Isaiah 9:8-12
Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Hand Raised against Israel
8 The Lord sent a message against Jacob;
it came against Israel.
9 All the people—
Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria(A)—will know it.
They will say with pride and arrogance:
10 “The bricks have fallen,
but we will rebuild with cut stones;
the sycamores have been cut down,
but we will replace them with cedars.”
11 The Lord has raised up Rezin’s adversaries against him
and stirred up his enemies.
12 Aram from the east and Philistia from the west
have consumed Israel with open mouths.
In all this, His anger is not removed,
and His hand is still raised to strike.(B)
Isaiah 9:8-12
International Standard Version
A Rebuke to Jacob and Israel
8 “The Lord[a] has sent a plague[b] against Jacob,
and it will fall on Israel;
9 and all of the people were evil[c]—
Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria—
saying proudly with arrogant hearts:
10 ‘The bricks have fallen,
but we will build with dressed[d] stones;
the sycamore[e] trees have been cut down,
but we will replace them with cedars.’[f]
11 But the Lord has raised adversaries[g] from Rezin[h] against him,
and he stirs up his enemies—
12 Arameans from the east
and Philistines from the west—
and they devour Israel with open mouths!
“Yet[i] for all this, his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike.”[j]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 9:8 So 1QIsaa; MT reads Lord
- Isaiah 9:8 So LXX; MT reads word; 1QIsaa can mean plague or word.
- Isaiah 9:9 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read knew
- Isaiah 9:10 Or quarried
- Isaiah 9:10 The sycamore fruit tree native to Israel bears figs
- Isaiah 9:10 I.e. a genus of coniferous evergreen in the family Pinaceae
- Isaiah 9:11 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; other MT mss. read princes
- Isaiah 9:11 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX lacks from Rezin
- Isaiah 9:12 So 1QIsaa 4QIsac; the Heb. lacks Yet
- Isaiah 9:12 DSS MT lack ready to strike
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