The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as numerous as the sycamores of the Shephelah.
Isaiah 9:10 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional “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.” Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 “Bricks have fallen, but let’s rebuild with stones. Sycamores were cut down, but let’s replace them with cedars.” Catholic Public Domain Version "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 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. |
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as numerous as the sycamores of the Shephelah.
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.
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.
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, until they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.
So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way.