Yehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Yisra'el to cease.
She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, *Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Yisra'el, that I should in any way pardon them.
He said, *Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
So Beit-El will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Yisra'el will be destroyed.
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.
You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother.
Yisra'el is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
Thus says the LORD: *As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Yisra'el be rescued who sit in Shomron on the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed.*
*For, behold, the LORD commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.
Therefore thus says the LORD: 'Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Yisra'el shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'*
standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, Bavel, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.'
For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,
Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.